Cóir Anmann
Cóir Anmann [ koːrʴ 'anmaN ] (“The right thing about names”, “Suitability of names”) is the name of an etymological index of personal and tribal names from Irish history and mythology in the Central Irish language .
The older and shorter version of the Cóir Anmann was created in the 14th to 15th centuries; a later version, expanded and chronologically arranged, has been handed down in a manuscript around 1500. The final version of the collection contains around 300 names. The anonymous author explains these names with examples from Irish myths and heroic sagas, for example the hero Conall Cernach and the king Conchobar mac Nessa are mentioned.
literature
- Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
Web links
- Sharon Arbuthnot: Cóir Anmann: a late Middle Irish treatise on personal names. Irish Texts Society 2005, Volume 60
- Journal of Celtic Philology. 2006 , volume 55}
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 , p. 471.