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Dúan in chóicat cest ‘The poem of fifty questions’

verse beg. Iarfaigid lib cóecait cest

• Middle Irish
• verse, prose
• Early Irish poetry

Middle Irish poem (23 quatrains)

First words (verse)

• Iarfaigid lib cóecait cest

Manuscripts

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 [1516-1518]

f. 49v a

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 3 = Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin [s. xiv-xv]

f. 17v

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Language

• Middle Irish

Form

verse, prose (primary)

Length

Number of stanzas: 23

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften. V. Aus Egerton 1782. Dūan in chōicat cest innso sīs”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 4 (1903): 234–240.

CELT – edition (pages 234–237): <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Edited from Egerton 1782.

[ed.] [tr.] Tristram, Hildegard L. C. [ed.], Sex aetates mundi: die Weltzeitalter bei den Angelsachsen und den Iren. Untersuchungen und Texte, Anglistische Forschungen, 165, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1985.

285–293

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Contributors

C. A., Dennis Groenewegen

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November 2010, last updated: June 2023