Duan in chethrachat cest in so, do-rigni Eochaid ua Cērín

Bélait ingen Laitin māthair Níuil meic Fēniusa. Gae greíne rus-marb.

.i. Fēinius fēin ro-marb Iar mac Néma do leccain chámaill īar n-dula do Iar co Bēlait ⁊ marb Bēlait do grād ⁊ ro-adhnocht h-i Carnn Bēlaite.

.i. marb Fēinius dana īar .u. lāib do digh dermuit coro-adnacht h-i tuaiscirt Maigi Senair .i. in Eipithena ciuitate ro-adnocht Iar ⁊ nir-lēc Fēinius a adhnocul feín ⁊ Iar marōen i n-ōencathair.

.i. tri brāthri do Chessair tāncatar h-Érinn āenagaig rīa n-dīlinn ⁊ niro-acaillsit itir Cessair. Luám ⁊ Medar ⁊ Męl a n-anmann, i n-delbuib eón ro-bātar ⁊ i m-Beinn Bairche ro-bátar.

.i. Parttolōn ro-marb a athair ⁊ a māthair ac īarair rīghe dia brāthair (conid aire at-berar Parrtolōn mac Sera friss .i. mac fingalach. cera .i. fingal), co-tānicc co h-Érinn ar teched a ̇finghaile, conid īarum luid taimlechta ina fingail .i. .ix. m. do ēc fri oínsechtmain díb.

.i. h-i sechtmad blīadain flatha Éna Aircthig ro-fer froiss airget h-i Temruig ⁊ fross fína for h-Ērinn uile.

.i. Aengus dana mac In Dágda is é ránicc Emuin ar brēthir Concobair dia-n-epert: for-ossna Cū Chulainn cach ōen. ⁊ ro-marb p.132 Oengus .x.c. isin Crāebrūaid ⁊ ro-chuimrig Coin Culainn ⁊ do-fuc Conall ⁊ Celtchair ⁊ Conchobor h-i suán.

.i. Abcán ua h-Ebricc in file is ē ro-sáruigh Etan ingean Dián Cēcht at brú Boínne gu rus-toirrchiustur, co-toracht Oengus iar sain gurro-marb Abcān. Conid īarum ruc Etan Senbec ⁊ Oengus ro-n-alt Senbeciar sin.

.i. Trīath mac Amuir in rí deídenoch do Feruib Bolg in nómad rí díb. Ocus is h-ē tuc cath Maighe Turead do Thúathaib Dē Danonn.

.i. Līan ⁊ Liphi ⁊ Lemain tri h-ingena Midir. Aillenn ⁊ Cuilleann ⁊ Cairchi .iii. ingena Goibnenn.

.i. Līan co Cuáilgne, Lifi co Fúat, Lemain co Murthemni, Aillenn co Lugaidh, Cuillenn co Surghe, Cairche ra Sobairche.

.i. tri rī dēc dīb ō Thūathaib Dé Danann for h-Ērinn co-tāncatar Meic Miled .i. Gola ō-sluinnter Slīab n-Gola h-i Ciaraighe is ē ba rī dēigenach dīb.

.i. Adair dana ingen In Dagda mōir is ī ro-faei la h-Ēber .i. in Mórrigan dana ainm a m-māthar Adairi mná Ébir.

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Manuscript sources

• London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782, 53va-54rb; see O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Museum (2 vols, London 1926), ii 259-98: 282 §36; R. Thurneysen, Irische Helden- u. Königsage (Halle 1921) 490.

Another poem by the same author

• E. Gwynn (ed.), The metrical Dindshenchas 3, Todd Lecture Series 10 (Dublin 1913, repr. Dublin 1991) 168-183.

The edition used in the digital edition

‘Das Gedicht der vierzig Fragen von Eochaid ua Cérín’ (1921). In: Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie‍ 13. Ed. by Rudolf Thurneysen, pp. 132–136.

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  title 	 = {Das Gedicht der vierzig Fragen von Eochaid ua Cérín},
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  date 	 = {1921},
  pages 	 = {132–136}
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Creation: By Eochaid Eolach ua Céirín, associated probably with Monasterboice and author of a Dindshenchas poem on Loch Garman (see above). 1000–1100

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• The text is in Middle Irish. (ga)
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Keywords: didactic; poetry; literary theory; medieval; scholarship

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