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Acallam na senórach ll. 164–289. Story of Artúir and Bran, Sceolaing and Adnúall

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First day of the acallam (third part), incl. the story of Artúir and Bran, Sceolaing and Adnúall, ed. Whitley Stokes, ‘Acallamh na senórach’ in Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch... (1900): lines 164–289; tr. Ann Dooley • Harry Roe, Tales of the elders of Ireland (1999): 8–11. Cf. Aígidecht Artúir (lost). The episode has been discussed by Joseph Falaky Nagy, ‘Arthur and the Irish’ in A companion to Arthurian literature... (2009); Bart Jaski, ‘Early Irish examples of the name ‘Arthur’’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 56 (2007); and Phillip A. Bernhardt-House, ‘Horses, hounds, and high kings: a shared Arthurian tradition across the Irish Sea?’ in Myth in Celtic literatures... (2007).

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framing narrative⟨narrative devices⟩
framing narrative
id. 26551
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Caílte mac RónáinCaílte mac Rónáin
Caílte mac Crundchon meic Rónáin
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle)
or Caílte mac Crundchon meic Rónáin, kinsman of Finn mac Cumaill and a prominent member of his fían; accomplished warrior and hunter; one of the protagonists of Acallam na senórach
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framed narrative⟨narrative devices⟩
framed narrative
id. 26550
Agents
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
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Artúir mac Benne BritArtúir mac Benne Brit
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Bran, Sceolaing and AdnúallBran, Sceolaing and Adnúall
hounds of Finn mac Cumaill
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Fergus FínbélFergus Fínbél
Fergus Fínbhélach
(time-frame ass. with Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)
In tales of the Finn Cycle, a poet in the retinue of Finn mac Cumaill, sometimes identified as a son of a certain Finn.
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Díarmait úa DuibneDíarmait úa Duibne
son of Donn and grandson or descendant of Duibne; warrior in Finn’s household; one of the protagonists of Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne
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Goll mac MornaGoll mac Morna
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Oisín mac FinnOisín mac Finn
Oisín mac Finn;Oisín
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Saint Patrick, Cormac mac Airt)
A fían-warrior, son of Finn, in the Finn Cycle of medieval Irish literature
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Oscar mac OisínOscar mac Oisín
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle)
son of Oisín son of Finn mac Cumaill
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Ferdoman mac Buidb DeirgFerdoman mac Buidb Deirg
son of Bodb Derg son of the Dagda in the Acallam na senórach
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Raigne Rosclethan mac FinnRaigne Rosclethan mac Finn
A son of Finn mac Cumaill
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Caince Corcairderg mac FinnCaince Corcairderg mac Finn
A son of Finn mac Cumaill
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Glas mac Áencherda BérriGlas mac Áencherda Bérri
Glas son of Áencherd Bérri
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Mac LugachMac Lugach
incestuously begotten son of Finn’s son Dáire Derg and daughter Lugach
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Cáel úa NemnainnCáel úa Nemnainn
Cáel Cródae Cétguinech;Cáel mac Crimthainn
Cáel Cródae Cétguinech, a warrior in Finn’s household and husband of Créide in a tragic tale of the Acallam na senórach. In the prose narrative, he is identified as a descendant of Nemnann (or Nemnán), while the poem Géisid cúan uses the name Cáel mac Crimthainn.
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Nagy, Joseph Falaky, “Arthur and the Irish”, in: Helen Fulton [ed.], A companion to Arthurian literature, 58, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 117–127.
Jaski, Bart, “Early Irish examples of the name ‘Arthur’”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 56 (2007): 89–105.
Bernhardt-House, Phillip A., “Horses, hounds, and high kings: a shared Arthurian tradition across the Irish Sea?”, in: Joseph Falaky Nagy (ed.), Myth in Celtic literatures, 6, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 11–21.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
June 2014, last updated: June 2022

First day of the acallam (thir<p>First day of the <em>acallam</em> (third part), incl. the story of Artúir and Bran, Sceolaing and Adnúall, ed. Whitley <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Stokes</span>, ‘Acallamh na senórach’ in <i>Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch...</i> (1900): lines 164–289; tr. Ann <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Dooley</span> • Harry <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Roe</span>, <i>Tales of the elders of Ireland</i> (1999): 8–11. Cf. <em>Aígidecht Artúir (lost)</em>. The episode has been discussed by Joseph Falaky <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Nagy</span>, ‘Arthur and the Irish’ in <i>A companion to Arthurian literature...</i> (2009); Bart <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Jaski</span>, ‘Early Irish examples of the name ‘Arthur’’, <i>Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie</i> 56 (2007); and Phillip A. <span class="smallcaps" style="font-variant:small-caps;">Bernhardt-House</span>, ‘Horses, hounds, and high kings: a shared Arthurian tradition across the Irish Sea?’ in <i>Myth in Celtic literatures...</i> (2007).</p> +

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