Texts

Amra Senáin
verse beg. Senán soer síd-athair

Early Irish
verse
Irish religious texts

Eulogy on Senán mac Geirrcinn, saint of Inis Cathaig (Scattery Island, Co. Clare), with gloss.

First words (verse)

Senán soer síd-athair

Author

Ascribed to: Dallán Forgaill

Dallán Forgaill

(fl. 597)

early Irish poet, known as the author of Amra Choluim Chille

Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 (1230) = Leabhar Breac (‘Speckled Book’) [s. xvⁱⁿ]

p. 241a (facsimile)

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 6 (second part), cols 832-874 [s. xvi]

cols 832–835

Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 4190-4200 (3409) [s. xvii¹]

f. 269r

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 50 [s. xvii]

pp. 115–117

Preface starts on p. 114.

Language

Early Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Length

Number of lines: 15

Classification

Irish religious textsIrish religious texts
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Subjects

Senán of Scattery IslandSenán of Scattery Island

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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.] Breatnach, Liam, “An edition of Amra Senáin”, in: Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Liam Breatnach, and Kim R. McCone (eds), Sages, saints and storytellers: Celtic studies in honour of Professor James Carney, 2, Maynooth: An Sagart, 1989. 7–31.

Edition from the Leabhar Breac version.

[ed.] Grosjean, Paul, “Trois pièces sur S. Senán [1. L’épilogue de la Vie irlandaise; 2. Amra Senáin; 3. La Vie latine du Bréviaire de Saint-Pol-de-Léon]”, Analecta Bollandiana 66 (1948): 199–230.

Edition from the Brussels manuscript

[ed.] Stokes, Whitley, “Amra Senáin”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 3 (1901): 220–225.

Internet Archive: <link>

Edition (without English translation) based on a photograph of the copy in TCD 1336; with introduction, notes, and text and translation of the accompanying preface and epilogue.

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February 2013, last updated: January 2024