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The Milesian invasion of Ireland

  • Old Irish
  • prose
  • Irish legendary history
First words (prose)
  • Luid longos do chenel Iafed mac Noí a tirib Grec
Manuscripts
Cín Dromma Snechtai [s.viii / s. xin]
That is, if the attribution in LL is accurate. See below.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]
p. 190c.27–36
rubric: ‘A Cín Dromma Snecta so sis’
beg. ‘Asberat senchaide boí longes ingen [...] Ebríb’
Excerpt on the Hebrew women who are blown to Ireland by a storm. It names the Cín Dromma Snechtai as the source of the text.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan (Leabhar Leacain) [s. xvin]
f. 181va (lines 8–41) p. 366a (lines 8–41)
beg. ‘Luid longos do chenel Iafed mac Noí a tirib Grec’
Fuller version.
Language
  • Old Irish
Date
uncertain
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Irish legendary historyIrish legendary history
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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.] Hull, Vernam, “The Milesian invasion of Ireland”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 19 (1933): 155–160.
Text and translation.
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 4, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1965. xxvii + pp. 761-1117.
CELT – pp. 761-781 and 785-841: <link>
840 Passage in LL.
[ed.] OʼCurry, Eugene, “Appendices”, in: Eugene OʼCurry, Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history, delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland during the sessions of 1855 and 1856, Dublin, 1861. 461–648.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link>
501 (App. XVI) Passage in LL.
[tr.] OʼCurry, Eugene, “Lecture I. Introduction/ Of the lost books, etc.”, in: Eugene OʼCurry, Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history, delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland during the sessions of 1855 and 1856, Dublin, 1861. 1–25.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – Originally from Google Books: <link>, <link>, <link> Internet Archive – multiple copies: <link>
15–16 Passage in LL.

Secondary sources (select)

Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II: the growth of the tradition”, Ériu 39 (1988): 1–66.  
10–11
Carey, John, “On the interrelationships of some Cín Dromma Snechtai texts”, Ériu 46 (1995): 71–92.
Celtic Digital Initiative: <link>
92 A note on the attempt of the Gaels to land in Dál Riata. Carey regards this detail as another possible clue to the northern provenance of the Cín Dromma Snechtai and the texts contained therein.
Jaski, Bart, “‘We are of the Greeks in our origin’: new perspectives on the Irish origin legend”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 46 (Winter, 2003): 1–53.
35
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