Dr Catherine Swift
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I call you.
Yeah, well I was just thinking as Ruth was talking.
Apart from the monks, there's also eleventh century descriptions in the fragmentary annals
of I think it's Leinster Warriors going abroad to to Scotland to train, um, that they're great warriors at home and so they go to to sort of perfect their art.
in that in Scottish experience and then they come back.
I think the thing about Ireland is is that for the medieval people it's the edge of the known world.
And for that reason it's a source of curiosity across Europe.
It's also an area where you can gain a lot.
So in the late twelfth, thirteenth century it's a i it it it's the wild west, it's it i i in every sense of the word, it's where you get th there'd be gold in them bare hills.
Um and and and people who are interested in in in in sort of exploration and in travel and in in making a book
they tend to to to to to to fluctuate and so you get two streams of influence.
You get the the the the curious poetic types who are who are dreamers about the edge of the world, but you also get the hard chores
the military m who can see opportunities for gaining land, marrying rich women, becoming settling down and becoming farmers.
There was a a professor of old Irish in Minutes in my day who used to talk about young warriors who would settle down and become geezers.
He was from Leicester.
Uh so I think a lot of a lot of men passed through uh through uh Dublin to become geezers in the wider part of Ireland.
I I mean the Tristan and Iselda material I find absolutely fascinating.
It it's a translation the when you start looking for the I mean Tristan and Isolda is a well known story and we have Isolda's Tower.
I mean that was part of what what uh started me off on this um the excavations there around Dublin.
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