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Geneamuin Chormaic ua Chuind ‘The birth of Cormac ua Cuind’

  • Middle Irish
  • prose
  • Cycles of the Kings
Story on the conception and birth of King Cormac mac Airt and his accession to power.
Manuscripts
Language
  • Middle Irish
  • “on the whole Middle Irish”, although certains forms, especially in the rhetorics, “may have been inspired by an Old Irish source” (Hull).(1)n. 1 Vernam Hull, ‘Geneamuin Chormaic’, Ériu 16 (1952): 80–81.
Date
Hull suggests that the text as a whole may be dated to c. 1250 and represent "a later reworking of much earlier material".(2)n. 2 Vernam Hull, ‘Geneamuin Chormaic’, Ériu 16 (1952): 81.
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Cycle of Cormac mac AirtCycles of the Kings
Cycle of Cormac mac Airt
id. 43520
Cormac mac Airt
Cormac mac Airt
(time-frame ass. with Cormac mac Airt)
Legendary high-king of Ireland; son of Art son of Conn Cétchathach; contemporary of Finn mac Cumaill.
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Sources

Notes

1.
Vernam Hull, ‘Geneamuin Chormaic’, Ériu 16 (1952): 80–81.
2.
Vernam Hull, ‘Geneamuin Chormaic’, Ériu 16 (1952): 81.

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[ed.] Hull, Vernam [ed.], “Geneamuin Chormaic”, Ériu 16 (1952): 79–85.
Edition based on YBL, with variants.
[ed.] OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, Silva Gadelica (I–XXXI): a collection of tales in Irish, vol. 1: Irish text, London: Williams & Norgate, 1892.
Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>, <link> CELT – various: <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>
253–256 Based on BB.
OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, Silva Gadelica (I–XXXI): a collection of tales in Irish, vol. 2: translation and notes, London: Williams & Norgate, 1892.
Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
286–289
Translation wanted
The ‘rhetorics’ were omitted from O'Grady's translation.
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