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Dinnshenchas of Lumman Tige Srafáin
verse beg. Dubgilla dub-airm n-aisse

  • Middle Irish
  • verse, prose
  • Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, dinnshenchas, eulogies and panegyrics
Poem in praise of Aodh’s shield.
First words (verse)
  • Dubgilla dub-airm n-aisse
First words (prose)
  • Lumman Tigi Srafain canas roainmniged?
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Author
Ascribed to: Dallán Forgaill
Dallán Forgaill
(fl. 597)
early Irish poet, known as the author of Amra Choluim Chille
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Manuscripts
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]
p. 193b
Prose introduction and poem.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 18, pp. 542–564 [c. s. xiv]
p. 560
An independently attested copy with interlinear gloss. This is a different version which shares 9 stanzas with the LL version but which contains 12 that are not found in LL.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 3, pp. 15-58 [s. xv/xvi?]
p. 46a.35–a.36
beg. ‘Roclaidhed ind uag’

An extract from the prose text. This copy was noted by Chantal Kobel in her description of the MS.

Manuscripts of Tromdámh Guaire (see there)
(Unidentified)
Yet to be confirmed
Language
  • Middle Irish
Form
verse, prose (primary)
Prose introduction

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
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Dinnshenchas Érenn
Dinnshenchas Érenn
id. 6712
dinnshenchasIrish narrative literature, onomastic lore and learning, topographical literature
dinnshenchas
id. 32607
eulogies and panegyrics⟨document genres by function⟩
eulogies and panegyrics
id. 33145

Subjects

Lumman Tige SrafáinLumman Tige Srafáin
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
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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. 4, Todd Lecture Series, 11, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1924.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 4: <link>  : View in Mirador
328–335 [id. 121. ‘Lumman Tige Srafáin’] Text from the Dinnshenchas Érenn in LL. direct link direct link direct link
[ed.] Connellan, Owen, “Dallan's poem on the shield of Hugh”, in: Owen Connellan, Imtheacht na Tromdháimhe; or, the proceedings of the great bardic institution, 5, Dublin: John O'Daly, 1860. 258–262.
Internet Archive: <link>
Text from TCD 1337. Gwynn supra cautions that it contains “some errors of transcription”.
[ed.] Hardiman, James [ed.], and Henry Grattan Curran [tr.], “Do Dhuibhghiolla, scíath Aodha: Dallan's ode to Aodh's shield”, in: James Hardiman (ed.), Irish minstrelsy, or bardic remains of Ireland: with English poetical translations, 2 vols, London, 1831. Vol. 2: 190–191, 359–360.
Internet Archive – text: <link> Internet Archive – notes: <link>
Early.

Secondary sources (select)

Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 4, Todd Lecture Series, 11, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1924.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 4: <link>  : View in Mirador
463–466 [id. 121. ‘Lumman Tige Srafáin’]
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