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verse beg. Ní disceoil d’Uib Néill andes

  • Early Irish
  • verse

Early Irish poem (7 qq) in praise of Colum Chille, with ample quotations from the Amra Choluim Chille.

First words (verse)
  • Ní disceoil d’Uib Néill andes
Manuscripts
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 2, ff. 19–89 = Lebar Glinne Dá Locha (?) [1125 x 1150]
p. 55
rubric: ‘... 7 is taithmet báis 7 bethad 7 tesmalta 7 timthirecht[a] Coluimb chille asberat uile, ut quidam dixit’
beg. ‘Ni disceoil duib Neill andes’
7 qq.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 615 = Saltair Choluim Chille [s. xvi1]
p. 46.12–foot
beg. ‘Ni disceoil duib Neill andes’

7 qq, after a copy of the Amra.

Language
  • Early Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 7 qq.
Number of lines: 28
Textual relationships
(Possible) sources: Amra Choluim ChilleAmra Choluim Chille

Elegy on Saint Columba (Colum Cille).

Classification


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Subjects

Colum CilleColum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
Columba
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).
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Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “The Bodleian Amra Choluimb Chille”, Revue Celtique 20 (1899): 31–55, 132–183, 248–289, 400–437. Corrigenda in Revue Celtique 21 (1900): 133–136.
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136–137
Stokes, Whitley, “The Bodleian Amra Choluimb Chille [Corrections and additions]”, Revue Celtique 21 (1900): 133–136.  
Comments.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Note to for saegal sár (p. 136 l. 5): “seems to mean « on the world » (Henebry)”.

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Dennis Groenewegen
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December 2022, last updated: June 2023
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