#  MHC Celtic Literature and Culture Seminar 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 27, 2020** 

 05:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy Street**  



 

 



 

 [David Stifter](https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/david-stifter) (Maynooth University), *The Riddler and the Joker Write Early Irish Poetry*. Dr. Stifter's visit is supported by the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities. **CANCELLED**

#####  The neglect that the study of riddles in medieval Irish literature has experienced in the past can be ascribed to two factors: to a lack of recognition of the genre as such in the corpus, and to the lack of editions, translations, and, most fundamentally, of understanding the relevant texts, which ‒ given their nature ‒ are difficult to understand. Recent work on two texts that must be classified as riddles or as riddles in an extended sense are a first step to a deeper appreciation of this genre within the context of Irish medieval literature, and of its idiosyncracies as well as its commonalities with texts outside Ireland. In this talk, I will present my progress in the understanding of the two ninth-century poems at the beginning of the famous Milan manuscript of Old Irish glosses, and especially of the allegedly obscure early-eighth-century poem Fil and griän Glinne Aí ‘There you see the gravel of the valley of Aí’.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Mahindra Humanities Center Celtic Literature and Culture Seminar ](/events/mahindra-humanities-center-celtic-literature-and-culture-seminar)
 
 

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