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verse beg. For fáesamh, a Mhuire

  • Irish
  • verse
Irish prayer (5 stt) attributed to Colum Cille and addressed to Mary.
First words (verse)
  • For fáesamh, a Mhuire

Meye’s revised edition renders the first line as Fort fhóisam a Muire.

Speaker/Addressee
Addressee: Mary [mother of Jesus]
Mary ... mother of Jesus
(s. i BC–i AD)
No short description available
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Author
Ascribed to: Colum Cille
Colum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
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Manuscripts
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 615 = Saltair Choluim Chille [s. xvi1]
p. 133.9–foot
rubric: ‘Colum Cille cantavit hoc canticum’
beg. ‘For faésamh a Mhuire’

5 stt. Foll. by incomplete Irish note in prose.

Language
  • Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Metre
  • ocht-fhoclach
Length
Number of stanzas: 5 stt.

Classification

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, “Ein altirisches Bittgedicht an die Jungfrau Maria”, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1917): 442–444. Corrigenda in Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1918): 374.
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Revised edition, with the text rearranged to suit ochtfhloclach metre; and with a translation into German.

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Colum Cille cantavit hoc canticum”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908): 257.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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December 2022, last updated: September 2023
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