Gormlaith ingen Flainn Sinna
Daughter of a High King, queen three times over. A body of intense personal lyric was attributed to her by later tradition; the attribution is probably legendary, but the figure of Gormlaith gave medieval Ireland its archetype of the woman poet.
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