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Fianna bátar i nEmain‘Heroes who were in Emain’

verse beg. Fianna bátar i nEmain

Cináed ua hArtacáin

• Middle Irish
• verse
• Early Irish poetry, Ulster Cycle

Title

Fianna bátar i nEmain

‘Heroes who were in Emain’

Also known by the title Aidedha forni do huaislib Érenn ("The deaths of some of the nobles of Ireland")

First words (verse)

• Fianna bátar i nEmain

Author

Cináed úa hArtacáinCináed úa hArtacáin
(d. 975)
Cináed ua hArtacáin, Úa hArtacáin (Cináed)
Middle Irish poet.
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Ascribed to: Cináed úa hArtacáinCináed úa hArtacáin
(d. 975)
Cináed ua hArtacáin, Úa hArtacáin (Cináed)
Middle Irish poet.
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Ascribed to and presumably composed by Cináed ua hArtacáin

Manuscripts

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

  ff. 31a–32a

  Incomplete.
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 ff. 1–58 and ff. 73–122 = Leabhar na Rátha [1453–1454]

  ff. 74a–74b

  29 quatrains, nine of which are glossed.
• London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 [1516-1518]

  f. 52a

  38 quatrains, mostly glossed.

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Language

• Middle Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Textual relationships

Related: Fianna bátar i nEmain (addenda by Finn bishop of Kildare)Fianna bátar i nEmain (addenda by Finn bishop of Kildare)

An interpolated section in the Book of Leinster copy of the poem Fianna bátar i nEmain, consisting of 11 additional stanzas added and quite possibly composed by Finn, bishop of Kildare, and ending with a quatrain devoted to Díarmait Mac Murchada and the battle of Móin Mhór (1151). 

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
...
Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle

id. 1797

Subjects

death of Finn mac Cumaillbiography of Finn mac Cumaill
death of Finn mac Cumaill

id. 61055

Finn mac CumaillFinn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
Fionn mac Cumhaill, 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

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, “On the deaths of some Irish heroes”, Revue Celtique 23 (1902): 303–348, 438 (add. and corr.). Corrigenda: Revue Celtique 27 (1906): 202.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

[corr.] [add.] Stokes, Whitley, “On the deaths of some Irish heroes [corrigenda and addenda]”, Revue Celtique 27 (1906): 202.

Journal volume:  Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Carey, John, “Cináed ua hArtacáin [Cineth O'Hartagain] (d. 975)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20636>.

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Contributors

Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown

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April 2011, last updated: July 2022