Manuscripts and editions (with external links)
The glossary survives, in part or whole, in at least six manuscripts. The work may have been included in the '' Saltair Chaisil'' ("Psalter of Cashel"), a now-lost manuscript compilation that is thought to have contained variousContent
The Sanas takes the form of an alphabetical list of words with information about their history,Mogheime
Under the entry for Mogheime (or "''Mug-éime''": oircne) Cormac describes aMug-eime, the name of the first lap-dog that was in Ireland. Coirpre Músc, son of Conaire, brought it from the east, from Britain. For when great was the power of the Gael over Britain, they divided Scotland amongst them in districts, and each of them knew his friend's habitation, and the Gael dwelt on the east of the sea no less than inScotia Scotia is a Latin placename derived from ''Scoti'', a Latin name for the Gaels, first attested in the late 3rd century.Duffy, Seán. ''Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia''. Routledge, 2005. p. 698. The Romans referred to Ireland as "Scotia" aro ..., and their residences and royal forts were built there. ''Inde dicitur'' Dinn Tradui, i. e. Dún Tredue .i. the three-fossedfort A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from La ...of Crimthan Mór, son of Fidach,king of Ireland Monarchical systems of government have existed in Ireland from ancient times. This continued in all of Ireland until 1949, when the Republic of Ireland Act removed most of Ireland's residual ties to the British monarch. Northern Ireland, as p ...andAlbion Albion is an alternative name for Great Britain. The oldest attestation of the toponym comes from the Greek language. It is sometimes used poetically and generally to refer to the island, but is less common than "Britain" today. The name for Scot ...and down to the Ictiansea A sea is a large body of salt water. There are particular seas and the sea. The sea commonly refers to the ocean, the interconnected body of seawaters that spans most of Earth. Particular seas are either marginal seas, second-order section ..., ''et inde'' Glasimpere nanGáedel (Glastonbury Glastonbury ( , ) is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low-lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. The town had a population of 8,932 in the 2011 census. Glastonbury is less than across the River ...of the Irish) achurch Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...on the border of the Ictian sea. (There was Glass son ofCass Cass may refer to: People and fictional characters * Cass (surname), a list of people * Cass (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Big Cass, ring name of wrestler William Morrissey * Cass, in British band Skunk Anansie * Cass, ..., swineherd of the king of Hiruath, with his swine feeding, and he it was that Patrick raised from the dead twenty-six years after he had been killed by the champions of Mac Con.) In that part is the fort of Map Lethain, in the lands of the Cornish Britons i. e. fort of Mac Lethain, for mac is the same asmap A map is a symbolic depiction of interrelationships, commonly spatial, between things within a space. A map may be annotated with text and graphics. Like any graphic, a map may be fixed to paper or other durable media, or may be displayed on ...inBritish British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture .... Thus did each tribe of them (''di suidiv'') divide, for there was an equal proportion on the east, and they possessed that power long after the coming of Patrick.Then was Coirpre Músc paying a visit in the east to his family and his friends. At that time a lap dog had never come into the Land of Erin: the Britons forbade that one should be given to the Gael for asking, or through free will, or through gratitude or friendship for the Gael. At that time the Britons had a law, to wit, "Every criminal for his crime who shall break the law". There was a beautiful lapdog in the possession of a friend of Coirpre Musc's in Britain, and Coirpre got it from him hus Once Coirpre went to his house, and great welcome was made to him, except concerning the lap-dog. Coirpre Músc had a splendiddagger A dagger is a fighting knife with a very sharp point and usually one or two sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a cutting or stabbing, thrusting weapon.State v. Martin, 633 S.W.2d 80 (Mo. 1982): This is the dictionary or ..., with ornamentation of silver and gold on its hilt. It was a marvellous treasure. Now Coirpre put a great deal of grease about it, and rubbed fat on its hilt, and then left it before the lapdog. The lap-dog took to gnawing the hilt till morning. It wounded (loitid) the dagger then, so that it was not lovely. Next day Coirpre made great complaint of this, and was eeminglymournful (or wrathful) about it, and demanded justice for it from his friend. "That is fair," and he said "I will pay* for the crime" (cin), said he. Said Coirpre: "I will take nothing but what is in the Britons,) law, namely, every criminal for his crime." So then the lap-dog was given to Coirpre, and the name clave to it, namely Mug-éime, 'slave of the hilt', mug Goth. magus i. e. aslave Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavemen ...that was given on account of the hilt.The lap dog, which was a bitch, was with young. Ailill Flann the Little was ruler ofMunster Munster ( or ) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" (). Following the Nor ...at that time, and Cormac grandson of Conn was at Tara, and these three began to quarrel, asking for and contending about the lap-dog. This is the way in which the matter was settled between the three, namely, the dog spent a certain time in the house of each of them. The dog thereafter littered, and each of them got a pup from the litter. In that way then descends every lap-dog still in Ireland.After a long time the lap-dog died, and Connla, son of Tadg, son of Cían, son of Ailill Olum, found that lap-dog's bare skull, and brought it home to test a poet who had come with an ái or airchetul to his father. Máen mac Edaini was the poet's name. Máen thebard In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's a ...then solved it through teinm laeda, and said ac Cain tonna etc. There is the head of Mug-éme, namely, the first lap-dog that ever was brought to Ireland.
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*Russell, Paul. "''Sanas Chormaic''." In ''Celtic Culture. An Encyclopedia'', ed. J.T. Koch. p. 1559. *Russell, Paul. "Dúil Dromma Cetta and Cormac's Glossary." ''Études celtiques'' 32 (1996): pp. 115–42. *Russell, Paul. "The Sound of Silence: The Growth of Cormac's Glossary." '' Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies'' 15 (1988): pp. 1–30.External links