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Tochmarc Étaíne

A Bé Find in rega lim

verse

7 st.

beg. A Bé Find in rega lim

Early Irish syllabic poem (7 qq) in which the speaker encourages Bé Find to join him in the delightful Otherworld. It is preserved in the third part of Tochmarc Étaíne, where the poem is attributed to Midir as he woos Étaín, addressing her as Bé Find.

Clocán binn

verse

beg. Clocán binn

Colum caid cumachtach

verse

5 st.

beg. Colum cáid cumachtach

Cainnech of Aghaboe

Cainnech of Aghaboe

Cainnech moccu Dalonn, patron saint of Achad Bó Chainnig (Aghaboe, Co. Laois) and Cell Chainnig (Kilkenny)

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Prayer (5st in ochtfhoclach metre) for Colum Cille attributed to Cainnech.

Comae ríaguil in Choimded

verse

beg. Comae ríaguil in Choimded

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.

Día lim fri cach sním

verse

beg. Día lim fri cach sním

Dia ngaba apgitir Lagen

verse

14 st.

beg. Dia ngaba apgitir Lagen

Poem. 14 stanzas. Metre: sétnad mór

Commentary on the Amra Choluim Chille

Fil duine

verse

beg. Fil duine

Independent, Laídshenchas Laigen

Fothairt for clannaib Concorb

verse

beg. Fothairt for clannaib Concorb

Poem on St Brigit's people, the Fothairt, and their expulsion from Tara. It is 19 stanzas long in both manuscripts.

Is trúag in ces i mbiam

verse

beg. Is trúag in ces i mbiam

Religious poem (8 qq)

Ísucán

verse

beg. Ísucán

Poem cited in the [[Commentary to Félire Óengusso |Middle Irish commentary to the Félire Óengusso]], under 15 January (St Íte's feast-day).

Immram curaig Mail Dúin

Ráisit d'inis nárbo dermar

verse

beg. Ráisit d'inis nárbo dermar

Áed FinnÁed Finn

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

Áed FinnÁed Finn

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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Ro-cúala ní tabair eochu ar dúana

verse

1 st.

beg. Ro-cúala / ní tabair eochu ar dúana

Commentary on the Amra Choluim Chille

Scél lem dúib

verse

beg. Scél lem duib

Finn mac Cumaill

Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)

Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían

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Early Irish poem on the coming of winter.

Téicht do Róim

verse

1 st.

beg. Téicht do Róim

An Old Irish quatrain on pilgrimage to Rome, preserved as an addition to a continental manuscript known as the Codex Boernerianus. It is here followed by another quatrain, beg. Mór báis mor baile, the relationship of which to the preceding quatrain is uncertain.

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