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Metrical Banshenchas‘The metrical ‘Lore of women’’

verse beg. Adam oen-athair na ndoene

Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)

• Late Middle Irish
• verse
• Early Irish poetry, Cycles of the Kings, Finn Cycle, Irish legendary history, Mythological Cycle, Ulster Cycle

Metrical version of the Banshenchas, composed by Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside (1147).

Initial words (verse)

• Adam oen-athair na ndoene

Author

Gilla Mo Dutu Úa CaisideÚa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)
(fl. c. 1147)
Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside
Irish poet, credited as the author of Éri óg inis na náem and Ádam óenathair na ndóene (the metrical Banshenchas).
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Ascribed to: Gilla Mo Dutu Úa CaisideÚa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)
(fl. c. 1147)
Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside
Irish poet, credited as the author of Éri óg inis na náem and Ádam óenathair na ndóene (the metrical Banshenchas).
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Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside identifies himself at the end of the poem.

Manuscripts

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

  pp. 136b–141b

  Ascribed to Gilla Mo Dutu
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]
• Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 3 = Book of Ádhamh Ó Cianáin [s. xiv-xv]
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan [s. xvⁱⁿ]

See also results from manuscript descriptions

Language

• Late Middle Irish

Date

1147

Form

verse (primary)

Textual relationships

Related: Prose BanshenchasProse BanshenchasProse version of the Banshenchas

Classification

Early Irish poetryEarly Irish poetry
...
Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings

id. 80

Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle

id. 578

Irish legendary historyIrish legendary history
...
Mythological CycleMythological Cycle
...
Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle

id. 1797

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.] Dobbs, Margaret E. [ed. and tr.], “The Ban-shenchus [part 1]”, Revue Celtique 47 (1930): 283–339.

Gallica: <link>

283–288 (introduction); 289–315 (text of the poem); 315–339 (English translation)

[index] Dobbs, Margaret E. [ed. and tr.], “The Ban-shenchus [part 3]”, Revue Celtique 49 (1932): 437–489.

Gallica: <link>

Index

Secondary sources (select)

Connon, Anne, “The Banshenchas and the Uí Néill queens of Tara”, in: Smyth, Alfred P. (ed.), Seanchas. Studies in early and medieval Irish archaeology, history and literature in honour of Francis J. Byrne, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 98–108.

Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann, “The Banshenchas revisited”, in: O'Dowd, Mary, and Sabine Wichert (eds.), Chattel, servant or citizen: women’s status in church, state and society, Historical Studies 19, Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, 1995. 70–81.

Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann, “The manuscript tradition of the Banshenchas”, Ériu 33 (1982): 109–135.

Ní Bhrolcháin, Muireann, “A possible source for Keating’s Forus feasa ar Éirinn”, Éigse 19:1 (1982): 61–81.

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