Texts

verse beg. Dám thrír táncatar ille

  • Late Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry, Finn Cycle
Fenian poem about a hound which was brought from Irúaith
First words (verse)
  • Dám thrír táncatar ille
Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.
  • independentThe text comes down in a relatively independent form as opposed to being embedded within a larger textual framework.
  • Book of Leinster version. 23 stanzas.
Author
Anonymous
Manuscripts
ff. 195vb.33–196ra.32
beg. ‘Dámh trir thancatar ille’
context: Acallam bec
Part of the Acallam bec.
beg. ‘Dámh trír tanccador a-le’
Longer version in the Agallamh na seanórach.
Language
  • Late Middle Irish
  • Middle Irish.

Date
12th century (Stern, Meyer).(1)n. 1 Ludwig Christian Stern, ‘Ein ossianische Ballade aus dem XII. Jahrhundert’ in Festschrift Whitley Stokes zum siebzigsten Geburtstage am 28. Februar 1900 gewidmet... (1900); Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910).
Form
verse (primary)

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle
id. 578

Sources

Notes

Ludwig Christian Stern, ‘Ein ossianische Ballade aus dem XII. Jahrhundert’ in Festschrift Whitley Stokes zum siebzigsten Geburtstage am 28. Februar 1900 gewidmet... (1900); Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910).

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[ed.] [tr.] Stern, Ludwig Christian [ed. and tr.], “Ein ossianische Ballade aus dem XII. Jahrhundert”, in: Kuno Meyer, Ludwig Christian Stern, Rudolf Thurneysen, F. Sommer, and W. Foy (eds), Festschrift Whitley Stokes zum siebzigsten Geburtstage am 28. Februar 1900 gewidmet, Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1900. 7–19.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
LL version
[ed.] Stern, Ludwig Christian, “Erschienene Schriften”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 3 (1901): 191–202, 432–446, 605–623.
Internet Archive: <link>
433–434 Book of Lismore version direct link
[ed.] Ní Shéaghdha, Nessa [ed.], Agallamh na seanórach, 3 vols, vol. 2, Leabhair ó Láimhsgríbhnibh, 10, Dublin, 1942.
Corpas.ria.ie: <link>
21–27
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
June 2011, last updated: January 2024