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aes dána

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aes dána meant literally, ‘people of gift’, ‘skill’ or ‘craft’, especially the poetic craft. Besides free landowners, early Irish law recognized those whose freedom was purchased by their skill. Within this class poets whose father and grandfather had also been poets (fili) enjoyed a hereditary nobility, only lost after two generations of the family had failed to produce a versifier. Other crafts or skills such as medicine, law, history, music, masonry, carpentry, and metalworking originally purchased nobility only for the practitioner himself, while the status at law of lesser artists such as jesters, jugglers, pipers, and drummers depended on the status of their employers.

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áes dána

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áes dána, dáno [OIr., people of art]. People having the profession or trade of art, especially poets, in Old Irish literature.

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