Cros an Choimdhedh cumachtaigh

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• Late Middle Irish
• verse
• Irish poetry

Irish poem representing a dialogue between St Moling and Suibne.

Initial words (verse)

• Cros an Choimdhedh cumachtaigh

Manuscripts

• Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5100-5104 (507) [1630]
  pp. 53–54

Language

• Late Middle Irish
• ?

Form

verse (primary)

Number of stanzas

12

Classification

Irish poetry

Subject tags

Mo LingMo Ling of Ferns, Moling Luachra (d. 697) – Irish saint, abbot and patron saint of Tech Mo Ling (St Mullins, Co. Carlow) and reputed ‘bishop’ of Ferna (Ferns).
See more Suibne GeiltSuibne Geilt
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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 the entry for the relevant manuscript.

[ed.] Stokes, Whitley [ed.], “Poems ascribed to S. Moling”, in: Bergin, Osborn, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. O'Keeffe (eds.), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 2, Halle and Dublin, 1908. 20–41. Celtic Digital Initiative: <link> Internet Archive – Anecdota vols 1-5: <link> 25

Secondary sources

Jackson, Kenneth, “The motive of the threefold death in the story of Suibhne Geilt”, in: Ryan, John [ed.], Féil-sgríbhinn Eóin Mhic Néill: Essays and studies presented to professor Eoin MacNeill on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, May 15th 1938, Dublin: Three Candles, 1940. 535–550.

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Jackson, Kenneth, “The motive of the threefold death in the story of Suibhne Geilt”, in: Ryan, John [ed.], Féil-sgríbhinn Eóin Mhic Néill: Essays and studies presented to professor Eoin MacNeill on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, May 15th 1938, Dublin: Three Candles, 1940. 535–550.

Stokes, Whitley [ed.], “Poems ascribed to S. Moling”, in: Bergin, Osborn, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. O'Keeffe (eds.), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 2, Halle and Dublin, 1908. 20–41. Celtic Digital Initiative: <link> Internet Archive – Anecdota vols 1-5: <link>

web page identifiers

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