Texts

verse beg. Eochair chéille coistecht

Middle Irish
verse
Early Irish poetry, Medieval Irish wisdom literature

Poem ascribed to Cormac mac Cuilennáin, which consists primarily of a list of gnomic formulas beginning with the word eochair (‘key’ in a metaphorical sense).

First words (verse)

Eochair chéille coistecht

Author

Ascribed to: Cormac mac Cuilennáin

Cormac mac Cuilennáin

(d. 908)

bishop and king of Munster

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 5, cols 217-280 = YBL section [1407]

p. 420b col. 248

beg. ‘Eochair céille coisteacht’

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 3, pp. 15-58 [s. xv/xvi?]

p. 37

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 3 (678) [1715]

p. 37

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 25 (258) [c.1809 × 1813]

p. 13

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 11 (487) [s. xviii]

p. 179

Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 70

p. 157

Nine stanzas.

Language

Middle Irish
Middle Irish?

Form

verse (primary)

Length

Number of stanzas: 12

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Medieval Irish wisdom literatureMedieval Irish wisdom literature
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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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Corbmac Cuilennain cecinit”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908): 270–271.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Edition only.

[ed.] [tr.] OʼNolan, T. P., “Anecdota from Murphy MSS., Maynooth”, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 4th series, 24 (1908): 393–397, 494–501.

Internet Archive – 393ff: <link> Internet Archive – 494ff: <link>

395–397, 499–501 Edition and translation of an imperfect copy in the Maynooth MS, with Meyer's edition reprinted on pp. 500-501.

Translation wanted

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Dennis Groenewegen