Cormac and Cíarnat
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Edited by Kuno Meyer
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[1] Cīarnat ingen ríg Cruithnech tucsat cūicer Ulad ar éigin a m-broid tar muir ocus tar móṙfairge. Ocus at-chúala Cormac h-úa Cuind sin ⁊ ro cuinged úad h-í ⁊ tucad dó dá tigh h-í. Ben is áille ⁊ is coíme ro buī isin doman h-i g-comaimsir fria h-í. Ocus buī h-i cairdes fri Cormac ocus rob adhbal mét a gráda leis. Co cúala Ethne Ollamhda ingen Cathaír Móir a beth aici ⁊ ro ráid nā betís aróen aici. Ocus rob égen a tabairt ar cumus Ethne ⁊ do-rat Ethne daíre fuirre ocus rob í in daīre .i. .ix. méich arba do bleith cech laí. Co tarrla Cormac ⁊ sisi ar óentáeib fo leth co rrus-toirrchestar ⁊ nīr ̇fēt bleith, co rus-airchis Cormac ⁊ tuc sāer muilinn tar fairgi ocus do-rónad muilenn las d'anacol Chíarnaite.
Conid de sin as-pert in fili:
- Cīarnat cumhal Chormaic chóir
mōr cēt di bíathad a bróin
.x. mēich cech laī lé do bleith
nírb obair dhuine déinmeich.- Tairrustair uirri in rí rán
ina tigh 'na h-āenarán
co rus-toirrcestar fo leth
īar sin co nār ̇fét robleth.- Airchisis uirre h-ūa Cuinn
tug sáer muilinn tar mórthuinn
cét-muilenn Cormaic mc Airt
ro bad cabur do Chíarnait.
C.
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Title (uniform): Cormac and Ciarnat
Author: unknown
Editor: Kuno Meyer
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Electronic edition compiled by: Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Funded by: University College, Cork.
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2. Second draft, revised and corrected.
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Proof corrections by: Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Extent: 1000 words
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Date: 1995
Date: 2014
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G302001
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Source description
Manuscript source
- London, British Library, Egerton MS 1782, fo. 44b (see Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum by Robin Flower, vol. 2 (London 1926) 277).
Edition
- Kuno Meyer, Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts, III: Cormac and Ciarnat, Otia Merseiana 2 (1900) 75–76.
Translation
- Kuno Meyer, Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts, III: Cormac and Ciarnat, Otia Merseiana 2 (1900) 75–76.
Sources, comment on the text, and secondary literature
- Joseph Vendryes, Les moulins en Irlande et l'aventure de Ciarnat, Revue Archéologique 14 (1921), 263–274.
- An early modern Irish version of the poem is found in Geoffrey Keating, Foras Feasa ar Eirinn, Book 1, p. 336, with facing English translation. Both are available online at CELT, in file G100054 and T100054 respectively.
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‘Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts, III: Cormac and Ciarnat’. In: Otia Merseiana 2. Ed. by Kuno Meyer, p. 75.
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journal = {Otia Merseiana},
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publisher = {Th . Wohlleben},
date = {1900-1901},
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Creation: By unknown authors in Irish monastic scriptoria. c.900–1200
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- The text is in Middle and Early Modern Irish. (ga)
- The supplied title is in English. (en)
Keywords: saga; prose; medieval; Kings Cycle
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- 1994-11-22: Data-capture by keyboarding and first proofing. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)