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  • Early Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry, Ulster Cycle
Early Irish poem about Cú Chulainn, attested as an addition to several copies of the dinnshenchas of Srúb Brain.
Initial words (verse)
  • Tathus drecht dron-amhnus
Manuscripts
Language
  • Early Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Metre
alliterative heptasyllabic verse
    Number of lines
    38

    Classification

    Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
    ...
    Ulster Cycle
    Ulster Cycle
    id. 1797

    Subjects

    Cú ChulainnCú Chulainn
    Young Ulster hero and chief character of Táin bó Cuailnge and other tales of the Ulster Cycle; son of Súaltam or Lug and Deichtire (sister to Conchobor); husband of Emer (ingen Forgaill)
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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.] Stokes, Whitley, “Hibernica [VIII–X]”, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der indogermanischen Sprachen 33 (1895): 62–86.
    Internet Archive: <link>
    31–86 [‘X’] Edition of the poem and its gloss in TCD 1322.
    Translation wanted.
    No translation has been recorded at this stage.
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    Contributors
    Dennis Groenewegen
    Page created
    August 2013, last updated: February 2019
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