This study draws on a wide range of texts - early Irish, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, Early Norse, Old English -to illustrate the role of the poet as a tool of power, as seer, and as ceremonial figure.
- ISBN10 0859913473
- ISBN13 9780859913478
- Publish Date 16 April 1992 (first published 3 August 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint D.S. Brewer
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 176
- Language English