Texts

Fianna bátar i nEmain ‘Heroes who were in Emain’
verse beg. Fianna bátar i nEmain

Cináed ua hArtacáin
  • Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry, Ulster Cycle
Title
Fianna bátar i nEmain
‘Heroes who were in Emain’
Also known by the title Aidedha forni do huaislib Érenn ("The deaths of some of the nobles of Ireland")
First words (verse)
  • Fianna bátar i nEmain
Author
Cináed ua hArtacáin
Cináed úa hArtacáin
(d. 975)
Middle Irish poet.

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Ascribed to: Cináed ua hArtacáin
Cináed úa hArtacáin
(d. 975)
Middle Irish poet.

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Ascribed to and presumably composed by Cináed ua hArtacáin
Language
  • Middle Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Fianna bátar i nEmain (addenda by Finn bishop of Kildare)Fianna bátar i nEmain (addenda by Finn bishop of Kildare)

An interpolated section in the Book of Leinster copy of the poem Fianna bátar i nEmain, consisting of 11 additional stanzas added and quite possibly composed by Finn, bishop of Kildare, and ending with a quatrain devoted to Díarmait Mac Murchada and the battle of Móin Mhór (1151). 

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

Subjects

death of Finn mac Cumaillbiography of Finn mac Cumaill
death of Finn mac Cumaill
id. 61055
Finn mac Cumaill
Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)
Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían

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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 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.] Stokes, Whitley, “On the deaths of some Irish heroes”, Revue Celtique 23 (1902): 303–348, 438 (add. and corr.). Corrigenda: Revue Celtique 27 (1906): 202.
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[corr.] [add.] Stokes, Whitley, “On the deaths of some Irish heroes [corrigenda and addenda]”, Revue Celtique 27 (1906): 202.
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Secondary sources (select)

Carey, John, “Cináed ua hArtacáin [Cineth O'Hartagain] (d. 975)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20636>.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown
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April 2011, last updated: January 2024