béarla na bhfileadh
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béarla na bhfileadh
béarla na bhfileadh (earlier bérla na filed), literally ‘the language of the poets’, a term applied in early Irish literature to rhetorical passages in texts, containing obscure forms of speech employed by poets, druids, prophets, and mythical heroes.
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