Texts

Aithrí agus bás Oisín ‘The repentance and death of Oisín’
verse beg. Ná bí feasta ag luadh na bhFiann

  • Early Modern Irish
  • verse
  • Classical Irish poetry, Finn Cycle
Final piece of Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig, in which Patrick tricks Oisín into asking him for forgiveness and grants him absolution. Oisín dies not long afterwards.
Title
Aithrí agus bás Oisín
‘The repentance and death of Oisín’
Al. Aithrighe agus bás Oisín.
First words (verse)
  • Ná bí feasta ag luadh na bhFiann
Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.
Author
Anonymous
Language
  • Early Modern Irish
  • late Early Modern Irish.

Form
verse (primary)
Metre
  • rannaigecht dialtach (al. rannaigecht mór) (7¹+7¹+7¹+7¹)
Length
Number of stanzas: 62

Classification

Classical Irish poetryClassical Irish poetry
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Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle
id. 578

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Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig [An Seabhac], Laoithe na Féinne, Dublin: An Chumainn le Béaloideas Éireann, 1941.
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245–251

Secondary sources (select)

Ní Mhurchú, Síle, “Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig: composition and transmission”, in: Sharon J. Arbuthnot, and Geraldine Parsons (eds), The Gaelic Finn tradition, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. 195–208.
197, 200–201, 203, 208
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
August 2012, last updated: September 2023