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The term "debide" refers to a specific meter in Irish-language poetry. This meter, literally meaning "cut in two," consists of two rhyming couplets. It was a popular form that made rhyming easier and encouraged the composition of verse on various subjects.1

Celtic literature encompasses writings in Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton, and Cornish. Early Irish literature was shaped by professional poets known as filid, who were responsible for lore and ceremonies. With the advent of Christianity, ecclesiastical scholars began recording this oral culture in writing, preserving history, laws, genealogies, and poems.21

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