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|Initial words 2=Rin(g)cne quasi quinque | |Initial words 2=Rin(g)cne quasi quinque | ||
|Ascribed to=Assigned by Meyer to the 9th century.<ref>Meyer 1910p</ref> | |Ascribed to=Assigned by Meyer to the 9th century.<ref>Meyer 1910p</ref> | ||
|Manuscripts=include: {{MS |YBL |page=280a.}} | |||
|Description=Entry for 'rincne' in ''[[Sanas Cormaic]]'', which includes an anecdote about [[features::Finn mac Cumaill | Finn úa Báiscni]]. | |Description=Entry for 'rincne' in ''[[Sanas Cormaic]]'', which includes an anecdote about [[features::Finn mac Cumaill | Finn úa Báiscni]]. | ||
|Textual relationships= | |Textual relationships=Versions of this episode are also told in ''[[Scéla Moshauluim ⁊ Maic Con ⁊ Luigdech]]'', ''[[Cath Maige Mucrama ]]'', ''[[Aided Meic Con]]'' and by Geoffrey Keating in his ''[[Foras feasa ar Éirinn]]''. | ||
|Categories=Fenian Cycle | |Categories=Fenian Cycle | ||
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==Description== | |||
Finn úa Báiscni is shown to assist [[features::Lugaid Mac Con | Lugaid]] and his army, assists it in pursuit of the poet [[features::Ferchess mac Commáin | Ferchess]]: | |||
<blockquote>RINGCNE quasi ''quinque'': inde dixit Ferches (the poet) when Finn ua Baiscni was reckoning every pentad in succession of the hosts of MacCon, to seek the Fian of him i.e. Ferches (''e''). Then Ferches passed with fury [?] by Finn, and cast his spear at Lugaid so that he was dead, and he said Ringcne (quasi ''carincne) rus rig'' 'a little pentad is a king's reproach' (''f'') for this was what Finn used to say still when he was counting every pentad in turn.<ref>[[Stokes 1868]]: 142-143</ref></blockquote> | |||
In the fuller version of this episode in ''[[Scéla Moshauluim ⁊ Maic Con ⁊ Luigdech | Scéla Moshauluim]]'', Finn is said to use ''imbas forosnai'' to find Ferchess. | |||
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Finn úa Báiscni is shown to assist Lugaid and his army, assists it in pursuit of the poet Ferchess:
RINGCNE quasi quinque: inde dixit Ferches (the poet) when Finn ua Baiscni was reckoning every pentad in succession of the hosts of MacCon, to seek the Fian of him i.e. Ferches (e). Then Ferches passed with fury [?] by Finn, and cast his spear at Lugaid so that he was dead, and he said Ringcne (quasi carincne) rus rig 'a little pentad is a king's reproach' (f) for this was what Finn used to say still when he was counting every pentad in turn.[1]
In the fuller version of this episode in Scéla Moshauluim, Finn is said to use imbas forosnai to find Ferchess.
