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Temair II

verse beg. Ní cheil maissi dona mnáib

• Middle Irish
• verse
• Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, dinnshenchas

Dinnshenchas of Temair.

Initial words (verse)

• Ní cheil maissi dona mnáib

Context(s) The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.

• Dinnshenchas Érenn A
• LL p. 161: poem

• Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Author

Ascribed to: Cináed úa hArtacáinCináed ua hArtacáin (d. 975) – Middle Irish poet
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The poem is ascribed to Cináed ua hArtacáin in four manuscript copies of the text.

Manuscripts

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

• L =
  Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

  p. 161

Dinnshenchas Érenn C

• R =
  Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598 ff. 90-125 [s. xiii/xiv (?)]

   

  Poem ascribed to Cináed ua hArtacáin.
• B =
  Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 = Book of Ballymote [1384 x 1406]

   

  Poem ascribed to Cináed ua hArtacáin.
• H =
  Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1322 (H 3. 3) [s. xvi]
• S =
  Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 2 (1222) [s. xvi (?)]

   

  Poem ascribed to Cináed ua hArtacáin.
• S₂ =
  Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B ii 2 (741) [s. xiv-xvi ?]
• S₃ =
  Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iii 1 (742) [s. xvii]

   

  Poem ascribed to Cináed ua hArtacáin.
• V =
  Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 13 (Reeves 832, 1068) [s. xvii]
• H₂ =
  Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1289 (H 1. 15) = The Psalter of Tara [1745]

See also results from manuscript descriptions

Language

• Middle Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Number of stanzas

19

Textual relationships

• Related:
• Dinnshenchas of Temair I
• Dinnshenchas of Temair III
• Dinnshenchas of Temair IV
• Dinnshenchas of Temair V
• Dinnshenchas of Temair (prose)
• Dindgnai Temrach

Classification

Early Irish poetry Dinnshenchas Érenn

Subjects

Temair

Temair ... Tara

County Meath

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.] Gwynn, E. J. [ed. and tr.], The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 1, Todd Lecture Series 8, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1903.  

comments: For corrigenda and addenda, see:

• [[Gwynn 1935a

|Vol. 5]] (1935): 125-126

• Meyer, K., “Erschienene Schriften”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908)

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link>

6–18 [id. 2. ‘Temair II’] direct link direct link direct link

[ed.] [tr.] Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 5, Todd Lecture Series 12, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1935.

Internet Archive – vol. 5: <link>

121, 125 Variant readings from the Book of Uí Maine (M) and RIA MS B ii 2 (S₂); some corrigenda direct link direct link

[corr.] Meyer, Kuno, “Erschienene Schriften”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908): 245–248.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – faint scan: <link>

Corrigenda.

Secondary sources (select)

Gwynn, E. J. [ed. and tr.], The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 1, Todd Lecture Series 8, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1903.  

comments: For corrigenda and addenda, see:

• [[Gwynn 1935a

|Vol. 5]] (1935): 125-126

• Meyer, K., “Erschienene Schriften”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908)

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link>

59–61 [id. 2. ‘Temair II’] direct link

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Contributors

C. A.,Dennis Groenewegen

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