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verse beg. Cerball Currig cáem-Life

• Early Irish
• verse
• Early Irish poetry

Poem (20 stanzas) concerning Cerball mac Muirecáin. Metre: casbairdne.

First words (verse)

• Cerball Currig cáem-Life

Author

Ascribed to: Dallán mac MóreDallán mac Móre
(fl. c. 909)
early Irish poet; reputedly a bardic poet to Cerball mac Muirecáin, king of Leinster (d. c. 909)
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Court poet to Cerball mac Muirecáin, king of Leinster.

Manuscripts

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

  p. 47a

  Only manuscript copy known to Kuno Meyer

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Language

• Early Irish

Date

“There can be no doubt that the poem was composed towards the end of the ninth century.” (Meyer)

Form

verse (primary)

Metre

• casbairdne (7³+7³+7³+7³)

Number of stanzas

20

Associated items

M'aes cumtha cumnigimM'aes cumtha cumnigimView incoming data

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Subjects

Cerball mac MuirecáinCerball mac Muirecáin
(d. c. 909)
king of Leinster
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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.], “A poem by Dallán mac Móre”, Revue Celtique 29 (1908): 210–214.

Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. OʼBrien, and Anne OʼSullivan [eds.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983.

CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>

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web page identifiers

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Contributors

C. A., Dennis Groenewegen

Page created

September 2011, last updated: July 2020