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Sayers, William, “Irish affinities of De tonitruis, a treatise of prognostication by thunder”, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 10 (2017): 2–15.

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“Irish affinities of De tonitruis, a treatise of prognostication by thunder”
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Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 10 (2017)
Tracy, Larissa (ed.), Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 10 (2017), American Society of Irish Medieval Studies.
Volume
10
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2–15
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Five newly edited manuscripts reveal that the treatise De tonitruis purports to be adapted from the Irish language. In this essay, possible Irish affinities are explored and are found to lie, in increasing order of importance, in the ornate prose style, the recondite and culturally highly significant vocabulary, and the eulogistic citations of unnamed natural philosophers as authorities for thunder prognostics. In all these respects, De tonitruis differs from conventional European brontologies. Although it is surely not translated from the Irish language, the mark of Irish learning is distinctive.

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Hiberno-Latin literature to c.1169
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Dennis Groenewegen
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November 2018, last updated: July 2021