Poetry forms

[auld argonian]

Found this web page while looking for something else...("something else" was the name "Ossian" which/who I was explaining to someone but my middle aged mind couldn't remember the actual name...sheeesh!).

http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/celtic1.html

Seeing the actual forms of these poems is really enlightening for me. I immediately thought of Beloitpiper when I found these pages as I'm sure that this stuff is probably old hat to him but I thought that there are probably a lot of forum participants who would appreciate it.

Interesting stuff.

Best

AA

[WClarkB]

I was reading the website and trying to ingest all the marvelous poetical patterns when I met with a jarring statement:

"When the Christians invaded the British Isles they also introduced the written word and also a corruption of indigenous forms by the introduction of their foreign forms,"

This would seem to turn Julius Caesar as well as Claudius and Little Boot into Christians; or suggest that the Romans could not read nor have a written language and that after the Roman invasion, some fire-breathing woaded Cistercians threw them out and took over.

My my, what WILL they blame them for next.oop: