

#Cenn ard Ádaim étrocht rád


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Cenn ard Ádaim étrocht rád
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Author: Airbertach Mac Cosse
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Kuno MeyerElectronic edition compiled by Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Benjamin Hazard

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The Higher Education Authority via the LDT Project 2. Second draft.Extent of text: 1190 words#### Publication


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Text ID Number: G202010Availability 
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#### Notes

In the printed edition, the poem edited below follows the poem beginning 'Cethrur do-raega ní dalb'. Both are regarded as constituting one poem, with continuous numbering of the quatrains. This is not followed here. 'Cethrur do-raega ní dalb' is available on CELT as file G202007.

#### Sources


**Manuscript Source**2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B. 502, fo. 46 rb 41. For details see Brian Ó Cuív (ed.), Catalogue of Irish language manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries (2 vols.) (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 2001-03) volume 1, MS 34, 163-200. For a facsimile edition with an introduction and indexes, see Kuno Meyer (ed.), Rawlinson B. 502; a collection of pieces in prose and verse in the Irish language compiled during the eleventh and twelfth centuries (Oxford 1909).
**Secondary literature**2. Pádraig Ó Néill, Airbertach Mac Cosse's poem on the Psalter [A Dé dúlig, adat-teoch:], Éigse 17 (1977-8) 19-46.
**The edition used in the digital edition**2. **Kuno Meyer**, Aus Rawlinson B. 502 [Cenn ard Ádaim étrocht rád] in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie. Volume 3, Halle/Saale, Max Niemeyer (1901) page 23

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The electronic text represents the edited text. Names are capitalized and words segmented in line with CELT practice. In Meyer's edition, the acute accent and macron are used to mark long vowels. Both are retained here. Lenition by point has been rendered as corresponding consonant plus h in fh, nh. The editor's corrections are marked corr sic resp="KM", with the erroneous form retained in the 'sic' attribute. Editorial expansions are marked ex. Text in English/German is indicated.


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### Profile Description


Created: Attributed to Airbertach Mac Cosse
 Date range: c.950–1000.#### Use of language


##### Language: [GA] The text is in Middle Irish.


##### Language: [DE] Prefatory remarks are in German.


##### Language: [EN] Some annotations are in English.


### Revision History


* (2011-01-19) Beatrix Färber (ed.)

* Conversion script run; new wordcount made.
* (2008-09-30) Beatrix Färber (ed.)

* Keywords added; file validated.
* (2005-08-25) Julianne Nyhan (ed.)

* Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion
* (2005-08-04T15:43:25+0100) Peter Flynn (ed.)

* Converted to XML
* (2004-10-28) Beatrix Färber (ed.)

* File proofed (3) and re-parsed; header modified; HTML file created.
* (2004-10-20) Benjamin Hazard (ed.)

* File proofed (2); structural and content markup applied to file; header constructed and bibliographic details compiled; file parsed.
* (1998-06-29) Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.)

* File proofed (1); editorial corrections applied to text; names and number values tagged.
* (pre-1997) Staff of CURIA Project (Data capture)

* Text captured by scanning.




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#### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G202010


### Cenn ard Ádaim étrocht rád: Author: Airbertach Mac Cosse




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p.22


Nun folgen ohne Absatz die schon aus dem Palatinus Nr. 830 bekannten Verse über die Erschaffung Adams,[1](javascript:footNote('G202010/note001.html')) wie Vers 40 angiebt, von Airbertach Mac Cosse aus dem Lateinischen ins Irische übersetzt. Nach Olden's Untersuchungen[2](javascript:footNote('G202010/note002.html')) 
war Mac Cosse im letzten Drittel des 10. Jahrhunderts an der Klosterschule von Ross Ailithir, jetzt Ross Carbery im Südwesten der Grafschaft Cork, als **fer légind** thätig. Der Schreiber, welcher im 


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p.23




Jahre 1072—73 diese Verse auf fo. 38a des Palatinus an den Rand geschrieben hat,[3](javascript:footNote('G202010/note003.html')) war gewiss, wie die andern Schreiber desselben Kodex, ein Südire und hat vielleicht in Ross Ailithir seine Bildung erhalten.


### *Another copy in Codex Palatino-Vaticanus 830 ed. Stokes, [Kuhns] Z Vergl Spr 31 (1890) 249-50, collated Güterbock, Z Vergl Spr NF 13, 94.*


{MS folio 46 rb 41}
> 1. Cenn ard **Ádaim**, étrocht rád,
>   
> a tír grinn gríanna **Garád**,
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> a *bruinnichor*, nád bréc brón,
>   
> a tír álainn ***Aradón***.
> 2. A brú a **Lodain** is lía,
>   
> a chossa a tírib **Goría**,
>   
> is Día do-rigni dia deóin
>   
> a fuil do us*ci* ind aeeóir.
> 3. A anim do thinfiud Dé
>   
> do-ridnacht *dó*, ba gním glé,
>   
> rí *con*dn-ic bráth buidnib drenn
>   
> is lais ca*ch* fáth, ca*ch* f*or*cenn. C.
> 4. **Airb*er*ta*ch*** roraith cen ail
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> scaíles súithi síthamail,
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> a Latin i n-Goideilgc nh-grinn
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> is **M*a*c Cosse** rochaemchind. C.
> 5. In rí rodelb nem im g*réi*n
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> is *das-rigne* dia ógréir
>   
> iff*ern* 's in muir medrach m*en*d,
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> *ocus* talam a f*or*cenn. Cenn ard.
> 6. Innocht féil **Tómais**[4](javascript:footNote('G202010/note004.html')) cen tláis,
>   
> ba súi sóbais fri ca*ch* séis,
>   
> **Tómas aps*tal***, alt cen baes,
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> ó aes mór n-astar rochés.
> 7. Díar' cechaing sair, síd cen meirg,
>   
> i n-**India** aird erctha buird,[5](javascript:footNote('G202010/note005.html'))
>   
> is lais, nirbo lén in lerg,
>   
> ro *mar*b in ferb dia bois buirb.
> 8. As-bert **Tómas**, nirbu dúi,
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> athesc do bais díriuch dói,
>   
> bud in crob dia n-dernais col
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> i m-bélaib *co*raindiu[6](javascript:footNote('G202010/note006.html')) lae.
> 9. Íar sain cing immach in laech,
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> cíarbo gaeth, fo-fhúair cath crúach,
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> cid ferda ro fer a gleó,
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> ro *mar*b in leó, cíarbo lúath.
> 10. A lám ind laích cona lí
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> fo-fhúair sár saer for bith ché,
>   
> dos-b*eir* in cú ar bélaib cáich,
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> feib ass-eb*er*t in fáith Dé.
> A Dé dúl*ig*.
> 
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