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verse beg. Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim / co h-éimid, ní h-indeithbir

  • Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
Middle Irish poem attributed to Dublittir Úa hUathgaile (fl. late 11th century), fer léigin at Glen Uissen, now Killeshin. It is attested both as the concluding poem in the Sex aetates mundi and in independent manuscript contexts.
First words (verse)
  • Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim / co h-éimid, ní h-indeithbir
Author
Ascribed to: Úa hUathgaile (Dublittir)
Úa hUathgaile (Dublittir)
(c.1080–1120)
Irish scholar associated with the church of Glen Uissen (Killeshin, Co. Laois).

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Language
  • Middle Irish
Form
verse (primary)

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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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.] Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí [ed.], The Irish Sex aetates mundi, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983.
97–108, 132–137 (§ 70)

Secondary sources (select)

Mac Gearailt, Uáitéar, “Dublittir úa hÚathgaile’s poem Rédig dam, a Dé, do nim and Sex aetates mundi”, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 34 (2014): 180–214.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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March 2016, last updated: January 2024