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Betha Fursa ‘The Life of Fursa’

  • Early Modern Irish
  • prose
  • Irish hagiography
Irish life of St Fursa
Manuscripts
Language
  • Early Modern Irish
  • “The very modern appearance of the text is probably due to the transcriber, who seems to have substituted cc for g, cch for gh, tt for d, ff for bf, (i. e. eclipsed f), ao for oe, aoi for ói, in accordance with the spelling usual in the 17th century. The presence of the infixed pronouns, t and n points to the Middle-Irish period as the date of the translation. But the absence of deponents, and the occurrence of the preterite passive in -it (ro calmaigit) and the 2d pl. in -bair (fedabair), prove that et [sic] cannot be older than (say) the thirteenth or fourteenth century.”, Whitley Stokes, ‘The Life of Fursa’, Revue Celtique 25 (1904): 387.
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Subjects

Fursa
Fursa
(fl. 7th century)
Irish monk and missionary
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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.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “The Life of Fursa”, Revue Celtique 25 (1904): 385–404.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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June 2011, last updated: January 2024
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