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Dinnshenchas of Mag Muirisce II

verse beg. Muiriasc foccard in mhuir

• Middle Irish
• verse
• Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, Dinnshenchas

Poem added to one copy of Dinnshenchas of Mag Muirisce, with a quatrain interpolated into three copies of said text.

Initial words (verse)

• Muiriasc foccard in mhuir

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

• Dinnshenchas Érenn C
• Poem added in the Book of Uí Maine.

Manuscripts

B

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 506 ff. 1-16a [s. xiv (+ xvii)]

  f. 15a

  Follows the prose section.

C

• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]

  Three stanzas.
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 2 (1222) [s. xvi (?)]

  First stanza (interpolation).
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iii 1 (742) [s. xvii]

  First stanza (interpolation).
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1322 (H 3. 3) [s. xvi]

  First stanza (interpolation).

Language

• Middle Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Number of stanzas

3

Textual relationships

Cf. Mag Muirisce (I) (prose and verse).

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Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Dinnshenchas Érenn
Dinnshenchas Érenn

id. 6712

DinnshenchasDinnshenchas
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Subjects

Mag MuirisceMag Muirisce

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Text

Gwynn offers the following edition:

Muiriasc foceard in mhuir mhor . diamadh [dianad] ainm Rosualt romhor :

ba hangmaidh in gnim co ngle . dia tairngair Colum Cille.

Tolo mairb-esic tuili te . re lind Gairbeisc Glunraighe :
fobrucht in muir milib clann . fo ceithri hairdib Erenn.

No 'si Muireasc ciar creachach . ingen din ua deidh-Eachach :
ba buaidh a bladh gan cuir cuir . fofuair in magh co mor-muir.

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.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “The Bodleian dinnshenchas”, Folk-Lore 3 (1892): 467–516.

TLH – edition: <link> TLH – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

507–508 Version in the Bodleian MS, where it is cited after the prose section.

[ed.] Gwynn, E. J. [ed. and tr.], 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>

557 [id. 79.2. ‘Mag Muireisce’] Edition. direct link

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October 2012, last updated: August 2021