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In Airne Fíngein (‘Fíngen's vigil’), a prince (rígdomna) of Munster, who stands on top of Druim Fíngin one Samain night when he meets Rothníam, a woman of the síd, and through her learns of a series of wonders associated with the birth of Conn Cétchathach.


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Wiley, Dan M., “The politics of myth in Airne Fingein”, in: Joseph F. Eska (ed.), Narrative in Celtic tradition: essays in honor of Edgar M. Slotkin, 8, 9, New York: Colgate University Press, 2011. 276–288.
Bondarenko, Grigory, “King in exile in Airne Fíngein (‘Fíngen's Vigil’): power and pursuit in Early Irish literature”, Études Celtiques 36 (2008): 135–148.  
abstract:

[FR] Le récit irlandais ancien en prose Airne Fíngein et les matériaux connexes transmis par le dindshenchas et d’autres récits en prose présentent l’acquisition, et la perte de la souveraineté comme des événements dus à une sorte de connaissance surnaturelle. Dans la littérature irlandaise ancienne, tous les personnages remarquables, ou extraordinaires, doivent leur statut, dans une large mesure, à des êtres surnaturels, appartenant à l’Autre monde, et au passé pré-chrétien tel qu’il est présenté par les auteurs du début de la période chrétienne. Cet article réexamine les concepts de royauté et de périphérie dans la littérature irlandais ancienne, sur la base d’un passage d’Airne Fíngein où l’on peut percevoir et étudier la connexion entre statut royal et intervention surnaturelle.


[EN] The early Irish prose tale Airne Fíngein and the relevant material from the dindshenchas and other prose tales discussed represent both the origin and the loss of king’s sovereignty as deeply dependent on some source of supernatural knowledge. The status of any distinguished (or extraordinary) character in Early Irish literature, to a great extent, depends upon supernatural and otherworldly beings in the image of the pre-Christian past drawn by authors of the early Christian period. This article revisits the concepts of kingship and periphery in early Irish literature on the basis of a particular fragment from Airne Fíngein where connection between status and supernatural can be perceived and analysed.

Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 36, 2008: <link>
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