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Irish story of Silvius
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A short Irish account of Silvius, son of Ascanius and father of Brutus of Troy. The text is indebted to the Irish adaptation of the Historia Brittonum known as Lebor Bretnach, which it quotes in places, but also adds material to it, such its opening passage on Vulcan the smith.
AeneasBrutus legendSilviusAscaniusLavinia
Scél in dá lenab
prose
A short medieval Irish story, being an adaptation of the legend known the ‘Jew of Bourges’, which is itself a localised version of the ‘legend of the two infants’. Two children, one Christian and the other Jewish, are visiting a Christian temple together, in the course of which the Jewish boy learns about Jesus, the Crucifixion and the Virgin Mary, and partakes of consecrated bread. When the latter comes home, he is castigated for this by his father, who throws his son into a burning furnace. A miracle is witnessed the following day, when the child proves to be alive and well again, having received Mary’s protection, and declares himself to be a fosterson of hers. The boy’s parents convert to Christianity. Like many of the French versions of this narrative, the Irish story is set in France.
Irish languagetranslations and adaptationsminor Irish prose talesconversion of Jews to ChristianityMary ... mother of Jesusmiracles performed after a saint’s lifetime
Sloiged már rucsat Gréic co Hebríb fechtas n-aile
prose
Short Middle Irish prose text preserved in the Book of Leinster.
Middle Irish
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