Texts

Aí Cermnai

  • Early Irish
  • prose
  • Early Irish law texts
  • extent: fragmentary
An early Irish legal text, largely lost except for a fragment in a commentary on Cóic conara fugill. It is known through allusions to it made elsewhere as one of the four ‘canons’ of poetic knowledge.
Manuscripts

Only one fragment.

Language
  • Early Irish
Form
prose (primary)
Presumably written in prose.

Classification

Early Irish law textsEarly Irish law texts
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Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.  

A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).

162–163 [id. 5.3. ‘Aí Cermnai’]
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
January 2013, last updated: January 2024