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Primary source · Middle Irish; date uncertain, probably later than the 9th-century material

Saegul Adaim — “Sea of Icht”

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.

Title page of the Saltair na Rann.
Whitley Stokes’s 1883 edition of the Saltair na Rann. Internet Archive scan mirrored on Wikimedia Commons · source · Public domain scan / see file page

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.

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

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