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Anbthine mór ar muig Lir

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Manuscript witnesses

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha 

This is the only extant copy of the poem, although the sixth stanza is quoted in two of the metrical tracts edited by Thurneysen (Mittelirische Verslehren II, § 102, and III, § 100) and the glossary found in TCD 1337, p. 422.

ff. 9vb–10ra18  

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts: IV. Song of the sea”, Otia Merseiana 2 (1900–1901): 76–83.

CELT – improved edition with apparatus: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

[ed.] [tr.] Lehmann, Ruth P. M. [ed. and tr.], Early Irish verse, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.

15ff [id. 8.]

[ed.] [tr.] Greene, David, and Frank OʼConnor, “29: The tempest”, in: David Greene, and Frank OʼConnor [Michael O'Donovan], A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200, London: Macmillan, 1967. 126–129.

Secondary sources (select)

Ní Chatháin, Próinséas, “Some themes in early Irish lyric poetry”, Irish University Review 22 — Serving the word: essays and poems in honour of Maurice Harmon (1992): 3–12.

Turville-Petre, G., “On the poetry of the scalds and of the filid”, Ériu 22 (1971): 1–22.