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"Dúan in chóicat cest" ("a poem in fifty questions") is a medieval school poem in Middle Irish, also known by its incipit "Iarfaigid lib cóecait cest."

Overview

The poem was sourced from British Library, MS Egerton 1782 and first published by Kuno Meyer in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie in 1903.

The text is in the form of fifty questions on Old Testament history and theology. Notable features include:

• The claim that Elias and Enoch are unhappy in Paradise
• the use of the name Seiri or Seiria for China, derived from Greek Serica.
• The claim of Cain as inventor of agriculture

See also

• Irish poetry

References

1. Brogyanyi, Bela; Krömmelbein, Thomas (1 January 1986). Germanic Dialects: Linguistic and Philological Investigations. John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN 9027235260 – via Google Books.
2. The Irish Tradition in Old English Literature. Cambridge University Press. 5 July 1993. ISBN 9780521419093 – via Google Books.
3. Abbott, François Fagel, Thomas Kingsmill; Library, Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Georg Olms Verlag. ISBN 9783487411996 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
4. Orchard, Andy (1 January 2003). Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf-manuscript. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802085832 – via Google Books.
5. Peritia. Medieval Academy of Ireland. 5 October 1995. ISBN 9782503504681 – via Google Books.
6. Union Academique Internationale Bulletin du Cange Archiuum Latinitatis MeddII Aeui. Librairie Droz. ISBN 9782600053471 – via Google Books.
7. Cróinín, Dáibhí Ó (5 October 1983). The Irish Sex Aetates Mundi. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. ISBN 9780901282750 – via Google Books.
8. "eDIL - Irish Language Dictionary". dil.ie.
9. "Ériu". Royal Irish Academy. 5 October 1986 – via Google Books.
10. Bayless, Martha (5 October 1998). Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae. School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. ISBN 9781855001602 – via Google Books.

External links

• Full text on CELT
• Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 4; the Duan in choicet cest is on pages 234–240

• Irish literature
• Irish poems
• Early Irish literature
• Medieval poetry