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Athirne and Amairgen

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

Initial words (prose)

• BAÍ goba amra i nUltaib

Manuscripts

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]
  ff. 117b–118a

Language

• Middle Irish

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

A shorter version of the tale is told in Sanas Cormaic, s.v. ‘Greth’.

Classification

Medieval Irish literature about poets Ulster Cycle

Subject tags

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
See more Eccet SalachEccet Salach – blacksmith in the Ulster Cycle; father to Amairgen the poet
See more AthirneAthairne (ass. time-frame: Ulster Cycle) – chief poet and satirist of the Ulstermen in the Ulster Cycle
See more GrethGreth
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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.

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. O'Brien, and Anne O'Sullivan (eds.), The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983. CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>

[ed.] Best, R. I. [ed.], “Amairgen son of Ecet Salach”, in: Fraser, J., P. Grosjean, and J. G. O'Keeffe (eds.), Irish texts, fasciculus I, London, 1931. 32–34 + fasc. V: 100 (corrigenda). Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link>

[tr.] Carey, John [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: Koch, John T., and John Carey (eds.), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, Celtic Studies Publications 1, 4th ed. (1995), Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various]. § 76

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Mulligan, Amy C., “‘The satire of the poet is a pregnancy’: pregnant poets, body metaphors, and cultural production in medieval Ireland”, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 108:4 (October, 2009): 481–505.

Carey, John [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: Koch, John T., and John Carey (eds.), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, Celtic Studies Publications 1, 4th ed. (1995), Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various].

Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. O'Brien, and Anne O'Sullivan (eds.), The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983. CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>

Best, R. I. [ed.], “Amairgen son of Ecet Salach”, in: Fraser, J., P. Grosjean, and J. G. O'Keeffe (eds.), Irish texts, fasciculus I, London, 1931. 32–34 + fasc. V: 100 (corrigenda). Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link>

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Patrick Brown, Dennis Groenewegen

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