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Brinna Ferchertne ‘Ferchertne’s dream-vision’

verse beg. Atchīu dā choin ac congail

• Old Irish, Early Middle Irish
• verse
• Early Irish poetry, Ulster Cycle

A rhymed poem about the death of Cú Roí, preserved as part of a version of Aided Chon Roí. In a dream-vision, the poet Ferchertne utters a prophecy of Cú Roí’s death.

First words (verse)

• Atchīu dā choin ac congail

Manuscripts

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 ff. 1–58 and ff. 73–122 = Leabhar na Rátha [1453–1454]

ff. 117b line 1–118a line 2

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Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv^ex/xvⁱⁿ]

Several quatrains are cited.

View manuscript in Mirador

See also results from manuscript descriptions

Language

• Old Irish Early Middle Irish
• Old and Middle Irish.

Date

10th century? Meyer: “If I may venture a guess I should assign our poem to the 10th century. The name Cúrói still scans as three syllables, as in Cinaed húa Hartacáin’s poem beginning [[Fíanna bátar i nEmain

|Fíanna bátar i nEmain]], while it makes two syllables in [[Lecht Cormaic meic Culennáin

|Broccán Craibdech’s poem in LL 43b]] and in [Atbér mór do mathib].”

Form

verse (primary)

Length

Number of stanzas: 36

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle

id. 1797

Subjects

Cú Roí

Cú Roí (mac Dáiri)

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)

Warrior and king of Munster in tales of the Ulster Cycle.

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Cú Chulainn

Young Ulster hero and chief character of Táin bó Cuailnge and other tales of the Ulster Cycle; son of Súaltam or Lug and Deichtire (sister to Conchobor); husband of Emer (ingen Forgaill)

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Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “Brinna Ferchertne”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 3 (1901): 40–46.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Thurneysen, Rudolf, Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert, Halle: Niemeyer, 1921.  

Contents: Part 1 (chapters 1-23): Allgemeines; Part 2 (chapters 1-85): Die Ulter Sage.

Internet Archive: <link>

437–440

Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed. and tr.], “Die Sage von CuRoi”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 189–234.

CELT – edition of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> CELT – German translation of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

web page identifiers

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Contributors

C. A., Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown

Page created

March 2011, last updated: January 2024