Is trúag in ces i mbiam ... is the first line and title of a poem which survives on two sixteenth-century

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manuscripts, and one on paper from the second decade of the seventeenth. The poem probably dates from the earlier half of the

Middle Irish Middle Irish, sometimes called Middle Gaelic ( ga, An Mheán-Ghaeilge, gd, Meadhan-Ghàidhlig), is the Goidelic language which was spoken in Ireland, most of Scotland and the Isle of Man from AD; it is therefore a contemporary of late Old Engl ...

period. It is in the metre called ''rannaigecht recomarcach'', or ''rannaigecht bec.''

The poem (extracts)

References

* ''Two Religious Poems in Irish'',

Brian Ó Cuív Brian Ó Cuív (1916 – 14 November 1999) was a Celtic scholar who specialised in Irish history and philology. Life Ó Cuív was professor of Celtic Studies at University College Dublin and later at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Hi ...

, ''Celtica'' 20, pp. 73–84, 1988. {{DEFAULTSORT:Is Truag In Ces I Mbiam Irish poems Early Irish literature Irish literature Irish-language literature Medieval poetry