four things of every composition
- place (Iocc): Cork of Munster
- person (persu): Aniér Mac Conglinne of Eóganacht Glenamnach
- time (aimser): time of Cathal mac Finguine - son of Cú-cen-gairm or son of Cú-cen-máthair
- cause of invention (fáth airicc): to repel the demon of gluttony that was in Cathal’s throat
four elements of composition (time, place, person and cause)
structural device and theme attested in both Hiberno-Latin writing and Early (esp. Middle) Irish writing, derived ultimately from Boethius. Flower suggests that its main use was ad confirmandam historiam; parodied at the beginning of Aislinge Meic Con Glinne. Discussion: Robin Flower, ‘Quidam Scotigena .i. discipulus Boëthii, or Boëthius and the four conditions of a tale’, Ériu 8 (1916); briefly, Nessa Ní Shéaghdha, ‘Translations and adaptations into Irish’, Celtica 16 (1984): 124; and in legal contexts, Liam Breatnach, Companion to CIH (2005): 355–362.
Variant of the six elementa narrationis (person, cause, place, time, means and occasion) in Quintilian, Institutio oratoria, book IV, 2, 55.
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(d. 742)
A king of Munster from the Éoganacht Glendamnach, known for his military conflicts with kings of the Uí Néill, including Fergal mac Máele Dúin (d. 722) and the latter’s son Áed Allán (d. 743). In a Middle Irish narrative satire, Aislinge Meic Con Glinne, he is portrayed as being possessed by a demon of gluttony.
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(d. 665/6)
Cú cen Máthair
King of Munster (r. 661-665/6) from the Éoganacht Glendamnach, son of Cathal mac Áedo (d. 628), a previous king of Munster.
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