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Dinnshenchas of Ráith Ésa

verse beg. Sund dessid domunemar

• Middle Irish
• prose, verse
• Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, Mythological Cycle, Dinnshenchas

Tract on the dinnshenchas of Ráith Ésa.

Title

Dinnshenchas of Ráith Ésa

called Rath Esa in Gwynn's edition

Initial words (verse)

• Sund dessid domunemar

Context(s) The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.

• Dinnshenchas Érenn A
• LL p. 163a–b
• Poem.

• Dinnshenchas Érenn C
• Prose introduction and poem.

Ascribed to

Cináed úa hArtacáinCináed ua hArtacáin (d. 975) – Middle Irish poet
See more Mac Nía mac ÓengussoMac Nía mac Óengusso – No short description available
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Ascribed to Cináed ua hArtacáin in RIA MS B ii 2 ; to ‘Maicniadh mac Aonaccan’ in TCD MS 1322.

Manuscripts

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

• L = Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]
  p. 163a–163b

Dinnshenchas Érenn C

• R = Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598 ff. 90-125 [s. xiii/xiv (?)]
  f. 92va ff
• B = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 = Book of Ballymote [1384 x 1406]
• Y = Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 11, cols. 401-436 = YBL section [s. xv]
• M = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]
• 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 ?]
  ff. 4vb–5rb
   
  Here ascribed to Cináed ua hArtacáin.
• S₃ Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iii 1 (742) [s. xvii]
• H = Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1322 (H 3. 3) [s. xvi]
   
  Ascribed to ‘Maicniadh mac Aonaccan’
• V = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 13 (Reeves 832, 1068) [s. xvii]

Language

• Middle Irish

• Middle Irish.

Form

prose, verse (primary)

Textual relationships

Relates to Tochmarc Étaíne.

Classification

Early Irish poetry Dinnshenchas Érenn Mythological Cycle

 Dinnshenchas

Subject tags

 Ráith Ésa

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 entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] 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>

2–9 [id. 1. ‘Rath Esa’] direct link direct link direct link

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, “The prose tales in the Rennes dindshenchas”, Revue Celtique 15 (1894): 272–336, 418–484.

TLH – edition (I, pp. 277-336): <link> TLH – translation (I): <link> TLH – edition (II, pp. 418-484): <link> TLH – translation (II): <link> Celtic Digital Initiative: <link> Internet Archive – 272–336: <link> Internet Archive – 272–336: <link> Internet Archive – 418–484: <link> Internet Archive – 418–484: <link>

290–291 [id. 3. ‘Ráith Ésa’] direct link

Secondary sources (select)

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>

89–91 [id. 1. ‘Rath Esa’] direct link

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Contributors

Patrick Brown,Dennis Groenewegen

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