Book of Leinster dinnshenchas
The catalogue entry for this text has not been published as yet. Until then, a selection of data is made available below.
In the Book of Leinster, not so much a self-contained collection as a group of prose and verse texts on dinnshenchas as well as other items of lore that do not necessarily fit the modern definition.
Manuscript witnesses
Sources
Secondary sources (select)
The purpose of the present volume is to provide an accessible overview and entry into the complex literary creation known as Dindshenchas Érenn ‘History of the Notable Places of Ireland’. The five chapters in the book consider different aspects of the Dindshenchas corpus, ranging from the manuscript sources; the format and structure of the various texts so labelled; an overview of the scholarship published to date; the dating of the corpus; the Dindshenchas as a branch of aetiological literature; and an analysis of the literary connections between the Dindshenchas and medieval Irish literature generally.
