Texts
Aígidecht Aithirni‘The guesting of Athirne’
- Middle Irish
- prose, verse, prosimetrum
- Medieval Irish literature about poets, Ulster Cycle
The short prose text includes eight poems ascribed to Athirne.
Speaker/Addressee
Speaker: AthirneAthirne
Athairne
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Chief poet and satirist of the Ulstermen in the Ulster Cycle.
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Athairne
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Chief poet and satirist of the Ulstermen in the Ulster Cycle.
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Manuscripts
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (967) = Book of Ballycummin [s. xvi]pp. 15–16.mbeginning: ‘Do deachaid Atairne h-isind fhogmar for turus di thig a dalta’The second part of the text.
Language
- Middle Irish
- early Middle Irish (Meyer)
Date
11th century (Meyer)
Form
prose, verse, prosimetrum (primary)
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “The guesting of Athirne”, Ériu 7 (1914): 1–9.
LL, with variants from Harleian 5280.
[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], “A third copy of the Guesting of Athirne”, Ériu 7 (1914): 196–199.
Version from RIA MS 23 N 10, with variants from Harleian 5280.
Secondary sources (select)
web page identifiers
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown
Page created
May 2011, last updated: August 2021