Texts

verse beg. Eochair chéille coistecht

  • Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry, Medieval Irish wisdom literature
Poem ascribed to Cormac mac Cuilennáin, which consists primarily of a list of gnomic formulas beginning with the word eochair (‘key’ in a metaphorical sense).
First words (verse)
  • Eochair chéille coistecht
Author
Ascribed to: Cormac mac Cuilennáin
Cormac mac Cuilennáin
(d. 908)
bishop and king of Munster

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Manuscripts
Language
  • Middle Irish
  • Middle Irish?
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 12

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Medieval Irish wisdom literatureMedieval Irish wisdom literature
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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.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Corbmac Cuilennain cecinit”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908): 270–271.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Edition only.
[ed.] [tr.] OʼNolan, T. P., “Anecdota from Murphy MSS., Maynooth”, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 4th series, 24 (1908): 393–397, 494–501.
Internet Archive – 393ff: <link> Internet Archive – 494ff: <link>
395–397, 499–501 Edition and translation of an imperfect copy in the Maynooth MS, with Meyer's edition reprinted on pp. 500-501.
Translation wanted
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September 2012, last updated: January 2024