Texts

verse beg. A aingil / beir a Míchíl mórfhertaig

Máel Ísu Ua Brolcháin
  • Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
Metrical invocation (9qq, treochair) of Michael the archangel.
First words (verse)
  • A aingil / beir a Míchíl mórfhertaig
Author
Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)
Ua Brolcháin (Máel Ísu)
(d. (c.) 1086)
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Language
  • Middle Irish
Date
11th century
Form
verse (primary)
Metre
  • treochair (3²+7³+7²)
Length
Number of stanzas: 9

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Subjects

Michael the archangel
Michael the archangel
Archangel in Christianity and other Abrahamic religions.

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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.] Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann, Maol Íosa Ó Brolcháin, Maynooth: An Sagart, 1986.
42–43 (no. 1) Edition, with Irish translation.
[ed.] [tr.] Greene, David, and Frank OʼConnor, “41: Hymn to St. Michael”, in: David Greene, and Frank OʼConnor [Michael O'Donovan], A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200, London: Macmillan, 1967. 165–166.
[ed.] [tr.] Plummer, Charles, Irish litanies: text and translation, Henry Bradshaw Society, 62, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1925.  
Edition, with English translation, introduction and textual notes. of a selection of Irish litanies.
CELT – edition: <link>
88–89 (Litany of St Michael)
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, “Maelisu’s hymn to the archangel Michael”, Gaelic Journal 4:35 (1890): 56–57, 70 (corr.).
Internet Archive: <link>
[tr.] Meyer, Kuno, Selections from ancient Irish poetry, London, 1911.  
A collection of early and medieval Irish poetry in English translation. The individual items are reprinted from earlier publications.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>
41
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Cath Finntrága or The Battle of Ventry, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 1.4, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885.  
Edition based on Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 487; variants from BL Egerton 149.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
88–89, 118

Secondary sources (select)

Hollo, Kaarina, “The alliterative structure of Mael Ísu Ua Brolcháin’s A aingil, beir”, Ériu 41 (1990): 77–80.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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