Texts

verse beg. Cethrar cóic fichit iar fír

Early Irish
verse
Early Irish poetry, Irish religious texts

Poem on Adam's 124 children

First words (verse)

Cethrar cóic fichit iar fír

Manuscripts

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Pal. lat. 830 [s. xi]

f. 40r (lower margin)

Language

Early Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Irish religious textsIrish religious texts
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Subjects

Adam

Adam

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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, “Hibernica: V. Extracts from Palatine no. 830”, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der indogermanischen Sprachen 31 (1890): 248–253.

comments: An edition of Iish texts found in the margin of Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Pal. lat. 830: (1) a king-list (f. 15va); (2) a poem on Adam’s body. beg. ‘Cenn ard Adaim étrocht rád’ (f. 38r, upper margin); (3) a poem on Adam’s 124 children, beg. ‘Cethrar cóic fichit iar fír’ (f. 40r. lower margin); (4) a poem on the war fought by Benjamin’s tribe against other children of Israel, beg. ‘Ben romarbsat fir Gaba’ (f. 47v, lower margin, and f. 48r, upper margin); and (5) quatrains from a dialogue between Patrick and Brigit (f. 147v, upper margin, and and 148r, upper margin).

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250–251 Edition and translation

[ed.] [tr.] Mac Carthy, Bartholomew [ed. and tr.], The codex Palatino-Vaticanus, no. 830, Todd Lecture Series, 3, Dublin, 1892.