Texts

verse beg. Hériu ard inis na rríg

Gilla Cóemáin

Middle Irish
verse
Early Irish poetry, Irish legendary history

First words (verse)

Hériu ard inis na rríg

“Lofty Ireland, island of the kings”

Author

Gilla Cóemáin

Gilla Cóemáin

(fl. 1072)

Middle Irish poet

Ascribed to: Gilla Cóemáin

Gilla Cóemáin

(fl. 1072)

Middle Irish poet

Gilla Cóemáin (fl. 1072)

Manuscripts

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

ff. 127a–129b

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]

p. 45(31r)b ff

beg. ‘Eriu ard inis na rig’

157qq. Ascr. to Gilla Cóeman.

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 2 [s. xiv-xv]

f. 36ra

Language

Middle Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Irish legendary historyIrish legendary history
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Subjects

Finn mac Cumaill

Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)

Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían

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.] Smith, Peter J., Three historical poems ascribed to Gilla Cóemáin: a critical edition of the work of an eleventh-century Irish scholar, Studien und Texte zur Keltologie, 8, Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 2007.

Edition, with translation and full commentary.

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