Texts

verse beg. Adram in Coimdid

  • Old Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry

Old Irish quatrain preserved as a citation in the compilation Mittelirischen Verslehren II, here as an example of breccbairdne.

First words (verse)
  • Adram in Coimdid
Author
Anonymous
Language
  • Old Irish
Date
"may be as early as the ninth century" (Murphy)
Form
verse (primary)
Metre
  • brecc-bairdne (5²+6²+5²+6²)

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Murphy, Gerard [ed. and tr.], “Anonymous: The Lord of Creation”, in: Gerard Murphy [ed. and tr.], Early Irish lyrics: eighth to twelfth century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. 4–5, 174.
CELT – edition: <link>
[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], “Mittelirische Verslehren”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 3, Leipzig, 1891. 1–182.  
comments: An index of verse metries and initial lines of verse is provided at the end of this contribution.
Internet Archive: <link>
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November 2011, last updated: January 2024