Aí Cermnai ‘The lawsuit of Cermna’
- Early Irish
- prose
- Early Irish law texts
- extent: fragmentary
An early Irish legal text, largely lost except for a fragment in a commentary on Cóic conara fugill. It is known through allusions to it made elsewhere as one of the four ‘canons’ of poetic knowledge.
Manuscripts
Only one fragment.
Language
- Early Irish
Form
prose (primary)
Presumably written in prose.
Sources
Secondary sources (select)
Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.
A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).
162–163 [id. 5.3. ‘Aí Cermnai’]
web page identifiers
page name: Aí Cermnai
page url: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/A%C3%AD_Cermnai
redirect: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Redirect/page/14355
numerical alternative: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?curid=14355
page ID: 14355
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
January 2013, last updated: May 2024
