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Gilla Cóemáin

• Middle Irish
• verse
• Early Irish poetry, Irish legendary history

Initial words (verse)

• Góedel Glas ó tát Goídil

“Góedel Glas from whom are descended the Goídil”

Author

Gilla CóemáinGilla Cóemáin (fl. 1072) – Middle Irish poet
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Gilla Cóemáin (fl. 1072)

Ascribed to

Gilla CóemáinGilla Cóemáin (fl. 1072) – Middle Irish poet
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Manuscripts

• LL = Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]
  f. 3v context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension A)
• Lec1 = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan [s. xvⁱⁿ]
  f. 26v context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension B)
• F = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29 pp. 1-16 [s. xiv (?)]
  f. 3r context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension A)
• Lec2 = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan [s. xvⁱⁿ]
  f. 271 context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Míniugud)
• BB = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 = Book of Ballymote [1384 x 1406]
  context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension C)

Language

• Middle Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Classification

Early Irish poetry Irish legendary history

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.] Macalister, R. A. Stewart [ed.], Lebor gabála Érenn: The book of the taking of Ireland, 5 vols, vol. 2, Irish Texts Society 35, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1933.

Internet Archive: <link>

90–107 (Poem XIII) direct link

[ed.] [tr.] Lehmacher, Gustav [ed. and tr.], “Goedel Glass”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 13 (1921): 151–163.

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Secondary sources (select)

Smith, Peter J., Three historical poems ascribed to Gilla Cóemáin: a critical edition of the work of an eleventh-century Irish scholar, Studien und Texte zur Keltologie 8, Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 2007.

web page identifiers

page name: Góedel Glas ó tát Goídil
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Dennis Groenewegen

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