Texts

verse beg. Lecht Cormaic meic Culennáin

Broccán Craibdech
  • Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
Poem.
First words (verse)
  • Lecht Cormaic meic Culennáin
Author
Broccán Craibdech
Broccán Craibdech
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Manuscripts
pp. 43b–44b
rubric: ‘Broccán Craibdech cecinit
beg. ‘LEcht Cormaic meic Culennain
56qq.
ff. 135r–136v
rubric: ‘Brogán cráibtech cecinit’
57qq.
Language
  • Middle Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 56 or 41

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Subjects

Cormac mac Cuilennáin
Cormac mac Cuilennáin
(d. 908)
bishop and king of Munster

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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.] Dobbs, Margaret E., “On the graves of Leinster men”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 24 (1954): 139–153.
Edition from LL and RIA D ii 1, with an English translation and notes.
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. OʼBrien, and Anne OʼSullivan [eds.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983.
CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>
Vol. 1, 205–212 Diplomatic edition of the text in LL. direct link
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