Macgnímartha Find ‘The boyhood deeds of Finn’
- Middle Irish
- prose
- Finn Cycle
- Middle Irish
Old Irish poem on May-day, which offers images of the season of May in all its vivid glory, from the blackbirds and bees to the appearance of the trees. The poem is extant as a composition incorporated in a later text, Macgnímartha Find (‘The boyhood deeds of Finn’), where it is attributed to Finn as a demonstration of his poetic skills after he had learned the three arts of poetry (teinm láeda, im-us forosna and díchetal di chennaib).
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.
Secondary sources (select)
page url: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Macgn%C3%ADmartha_Find
redirect: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Redirect/page/1364
numerical alternative: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?curid=1364
page ID: 1364
page ID tracker: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Show:ID&id=1364