verse beg. Tánic sam slán sóer
- Old Irish, Middle Irish
- verse
- Early Irish poetry
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.
- Tánic sam slán sóer
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 2, ff. 19–89 = Lebar Glinne Dá Locha (?) [1125 x 1150]7 stanzas. The poem occurs in the context of an anecdote concerning a meeting between Finn and his servant Mac Lesc mac Ladáin (see Mac Lesc mac Ladáin aithech). The first poem beg. Fuitt co brath is attributed to Mac Lesc and followed by the present poem, which is here attributed to Finn.
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C iii 2 (1236) [s. xvi]f. 10abeginning: ‘Tanuig samh slan saor’7 stanzas. The orthography has been modernised. James Carney (1971) suggests that it is a closely related but otherwise independent copy, probably deriving from the ‘lost’ Book of Glendalough. However, Pádraig Ó Riain (1981), who takes the view that the ‘Book of Glendalough’ refers, in fact, to a part of Rawl. B 502, sees no evidence of an independent transmission of the text.
- Old Irish Middle Irish
- Old Irish (Meyer, Carney) or possibly, late Old Irish/early Middle Irish (Carney)
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).
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).
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