Dinnshenchas of Ochan

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Title Ochan; Ochonn Midi

Initial words ‘Déiccid ferta níthaig Néill’ » In translation: “Behold the martial trench of Níall”.

Initial words (prose) ‘Ochund Midhe, canas rohainmniged?’

Part of / cited in Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Ascribed to The poem is ascribed to Cináed ua hArtacáin (d. 975)

Manuscripts
Dinnshenchas Érenn A (verse):

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²], p. 154

Dinnshenchas Érenn C (prose and verse):

R = Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598, ff. 93vb—.... Prose and verse
B = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote [1384 x 1406], pp. 355b—356b. Prose and verse
M = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Book of Uí Maine [1394]
Y = Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 (H 2. 16) = Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv-xv]
S = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 2 (1222) [s. xvi (?)]
S₂ = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B ii 2 (741) [s. xiv-xvi ?]
S₃ = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iii 1 (742) [s. xvii]
H = Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1322 (H 3. 3) [s. xvi]
V = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 13 (Reeves 832, 1068) [s. xvii]

Type or category dinnshenchas

Language Middle Irish

Form (primary) verse, prose

Description Texts on a burial mound near Tara, relating a version of the death of Niall Noígiallach.

Textual relationships See Orcuin Néill Noígiallaig and Aided Néill Noígíallaig for alternative versions of the death of Niall Noígiallach.

Notes

Sources

Editions and translations

Gwynn, E. J. (ed. and tr.), The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 2, Todd Lecture Series 9, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1906. 36—41 » Poem.

CELT: edition translation

Internet Archive: vol. 2 vols. 1-3

Stokes, Whitley (ed. and tr.), “The prose tales in the Rennes dindshenchas”, Revue Celtique 15 (1894): 272—336, 418—484. 295—297 » Prose from Rennes MS.