Aois-dàna

AES Dána [ ois ' da: na ] (" people with abilities ", "People of the art" ), Scottish Gaelic Aoi - Dana, is the term for a social status in the old Irish society, a subgroup of the soir, also sör ( of so - aire = " Gut- Free " ), which included the nobility and the Druids. Among the Soir stood the doir (also doer, the "bad -free ").

The AES Dána included the careers of poets and bards ( filid ), seer ( vates ), musicians, doctors, historians, blacksmiths, wagon makers and jurists, and sometimes the non-noble free landowners ( aithech fortha ). The appreciation of these professions can be found in Wales, where the son of a serf was difficult blacksmith, a poet or a priest, it would have been this connected to a prior increase.

The island of Celtic expression * Kerda - for was the forge over time of the bronze; Gold and blacksmiths extended to medicine, music and poetry; Building and Woodworkers were called saer. In a altirisches poem about the Tuatha Dé Danann - which were sometimes referred to as AES Dána - is to read:

The legal and social position of the AES Dána was precisely controlled in the old legislation; such as Bretha Crólige ( " The decisions concerning bloodshed " ) or log N - enech ( " prize " ), where, among other things, the " value " that is to be paid in homicide or injury case repentance was determined.

A late Detail from the time of the Christianization of Ireland again points to the different value of trades: An Irish version of the history of salvation is the Father of Jesus of Nazareth, the carpenter Joseph, made ​​to the blacksmith to upgrade him socially.

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