Texts

Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim (Dublittir Úa hUathgaile)

Incoming data

Middle Irish poem attributed to Dublittir Úa hUathgaile (fl. late 11th century), fer léigin at Glen Uissen, now Killeshin. It is attested both as the concluding poem in the Sex aetates mundi and in independent manuscript contexts.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2

context: Sex aetates mundi 97 qq

f. 26

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2

incipit: Reidich dam a De do nim Poem (97 qq).

f. 26

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12

context: Sex aetates mundi 94 qq.

ff. 4rb–5ra

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12

incipit: Reidhigh damh a De do nimhe

Poem (94 qq), with an attribution to úa hUathgaille in the final quatrain (Is mé dond cuachmuighi on chill / o hUathgaili a Uisinglind).

f. 4rb.13–f. 5ra.m = p. 7b.13–p. 9a.m

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

82 qq; Dublitir hua Uathgaile cecinit

pp. 141b–143a

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

rubric: Dublitir hua Uathgaile cecinit. incipit: REdig dam a Dé do nim Poem. 82 stanzas.

p. 141b–p. 143a

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)

f. 44va-vb

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.] Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí [ed.], The Irish Sex aetates mundi, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983.

97–108, 132–137 (§ 70)

Secondary sources (select)

Mac Gearailt, Uáitéar, “Dublittir úa hÚathgaile’s poem Rédig dam, a Dé, do nim and Sex aetates mundi”, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 34 (2014): 180–214.