Texts

Dinnshenchas of Temair (prose)

Middle Irish, Hiberno-Latin
prose
Dinnshenchas Érenn, Dinnshenchas

Initial words (prose)

Temair didiu ... .i. Múr Tea

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

Speaker/Addressee

Speaker: Amairgen mac Amalgada

C version (Rennes MS, BB), which connects the text to the introductory tale, where the poet is presented as having composed the collection.

Manuscripts

Dinnshenchas Érenn B, short version corresponding to § 1 of Stokes' edition from the Rennes text:
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]
p. 159a
§ 1
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 506 ff. 1-16a [s. xiv (+ xvii)]
f. 11v
§ 1 and a concluding quatrain beginning ‘IN chetbean luid i n-uaigh uair’
Dinnshenchas Érenn C, longer version corresponding to §§ 1-4, connected to the introductory tale:
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598 ff. 90-125 [s. xiii/xiv (?)]
f. 90ra–90rb
§§ 1-4
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 = Book of Ballymote [1384 x 1406]
p. 349a
§§ 1-4
Possible other copies yet to be confirmed

Language

Middle Irish Hiberno-Latin
Middle Irish; § 4 is in Latin

Form

prose (primary)

verse (secondary)

Contains poems

‘In chetbean luid i n-uaigh uair’ » Poem in Rawlinson B 506

Textual relationships

Associated items

In chetbean luid i n-uaigh uair

Classification

Dinnshenchas Érenn

Subjects

Temair

Temair ... Tara

County Meath

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.

B

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, and M. A. O'Brien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 1, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954. 260 pp. + 4 pl.

CELT – edition (pp. 1-260): <link>

120–123 Diplomatic edition of the LL text (30a-30d). direct link

[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>

470 [id. 1. ‘Temuir’] Text from Rawlinson B 506

C

[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>

277–280 [id. 1. ‘Temair’] Text from the Rennes MS.

[ed.] [tr.] Crowe, John O'Beirne [ed. and tr.], “The dind-senchus of Eriu”, The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 4th series, 2:1 — 1872 (1874): 139–190.

Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

140–143

[ed.] Petrie, George, and John O'Donovan [collaborator], “On the history and antiquities of Tara Hill”, Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 18 (1839): 25–232.

Internet Archive: <link>

104–107 Text from BB.

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Contributors

C. A.,Dennis Groenewegen