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User:The Sanity Inspector brought attention to another article for the same chap at Exul hibernicus (now a redirect), based on the old Catholic Encyclopedia. I'll reproduce it here for archiving purposes, but there's little of any value, especially now that a lot of superior sources of more recent date are available.

Exul Hibernicus

Exul Hibernicus is the Latin name given to an Irish stranger (meaning just that) on the Continent of Europe in the time of Charlemagne, who wrote poems in Latin, several of which are addressed to the emperor.

He is sometimes identified with Dungal. The designation exul is one which the Irish wanderers on the continent frequently adopted. The poems of this exile show that he was not only a poet but a grammarian and dialectician as well. They also reveal his status as that of a teacher, probably in the palace school.

Of more than ordinary interest are the verses which describe the attitude of the ninth-century teacher towards his pupils. His metrical poem on the seven liberal arts devotes twelve lines to each of the branches, grammar, rhetoric, dialectic etc., showing the origin, scope and utility of each in succession. Like the lines on the same subject by Theodulf of Orléans, they may have been intended to accompany a set of pictures in which the seven liberal arts were represented. The style of these poems, while much inferior to that of the classical period ,is free from many of the artificialities which characterize much of the versification of the early Middle Ages.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05730a.htm

Cavila (talk) 18:44, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]