Abstract:The ninth-century Old Irish poem Génair Pátraicc was printed with a Latin translation by Fr John Colgan at Louvain in 1647 from one of the manuscripts of the Irish Liber Hymnorum, a collection of the late tenth or early eleventh century. Its early entry into print made it, alongside Ní car Brigit, one of the first pieces of Old Irish to be widely available. This produced, in the first instance, a secondary transmission in manuscript, as it re-entered the native tradition; this was followed by numerous reprints, often with translations based on Colgan's Latin. In the late eighteenth century a Modern Irish translation was made and printed on facing pages by Richard Plunket in 1791, which in turn seems to have entered manuscript transmission. Until J.C. Zeuss revealed the grammar of the Old Irish glosses, this poem was the most widely known example of Old Irish, and it was studied as soon as Zeuss's work became available: it provided Whitley Stokes with an early test for Zeuss's results on a work transmitted down the centuries in Ireland, revealed in his letters to John O'Donovan from 1857. Since Stokes's fifth re-editing of the poem in 1903, it has been largely unstudied.
摘要:这首9世纪的古爱尔兰诗g nair Pátraicc于1647年由鲁汶的约翰·科尔根神父(Fr John Colgan)从10世纪末或11世纪初的《爱尔兰诗歌大全》(Irish Liber Hymnorum)的一份手稿中译成拉丁文印刷而成。它的早期印刷使它与Ní car Brigit一起成为最早被广泛使用的古爱尔兰语作品之一。这首先在手稿中产生了二次传播,因为它重新进入了当地的传统;随后又有很多次重印,通常是根据科尔根的拉丁语进行翻译。在18世纪晚期,理查德·普伦基特(Richard Plunket)于1791年制作了一部现代爱尔兰语译本,并将其印刷在对页上,这似乎又进入了手稿传播。在J.C. Zeuss揭示古爱尔兰语注释的语法之前,这首诗是古爱尔兰语最广为人知的例子,一旦Zeuss的作品出现,它就被研究了:它为惠特利·斯托克斯提供了一个早期的测试,以检验Zeuss在爱尔兰流传了几个世纪的作品的结果,在他1857年给约翰·奥多诺万的信中透露。自1903年斯托克斯第五次重新编辑这首诗以来,它基本上没有被研究过。
{"title":"Génair Pátraicc: Old Irish between print and manuscript, 1647–1853","authors":"Richard Sharpe","doi":"10.3318/eriu.2018.68.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2018.68.2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The ninth-century Old Irish poem Génair Pátraicc was printed with a Latin translation by Fr John Colgan at Louvain in 1647 from one of the manuscripts of the Irish Liber Hymnorum, a collection of the late tenth or early eleventh century. Its early entry into print made it, alongside Ní car Brigit, one of the first pieces of Old Irish to be widely available. This produced, in the first instance, a secondary transmission in manuscript, as it re-entered the native tradition; this was followed by numerous reprints, often with translations based on Colgan's Latin. In the late eighteenth century a Modern Irish translation was made and printed on facing pages by Richard Plunket in 1791, which in turn seems to have entered manuscript transmission. Until J.C. Zeuss revealed the grammar of the Old Irish glosses, this poem was the most widely known example of Old Irish, and it was studied as soon as Zeuss's work became available: it provided Whitley Stokes with an early test for Zeuss's results on a work transmitted down the centuries in Ireland, revealed in his letters to John O'Donovan from 1857. Since Stokes's fifth re-editing of the poem in 1903, it has been largely unstudied.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"68 1","pages":"1 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69515965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This paper considers the distinction between the phonology of Día 'God' and dee 'pagan deity', offering examples from the literature of the latter's use in singular and plural forms. From the Old Irish to the Early Modern Irish period, there existed a word dea/dee/dé with the meaning 'pagan deity'. While día could mean both 'God' and 'god', dee and its variants were used only in the latter sense after the é > ía shift. It would appear, therefore, that, as the pronunciation of dé/dea was shifting to día in the course of the seventh century, the spelling of the archaic form was lexicalised with the meaning 'pagan god'. The rationale behind the coinage, however, is probably not recoverable with any certainty.
{"title":"DEE 'PAGAN DEITY'","authors":"J. Carey","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2012.62.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2012.62.33","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper considers the distinction between the phonology of Día 'God' and dee 'pagan deity', offering examples from the literature of the latter's use in singular and plural forms. From the Old Irish to the Early Modern Irish period, there existed a word dea/dee/dé with the meaning 'pagan deity'. While día could mean both 'God' and 'god', dee and its variants were used only in the latter sense after the é > ía shift. It would appear, therefore, that, as the pronunciation of dé/dea was shifting to día in the course of the seventh century, the spelling of the archaic form was lexicalised with the meaning 'pagan god'. The rationale behind the coinage, however, is probably not recoverable with any certainty.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"130 1","pages":"33 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3318/ERIU.2012.62.33","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69515775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article examines the compilation and transcription of the eighteenth-century source commonly known as the 'Dublin Annals of Inisfallen'. It reviews, in particular, the work's most substantial entries, i.e. those which concern the O'Briens and the history of Thomond in the medieval period, and briefly highlights the historical value of other longer entries relating to the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The 'Dublin Annals' attests to the readiness with which scribes indulged in editorial intrusion, while it also offers insights into the factors which impinged upon textual transmission in the Modern Irish period.
