Texts

Núall Fir Fhio ‘Fer Fio's cry’
verse beg. Ad-muiniur secht n-ingena trethan

  • Old Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
Title
Núall Fir Fhio
‘Fer Fio's cry’
This title occurs in the prose introduction to the poem.
First words (verse)
  • Ad-muiniur secht n-ingena trethan
Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.
Language
  • Old Irish
  • (Meyer)
Form
verse (primary)
prose (secondary)

Verse. The introduction is in prose.

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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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.] [tr.] Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín [ed.], “Gormlaith and her sisters, c. 750-1800”, in: Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather, and Maria Luddy [et al.] (eds), The Field Day anthology of Irish writing, vol. IV: Irish women's writing and traditions, Cork: Cork University Press, 2002. 166–249.
197–198
[ed.] [tr.] Carey, John, King of Mysteries: early Irish religious writings, 2nd ed., Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000.
136–138 Text and translation.
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, Miscellanea Hibernica, University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, 2.4, Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois, 1917.  

Contents: I. Sualtaim; II. Fer Diad the Nibelung; III. Notes on Irish metrics; IV. An Old Irish poem ascribed to St Moling [Rochūala la nech lēgas libru]; V. Ancient Irish poems with sporadic rhyme [incl. verse beg. Admuiniur secht n-ingena, A Amorgein ānmoltaig, Āiliu tech midchūarta, Ind rāith i comair in dairfheda, Dīa Dīa dorrogus re tīas inna gnūis]; VI. Philological notes [21 notes on Old and MIddle Irish]; VII. Notes on Irish texts; VIII. Notes on Thurneysen's Handbuch des Altirischen; Index of words and names.

HathiTrust: <link> Internet Archive – Incomplete: pp. 44-45 missing: <link>
19–21
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, “An Old Irish prayer for long life”, in: Oliver Elton (ed.), A miscellany presented to John Macdonald Mackay, LL.D., July, 1914, Liverpool, London, 1914. 226–232.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – offprint: <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>
53–54 [id. 97.]
[tr.] Greene, David, and Frank OʼConnor, “5: Breastplate number two”, in: David Greene, and Frank OʼConnor [Michael O'Donovan], A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200, London: Macmillan, 1967. 33–35.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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