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Uga Corbmaic meic Cuilendáin ‘The choice of Cormac mac Cuilennáin’
verse beg. In rogh so, a Rí na run

  • Early Irish
  • verse
Early Irish religious poem (29qq) attributed to Cormac mac Cuilennáin. What appears to be a full copy of text is attested in a single manuscript, while fragments of it also turn up as citations elsewhere.
Title
Uga Corbmaic meic Cuilendáin
‘The choice of Cormac mac Cuilennáin’
For the word written as uga and its use in etymological contexts, see DIL s.v. uccu.
First words (verse)
  • In rogh so, a Rí na run
Author
Ascribed to: Cormac mac Cuilennáin
Cormac mac Cuilennáin
(d. 908)
bishop and king of Munster
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The attribution to Cormac mac Cuilennáin heads the text in RIA MS 23 N 10. Some of the citations (supra) also credit a Cormac, without identifying the author more closely.
Manuscripts
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (967) = Book of Ballycummin [s. xvi]
pp. 17.m–18.m
rubric: ‘Uga Corbmaic meic Cuilendain’
beg. ‘In rogh so a Rig na run’
29 qq.
Fragments:
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]
p. 37c.55ff
context: Trefhocul tract
St. 8-9 and 10, here attributed to Cormac (Cormac cecinit issin tririg).
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]
St. 9-10, here attributed, first to Colum Cille and finally to Cormac bard (ut Cormac bard cecinit).
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 15, cols. 500-572 = YBL section [1408]
St. 9-10 (ut est Cormac)
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 4, pp. 59–87
f. 66
St. 29
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 20, pp. 629–660 [s. xvi (?)]
f. 633
St. 29
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 2, cols 3-122 [s. xvi]
context: Sanas Cormaic
§ 369 (section containing additional entries)
Language
  • Early Irish
  • Early Irish?
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 29

Classification

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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Uga Corbmaic meic Cuilendāin”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 10 (1915): 45–47.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Edited from RIA MS 23 N 10, with variants from the fragments.
[ed.] [tr.] Henry, P. L., The early English and Celtic lyric, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966.
54–63 (with notes at the back) Text from Meyer, with a translation into English.
[ed.] Calder, George [ed. and tr.], Auraicept na n-Éces: The scholars’ primer, being the texts of the Ogham tract from the Book of Ballymote and the Yellow book of Lecan, and the text of the Trefhocul from the Book of Leinster, Edinburgh: John Grant, 1917.
CELT – text and introduction: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Septentrionalia.net: <link>
70-71 (l.938), 124-125 (l.1596ff), 220-221 (l.3867ff), 245-246 (l.4677ff), 245-246 (l.5351ff) in Auraceipt na n-éces; and 267 in the Trefhocal tract.
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
February 2019, last updated: September 2023
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