Texts

verse beg. A aos dána is aithnidh damh

Early Modern Irish
verse

Early Modern Irish grammatical poem (9 qq) on sealbhadh – here referring to conjugated forms of the copula and infixed pronouns – and its effects, primarily nasalisation, e.g. ‘the sealbhadh of b becomes m’ (line 5).

First words (verse)

A aos dána is aithnidh damh

Author

Anonymous

Manuscripts

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 3 = Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin [s. xiv-xv]

f. 74ra–74rb.13

Incl. two glosses.

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1289 (H 1. 15) = The Psalter of Tara [1745]

p. 621

Copy by Tadhg Ó Neachtain.

Language

Early Modern Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Metre

deibide

Length

Number of stanzas: 9

Textual relationships

Related: Bardic syntactical tractsBardic syntactical tractsA collection of Irish tracts on grammar and to a small extent, metre in bardic poetry, replete with specimens from selected poems.

Classification

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.

[dipl. ed.] [crit. ed.] [tr.] Ó Riain, Gordon, “Early modern technical verse from NLI G 3”, Éigse 36 (2008): 35–42.

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August 2019, last updated: September 2023