Texts

verse beg. Níbu cráeb crínfeda

  • Early Irish
  • verse
Early Irish poem (11 lines) on the descent of Colum mac Nainnida, patron saint of Terryglass, from Crimthann Án, son of Catháer Már.
First words (verse)
  • Níbu cráeb crínfeda
Manuscripts
f. 67v(121)b
rubric: ‘De Columba dicitur’
beg. ‘Nibu craeb crinfeda’
11 lines.
Language
  • Early Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of lines: 11

Classification

Subjects

Colum of Terryglass
Colum of Terryglass
patron saint of Tír Dá Glas (Terryglass, Co. North Tipperary)

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Crimthann Án mac Cathaír MáirCrimthann Án mac Cathaír Máir
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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Uí Chrimthainn ÁinUí Chrimthainn Áin
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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.

[dipl. ed.] OʼBrien, M. A. [ed.], Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1962.  
comments: Reprinted in 1976 and 2005, with an introduction by J. V. Kelleher.
CELT – pp. 1–332 (Rawl. B 502): <link>
56
[ed.] [tr.] Campanile, Enrico, Die älteste Hofdichtung von Leinster: alliterierende reimlose Strophen, Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 503, Vienna, 1988.
35–36 [‘Eulogie für einen Heiligen: Nibu chrāeb chrīnfheda’]
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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December 2019, last updated: June 2023