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Aígidecht Aithirni‘The guesting of Athirne’

• Middle Irish
• prose, verse, prosimetrum
• Medieval Irish literature about poets, Ulster Cycle

The short prose text includes eight poems ascribed to Athirne.

Manuscripts

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]
  ff. 118a–118b
• London, British Library, MS Harleian 5280 [s. xviⁱⁿ]
  f. 77r–77v
   
  The second part of the text only.
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (Betham 145, 967) [s. xvi]
  pp. 15–16.mbeginning: ‘Do deachaid Atairne h-isind fhogmar for turus di thig a dalta’
   
  The second part of the text.

Language

• Middle Irish
• early Middle Irish (Meyer)

Date

11th century (Meyer)

Form

prose, verse, prosimetrum (primary)

Speaker

Athirne

Classification

Medieval Irish literature about poets Ulster Cycle

Subject tags

AthirneAthairne (ass. time-frame: Ulster Cycle) – chief poet and satirist of the Ulstermen in the Ulster Cycle
See more Amairgen mac EccitAmairgen mac Eccit (ass. time-frame: Ulster Cycle) – (chief) poet of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle of tales; son of Eccet Salach
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• Sources

Primary sources

Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in the entry for the relevant manuscript.

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “The guesting of Athirne”, Ériu 7 (1914): 1–9. LL, with variants from Harleian 5280.

[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], “A third copy of the Guesting of Athirne”, Ériu 7 (1914): 196–199. Version from RIA MS 23 N 10, with variants from Harleian 5280.

[ed.] [tr.] Greene, David, and Frank O'Connor [Michael O'Donovan], A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200, London: Macmillan, 1967. 140–141. Poems on the four seasons.

Secondary sources

Lubotsky, Alexander, “Varia IV: On the alliteration in ‘The guesting of Athirne’”, Ériu 33 (1982): 170–171.

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Lubotsky, Alexander, “Varia IV: On the alliteration in ‘The guesting of Athirne’”, Ériu 33 (1982): 170–171.

Greene, David, and Frank O'Connor, “33: The four seasons”, in: Greene, David, and Frank O'Connor [Michael O'Donovan], A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200, London: Macmillan, 1967. 140–143.

Greene, David, and Frank O'Connor [Michael O'Donovan], A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200, London: Macmillan, 1967.

Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], “A third copy of the Guesting of Athirne”, Ériu 7 (1914): 196–199.

Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “The guesting of Athirne”, Ériu 7 (1914): 1–9.

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