Primary-source dossier
The excerpts below are reproduced from the Ictis Anthology — a working paper produced during research for the project. Some of the results were spun off into New Perspectives on the Ictis of Pytheas of Massalia.
Middle Irish
Source: Stokes, W. (1883) The Saltair na rann: a collection of early Middle Irish poems. Oxford : Clarendon Press. p.34
Batar darig, reil asliucht, fornadathir immuir n-Iucht, Hlothair Forfranccaib congail ishEtgair forSaxanaib.
Bibliography and editions
Critical editions and further reading
- Edition. W. Stokes, The Saltair na Rann (1883), pp. iv–v, 29–34; quoted passage p. 34. Internet Archive: Saltair na Rann 1883.
- Lexicon. eDIL for Icht/Iucht and muir compounds. Open reference.
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Why this source matters
Saegul Adaim contributes a further Middle Irish occurrence of muir n-Iucht within a synchronising historical poem. The anthology uses the recurrence to build a cumulative case that Icht/Iucht functioned as a real medieval sea-name rather than an isolated scribal curiosity.