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verse beg. Bronaig Conailli indiu

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Early Irish poem, 4 qq of which are quoted in the Annals of Ulster, in an entry sub anno 688 concerning the battle of Imlech Pich. The poem, here attributed to one Gabaircenn or Gaborchenn, laments the deaths of two leaders on the side of the Conailli, Dub Da Inber and Uarchride. On the grounds that quatrains 2-3 are metrically distinct from 1 and 4, Kuno Meyer expressed doubt if all four quatrains originally belonged together.

First words (verse)
  • Bronaig Conailli indiu
Author
Ascribed to: GaborchennGaborchenn
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Manuscripts
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1282 (H 1. 8) [s. xvi]
f. 25v
rubric: ‘Gabaircenn cecinit [?]’
beg. ‘Bronaigh Conailli indiu’
4 qq. written across the lower margin of the page, in the hand of H1 (not the main scribe). Hennessy remarks that the ascription (on the left) is not very legible, but that the name “looks like” Gabaircenn. The verses are not found in MS B of the Annals of Ulster.
rubric: ‘Unde Gabhorceann cecinit’
beg. ‘Bronach Conaille aníu’
First quatrain only, s.a. 686.
rubric: ‘As dia n-oidheadhaibh ro raidheadh’
beg. ‘Bronach Conailli indiu’
First quatrain only, s.a. 686 (multiple manuscripts).
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 4 qq.

Classification

Subjects

Dub Dá Inber [king of Ardd Cianachtae]Dub Dá Inber ... king of Ardd Cianachtae
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Keywords

Battle of Imlech PichBattle of Imlech Pich
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Samples

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Image from TCD 1282, available from Trinity College Library.

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.

[crit. ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], Bruchstücke der älteren Lyrik Irlands, Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 7, Berlin: Gruyter, 1919.
Celtic Digital Initiative: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
43–44 [id. 98.]
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno, Selections from early Irish poetry, Dublin: Unpublished, 1909.
17 [‘Gaborchenn's lament after the battle of Imlech’]
[ed.] [tr.] Hennessy, William M., and B. Mac Carthy [eds. and trs.], Annala Uladh: Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait, Annals of Senat: a chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540, Partial, revised ed., Online: CELT, 2008–. URL: <http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100001A http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100001B http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100001C http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001A http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001B http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001C>. 
comments: The edition available from CELT is accompanied by the following statements (accessed 13:10, 1 February 2011 (CET)):
“[...] For the remainder of the text (AD 1155 to the end) we have had to use Mac Carthy's very unsatisfactory edition. His codicological information is obscure, his citation of variants is patchy, and he makes many unnecessary or wrong-headed attempts at emendation. These latter are simply ignored, but emendations and corrections by Whitley Stokes (1896, 1897) are integrated into the text. It is not, however, possible to produce a satisfactory digital edition from Mac Carthy's ragged apparatus.]”

and:

“Editorial corrigenda (where relevant and well-founded) are integrated into the electronic edition. Unnecessary or mistaken corrections by Mac Carthy (these appear in brackets in his edition) are simply ignored in the electronic text. Missing text supplied by the editors in the body of the work is tagged sup. Editorial and scribal corrections entered in the body of the work are tagged corr and the original reading is kept in the sic attribute. In the case of some unusual forms not commented by the editors of the hard copy the manuscript reading is tagged sic, without further comment by the makers of the electronic edition. Changes of scribe, marked by the hard copy editors, are retained and marked in the hand attribute of the tag add using the scribal sigla (for which see profiledesc below). Thus, scribal glosses and annotations are tagged add with appropriate attributes. Because of the unsatisfactory nature of Mac Carthy's edition, additions by hands other than the main hand are simply marked with add or addspan and the attribute late. Strictly codicological annotations in the apparatus criticus that do not appear to affect the meaning have been ignored.”
150 (text), 151 (translation)
[ed.] [tr.] Hennessy, William M., Annala Uladh: Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait, Annals of Senat: a chronicle of Irish affairs, 4 vols, vol. 1: 431–1056, Dublin, 1887.
Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link>
139–139
[ed.] [tr.] Radner, Joan N. [ed. and tr.], Fragmentary annals of Ireland, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.
CELT – edition (2–182),: <link> CELT – translation (3–183): <link> CELT – introduction (vii–ix): <link>
38–39

Quatrain in the Fragmentary annals of Ireland.

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