Texts

Imtheachta na n-óinmhideadh ‘The adventures of the fools’

prose, verse, prosimetrum
Medieval Irish literature

Long medieval Irish text about Mac Dá Cherda and Cummíne Fota

Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 1a (236a) = Book of the Ó Duibhgeannáin [s.xvii (?)]

pp. 149a–178a

Acephelous

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iv 1 [s. xiv / xv]

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 C 19 (726) [s. xix]

pp. 49–157

Summary of the text.

Language

Late Middle Irish?

Form

prose, verse, prosimetrum (primary)

Textual relationships

The text includes augmented excerpts from the poem sometimes known as The dialogue of Cummíne and Comgán.

(Possible) sources: The dialogue of Cummíne and ComgánThe dialogue of Cummíne and ComgánEarly Irish poem in the form of a dialogue between Cummíne Fota and Comgán Mac Dá Cherda, with a prose prologue of later date about the two characters.

Related: The dialogue of Cummíne and ComgánThe dialogue of Cummíne and ComgánEarly Irish poem in the form of a dialogue between Cummíne Fota and Comgán Mac Dá Cherda, with a prose prologue of later date about the two characters.

Classification

Medieval Irish literatureMedieval Irish literature
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Subjects

Comgán Mac Dá Cherda

Comgán Mac Dá Cherda

(fl. first half of the 7th century)

Poet and fool (óinmit) in Irish literature; a son of Máel Ochtraig (king of the Déisi Muman) and a contemporary of Cummíne Fota. The name Mac Dá Cherda would mean ‘Son of Two Arts’, but seeing as it may go back to an original Moccu Cherda (as suggested by Jackson and Ó Coileáin) it is perhaps best spelled conservatively, without lengthening in Da.

See more Cummíne Fota

Cummíne Fota

(fl. 7th century)

early Irish saint, patron of Clonfert (Clúain Fertae)