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Aided Finn (Egerton 92)
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Fragment of a text relating a version of the story of Finn's death. Finn is said to have died in old age while attempting to leap the River Boyne over a place called Léimm (Find). His body is discovered by Aiclech, son of Dub Drenn, and the three sons of Urgriu. Aiclech severs the head and for this act, he is slain by his three companions.
Aided Finn (Laud fragment)
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Fragment of a text relating a version of the story of the Finn's death. The Laud manuscript preserves the beginning of the text only. Another fragment, possibly of the same text, is preserved in Egerton 92.
Aided Fothaid Canainne
prose
Prose story concerning the death of Fothad Canainne, which is found in two redactions that introduce the poem known as Reicne Fothaid Canainne.
Áirem muintire Finn
prose
Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig
Aithrí agus bás Oisínverse
62 st.
beg. Ná bí feasta ag luadh na bhFiann
Final piece of Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig, in which Patrick tricks Oisín into asking him for forgiveness and grants him absolution. Oisín dies not long afterwards.
Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B
Dinnshenchas of Almu (prose)prose
Dinnshenchas prose text on Almu (the Hill of Allen, Co. Kildare)
Dinnshenchas of Almu I
verse
beg. Almu Lagen, les na Fían
Dinnshenchas poem on Almu (the Hill of Allen, Co. Kildare), which recounts the tale of the conception of Finn mac Cumaill.
Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Almu IIverse
4 st.
beg. Almu robo cháem dia cois
Dinnshenchas poem on Almu (the Hill of Allen, Co. Kildare).
Duanaire Finn
An Seisior. tríar attigim ar deisiolverse
7 st.
beg. An Seisior. tríar attigim ar deisiol
Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C
Dinnshenchas of Áth Líac Find Iverse
beg. Áth Liac Find, cid dia tá?
Máel Muru Othna
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Máel Muru Othna
(d. 887)
Early Irish poet and historian, who was apparently attached to the monastery of Othain (now Fahan, Inishowen barony, Co. Donegal), as his epithet suggests
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Máel Muru Othna
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Máel Muru Othna
(d. 887)
Early Irish poet and historian, who was apparently attached to the monastery of Othain (now Fahan, Inishowen barony, Co. Donegal), as his epithet suggests
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Tract on the dinnshenchas of Áth Líac Find, a ford of the Shannon.
Banshenchas
prose
verse
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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verse
4 st.
beg. Bec innocht lúth mo dá lúa
Caílte mac Rónáin
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Caílte mac Rónáin
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle)
or Caílte mac Crundchon meic Rónáin, kinsman of Finn mac Cumaill and a prominent member of his fían; accomplished warrior and hunter; one of the protagonists of Acallam na senórach
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Poem of four stanzas, attributed to Caílte. It uses a special, learned vocabulary known as bérla na filed.
Bruiden Átha Í
prose
Duanaire Finn
Cairdius Logha ré droing don Fhéinverse
13 st.
beg. Cairdius Logha ré droing don Fhéin / is meabhair liomsa budhdhein
Agallamh Oisín agus Phádraig
Caoineadh Áille Shnuaghealverse
91 st.
beg. A Mheargaigh (chruaidh) na nglas-lann (ngéar)
Cath Crinna
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.
Cath Finntrágha
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Cath Sléphe Cáin
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A prose anecdote on matter of the Finn Cycle, which mentions Oisín son of Finn.
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