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The adventure on Slieve Gullen

verse beg. Lá do bhí sealg Shléibhe Guillenn / do hinnioll ré mac Cumhaill

• Early Modern Irish
• verse
• Duanaire Finn, Classical Irish poetry, Finn Cycle

First words (verse)

• Lá do bhí sealg Shléibhe Guillenn / do hinnioll ré mac Cumhaill

“One day the son of Cumhail was preparing the case of Slieve Gullen”

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

• Duanaire Finn
• no. 62

Author

Anonymous

Manuscripts

Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 20 (b) = Duanaire Finn [s. xvii¹]

ff. 78v (middle)–83v

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Language

• Early Modern Irish
• Early Modern Irish (Murphy)

Date

“The vocabulary employed is on the whole suggestive of the 15th century” (Murphy).

Form

verse (primary)

Length

Number of stanzas: 170

Classification

Duanaire Finn
Duanaire Finn

id. 11031

Collection of Fenian poems.

Classical Irish poetryClassical Irish poetry
...
Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle

id. 578

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.] Murphy, Gerard [ed.], Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 2: Irish text, with translation into English, Irish Texts Society, 28, London: Irish Texts Society, 1933.

CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

248–297 Poem LXII. Edition and translation

Secondary sources (select)

Murphy, Gerard, Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 3: Introduction, notes, appendices and glossary, Irish Texts Society, 43, London: Irish Texts Society, 1953.

Internet Archive: <link>

143–145

web page identifiers

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April 2012, last updated: January 2024