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Cnucha Cnoc os cionn Life ‘Cnucha, a hill over/above the Life (Liffey)’

  • Late Middle Irish
  • Cycles of the Kings
Irish poem which has come down as a shorter version (6 st.) in Dinnshenchas Érenn dealing with the origin of the place-name Cnucha. A considerably longer one (64 st.) is attributed to Caílte in Agallamh bheag. Here the first 7 stanzas contain much overlap with the shorter version but then continues at some length with the kings of Ireland, with Finn and with Caílte’s present.
Manuscripts
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan (Leabhar Leacain) [s. xvin]
f. 525a
6 st.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 (1225) = Leabhar Uí Mhaine (The Book of Uí Maine) [1394]
f. 81v
6 st.
Cork, University College, Book of Lismore = Book of Lismore (Leabhar Leasa Móir) [s. xv]
f. 199ra–199vb
context: Acallam bec
Prose story and poem (64 st).
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 6 (478) [1868]
ff. 199ar–v
context: Acallam bec
Copy from the Book of Lismore.
First line cited by Keating (II: ).
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 39 (83) [s. xix1]
p. 185
Poem, without prose context, attributed to Caílte.
Language
  • Late Middle Irish
  • late Middle Irish

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Túathal Techtmar
Túathal Techtmar
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See more Finn mac Cumaill
Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)
Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían
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CnuchaCnucha
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
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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.] Power, Maura [ed. and tr.], “Cnucha Cnoc os cionn Life”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 11 (1917): 39–55.
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Contributors
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