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Anum ó téid as a corp

verse

beg. Anum ó téid as a corp

Late Middle Irish poem (9 + 4 qq) on the seven days’ journey, or seven journeys, of the soul after it leaves the body.

Ceithre coimperta caema

verse

beg. Ceithre coimperta caema

Late Middle Irish poem on the nature and appearance of the Antichrist.

Cétna laithe tairiraith

verse

9 st.

beg. Cétna laithe tairiraith

Moelmoedóc mac DiarmadaMoelmoedóc mac Diarmada

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Middle Irish poem (9 qq) on the seven journeys of the soul after if leaves the body. It is found in the Leabhar Breac, where it is attributed to Moelmoedóc Ua Mongair but internally, in the final quatrain, to Moelmoedóc mac Diarmada, possibly referring to the abbot of Glen Uissen (Killeshin, Co. Laois) (ob. 917).

Danklied einer erlösten Seele

prose

verse

8 st.

beg. Bennacht for in n-irnaigthe

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.

Deichdúan na h-eisséirge

verse

beg. Ba cóir do cach crístaide

A group of ten Middle Irish poems on the week before Judgment Day, which is found as an addition at the end of Saltair na rann.

Gid luath gac gadur glan gle

verse

3 st.

beg. Gid luath go gadur glan gle

Brief Irish poem (3 qq), with prose preface.

Longas Inbir Domnann

verse

27 st.

beg. Longas Inbir Domnann

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

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Irish poem (27 qq) attributed to Colum Cille, which prophesies the arrival of a large fleet of foreign invaders at Inber Domnann (Malahide Bay, north Co. Dublin) before Judgment Day.

Sechnaid ifern a dhaine

verse

13 st.

beg. Sechnaid ifern, a dhaine

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

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Medieval Irish poem attributed to Colum Cille, which describes the terrible punishments awaiting sinful souls in hell.

Tiucfa aimser dubach

verse

28 st.

beg. Tiucfa aimser dubach / cumthach brónach

Colum Cille

Colum Cille

(fl. 6th century)

founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

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Irish prophetic poem ascribed to Colum Cille.

Trédhe nach fuilngeand rígh réil

verse

beg. Trédhe nach fuilngeand rígh réil

Becc mac Dé

Becc mac Dé

(d. 550s)

legendary seer, best known from literary sources as an Irish prophet associated with Díarmait mac Cerbaill

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Medieval Irish prophetic poem (72 qq) attributed in the final stanza to Bécán Bec mac Dé, better known elsewhere as the prophet Bec mac Dé. According to Eleanor Knott, it is a composite work, which may be regarded as falling into at least two sections (A = qq. 1–13, B = qq. 14-72).

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Classification

Irish and Irish Latin religious literature

Irish poetry

Irish poetry / Early Irish (to c.1200)

Irish religious literature / liturgical and devotional / prayers and hymns

Misc. / collections of verse (anthologies, etc.)

Misc. / prophetic (vaticinatory) literature

Misc. / religious / apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature

Misc. / religious literature / visions and eschatology

Language

Irish/Gaelic
Irish > Early Irish
Irish > Early > Middle Irish
Irish > Early > Middle Irish > Late Middle Irish