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Banshenchas
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The title Banshenchas refers to two versions composed in the late Middle Irish period:
- [[Metrical Banshenchas
|a metrical version composed by Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside in 1147]] and
- [[Prose Banshenchas
|a longer version in prose]].
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prose
prosimetrum
Late Middle Irish account of the battle of Crinna, in which Cormac mac Airt is said to have defeated the Ulstermen with the aid of Tadg son of Cían. The saga offers an origin legend of the Cíannacht Breg, explaining how it came to settle near Tara but did not attain the kingship of Tara.
Cnucha Cnoc os cionn Life
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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.
Metrical Banshenchas
verse
beg. Adam oen-athair na ndoene
Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)
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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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Úa Caiside (Gilla Mo Dutu)
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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).
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