Texts

verse beg. Tuilsitir mo derca súain

Middle Irish
verse
Early Irish poetry, Finn Cycle

Poem on the boar of Muir Talláin, ascribed to Oisín.

First words (verse)

Tuilsitir mo derca súain

(My eyes slumbered in sleep)

Author

Ascribed to: Oisín mac Finn

Oisín mac Finn

(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Saint Patrick, Cormac mac Airt)

A fían-warrior, son of Finn, in the Finn Cycle of medieval Irish literature

Manuscripts

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

p. 208a

beg. ‘Tuilsitir mo derca súain’

Glossed.⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Windisch locates this copy on "fol. 161, b". Ernst Windisch, Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, vol. 1 (1880): 161.

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.38 [s. xvii]

p. 154

beg. ‘Tuilsither mo dherca suain’

Glossed. The ascription to Oisín is found in the lower margin.

context: O'Davoren's glossary

L. 3 is cited s.v. genam (p. 96 in Stokes’ edition); ll. 5-6 s.v. cinnes (p. 71); l. 17 s.v. gribnis (p. 71).

Language

Middle Irish

Date

12th century (Meyer).⁽²⁾^{n. 2} Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910): xxx..

Form

verse (primary)

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
...
Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle

id. 578

Samples

Tuilsitir mo derca súain (two versions)

Ernst Windisch

Two versions, one edited from the Book of Leinster, the other from an Edinburgh MS.

Silently accepted Heinrich Zimmer’s emendations of two shorthands for proprium.

[LL version]

Tuilsitiri. da chotlatar mo dercai. mo ṡúli súain

mo ruibnii. mo scíath mam luibnii. im shleig ar ló,

mo genumi. mo chlaidiub im duaisi. im láim ro boi,

ocus mo duaismo dorn imm ó.im chluais

Adbul. . . gi físi armothá,atchondarc

darchinniusi. darlecius co dían mo chuib[no gloss]

ar chribaisi. ar muicc illeirg ar artfeoil

daceird, bracht cu feici. saill furri corrici a fiacail a cuill.i. a carpait

Trichai. traiged treten dam connáibco m-bróic

ina taib ca tulmaingi. co moing a srona tuind,

triucha nenai. ordlach

Find

proprium

na feicna fiaccail

isséicsei. na saill thuas re fatuind.isseom ro búi asa cind immach dá fiacail

Meit is ri habraid a derc,chommeit ri cori mor cach súil di

meit is ri mess a fert fo,i. coméit ri tolaig a lecht ocus si fein na ligi

selaisi. tescaid mu chlaideb mu genum a muin,i. a munel

ocus mu chuib asa hó. i. mo chu asa cluais

Cribaismucc mara Talláin

proprium

tair,

benais ri ailria cloich tairges tnu,i. ris m-benand tond

mu leo uam fhaosamhi. ar mo chomnus féin domniadh,

mar tusa ni triath mar tu.ni lac immar tú T.

Oisin ro chan indsin i tráig mara im Thallaind ar nia na mucci.

[Edinburgh version]

Tuilsitheri. do chodladar mo dhercamo shuile suain

mo ruibhnei. mo sleagh [sic] mum luibhnei. mo sgiath ar lo

mo ghenami. mo cladhiomh um dhuaisum dhorn ro bhaoi

agus mo dhuaismo dhom fam ofam chluais.

Adhbhuli. aislinge fisi ar mo ta i. tarla

dar cinniusi. dar leiges go dian mo chuibi. mo chu

ar criobhaisi. ar mhuic a leirg ar art

fo cheird bracht go feici. saill go fiacuil a cuila carbui.

Triocha treathani. throigh damh gun naibhi. gun broigh

iona taoibh go a tul moinggo moing a srona tuinn

triocha nenai. orladh Finn ua feici. na fiacuil

asseicsi tuas re fa thuinni. asa cionn amach.

Meidis re habhron a dherci. coimed re coire gach sui di

meidis re mes a fert fo

sealus mo ghenami. tesgus mo cladhiomh a muina muineal

agus mo chuibh as a ho.i. mo chu asa cluais

Criobaisi. muic mhara Tallann tair

benus ria haili. ria cloic tairges tnurisa m-benann tonn

mo leo uam fhaosamhi. mo bhoill as comairce diob nert domniadh

mar tusa ni triath mar tu.i. ni lag mar tu

Oisin ro chan ann sin attraigh mara tallann ar nia na muice.

[English translation by W. F. Skene, with comments in German by E. Windisch]

[Die Parenthesen rühren ron mir her.]

My eyes slumbered in sleep, my spear was with my shield, my sword was in my hand, and my hand under my ear. [In 2b fehlt eine Silbe.]

A strange dream (?) happened to me, I set swiftly my dogs [Sg.] on a sow in the plain upon flesh. She was fat to the tusk in her jaw. [Dacheird, focheird ist Verbalform und gehört zum Vorhergehenden.]

Thirty feet for me with my shoes, in her side to the beard of her snout ; thirty inches for Finn in her tusk, fat above on her under her hide (?).

Large as a caldron was each eye, large as a vessel the hollow beneath (?). My sword hewed in her neck, and my dogs [Sg.] fixed on her ear.

Sow of the sea of eastern Tallann, which strikes the rock where the wave touches. My limbs were to me a protection to me strong, as thyself not weak like thee.

Tuilsitir mo derca súain •

Sources

Notes

^1.

Windisch locates this copy on "fol. 161, b". Ernst Windisch, Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, vol. 1 (1880): 161.

^2.

Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910): xxx..

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.] Lehmann, Ruth P. M. [ed. and tr.], Early Irish verse, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.

[ed.] [tr.] Windisch, Ernst [ed.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 1, Leipzig, 1880.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – Originally from Google Books: <link> – Vol. 1, part 1: View in Mirador – Vol. 1, part 2: Wörterbuch: View in Mirador

161–164 Separate editions of the texts in LL and the Edinburgh MS, with an English translation by Skene. direct link

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 4, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1965. xxvii + pp. 761-1117.

CELT – pp. 761-781 and 785-841: <link>

Diplomatic edition of the Book of Leinster version.

[ed.] [tr.] MacLauchlan, Thomas [ed. and tr.], and William Forbes Skene [introd. and add. notes], The Dean of Lismore’s Book: a selection of ancient Gaelic poetry from a manuscript collection made by James M’Gregor, dean of Lismore, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1862.

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lxxxiv–lxxxvi Edited, probably from the Edinburgh MS.