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verse beg. Nidu dír dermait

• Old Irish
• verse
• Early Irish poetry, rhyming Leinster poems

One of the rhyming ‘Leinster poems’, attributed to Laidcenn mac Bairceda.

First words (verse)

• Nidu dír dermait

Author

Ascribed to: Laidcenn mac BaircedaLaidcenn mac Bairc(h)eda
(supp. fl. 5th century ?)
early Irish poet, said to be of the Dál nAraidi. Two early poems (beg. Énna, Labraid and Nidu dír dermait) belonging to the so-called rhyming ‘Leinster poems’ are ascribed to him.
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Manuscripts

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

  heading: ‘Is é so in fursunnud Laidcind’
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

  p. 311a
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

  p. 313b

  quatrain beg. Longais mauru Murithach

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Language

• Old Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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rhyming Leinster poemsLeinster poems
rhyming Leinster poems

id. 29242

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.] 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>

8–9

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], Über die älteste irische Dichtung I. Rhythmische alliterierende Reimstrophen, Berlin, 1913.

Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

14–25 Fursundud Ladcinn maicc Bairchedo.

[tr.] Carey, John [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: John T. Koch, and John Carey (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, 4th ed., 1, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various].

§ 67

Secondary sources (select)

Carney, James P., “Three Old Irish accentual poems”, Ériu 22 (1971): 23–80.

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May 2011, last updated: March 2021