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Orthanach úa Cóilláma

• Old Irish
• verse
• Early Irish poetry

Poem on the hill of Alenn. 26 stanzas. Metre: mainly rannaigecht mór.

First words (verse)

• Slān seiss, a Brigit co mbūaid

(Sit safely enthroned, triumphant Brigit)

Author

Orthanach úa Cóilláma

Orthanach úa Cóilláma

(d. 840)

bishop of Kildare and poet

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Kuno Meyer identifies the author as Orthanach úa Cóilláma, bishop of Kildare (d. 840).

Manuscripts

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

ff. 49b line 9 – 50a line 35

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Language

• Old Irish
• “There can I think be no doubt that our poem was composed during the Old-Irish period” (Meyer).^{(1)n. 1} Kuno Meyer, Hail Brigit: an Old Irish poem on the Hill of Alenn (1912): 10.

Form

verse (primary)

Metre

mainly rannaigecht mór.^{(2)n. 2} Kuno Meyer, Hail Brigit: an Old Irish poem on the Hill of Alenn (1912): 11.

• rannaigecht dialtach (al. rannaigecht mór) (7¹+7¹+7¹+7¹)

Length

Number of stanzas: 26

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Sources

Notes

^1.

Kuno Meyer, Hail Brigit: an Old Irish poem on the Hill of Alenn (1912): 10.

^2.

Kuno Meyer, Hail Brigit: an Old Irish poem on the Hill of Alenn (1912): 11.

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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Hail Brigit: an Old Irish poem on the Hill of Alenn, Halle and Dublin, 1912.

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

[em.] Meyer, Kuno, “Erschienene Schriften”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 8 (1912): 594–600.

Internet Archive: <link>

600

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May 2011, last updated: January 2024