Amra
amra
Elegy or panegyric on a native saint in Ireland . The best known is that of Coluimb Cille (Columba), attributed by tradition to Dallan Mac Forgaill, chief ollamh or bard, c.575.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Amra
The name of certain ancient Irish elegies or panegyrics on native saints. The most famous of these which have reached us is known as the Amra of Coluimb Cille (Columbkille). It was printed with a translation by O’Beirne Crowe in 1871 from the imperfect text in the Leadhar na h’Uidhre; also in his edition of the “Liber Hymnorum” by Professor Atkinson, and in his “Goidelica” by Whitley Stokes, from an imperfect text in Trinity College, Dublin. These editions may, however, be considered as superseded by the Bodleian text (Rawlinson B. 502) edited, with a translation, for the first time (Rev. Celt., vols. XX-XXI) by Stokes. According to the traditional account this eulogy was composed about the year 575 by Dallan Mac Forgaill, the chief ollamh of that time, in gratitude for the services of St. Columbkille in saving the bards from expulsion at the great assembly of Druim Cetta in that year. “The Amra is not”, says Stokes, “as Professor Atkinson supposed, a fragment which indicates great antiquity.” Strachan, however, on Linguistic grounds, assigns it in its present form to about the year 800 (Rev. Celt., XVII, 14). Stokes, too, seems to favour this view (ibid., XX, 16). But linguistic grounds are a somewhat unstable foundation, and Strachan adds “perhaps something more may be learned from a prolonged study of this and other such as the Amra Senain and the Amra Conroi.” Dallan was the author of the former, “held in great repute”, says Colgan, “on account of its gracefulness”, and also of another Amra on Conall of Ineskeel in Donegal, with whom he was buried in one grave.
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DOUGLAS HYDE, A Literary History of Ireland (New York, 1899), 405, 406.
ARTHUR UA CLERIGH Transcribed by Douglas J. Potter Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume ICopyright © 1907 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
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Amra
in Hindu mythology, is one of the most beautiful trees of India, and plays a great part in Indian mythology. Figuratively it is called the bridegroom. Its. flowers are consecrated to Kamadeva, the god of love, who uses the buds for points on his arrows.