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911. Faidh breagach an saoghalso ‘sna humhlaigh •
Length: middling 30stt
Certainty: 5
Period:
  1. 17th early
Areas:
  1. Ulster
Classes:
  1. Didactic
Manuscripts:
  1. Göttingen Hist 773 A. O Conch. 1659
  2. BL Sloane 3567 Cuch. MagUidhir 1664-
  3. TCD 1399 (H.5.28) 1679
  4. Francis. (flyleaf of De quaestiones) 1672
  5. Sir Con O’Neill’s MS (Eigse xiii) 1681
Prints:
  1. text Mac Giolla Eain, Danta Ceitinn, pp. 31-7
Motifs:
  1. Envoi to BVM
  2. eulogy of personal appearance
  3. description of clothes
  4. sin and repentance
  5. inevitability of death
  6. renunciation of world
  7. decay after death
  8. works of mercy
  9. Creed
  10. Classical allusions
Poet Christian Names:
  1. Seathrun RIA 678 BL Eg. 174 Fr.A39a etc
  2. Proinsias Caoch (BL Sloane 3567)
Poet Surnames:
  1. Ceitinn (“San Mairgreag� RIA 55)
  2. MacMuircheartaigh
Apologue Subclasses:
  1. Provident Bee, stores summer honey
Meter Vars:
  1. Amhran
Poem:
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