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Fíanṡruth ‘Fían-lore (literally fían-stream)’

• Late Middle Irish
• Finn Cycle

Lists A and B represent two versions of an alphabetically arranged list of personal names associated with the Finn Cycle. A prose introduction precedes both of these lists.

Manuscripts

List A:

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv^ex/xvⁱⁿ]

p. 119a col. 768

Headed ‘It e annso anmann muntire Find .i. fiandsroth fian Find u(i) Baiscne’

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List B:

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 6, cols 281-344 = Section of YBL

p. 325a col. 333

Headed ‘Fianruth Fiand inso’

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Language

• Late Middle Irish

Date

12th century (Meyer).^{(1)n. 1} Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910): xxx.

Classification

Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle

id. 578

Subjects

Finn mac Cumaill

Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)

Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían

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Sources

Notes

^1.

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.] Stern, Ludwig Christian, “Fiannshruth”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 1 (1897): 471–473.

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Edition and translation of the introduction only.

Edition wanted

The actual lists of names remain unedited.

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Contributors

C. A., Dennis Groenewegen

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June 2011, last updated: March 2024