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Mac Lesc mac Ladáin aithech

  • Middle Irish
  • prose, verse
  • Finn Cycle
Story in which Finn mac Cumaill and his servant Mac Lesc mac Ladáin are separated from the Fían. A number of verses are exchanged (cf. ‘Fuit (poem)’).
Manuscripts
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 2, ff. 19–89 = Lebar Glinne Dá Locha (?) [1125 x 1150]
ff. 59vb–60ra
No heading. The anecdote includes two poems: (1) Fuitt co brath, four quatrains attributed to Mac Lesc, and (2) Tánic sam, seven quatrains attributed to Finn.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]
p. 208a
No heading. The anecdote contains Fuitt co brath, but not Tánic sam.
Language
  • Middle Irish
Date
12th century (Meyer)(1)n. 1 Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910).
Form
prose, verse (primary)
Contains poems
‘Fuit (poem)’ • ‘Tánic sam’
Associated items
Fuit (poem)Fuit (poem)Tánic samTánic sam

Poem on the coming of summer, attributed to Finn mac Cumaill. It evokes an image of the season by referring, for instance, to the appearance and behaviour of stags, dogs, salmon and birds such as the cuckoo and the blackbird.

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
See more Mac Lesc mac Ladáin
Mac Lesc mac Ladáin
(time-frame ass. with Finn mac Cumaill)
A servant or aithech of Finn mac Cumaill.
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Sources

Notes

1.
Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910).

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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Four Old-Irish songs of summer and winter, London: Nutt, 1903.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
June 2011, last updated: March 2024
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