Is acher in gaíth in-nocht...
Is acher in gaíth in-nocht... is an anonymous 9th-century poem in Old Irish.
The poem exists uniquely as a marginal entry in the Stiftsbibliothek MS 904 at St. Gallen in Switzerland, which is a copy of Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae, heavily glossed in Old Irish. It was most likely written in Ireland in the (mid-?) 9th century, when Viking attacks on Irish monasteries, schools and churches were a regular occurrence.
Irish singer and academic Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin arranged and recorded the poem in Copenhagen after visiting St. Gallen. It appears on her Songs of the Scribe studio album.
The text of the poem is as follows:
Is acher in gaíth in-nocht,
fu·fúasna fairggae findfholt;
ní·ágor réimm Mora Minn
dond láechraid lainn úa Lothlind
See also
References
- Bruno Güterbock (1895) Aus irischen Handschriften in Turin und Rom, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung, 33
- R. Thurneysen (1949) Old Irish Reader 39, tr. D.A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin
- David Dumville (1987) Three men in a boat ... Cambridge Medieval Studies, pp. 23–29.
- Donnchadh Ó Corráin (1998) Vikings in Ireland and Scotland in the Ninth Century Perita 12, pp. 296–339
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