Texts

verse beg. Rélta na cruindi Caiterfhína

Early Modern Irish
verse

Irish poem (11 qq) on St Catherine of Alexandria.

First words (verse)

Rélta na cruindi Caiterfhína

Manuscripts

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.37 = Book of the Dean of Lismore (Leabhar Deathan Lios Mòir) [s. xvi]

p. 36

beg. ‘Raitlai nyt crwneni katreine’

17 qq.

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.3.12

f. 36

Transcript.

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.3.3

p. 27

Transcript.

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 73.2.9

f. 12

Transcript.

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, MS 14871

f. 6r (cf. 5v)

Transcript.

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 25 (475) = Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne [s. xvi¹]

f. 56r(105)a.19–a.i

beg. ‘Relta na cruindi Caiterfhina’

The poem follows an Irish translation of the Life of St Catherine, which is here said to be work of Enóg Ó Gilláin. The poem is followed, at the bottom of the left column, by a prayer: Ailim trocairi De tria impidi Catrechfina banoige ar manam ⁊ ni hurusa mo goid aniugh o Shili (as transcribed by Paul Walsh, xlvi).

London, British Library, MS Additional 33993 [s. xvi]

Language

Early Modern Irish
No analysis, linguistic or otherwise, is known at this point. The poem cannot be younger than the oldest manuscript in which it is preserved.

Form

verse (primary)

Length

Number of stanzas: 11

Classification

Subjects

Catherine of Alexandria

Catherine of Alexandria

No short description available

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.] McKenna, Lambert [ed.], Aithdioghluim dána: a miscellany of Irish bardic poetry, historical and religious, including the historical poems of the Duanaire in the Yellow Book of Lecan, 2 vols, Irish Texts Society, 37, 40, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1940.

Volume I contains the introduction and edited texts of a hundred poems; volume II contains translations and indexes.

Bardic.celt.dias.ie – Editions included: <link>

[id. 99.] The text is available through the Irish bardic poetry database.