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verse beg. Eol dam aided, erctha gním

  • Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry, Ulster Cycle
Poem on the deaths of the seven Maines, sons of Medb and Ailill.
First words (verse)
  • Eol dam aided, erctha gním
Manuscripts
London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 [1516-1518]
f. 44a ff
contains some glosses
Language
  • Middle Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 8

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
...
Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

The term ‘Ulster Cycle’ is used in modern scholarship to refer to a body of Irish narrative literature set in the heroic age of the Ulaid around the time of Conchobar mac Nessa.

Subjects

The seven Maines
The seven Maines
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle, Conaire Mór, Conchobar mac Nessa)
In the Ulster Cycle, the seven Maines (na secht Maine) are a collective designation for the seven, or eight, sons of Medb and Ailill, all of whom are named Maine: Maine Máithremail and Maine Aithremail, Maine Míngor and Maine Mórgor, Maine Andóe, Maine Milscothach and/or Maine Mó Epert, and Maine Conda(s)gaib/Cotagaib Uile.
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Contents

After an introductory quatrain, the deaths of the seven Maines are treated in seven quatrains (one quatrain per Maine):

[1] Introduction

[2] Maine Mórgar

» People: Maine Mórgor

[3] Maine Mó-epert

» People: Maine Conda Mó Epert

[4] Maine Annai

» Comments: For this story, see the Táin episode known as Caladgleó Cethirn. » People: Maine Andóe • Cethern mac Fintain

[5] Maine Taí

[6] Maine Mingor

» People: Maine Mingor

[7] Maine Máthremail

» People: Maine Máithremail

[8] Maine Aithremuil

» People: Maine Aithremail

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: Der Tod der sieben Maine”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 175.
CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Translation wanted
No translation has been recorded at this stage.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
May 2011, last updated: January 2024
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