EriuPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/eriu.2018.68.2
Richard Sharpe
{"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}
EriuPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/ERIU.2012.62.33
J. Carey
{"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}
EriuPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/eri.2007.0005
Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail
{"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}
EriuPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/eri.2008.0007
Anders Richardt Jørgensen
{"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}
EriuPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/eriu.2020.70.1
Michael Clarke
{"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}
EriuPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/ERIU.2004.54.1.79
T. Charles-Edwards
{"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}
EriuPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/ERIU.2017.67.4
D. Stifter
{"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}
EriuPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/eri.2005.0001
D. Mcmanus
{"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}
EriuPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/eriu.2016.66.7
R. Sharpe
{"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}