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Gilla Cóemáin
  • Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
First words (verse)
  • At-tá sund forba fessa
“Herein is the apex of knowledge”
Author
Gilla Cóemáin
Gilla Cóemáin
(fl. 1072)
Middle Irish poet
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Ascribed to: Gilla Cóemáin
Gilla Cóemáin
(fl. 1072)
Middle Irish poet
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Gilla Cóemáin (fl. 1072)
Manuscripts

Peter Smith lists the following manuscripts:

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]
pp. 129b–130b
37 stanzas, ascribed to Gilla Cóemáin
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 131 [s. xvii]
pp. 69–71
From the LL version.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]
ff. 82v–83ra
Ascribed to Gilla Cóemáin
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 I, (a) ff. 101-122, (b) ff. 1-36, (c) ff. 45-52 [s. xv/xvi]
f. 3ra–3vb
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 1b (1269) [s. xv-xvii?]
[pt 3] Fragment F. Damaged.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 2 (1080) [1627-1628]
ff. 107v–109r
Later copies:
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 131 [s. xvii]
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 32 (617) [s. xvii]
pp. 236–238
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C iv 3 (1192) [s. xvii]
ff. 114vi–116
Language
  • Middle Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 37 qq.

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Subjects

Finn mac Cumaill
Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)
Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían
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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.] [comm.] Smith, Peter J., Three historical poems ascribed to Gilla Cóemáin: a critical edition of the work of an eleventh-century Irish scholar, Studien und Texte zur Keltologie, 8, Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 2007.
Edition, with translation and full commentary. Based on LL, the Book of Uí Maine and Rawlinson B 512.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
June 2011, last updated: January 2024
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