Texts

verse beg. Nin mac Bel, roga na ríg

  • Late Middle Irish
  • verse
Late Middle Irish poem on Assyrian kings and synchronic history in Ireland.
First words (verse)
  • Nin mac Bel, roga na ríg
Language
  • Late Middle Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 21 qq.
Textual relationships
Related: Adam primus pater (Irish tract)Adam primus pater (Irish tract)

Classification

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.] Boyle, Elizabeth, “Biblical history in the Book of Ballymote”, in: Ruairí Ó hUiginn (ed.), Book of Ballymote, 2, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2018. 51–76.
Appendix
[ed.] [tr.] Mac Carthy, Bartholomew [ed. and tr.], The codex Palatino-Vaticanus, no. 830, Todd Lecture Series, 3, Dublin, 1892.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>
310–317 Superseded by Boyle (2018). Mac Carthy carves up the poem into four sections and numbers the quatrains accordingly (1-5, 1-5, 1-5, 1-6).
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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May 2023, last updated: July 2023