{"title":"SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE 'DUBLIN ANNALS OF INISFALLEN'","authors":"Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail","doi":"10.1353/eri.2007.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2007.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the compilation and transcription of the eighteenth-century source commonly known as the 'Dublin Annals of Inisfallen'. It reviews, in particular, the work's most substantial entries, i.e. those which concern the O'Briens and the history of Thomond in the medieval period, and briefly highlights the historical value of other longer entries relating to the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The 'Dublin Annals' attests to the readiness with which scribes indulged in editorial intrusion, while it also offers insights into the factors which impinged upon textual transmission in the Modern Irish period.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"41 1","pages":"133 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
it as an adjective in /-oeg/ with the meaning 'pot-like' (or perhaps a full sub stantivisation similar to *mark-ako'horseman' from *marko'horse'). As to the etymology of seit, etc., the one usually quoted is Graves' derivation (1962, 383-4) from a VLat. *sitta, supposedly from CLat. situla 'bucket'. However, VLat. *sitta appears to be inferred from a single MLat. attestation (Du Cange 1938, VII: 498), and the development from CLat. situla would not be regular in any way. In light of this, I find it much more
{"title":"VARIA III. An additional cognate of Gaulish souxtu and Irish suacht: Old Cornish seit","authors":"Anders Richardt Jørgensen","doi":"10.1353/eri.2008.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2008.0007","url":null,"abstract":"it as an adjective in /-oeg/ with the meaning 'pot-like' (or perhaps a full sub stantivisation similar to *mark-ako'horseman' from *marko'horse'). As to the etymology of seit, etc., the one usually quoted is Graves' derivation (1962, 383-4) from a VLat. *sitta, supposedly from CLat. situla 'bucket'. However, VLat. *sitta appears to be inferred from a single MLat. attestation (Du Cange 1938, VII: 498), and the development from CLat. situla would not be regular in any way. In light of this, I find it much more","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"420 1","pages":"183 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Merugud Uilix remains an unsolved puzzle. It clearly reflects considerable Classical learning, but its stylistic character and narrative techniques are such that many readers have associated it with oral tradition and folklore. It is here proposed that the opening of the tale is an expanded translation of the section on Ulysses in the anonymous Excidium Troie, an early medieval school-text on Trojan War mythology that served as an aid to the study of Vergil's Aeneid. The author of the Merugud began from this source and extended it with other materials, taken both from Vergil-based study and from the wider resources of Irish-language narrative tradition.
{"title":"A Latin Source for Merugud Uilix, the Medieval Irish Narrative of Ulysses","authors":"Michael Clarke","doi":"10.3318/eriu.2020.70.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2020.70.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Merugud Uilix remains an unsolved puzzle. It clearly reflects considerable Classical learning, but its stylistic character and narrative techniques are such that many readers have associated it with oral tradition and folklore. It is here proposed that the opening of the tale is an expanded translation of the section on Ulysses in the anonymous Excidium Troie, an early medieval school-text on Trojan War mythology that served as an aid to the study of Vergil's Aeneid. The author of the Merugud began from this source and extended it with other materials, taken both from Vergil-based study and from the wider resources of Irish-language narrative tradition.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"70 1","pages":"118 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49552532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/ERIU.2004.54.1.79
T. Charles-Edwards
Abstract:This article explores the differences between early Irish saints' cults, concentrating mainly but not exclusively on those associated with the Fothairt. It begins with a simple and local cult, that of Damnat of Tedavnet, and a complex and widespread cult, that of Brigit. It is argued that Brigit's cult had at least four constituencies: the Fothairt, Kildare, Leinster, and the weak throughout Ireland and even in Britain. Brigit's cult among the Fothairt is then contrasted with that of another Fothairt saint, Fintan of Clonenagh; and Fintan's cult, in turn, is contrasted with that of Rígnach. The Uí Ercáin, a branch of the Fothairt, illustrate how the political status of a cult's constituency may determine its character. Finally, the shift from an alliance between cults to competition is studied in the example of Cainnech and Columba.
{"title":"Early Irish Saints' Cults and their Constituencies","authors":"T. Charles-Edwards","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2004.54.1.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2004.54.1.79","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores the differences between early Irish saints' cults, concentrating mainly but not exclusively on those associated with the Fothairt. It begins with a simple and local cult, that of Damnat of Tedavnet, and a complex and widespread cult, that of Brigit. It is argued that Brigit's cult had at least four constituencies: the Fothairt, Kildare, Leinster, and the weak throughout Ireland and even in Britain. Brigit's cult among the Fothairt is then contrasted with that of another Fothairt saint, Fintan of Clonenagh; and Fintan's cult, in turn, is contrasted with that of Rígnach. The Uí Ercáin, a branch of the Fothairt, illustrate how the political status of a cult's constituency may determine its character. Finally, the shift from an alliance between cults to competition is studied in the example of Cainnech and Columba.","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"54 1","pages":"102 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48941360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Varia II. The Origin of Time","authors":"D. Stifter","doi":"10.3318/ERIU.2017.67.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2017.67.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"67 1","pages":"219 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47022848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Varia III. Miscellanea on Bardic Poetry: Metre, Language and Style","authors":"D. Mcmanus","doi":"10.1353/eri.2005.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eri.2005.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"55 1","pages":"147 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47032912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Varia III. Gulide, Guile and Gulinus: an Irish type for a twelfth-century Latin story","authors":"R. Sharpe","doi":"10.3318/eriu.2016.66.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/eriu.2016.66.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38655,"journal":{"name":"Eriu","volume":"66 1","pages":"199 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69515707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}