Comrac Liadaine ocus Cuirithir

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Title Comrac Liadaine ocus Cuirithir
‘The meeting of Liadan and Cuirithir’
Initial words ‘Cen áinius’ » In translation: “Unpleasing”.
Author Anonymous
Manuscripts
Type or category early Irish lyrics
Date c. 875 (Murphy)
Description Poetry and prose

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Editions and translations

Open book nae 02.png Meyer, Kuno (ed. and tr.), Liadain and Curithir: an Irish love-story of the ninth century, London: Nutt, 1902. CELT: edition and translation; Celtic Digital Initiative; Internet Archive
Open book nae 02.png Murphy, Gerard (ed. and tr.), Early Irish lyrics: eighth to twelfth century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. 82—85 » (last poem beginning Cen áinius, here entitled "Líadan tells of her love for Cuirithir"). CELT: edition
Open book nae 02.png Draak, Maartje, and Frida de Jong (trs.), Van helden, elfen en dichters: de oudste verhalen uit Ierland, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1979. 212—218.

Secondary sources

Open book nae 02.png Larson, Heather Feldmeth, “The veiled poet: Líadain and Cuirithir and the role of the woman-poet”, in: Nagy, Joseph Falaky, and Leslie Ellen Jones (eds.), Heroic poets and poetic heroes in Celtic tradition. A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford, CSANA Yearbook 3, 4, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 263—268.
Open book nae 02.png Ahlqvist, Anders, “Note: A line in Líadan and Cuirithir”, Peritia 1 (1982): 334.
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