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Pangur Bán
verse beg. Messe ocus Pangur Bán

  • Old Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
First words (verse)
  • Messe ocus Pangur Bán
Author
anonymous monk of Reichenau monastery
Manuscripts
Language
  • Old Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Metre
  • deibide
Length
Number of stanzas: 8
Number of lines: 32

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Subjects

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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.] Greene, David, and Frank OʼConnor, “17: The scholar and the cat”, in: David Greene, and Frank OʼConnor [Michael O'Donovan], A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200, London: Macmillan, 1967. 81–83.
‘Meisse ocus Pangur Bán’
[ed.] [tr.] Murphy, Gerard [ed. and tr.], “Anonymous: The scholar and his cat”, in: Gerard Murphy [ed. and tr.], Early Irish lyrics: eighth to twelfth century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. 2–3, 172.
CELT – edition: <link>
[ed.] 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.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link> Wikisource: <link>
293–294 Edition and translation direct link
[ed.] Windisch, Ernst [ed.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 1, Leipzig, 1880.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – Originally from Google Books: <link> – Vol. 1, part 1: View in Mirador – Vol. 1, part 2: Wörterbuch: View in Mirador
316 Edition

Secondary sources (select)

Tristram, Hildegard L. C., “Die irischen Gedichte im Reichenauer Schulheft”, in: Peter Anreiter, and Erzsébet Jerem (eds), Studia Celtica et Indogermanica: Festschrift für Wolfgang Meid zum 70. Geburtstag, 10, Budapest: Archaeolingua, 1999. 503–529.
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November 2010, last updated: January 2024
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