Poppe (Erich)

beg. In clocán-sa na ríg ruad (32 qq.). Critical edition (normalised) from MSS RIA 23 P 3, BL , TCD H 1. 11, and Brussels 2324-40; with English translation and notes. A versified elaboration of the narrative of Cáin Émíne Báin which it follows in the manuscripts.

Critical edition from MSS RIA 23 P 3 and BL Additional 30512, normalised to Old Irish standard; with English translation and notes.

On the pattern of the same element occurring in the names of son, father and mother.

Briefly informs of the treatment of Irish and Scottish Gaelic in this work.

Bethadh Bibuis o Hamtuir, from MS TCD H 2. 7. Discusses the process of adaptation of the Middle English text into early modern Irish; without edition or translation.

Examines the close association of a king and his jester in early Irish literature, suggesting that the royal buffoon is a symbol of Máel Fothartaig’s right to kingship.

Analysis of the functions of cleft sentences in Old and Middle Irish, of which some are not to be taken as such and should therefore be regarded as non-emphatic.

Analyses the discussion of grammatical gender in the first section of the Auraicept (Book of Ballymote, lines 520-570).

Analysis of the terms bréc ‘deceit’ and fír ‘true/truth’.

Compares the concept of the hero in this narrative with that of its likely English models, and argues in favour of considering it an example of medieval romance, purposely composed by Uilliam Mac an Leagha as an Irish answer to the pagan Greece-set Stair Ercuil ocus a bás.

13 qq. based on Franciscan MS A 9, with Engl. transl. and notes. Ascribed to Cormac mac Cuilennáin in concluding quatrain.

Discusses how the meaning of medieval Irish historical (and pseudo-historical) narrative was perceived by its contemporary public.

The beginning of the biblical story of Ahab and Jezebel concerning wives’ advice (1 Kings, 21.4-5) served as a model in Wales and in Ireland (e.g. Scéla Muicce Meic Da Thó, Fled Bricrenn).

Suggests that Togail Troí (Recension II) and Ystorya Daret (Recension Ia) are closely related, and are indicative of a complex Insular transmission of Latin texts of the De excidio Troiae historia.

Suggests that OIr. lúirech thredúalach is calqued on the rare Latin collocation lōrı̄ca trilı̄x (Aeneid 3x), hence the abundant examples in Middle Irish literature.