Texts

verse beg. In Spirut nóeb immun

Máel Ísu Ua Brolcháin

Middle Irish
verse
Early Irish poetry, Early Irish lyrics
extent: more or less complete

First words (verse)

In Spirut nóeb immun

“May the Holy Spirit be about us”

Author

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)

(d. (c.) 1086)

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Máel Ísu Úa Brolcháin

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1441 (E 4. 2) = Irish Liber hymnorum [s. xi^ex–xiiⁱⁿ]

f. 31vb

beg. ‘In spirut nóeb immunn’

context: Irish Liber hymnorum

Language

Middle Irish

Date

10th or 11th century (Murphy)

Form

verse (primary)

Length

Number of stanzas: 3

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Early Irish lyricsEarly Irish lyrics
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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.] Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann, Maol Íosa Ó Brolcháin, Maynooth: An Sagart, 1986.

[id. 7.] Edition, with modern Irish translation

[ed.] [tr.] Murphy, Gerard [ed. and tr.], “Māel Īsu [Úa Brolchán]: Invocation of the Holy Spirit”, in: Gerard Murphy [ed. and tr.], Early Irish lyrics: eighth to twelfth century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. 52–53, 194–196.

CELT – edition: <link>

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, and John Strachan [eds.], Thesaurus palaeohibernicus: a collection of Old-Irish glosses, scholia, prose, and verse, 3 vols, vol. 2: Non-Biblical glosses and scholia; Old-Irish prose; names of persons and places; inscriptions; verse; indexes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903.

comments: Reprinted by DIAS in 1987, together with Stokes' supplementary volume.