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verse beg. Éstid a éolchu cen ón

• 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).

Initial words (verse)

• Éstid a éolchu cen ón

“Listen, scholars, without flaw”

Author

Ascribed to: Flann MainistrechFlann 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 [s. xvⁱⁿ]

  ff. 19ra3–19rb36 context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Míniugud)
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D i 3 a, ff. 1-6 [s. xiv?]

  context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Míniugud)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 III, (a) ff. 75B-100, (b) ff. 37-44 [s. xv?]

  ff. 93va24–93va26 context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Míniugud)

LGÉ A:

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

  pp. 41–46 context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension A)
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iii 1 (671) [s. xv (?)]

  context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension A)

LGÉ C

• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]

  ff. 19ra37–19va11 context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension C)
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan [s. xvⁱⁿ]

  ff. 281va14–281vb50 context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension C)

Further

• Cambridge, University Library, MS Additional 4207

  ff. 44v–45r

Language

• Middle Irish

Form

verse (primary)

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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January 2016, last updated: January 2022