The Tain Bo, or cattle raid, is one of the genres of early Irish literature. Medieval Irish literati classified their own work into genres such as the Cattle Raid, the Adventure, the Voyage, the Feast, the Wooing, the Conception and the Death, rather than the more familiar but comparatively modern division into cycles.
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Notable ExampleTain Bo Cuailnge (the driving-off of the cows of Cooley) 1 Defining TraitCattle-raid narrative in prosimetrum, prose with periodic verse 1 Sources
1. Tain Bo Cuailnge (Wikipedia)
Synopsis
the driving-off of the cows of Cooley
Text
prosimetrum, i.e. prose with periodic additions of verse.
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