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Aígidecht Artúir ‘The hosting (guesting) of Artúir’

• Medieval Irish literature
• extent: not extant

A lost Irish tale whose title (Aígidecht Artúir) is mentioned in the Book of Leinster version of tale list A, where it occurs in the section on tales about oirgne ( ‘ravagings’). The corresponding title in TCD 1336 is Aigse Airduus.

See Medieval Irish tale lists and Medieval Irish tale lists/Oirgne.

Textual relationships

Cf. Acallam na senórach/Story of Artúir

Classification

Medieval Irish literatureMedieval Irish literature
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Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Mac Cana, Proinsias, The learned tales of medieval Ireland, Dublin: DIAS, 1980.

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Jaski, Bart, “Early Irish examples of the name ‘Arthur’”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 56 (2007): 89–105.

Bernhardt-House, Phillip A., “Horses, hounds, and high kings: a shared Arthurian tradition across the Irish Sea?”, in: Joseph Falaky Nagy (ed.), Myth in Celtic literatures, 6, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 11–21.

web page identifiers

page name: Aígidecht Artúir (lost)

page url: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/A%C3%ADgidecht_Art%C3%BAir_(lost)
redirect: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Redirect/page/12642
numerical alternative: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?curid=12642
page ID: 12642
page ID tracker: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Show:ID&id=12642

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Dennis Groenewegen

Page created

July 2012, last updated: January 2024