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|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=Similar versions of this episode are told in ''[[Scéla Moshauluim ⁊ Maic Con ⁊ Luigdech]]'' and by Geoffrey Keating in his ''[[Foras feasa ar Éirinn]]'', where ''rincne'' is the name of the spear. In the story of Mac Con's death in ''[[Cath Maige Mucrama]]'' and ''[[Aided Meic Con]]'', Finn is not involved, although in the latter his ''fían'' is said to have avenged Mac Con's death. | ||
|Categories=Fenian Cycle | |Categories=Fenian Cycle | ||
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Finn úa Báiscni | Finn úa Báiscni assists [[features::Lugaid Mac Con]] and his army 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> | <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 | In the fuller version of this episode in ''[[Scéla Moshauluim ⁊ Maic Con ⁊ Luigdech | Scéla Moshauluim]]'', Finn uses ''[[imbas forosnai]]'' and in this way senses the presence of an extra man (Ferchess) in their company, exclaiming ‘A man on the track!’. Ferchess lays a charm on the spear, saying ‘rincne ...’ and Mac Con, taking no heed of repeated Finn's warnings, is killed by it. | ||
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Finn úa Báiscni assists Lugaid Mac Con and his army 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 uses imbas forosnai and in this way senses the presence of an extra man (Ferchess) in their company, exclaiming ‘A man on the track!’. Ferchess lays a charm on the spear, saying ‘rincne ...’ and Mac Con, taking no heed of repeated Finn's warnings, is killed by it.
