Dinnshenchas of Brug na Bóinne I
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Dinnshenchas of Brug na Bóinne I
Dinnshenchas of Brug na Bóinne I
verse beg. Án sin, a maig Meic ind Óc
Poem on the dinnshenchas of Brug na Bóinne.
Initial words
Verse: Án sin, a maig Meic ind Óc
» In translation: “Bright it is here, o plain of Mac ind Óc”.
Ascribed to
Cináed ua hArtacáin
Manuscripts
- Dinnshenchas Érenn C
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 (1229) = Lebor na hUidre [s. xi/xii]
- Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598 ff. 90-125 (15489) [s. xiii/xiv (?)]
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote [1384 x 1406] p. 354a (line 5ff) beginning: ‘An sen i muig meic in Óg’
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Book of Uí Maine [1394]
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1322 (H 3. 3, 1322) [s. xvi]
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 2 (1222) [s. xvi (?)]
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B ii 2 (741) [s. xiv-xvi ?]
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iii 1 (742) [s. xvii]
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 13 (Reeves 832, 1068) [s. xvii]
Date
10th century (Meyer)
Form
primary form(s) — verse
Textual relationships
Classification
Early Irish poetry Dinnshenchas Érenn Mythological Cycle Dinnshenchas
Subject tags
Brug na Bóinne Mac ind Óc Finn mac Cumaill Death of Finn mac Cumaill
Brug na Bóinne
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.] Gwynn, E. J. [ed. and tr.], The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 2, Todd Lecture Series 9, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1906. |
Secondary sources
| Gwynn, E. J. [ed. and tr.], The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 2, Todd Lecture Series 9, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1906.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link>
92–94 [id. 2. ‘Brug Na Bóinde I’] direct link |
Queried results
if available
| Meyer, Kuno, “Introduction”, in: Meyer, Kuno, Fianaigecht: being a collection of hitherto inedited Irish poems and tales relating to Finn and his Fiana, Todd Lecture Series 16, London: Hodges, Figgis, 1910. v–xxxi. “Tenth century (xii-xxvii)” xii. Triad § 236 of Trecheng Breth Féne; xiii. (a) Poem by Cináed ua hArtacáin, beginning ‘Án sin, a maig Meic ind Óc’ (dinnshenchas of Brug na Bóinne I); xiii.(b) Poem by Cináed ua hArtacáin, beginning ‘Fianna bátar i nEmain’; xiv. (a) Poem beg. ‘Almu Lagen, les na Fían’ (dinnshenchas of Almu I); xiv. (b) Poem beg. ‘Almu robo cháem dia cois’ (dinnshenchas of Almu II); xv. Poem beg. ‘Fornocht do dún, a Druim nDen’ (dinnshenchas of Fornocht), attributed to Finn; xvi. Poem beg. ‘Sund dessid domunemar’ (dinnshenchas of Ráith Ésa); xvii. Poem beg. ‘Tipra Sen-Garmna fo a snas’ (dinnshenchas of Tipra Sengarmna); xviii. Finn and Gráinne; xix. Echtra Finn, containing a prose version of Finn and the phantoms; xx. Poem beg. ‘Echta Lagen for Leth Cuind’ (LL); xxi. (a) Poem beg. ‘Scél lem dúib’, found in the commentary to Amra Choluim Chille; xxi. (b) Poem beg. ‘Cétamon’, embedded within the Macgnímartha Find; xxii. Poem ascribed to Urard mac Coise, beginning ‘A Mór Maigne Moigi Siúil’; xxiii. Tochmarc Ailbe; xxiv. ‘Aithed Gráinne’, title in medieval Irish tale lists; xxv. Úath Beinne Étair; xxvi. ‘Uath Dercce Ferna’, known from the tale lists, but presumed lost; xxvii. (a) Aided Find (Egerton 92 fragment); xxvii. (b) a single quatrain preserved in LL, beg. ‘Rodíchned Find, ba fer tend’. |
| Gwynn, E. J. [ed. and tr.], The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 2, Todd Lecture Series 9, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1906. |
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