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  • Middle Irish
  • verse
  • Early Irish poetry
Middle Irish poem attributed to Flann Mainistrech, embedded in a number of recensions of the Lebor gabála Érenn (Min, A and C, but not in B).
First words (verse)
  • Éstid a éolchu cen ón
“Listen, scholars, without flaw”
Author
Ascribed to: Flann Mainistrech
Flann Mainistrech
(d. 1056)
Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)
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Manuscripts

Eystein Thanisch (2012) lists the following manuscripts

Míniugud recension of LGÉ:
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan (Leabhar Leacain) [s. xvin]
ff. 19ra3–19rb36
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D i 3 a, ff. 1-6 [s. xiv?]
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 III, (a) ff. 75B-100, (b) ff. 37-44 [s. xv?]
ff. 93va24–93va26
LGÉ A:
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]
pp. 41–46
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iii 1 (671) [s. xv (?)]
LGÉ C
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]
ff. 19ra37–19va11
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan (Leabhar Leacain) [s. xvin]
ff. 281va14–281vb50
Further
Cambridge, University Library, MS Additional 4207
ff. 44v–45r
Language
  • Middle Irish
Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 37
Textual relationships
Related: Dinnshenchas of Benn Boirche IIDinnshenchas of Benn Boirche IIProse and verse texts on the dinnshenchas of Benn Boirche (Mourne Mountains, Co. Down - see Gwynn).

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Thanisch, Eystein P., “The reception and use of Flann Mainistrech and his work in medieval Gaelic manuscript culture”, 2 vols, PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015.
Edinburgh Research Archive – PDF: <link>
Thanisch, Eystein, “Flann Mainistrech’s Götterdämmerung as a junction within Lebor gabála Érenn”, Quaestio Insularis 13 (2012): 68–93.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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January 2016, last updated: January 2024
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