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Athirne and Amairgen

  • Middle Irish
  • prose
  • Medieval Irish literature about poets, Ulster Cycle
First words (prose)
  • BAÍ goba amra i nUltaib
Manuscripts
Language
  • Middle Irish
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
A shorter version of the tale is told in Sanas Cormaic, s.v. ‘Greth’.

Classification

Medieval Irish literature about poetsMedieval Irish literature about poets
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Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

Subjects

Amairgen mac Eccit
Amairgen mac Eccit (Salaig)
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
(chief) poet of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle of tales; son of Eccet Salach
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Eccet Salach
blacksmith in the Ulster Cycle; father to Amairgen the poet
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Athirne
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Chief poet and satirist of the Ulstermen in the Ulster Cycle.
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. OʼBrien, and Anne OʼSullivan [eds.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983.
CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>
[ed.] Best, R. I. [ed.], “Amairgen son of Ecet Salach”, in: J. Fraser, Paul Grosjean, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Irish texts, fasciculus I, London, 1931. 32–34 + fasc. V: 100 (corrigenda).
Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link>
[tr.] Carey, John [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: John T. Koch, and John Carey (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, 4th ed., 1, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various].
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown
Page created
May 2011, last updated: January 2024
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