Texts
Mittelirische Verslehren IV
Incoming data
Middle Irish poem ascribed to Cellach úa Rúanada in which for educational purposes, every stanza is composed in a different metrical form.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 3
incipit: Sloindfead daibh deaghaisdi indana modernised copy
ff. 77vb–78r
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
rubric: Cellach Hua Ruanada cecinit. incipit: SLuindfet duib dagaisti in dana Poem by Cellach húa Rúanada. 14 stanzas.
p. 38a–
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.] Breatnach, Liam, “Sluindfet dúib dagaisti in dána: a Middle Irish poem on metres”, in: Caoimhín Breatnach, and Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (eds), Aon don éigse: essays marking Osborn Bergin’s centenary lecture on bardic poetry (1912), Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015. 51–90.
[ed.] [tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern [I], Abhandlungen der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, 14.2, Berlin, 1912.
comments: Continued by Rudolf Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern II (1913).
73–77. Edited, with translation
[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], “Mittelirische Verslehren”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 3, Leipzig, 1891. 1–182.
comments: An index of verse metries and initial lines of verse is provided at the end of this contribution.
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