Texts
verse beg. Scuchais in fer cerdda ar cáe
- Early Irish
- verse
Poem (6qq) on Cairid mac Findcháem, an ancestor of the Conmaicne Cúile Tolad and Síl Caritha, who was blessed by St Patrick. The earliest manuscript version, which is in Rawlinson B 502, adds two additional quatrains, which are, however, metrically distinct from the first 6 qq of the poem.
Initial words (verse)
- Scuchais in fer cerdda ar cáe
Manuscripts
- Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 4190-4200 (3409) [s. xvii1]6qq. Part of the Life of Benén mac Sescnén.
Language
- Early Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Metre
The final two quatrains in the Rawlinson version are in different metrical forms.
- rannaigecht dialtach (al. rannaigecht mór) (7¹+7¹+7¹+7¹)
Number of stanzas
6
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.] O'Brien, 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>
317–318 Rawl. B 502 version.
[ed.] [tr.] Grosjean, Paul, “De S. Benigno: episcopo Ardmachano”, in: Delehaye, Hippolyte, and Paul Peeters (eds), Acta sanctorum, 68 vols, vol. 67: Novembris tomus 4, Paris, 1925. 145–188.
180–181 Text of the poem in the Brussels MS, with Latin translation.
Secondary sources (select)
web page identifiers
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Contributors
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November 2019, last updated: December 2019