Texts

Ind áer-sin do-rigne Cairpre mac Etaine do Bres mac Elathan

Incoming data

An anecdote about the ‘first satire in Ireland’, which is said to have been made by Cairpre mac Etaine on the unjust king Bres mac Elathan. The same story is found in Cath Maige Tuired.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 (cols 573-958)

On the first satire composed in Ireland by Cairbre for Bres mac Eladan

p. 137.13 = col. 805.13

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 (cols 573-958)

pp. 137–138 cols 805–806 (beg.)

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336/6.2

cols 840–841

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336/6.2

incipit: Cia céta ro hoerad ind Eirinn ar tus? On the first satire in Ireland.

col. 840.1–col. 841.16

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.] Hull, Vernam, “Cairpre mac Edaine’s satire upon Bres mac Eladain”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 18 (1930): 63–69.

Secondary sources (select)

Travis, James, “A druidic prophecy, the first Irish satire, and a poem to raise blisters”, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 57 (1942): 909–915.