Texts

verse beg. Mál ad-rualaid

Old Irish
verse
Early Irish poetry

One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’

First words (verse)

Mál ad-rualaid

Author

Ascribed to: Briccine mac BrigniBriccine mac Brigni

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

LL includes an attribution to an unknown poet named Briccine mac Brigni (unde Briccini mac Brigni cecinit). All other copies simply refer to ‘the poet’ (poeta).

Manuscripts

Listed by Corthals:⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Johan Corthals, ‘The rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’: diplomatic texts’, Celtica 24 (2003): 88.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 2, ff. 19–89 = Lebar Glinne Dá Locha (?) [1125 x 1150]

p. 118a, lines 31–35

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

p. 311b, lines 33–38

Here attributed to one Briccine mac Brigni (unde Briccini mac Brigni cecinit).

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan (Leabhar Leacain) [s. xvⁱⁿ]

f. 84rb, lines 27–31

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 pp. 377–410 = Supplement to the Book of Leinster [c. s. xvi]

p. 378a, lines 20–22

Language

Old Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Sources

Notes

^1.

Johan Corthals, ‘The rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’: diplomatic texts’, Celtica 24 (2003): 88.

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.] Corthals, Johan [ed.], “The rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’: diplomatic texts”, Celtica 24 (2003): 79–100.

88

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Über die älteste irische Dichtung II. Rhythmische alliterierende reimlose Strophen, Berlin, 1914.

Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link>

6–7

[ed.] Campanile, Enrico, Die älteste Hofdichtung von Leinster: alliterierende reimlose Strophen, Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 503, Vienna, 1988.

28

[ed.] Corthals, Johan, “Some observations on the versification of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’”, Celtica 21 (1990): 113–125.

118

[ed.] Carney, James P., “The dating of archaic Irish verse”, in: Stephen N. Tranter, and Hildegard L. C. Tristram (eds), Early Irish literature — media and communication / Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit in der frühen irischen Literatur, 10, Tübingen: Narr, 1989. 39–55.

47–48

[ed.] OʼBrien, M. A. [ed.], Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1962.

comments: Reprinted in 1976 and 2005, with an introduction by J. V. Kelleher.

CELT – pp. 1–332 (Rawl. B 502): <link>

Rawlinson B 502.

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