Texts
Cetracha sacart a lín
Incoming data
A scrap of early Irish verse (1q only) cited the beginning of the preface (remfhocul) to Amra Choluim Chille. While in LU it occurs in the upper margin of the first page of the preface, with no explicit relationship being made to the text, it is more fully integrated into the main body of narrative in other manuscripts. The stanza gives a list of churchmen, together with their numbers, which in the context of the prose preface, would seem to refer to those who travelled with Colum Cille at the time of the convention of Druim Cetta.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25
Marginal poem, quatrain, beginning ‘Cetracha sacart a lín’
p. 5
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25
1q written in the upper margin above two columns; apparently in the hand of scribe M (Best and Bergin). In the diplomatic edition by Best and Bergin, it runs Cetracha sacart a lín / fichi epscop úasal bríg /resin salmchetal cen acht / cóeca deochain trícha macc..
p. 5
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 (cols 573-958)
Transcribed by Strachan as: tanic iarsin Columbcille ⁊ robe a lin tri coecait clerech, Ceathracha sacart a lin tricha espac uasal brig, etc.
p. 72a col. 680
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.] Strachan, John, “The notes and glosses in the Lebor na hUidre”, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 1 (1900): 1–36.
Internet Archive – originally from Google Books; pp. 14-15 are missing: <link>
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[ed.] Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson [eds.], The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 1: Text and introduction, Henry Bradshaw Society, 13, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Volume 2: Translation
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[tr.] Bernard, J. H., and Robert Atkinson, The Irish Liber hymnorum, 2 vols, vol. 2: Translation and notes, Henry Bradshaw Society, 14, London: Henry Bradshaw Society, 1898.
comments: Volume 1: Text and introduction
Volume 2: Translation
Volume 2: Translation
[ed.] [tr.] OʼKelleher, Andrew, and Gertrude Schoepperle, Betha Colaim Chille: Life of Columcille. Compiled by Manus O'Donnell in 1532. Edited and translated from manuscript Rawlinson B. 514 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, University of Illinois Bulletin, 15.48, Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois, 1918.
