Texts
Dinnshenchas of Belach Gabráin verse beg. Inmain dam in Gabrán glan
- Middle Irish
- verse, prose
- Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn
Texts in prose and verse relating variant versions of dinnshenchas on Belach Gabráin (B. nGabráin, B. Gabrán), perhaps Gowran Pass (Co. Kilkenny) or more probably, according to Edward Gwynn, the pass of that name in Maistiu (Co. Kildare). This pass (belach) is said to derive its name from the hound Gabrán whose heart broke (i.e. it died) from a fatiguing and unsuccessful pursuit of a swine whose name appears exclusively in the genitive, Lurgan (cf. lurga, lurgu ‘shanks’). The swine escaped from it underground in the bog of Allen (móin Almaine). The prose story identifies the hiding place as Loch Lurgan.
First words (verse)
- Inmain dam in Gabrán glan
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 A
- no. 196.1
- LL p. 196a
- Poem
- Dinnshenchas Érenn C
- Prose and verse.
Author
Ascribed to: Find Fili mac Rossa Rúaid
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Find Fili mac Rossa Rúaid
legendary poet and king of Leinster; son of Russ Rúad
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Ascr. to Finn File mac Rossa.
Manuscripts
Dinnshenchas Érenn A
p. 196a
Dinnshenchas Érenn C
R =
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598 ff. 90-125 [s. xiii/xiv (?)]
f. f. 102ra
beg. ‘Belach Gabran canas ro-ainmniged’
context: Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Prose (Stokes no. 37: Belach Gabrain)
R =
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598 ff. 90-125 [s. xiii/xiv (?)]
f. 102ra
beg. ‘INmain damh in Gabran’
context: Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Separate copies
f. 29ra.1ff
Prose version.
Language
- Middle Irish
Middle Irish
Form
verse, prose (primary)
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.
[ed.] [tr.] Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 3, Todd Lecture Series, 10, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1913.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 3: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link> : View in Mirador
[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>
426–427 [id. 37. ‘Belach Gabrain’] direct link
Secondary sources (select)
Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 3, Todd Lecture Series, 10, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1913.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 3: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link> : View in Mirador
507 [id. 28. ‘Belach Gabran’] direct link
web page identifiers
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