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Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Ráith Crúachain

verse

prose

beg. Estid a churu im Chrúachain

Dinnshenchas on Ráith Crúachain

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Ráith Ésa

prose

verse

beg. Sund dessid domunemar

Cináed úa hArtacáin

Cináed úa hArtacáin

(d. 975)

Middle Irish poet.

See more (ascr.)Mac Nía mac Óengusso

Mac Nía mac Óengusso

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Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Ráith Mór Maige Line

prose

verse

3 st.

beg. Ráth Rogein a h-ainm riasin

Dinnshenchas of Ráith Mór in Mag Line (here olim Ráith Mór and Ráith Rogein).

Reicne Fothaid Canainne

verse

49 st.

beg. A ben, náchamaicille

Old Irish poem, with later prose introduction.

Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim (Flann Mainistrech)

verse

beg. Réidig dam, a Dé, do nim

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

Flann Mainistrech

Flann Mainistrech

(d. 1056)

Middle Irish poet ass. with Monasterboice (Mainistir Buite)

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A series of seven poems

Riss in mundtuirc

prose

Middle Irish adaptation of episodes from the Theban Cycle, drawing on Statius and Ovid. It relates a number of unfortunate events which transpired after Vulcan forged a necklace for Harmonia.

Ro loiscit na láma-sa

verse

4 st.

beg. Ro loiscit na láma-sa

Oisín mac Finn

Oisín mac Finn

(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Saint Patrick, Cormac mac Airt)

A fían-warrior, son of Finn, in the Finn Cycle of medieval Irish literature

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Four quatrains ascribed to Oisín in his old age.

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.

Rodíchned Find, ba fer tend

verse

1 st.

beg. Rodíchned Find, ba fer tend

A single quatrain alluding to a story about the death of Finn mac Cumaill.

Dinnshenchas Érenn A

Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in Uí Failge

verse

3 st.

beg. Nímutanic ó thír thend

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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Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in Uí Failge (Róiriu i nUíb Failge).

Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in Uí Muiredaig

verse

prose

beg. Fail folach ós grían cen gái

Dinnshenchas of Róiriu in in Uí Muiredaig (Róiriu i nUíb Muiredaig)

Romance of Mis and Dubh Ruis

prose

Modern Irish prose tale in which Mis, following the death of her father Dáire, becomes a deranged woman in the wilderness of Slíab Mis and is gradually restored to sanity and to the civilised world through encounters with Dub Ruis (mod. Dubh Rois), harpist to the king of Munster (Feidlimid mac Crimthainn). Dub Ruis employs music, cooked food, a bath and ultimately, sex, to bring about her healing and goes on to marry her. In the two known manuscript copies of the text, the tale serves to introduce an elegiac poem for a patron named Dubh Rois.

Romul ocus Remul

prose

Story of the birth of Romulus and Remus.

Táin bó Cúailnge I, Táin bó Cúailnge II

Rúadrucca Mind

form undefined

Sáerchlanna Érenn uile

verse

12 st.

A syllabic poem incorporated in the two Middle Irish recensions of the saga concerning the revolt of the aithech-thúatha, Bruiden Meic Da Réo and Scél ar Chairbre Cinn Cait. It consists of twelve stanzas.

Saltair na Muice

form undefined

Legend of Cáenchomrach, bishop of Clonmacnoise, and his dealings with an underwater monastery located in Lough Ree after two of its monks were expelled in the shape of swine and were (accidentally) killed in a hunting trip by two clerics, Éogan and Écertach.

Sanas Cormaic

Sanas Cormaic/Gaire

form undefined

A brief story about Néde and Caier under the entry for ‘Gaire’ in Sanas Cormaic.

Sanas Cormaic

Sanas Cormaic/Lethech

form undefined

A narrative included in the entry for Lethech in Sanas Cormaic.

Sanas Cormaic

Sanas Cormaic/Mug Éme

prose

beg. Mug Éme

A narrative included in the entry for Mug Éme in Sanas Cormaic

Independent, Sanas Cormaic

Sanas Cormaic/Prull

prose

Sanas Cormaic

Sanas Cormaic/Rincne

prose

beg. Rin(g)cne quasi quinque

Entry for ‘rincne’ in Sanas Cormaic, with an anecdote about Ferchess, Mac Con and Finn úa Báiscni.

Scél ar Chairbre Cinn Cait

prose

The second of two Middle Irish recensions, the other being Bruiden Meic Da Réo, which recount how in early Ireland, the vassal peoples (aithech-thúatha) rebelled and decimated the leading noble families. This is Thurneysen's ‘Recension I’, except for the modernised text in the Edinburgh MS, which he describes as ‘Recension III’.

Scél ar mnái tsagairt ar fagail báis dí

prose

Irish anecdote about the burial of a priest's wife.

Scél asa mberar co mbad hé Find mac Cumaill Mongán ocus aní dia fíl aided Fothaid Airgdig

prose

Scél for mírbuil Póil

prose

Short medieval Irish legend on the passion of St Paul, with an account of his decapitation and miraculous recapitation (recovery of his head). It is similar to the version told in the Irish homily Páis Petair ocus Póil

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