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Dinnshenchas Érenn C supplement

Dinnshenchas of Úaig Búana

prose

Text on the dinnshenchas of Úaig Búana

Úath Beinne Étair

prose

Short Fenian prose tale, with poem. It recounts how Diarmait, who is persecuted by Finn for having carried off Gráinne, daughter of Cormac mac Airt, the King of Ireland, takes refuge in a cave in the Hill of Howth and is betrayed by an old woman.

Duanaire Finn

Uathadh damh sa coirtheso

verse

130 st.

beg. Uathadh damh sa coirtheso

Duanaire Finn

Uchán asgíeth mo ríogh réil

verse

63 st.

beg. Uchán asgíeth mo ríogh réil

Bretha nemed dédenach

Udhacht Athairne

form undefined

An anecdote related in Bretha nemed dédenach, in which Athirne prophesies the birth of Christ and gives instructions to his pupils.

Dinnshenchas Érenn C supplement

Dinnshenchas of Umall

prose

verse

1 st.

beg. Umall gilla Fíntain fhél

Text on the dinnshenchas of Umall

Táin bó Cúailnge I, Táin bó Cúailnge II

Ús in Duib Chúalngni for táin

prose

The final episode of the Táin (I, II) and an epilogue to the story of the fight of the two bulls. In the texts, Donn Cúailnge, severely wounded after its triumph over Finnbennach, returns home, scattering body parts of its opponent on the road and giving rise to new placenames. It dies at the end of its journey, either in Druim Tairb (TBC I) or near Taul Tairb (TBC II). Both recensions make use of dinnshenchas in describing the bull’s itinerary, but differ in the placenames they refer to.

Independent, Tochmarc Emire

Verba Scáthaige

verse

beg. A mbé eirr óengaile

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

Vita Darercae

form undefined

Vita Mariani Scotti

prose

A Latin biography of Marianus Scottus, written by an anonymous Irish monk at the Benedictine abbey of St James in Regensburg, about a century after his death. It offfers a glimpse of the history of the Schottenklöster in southern Germany and Austria, particularly those in Regensburg and the daughter houses in Vienna, Würzburg and Eichstätt.

Vita metrica sanctae Brigidae

verse

beg. Christe Dei uirtus, splendor, sapienta Patris

Donatus Scottus of Fiesole

Donatus Scottus of Fiesole

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A metrical Latin Life of St Brigit thought to have been composed by the Irishman Donatus, bishop of Fiesole between 829–877. BHL 1458-1459.

Vita prima sanctae Brigitae

prose

Latin Life of St Brigit. BHL 1455-1456.

Vita quarta sanctae Brigitae

prose

Animosus [al. Anmchad]Animosus ... al. Anmchad

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A recension of a Latin life of St Brigit of Kildare which survives only in two Franciscan editions of the 17th century. The editors are John Colgan, who attributed the work to one Animosus (whose name he thought to be a Latin counterpart to the Irish name Anmchad), and Hugh Ward, who attributed it to Ultán of Ardbraccan. Richard Sharpe has argued that it was part of the so-called Dublin collection of Irish saints’ lives. BHL 1460.

Vita sanctae Brigitae (Cogitosus)

prose

CogitosusCogitosus

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CogitosusCogitosus

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Early Latin Life of St Brigit, possibly the earliest of its kind to survive. BHL 1457.

Vita sanctae Brigitae (lost)

prose

It is thought that a lost 7th-century Latin Life of St Brigit underlies both the vernacular Bethu Brigte (9th century) and the Vita prima sanctae Brigitae (of uncertain date).

Vita sanctae Moninnae

prose

ConchubranusConchubranus

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Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae

Vita sancti Abbani

prose

Latin Life of St Abbán of Mag Arnaide (Moyarney, now Adamstown in Co. Wexford)

Vita sancti Aedi filii Bricc

form undefined

Latin Life of Áed mac Bricc, patron saint of Rahugh, in three recensions

Vita sancti Albarti archiepiscopi Casellensis

prose

BHL 218.

Vita sancti Albei

prose

Latin life of St Ailbe of Emly.

Vita sancti Boecii

prose

Latin Life of St Buite (Buithe, Latin Boecius) of Monasterboice. It is a composite work, consisting of two parts: §§ 1-18, ending with the death of the saint, and §§ 19-31, on the saint’s miracles.

Vita sancti Brendani

prose

Latin Life of St Brénainn, abbot of Clonfert, of which there are five main recensions.

Vita sancti Cainnechi

prose

Latin Life of St Cainnech of Aghaboe (BHL 1519), which is known in three recensions.

Vita sancti Ciarani Cluanensis

prose

Vita sancti Columbae (Adomnán)

form undefined

Adomnán

Adomnán

(fl. c.628–704)

Adomnán mac Rónáin was abbot of Iona (r. 679–704) and author of the Latin Life of St Columba and an account of the holy places of the Near East (De locis sanctis). He is credited with the proclamation of the Lex innocentium or Cáin Adomnáin at the Synod of Birr.

Latin Life of St Columba (Ir. Colum Cille), Irish missionary, monk and founder of Iona, written by Adomnán, abbot of Iona, about a century after the saint’s death. The work is organised into three books: one on the saint’s prophetic revelations, another on the miracles performed by him and the final one on angelic apparitions. Despite its hagiographic content, it remains an important source of historical study.

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