Texts

Dinnshenchas of Almu

prose
Dinnshenchas Érenn, Finn Cycle

Dinnshenchas prose text on Almu (the Hill of Allen, Co. Kildare)

Title

Dinnshenchas of Almu

known alternatively as the dinnshenchas of Adarca hUa Failgi or Adarca Bó Iuchna.

Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.

Dinnshenchas Érenn B
LL p. 160: prose

Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Manuscripts

Dinnshenchas Érenn B

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

p. 160

Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598 ff. 90-125 [s. xiii/xiv (?)]

ff. 95b–96a

beg. ‘Adarca Hua Failge, canas ro ainmniged?’

t.b.a.

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

For two poetic versions, see Dinnshenchas of Almu I (also found in the Book of Leinster) and Dinnshenchas of Almu II (a short poem).

Related: Dinnshenchas of Almu IDinnshenchas of Almu IDinnshenchas poem on Almu (the Hill of Allen, Co. Kildare), which recounts the tale of the conception of Finn mac Cumaill.Dinnshenchas of Almu IIDinnshenchas of Almu II

Dinnshenchas poem on Almu (the Hill of Allen, Co. Kildare).

Classification

Dinnshenchas Érenn
Dinnshenchas Érenn

id. 6712

Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle

id. 578

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Subjects

Almu

Almu/Cnoc Almaine ... Hill of Allen

County Kildare

Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] [tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed. and tr.], “Die Sage von CuRoi”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 189–234.

CELT – edition of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> CELT – German translation of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

224–225 LL version

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, “The prose tales in the Rennes dindshenchas”, Revue Celtique 15 (1894): 272–336, 418–484.

An edition and translation of the prose texts in the Dinnshenchas Érenn as they occur in Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598. Missing texts are supplied from the Book of Lecan version.

TLH – edition (I, pp. 277-336): <link> TLH – translation (I): <link> TLH – edition (II, pp. 418-484): <link> TLH – translation (II): <link> Celtic Digital Initiative: <link> Internet Archive – 272–336: <link> Internet Archive – 272–336: <link> Internet Archive – 418–484: <link> Internet Archive – 418–484: <link>

308–309 [id. 16. ‘Adarca Hua Failgi’] Rennes version direct link