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An Irish quatrain said to have been uttered by Cú Roí before he was slain: CuRu[í] ro chan in so in la ro marbad [attribution]: He amae fet gae geir / Osnad mór mórmaic Neill: / Muin ar mug, run do mnai, / mairg dogni cechtar n-ai (transcription by Meyer), “CuRui had dieses gesungen, da er getötet wurde: O weh! Sausen des scharfen Speers! / Heftiges Aufstöhnen von Niall’s grossem Sohn! / Ein Juwel einem Knecht (anvertrauen), ein Geheimnis einer Frau – / Wehe dem, der beides tut!” (German translation by Thurneysen).

Inna hinada hi filet cind erred Ulad

verse

beg. hOnd úair dundánic Fáilbe

Lánellach rigi rích ocus ruirech

verse

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Loch Dergderc

verse

prose

beg. In lind-se lúadim cech lá

Dinnshenchas on Loch Dergderc: how Eochaid mac Luchta, king of Munster, gave up an eye to satisfy the cruel demands of the Ulster poet Ferchertne mac Athló and washed the bleeding socket.

Metrical Banshenchas

verse

beg. Adam oen-athair na ndoene

Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)

Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)

(fl. c. 1147)

Irish poet, credited as the author of Éri óg inis na náem and Ádam óenathair na ndóene (the metrical Banshenchas).

Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)

Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)

(fl. c. 1147)

Irish poet, credited as the author of Éri óg inis na náem and Ádam óenathair na ndóene (the metrical Banshenchas).

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Metrical version of the Banshenchas, composed by Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside (1147).

Independent, Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó, Dinnshenchas of Mag Léna

Muc mic Dá Thó, tlacht-múad torc

verse

6 st.

beg. Muc mic Dá Thó, tlacht-múad torc

Poem on Mac Da Thó's pig.

Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind

verse

7 st.

beg. Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind

A poem of at least seven stanzas attributed to Cú Chulainn or Conchobar mac Nessa.

Sé bruidni Érenn gan dáil

verse

beg. Sé bruidni Érenn, gan dáil

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Srúb Brain

verse

prose

beg. Matan do Choin na Cerdda

Dinnshenchas of Srúb Brain. The placename is etymologised as ‘Raven’s Bill’ with reference to an account of how Cú Chulainn killed a multitude of giant ravens or black birds and placed the bill of the last bird on the rock (Srúb Brain).

Tathus drecht dron-amhnus

verse

beg. Tathus drecht dron-amhnus

Early Irish poem about Cú Chulainn, attested as an addition to several copies of the dinnshenchas of Srúb Brain.

Independent, Tochmarc Emire

Verba Scáthaige

verse

beg. A mbé eirr óengaile

Poem in the form of a prophecy delivered by Scáthach to Cú Chulainn.

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