Texts

verse beg. Rochúala la nech légas libru

  • Early Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
First words (verse)
  • Rochúala la nech légas libru
“I have heard it said by someone who reads books”
Author
Ascribed to: Mo Ling
Mo Ling
(d. 697)
Irish saint, abbot and patron saint of Tech Mo Ling (St Mullins, Co. Carlow) and reputed ‘bishop’ of Ferna (Ferns).

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Ascribed to Mo Ling of Ferns.
Language
  • Early Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 7

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Subjects

Móinach of CashelMóinach of Cashel
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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.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, Miscellanea Hibernica, University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, 2.4, Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois, 1917.  

Contents: I. Sualtaim; II. Fer Diad the Nibelung; III. Notes on Irish metrics; IV. An Old Irish poem ascribed to St Moling [Rochūala la nech lēgas libru]; V. Ancient Irish poems with sporadic rhyme [incl. verse beg. Admuiniur secht n-ingena, A Amorgein ānmoltaig, Āiliu tech midchūarta, Ind rāith i comair in dairfheda, Dīa Dīa dorrogus re tīas inna gnūis]; VI. Philological notes [21 notes on Old and MIddle Irish]; VII. Notes on Irish texts; VIII. Notes on Thurneysen's Handbuch des Altirischen; Index of words and names.

HathiTrust: <link> Internet Archive – Incomplete: pp. 44-45 missing: <link>
17–18 Edition and translation.
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. OʼBrien, and Anne OʼSullivan [eds.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983.
CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>
Vol. 3, 622 Diplomatic edition. direct link
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July 2012, last updated: January 2024