Texts

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