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Notes

1. For instance, the medieval horn made of yew with bronze from Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh, circa 700-800 AD (Buckley 2000:172).

2. For an example of what a medieval cruit might have looked like, see Altramar 1999: Inside front cover.

3. An example of a late medieval Irish harp (Trinity College harp, circa 14th c.), see Rimmer 1969:32.

4. For the "earliest illustration of a trilateral harp, on Breac Maedoic (The Shrine of St Mogue)" (stone work harper, circa 1100 AD), see Buckley 2000:168.

5. A secular banquet in medieval Ireland, depicts a harper seated on the ground on the far right (woodcut: harper and reciter; circa 1581 AD; Buckley 2000:174).

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