Crossword-Solution: OLLAVE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Bricriu, who in other romances is a mere buffoon, here appears as a distinguished poet, and a chief ollave; his satire remains bitter, but by no means scurrilous, and the verses put into his mouth, although far beneath the standard of the verses given to Deirdre in the earlier part of the manuscript, show a certain amount of dignity and poetic power.

The degrees vary slightly in different documents, but the following list of ten from the _Senchus Mór_ is very instructive: (1) The highest degree is the _ollam_ (ollave), who knows 350 stories; (2) the _ánruth_, 175 stories; (3) the _clíí_, 80 stories; (4) the _cana_, 60 stories; (5) the _doss_, 50 stories; (6) the _macfuirmid_, 40 stories; (7) the _fochlocon_, 30 stories; (8) the _drisac_, 20 stories; (9) the _taman_, 10 stories; (10) the _oblaire_, 7 stories.

When the chief poet, the ollave, or doctor of poetry, arrived, in his weather-beaten cloak of dark crimson trimmed with white feathers, accompanied by his little band of disciples, at some chieftain's house, he was received with signal hospitality and treated to the best his host could afford.

With its three thousand scholars, famous for its teachers, under its high-ollave Gorman who spent twenty-one years of study, from 1133 to 1154, in England and France, it became in fact the national university for the Irish race in Ireland and Scotland.

Great is our Order: but greater far Were its pomp and power in the days of old, When the five Chief Bards in peace or war Had thirty bards each in his train enrolled: When Ollave Fodla in Tara's hall Fed bards and kings; when the boy King Nial Was trained by Torna; when Britain and Gaul Sent crowns of laurel to Dallan Forgial.