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Ceol ‘music’
Ráth ‘a ringfort’
Leabhar ‘a book’
Dalta ‘a pupil’
Réalta ‘a star’
Bróg ‘a shoe’
Mac tíre ‘wolf’
Forc ‘a fork’
Gruaig ‘hair’
Bó ‘a cow’
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10 Words
Ceol
‘music’
Ráth
‘a ringfort’
Dalta
‘a pupil’
Leabhar
‘a book’
Réalta
‘a star’
Bróg
‘a shoe’
Mac tíre
‘a wolf’
Forc
‘a fork’
Gruaig
‘hair’
Bó
‘a cow’
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1. There were two main types of fosterage in medieval Ireland: fostering for payment and
fostering for punishment
fostering out of affection
fostering for a bet
2. In addition to payment, medieval Irish foster-parents could expect
that the family of the foster-child would support and protect them
that the foster-child would help them in their old-age
that the parents of the foster-child would take their children in exchange
3. Which of the following was not taught to girls in fosterage?
how to play board-games
how to knead dough
how to embroider cloth
4.
Dalta
used to mean ‘a foster-child’ and now means ‘a pupil’; which of the following meanings did
dalta
never have?
a disciple of Jesus
a leader in war
a poet in training
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