Texts
Dinnshenchas of Tonn Chlidna Iverse beg. Clidna Cheindfhind, búan in bét
- Middle Irish
- verse
- Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, Finn Cycle, Dinnshenchas
Poem on the dinnshenchas of Tond Clidna, attributed to Caílte.
Title
Dinnshenchas of Tonn Chlidna I
This is Tond Chlidna I in Gwynn's edition of the text. Note that it comes second in the Rennes manuscript, after the poem that is headed Tond Chlidna II in Gwynn's edition.
Initial words (verse)
- Clidna Cheindfhind, búan in bét
Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.
Manuscripts
- Acallam na senórachsee further Acallam na senórach
- Dinnshenchas Érenn C (mixed recension)
- R = Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598 ff. 90-125 [s. xiii/xiv (?)]
- B = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 = Book of Ballymote (Leabhar Bhaile an Mhóta) [1384 x 1406]p. 374bIntroduced as deriving from a version of the Acallam na senórach.(2)n. 2 Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910): xxx.
- M = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]"Rubbed" copy (Gwynn).
- Le =
- H =
- S = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 2 (1222) [s. xvi (?)]
- S3 =
Language
- Middle Irish
Date
12th century.(1)n. 1 Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910): xxx.
Form
verse (primary)
prose (secondary)
Textual relationships
There is a prose version and poem on the same subject, both of which occur in association with the present text in recension C of the Dinnshenchas Érenn: Dinnshenchas of Tonn Chlidna (prose), which introduces both poems in the Rennes MS; Dinnshenchas of Tonn Chlidna II (poem, Gwynn's Tond Chlidna II).
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Sources
Notes
Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910): xxx.
Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910): xxx.
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. [ed. and tr.], The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 3, Todd Lecture Series 10, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1913.
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “Acallamh na senórach”, in: Windisch, Ernst, and Whitley Stokes (eds.), Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 4:1, Leipzig, 1900. 1–438, ix–xiv.
Secondary sources (select)
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>
514 [id. 38. ‘Tond Chlidna I’] direct link
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