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Immacallam Choluim Cille ⁊ ind óclaig ‘The conversation between Colum Cille and the youth’

  • Old Irish
  • prose
  • Cycles of the Kings
Manuscripts
Language
  • Old Irish
  • Despite archaising tendencies in orthography, “cartt for card = carn, Maggán, genir are genuine archaic spellings; and lastly, there are two forms which are not found outside our oldest glosses. These are mucintar (l. 26) and in tain (l. 25). The former represents a mixture of the oldest form of the word, montar (Wb. 7 c 5), and the later muinter. The use of the accusative in intain 'when' is another undoubted sign of great age, pointing to an Old-Irish original as the source from which our copy is derived. This original cannot have been later than the ninth century and may even be assigned to the eighth” (Meyer).(1)n. 1 Alfred Nutt • Kuno Meyer, ‘The colloquy of Colum Cille and the youth at Carn Eolairg’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 2 (1899): 314.
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Coinne Mongain is Coluim caimCoinne Mongain is Coluim caim

Irish poem on Colum Cille, attributed to Mura.

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Colum Cille
Colum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
See more Mongán mac FíachnaiMongán mac Fíachnai
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Sources

Notes

1.
Alfred Nutt • Kuno Meyer, ‘The colloquy of Colum Cille and the youth at Carn Eolairg’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 2 (1899): 314.

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.] Grosjean, Paul, “S. Columbae Hiensis cum Mongano heroe colloquium”, Analecta Bollandiana 45 (1927): 75–83.
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], and Alfred Nutt [addendum], “The colloquy of Colum Cille and the youth at Carn Eolairg”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 2 (1899): 312–320.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
[tr.] Carey, John [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: John T. Koch, and John Carey (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, 4th ed., 1, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various].
[id. 105. ‘The conversion of Colum Cille and the youth at Carn Eolairg (Some say that he was Mongán mac Fiachna)’]

Secondary sources (select)

Carey, John, Ireland and the Grail, Celtic Studies Publications, 11, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2007.
33–35, 39, 215, 329
Carey, John, “The baptism of the gods”, in: John Carey, A single ray of the sun: religious speculation in early Ireland, 3, Andover, MA, and Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 1999. 1–38.
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C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2010, last updated: January 2024
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