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|Title=''Verba Scáthaige''
|Title=''Verba Scáthaige''
|Initial words 2=A mbe<ë> eirr ōengaile
|Initial words 2=A mbe<ë> eirr ōengaile
|Initial words in translation=When you are a peerless champion
|Initial words=Initial lines of verse, as reconstructed in the edition by P. L. Henry.
|Initial words=Initial lines of verse, as reconstructed in the edition by P. L. Henry.
|Initial words in translation=When you are a peerless champion
|Belongsto=independent; Tochmarc Emire
|Belongsto=independent; Tochmarc Emire
|Belongsto2=
|Categories=Early Irish poetry; Early Irish poetry; Ulster Cycle
|Categories=Early Irish poetry; Early Irish poetry; Ulster Cycle
|Description=Prophesy delivered by [[Scáthach]] to [[Cú Chulainn]]
|SubjectCategory=Cú Chulainn; Scáthach; Medb Crúachna; Ailill mac Máta; Finnbennach; Donn Cuailnge
|Language=[[language::Old Irish]]
|ShortDescription=Poem in the form of a prophecy delivered by Scáthach to Cú Chulainn.
|LanguageAuto=Old Irish
|Date=7th-8th century
|Date=7th-8th century
|Textual relationships=Refers to various combats at the ford undertaken by Cú Chulainn in ''[[Táin Cuailnge]]''
|DateStart=600 AD
|DateEnd=799 AD
|Textual relationships=Refers to various combats at the ford undertaken by Cú Chulainn in the course of the story told in ''[[Táin Cuailnge]]''
|Manuscripts=Two versions:<!----* Version A:
|Manuscripts=Two versions:<!----* Version A:
** {{MS |Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 |folio=118b2}}
** {{MS |Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 |folio=118b2}}
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|pages=26, 125
|pages=26, 125
}}
}}
|FormPrimary=verse
|FormSecondary=prose
|FormSecondaryComments=Prose introduction
|MetreComments=dactyllic (trisyllabic), except in verses 8, 20 and 29 (Henry)
|NumberLines=32
|TextTOC=
|Factoids2=
|Persons2=
|Places2=
|Events2=
|Manuscript 1 header=
|Manuscript 1 header=
|Manuscript 1=
|Manuscript 1=
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|Manuscript commentary 8=
|Manuscript commentary 8=
|FormPrimary=verse
|FormSecondary=prose
|FormSecondaryComments=Prose introduction
|MetreComments=dactyllic (trisyllabic), except in verses 8, 20 and 29 (Henry)
|NumberLines=32
|PersonsTitle=Characters
|Persons=Include:
* {{Text person |Cú Chulainn |name=Sétante; Cú Chulainn |description= |at=Prose introduction and verse; referred to as Sétante and Cú Chulainn in the poem |status= }}
* {{Text person |Scáthach |name= |description= |at=Prose introduction |status= }}
* {{Text person |Medb Crúachna |name=Medb |at=verse line 28 }}
* {{Text person |Ailill mac Máta |name=Ailill |at=verse line 28}}
* {{Text person |Finnbennach |name=Findbennach |at=verse line 31 }}
* {{Text person |Donn Cuailnge |at=verse line 32 }}
|MSS=Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10
|MSS=Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10
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{{Sources
{{Sources
|Header editions=Editions and translations
|Header editions=Editions and translations
|Editions={{Cite |Henry 1990}}
|Editions2={{Cite
{{Cite |Thurneysen 1913e}}
|source=Henry 1990
{{Cite |Meyer 1913c3}}
|ed=ed.; tr.
}}{{Cite
|source=Thurneysen 1913e
}}{{Cite
|source=Meyer 1913c3
}}
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}}
}}

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