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Nic Cárthaigh, Emma, “Surviving the flood: recenants and antediluvian lore in medieval Irish texts”, in: Jason Harris, and Kathy Cawsey (eds), Transmission and transformation in the Middle Ages: texts and contexts, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 40–64.

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“Surviving the flood: recenants and antediluvian lore in medieval Irish texts”
Work
Jason Harris (ed.) • Kathy Cawsey (ed.), Transmission and transformation in the Middle Ages: texts and contexts (2007)
Pages
40–64
Year
2007
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Abstract (cited)
Analyses characters in early Irish literature who embody the theme of transmission and transformation through surviving as repositories of antediluvian lore in the form of shape-shifters and mythic visionaries (exemplified by Tuán mac Cairill and Fintan mac Bóchra).
Subjects and topics
History, society and culture
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Fintan mac BóchraFintan mac Bóchra
(time-frame ass. with universal history)
A figure of medieval Irish tradition who survives the Flood and lives to give eye-witness accounts of the history of Ireland
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(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)
Tuán son of Cairell; an ancient figure of Irish legendary history, who is said to have witnessed, in the shapes of various animals, the course of Irish history since the Flood; said to have survived into the time of Patrick, when he resumed a human appearance.
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Marie-Luise Theuerkauf
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