Texts

verse beg. Guidium mac Feidelmid

  • Early Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
A prayer in verse attributed to Cainnech and addressed to Colum Cille.
Title
The poem is headed Cainnech’s Hymnus auf Colum Cille in Meyer’s edition of the text.
First words (verse)
  • Guidium mac Feidelmid
Author
Ascribed to: CainnechCainnech
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Language
  • Early Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Metre
  • ocht-fhoclach
Length
Number of stanzas: 9
Textual relationships
Related: Colum caid cumachtachColum caid cumachtachPrayer (5st in ochtfhoclach metre) for Colum Cille attributed to Cainnech.

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Subjects

Colum Cille
Colum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

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CainnechCainnech
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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 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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Neue Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Cainnech’s Hymnus auf Colum Cille”, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 3 (1907): 217–219.
TLH – edition: <link> Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link>
Edition based on Rawlinson B 502 (not 505, as is written in error)
Translation wanted
No modern translation has been indexed at this stage.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
July 2014, last updated: January 2024