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Middle Irish lyrical poem addressed to a certain Crínóc (‘dear old little thing’, a hypocoristic form of crín). Crínóc is lovingly described as an old, judicious woman, who had lain with the speaker as well as other men yet who is without sin. James Carney was the first to suggest that she personifies an old psalm-book that the speaker had turned to since the age of seven, i.e. when he first received his religious education.
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Early Irish prayer which invokes St Patrick and was composed, according to the prose attribution, by either Niníne the poet (éces) or Fíacc of Sleibte (Sletty, Co. Laois).
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Early Irish religious poem which prescribes a set of moral guidelines that together make up ‘the rule of the Lord’ (ríagal in Choimded). Strachan, who first edited the poem, distinguishes between two recensions, A and B, both of which carry some interpolations of their own.
Prose anecdote about a soul released from hell through the mediation of prayer by an anonymous holy man (maybe St Gregory), including by a poem (8 qq) uttered by the soul in gratitude for his release.
An early Irish metrical prayer (8 st.) seeking the protection and support of the archangels, one for each day of the week.
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Religious Irish poem (10 qq) on pilgrimage. In MSS of the Annals of the Four Masters, under the year 926, it is attributed to Céle Dabhail, abbot of Bangor, who is said have composed it before going on pilgrimage to Rome. The copy in Laud Misc. 615, a collection of poetry associated with Colum Cille, comes with an attribution to that saint.
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The second of two Middle Irish devotional poems that are found after the core of Saltair na rann in Rawl. B 502.
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