Amra Choluim Chille
Amra Choluim Chille [ 'avra' xolumʴ 'çiLʴe ] ("Praise to Columbas") is the name of a poem in the Old Irish language that was written around 600 AD. A version of this has been recorded in the Lebor na hUidre ("The Book of the Dark Cow").
Content and form
The work is a praise of the founder of the monastery, Columban von Iona , Irish Colum Cille. The king of Alt Clut in Hen Ogledd ("The Old North"), Rhydderch Hael , is also mentioned. Tradition has it that Dallán [mac] Forgaill [ 'daLaːn mak' forgiLʼ ] ( Dallán = "the little blind man"), who is considered one of the most important Irish poets of the late 6th century, wrote it. Since the poem is very old - one of the oldest surviving - it creates considerable difficulties for literary scholars because of the archaic language and metrics. The metric varies between stanzas with and without rhyme and a linguistic rhythm with alliteration (initial equalization):
- ro ánic íath nád adaig aiccestar
- ("He reached the land where night is not seen")
See also
literature
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
- Wolfgang Meid : The Celts. Reclams Universal Library , Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-017053-3 .
Web links
- Amra Choluim Chille in the article Dallán Forgaill on the English language Wikipedia
- Westley Follett: Amra Choluim Chille In: Céli Dé in Ireland: monastic writing and identity in the early Middle Ages. Boydell Press, 2006
- SNTranter / HLCTristram: Amra Choluim Chille In: Early Irish literature: media and communication. Gunter Narr Verlag, 1989
- Original Irish text in Lebor na hUidre
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Meid: The Celts. P. 165.