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The shield of Fionn

verse beg. Uchán asgíeth mo ríogh réil

• Late Middle Irish, Early Modern Irish
• verse
• Classical Irish poetry, Duanaire Finn, Finn Cycle

Initial words (verse)

• Uchán asgíeth mo ríogh réil

“Ah me! You shield of my bright king”

Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.

Duanaire Finn

• Duanaire Finn

Author

Anonymous

Manuscripts

• Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 20 (b) = Duanaire Finn [s. xvii¹]

  ff. 15v (middle)–17v
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]

  f. 145ra–145va

See also results from manuscript descriptions

Language

• Late Middle Irish Early Modern Irish
• late Middle Irish (Murphy) or Early Modern Irish

Date

“This poem offers few opportunities for exact dating … [it] probably belongs to the middle of the 12th century” (Murphy).

Form

verse (primary)

Number of stanzas

63

Classification

Classical Irish poetryClassical Irish poetry
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Duanaire Finn
Duanaire Finn

id. 11031

Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle

id. 578

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.] MacNeill, Eoin [ed.], Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 1: Irish text, with translation into English, Irish Texts Society 7, London: Irish Texts Society, 1908.

Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge – editions: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>

34–38; 134–139 Poem XVI. Edition and translation

Secondary sources (select)

Murphy, Gerard, Duanaire Finn: The book of the lays of Fionn, 3 vols, vol. 3: Introduction, notes, appendices and glossary, Irish Texts Society 43, London: Irish Texts Society, 1953.

Internet Archive: <link>

34–36

web page identifiers

page name: Uchán asgíeth mo ríogh réil

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page ID: 11057
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Contributors

Dennis Groenewegen

Page created

April 2012, last updated: August 2019