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Two Early Irish quatrains found in the Book of Leinster, which are concerned with prehistoric female slaves in Ireland: the first on Mugdorn (Mugdorn ingen Moga Duib / de chuiciud Ulad ardmuir / cétben ra meil bróin mbind. / ria mnáib) and the second on Nabal (Nabal in ben fiad cach slóg / ba cumal la Partholon / Nabal tuc na seotu ille. / Nabal tuc na hindile.).

Names of the plains beneath the lakes of Ireland

list

List of names for plains that are said to exist beneath the lakes of Ireland.

Neidhi mac Onchon

form undefined

Nin mac Bel roga na ríg

verse

21 st.

beg. Nin mac Bel, roga na ríg

Late Middle Irish poem on Assyrian kings and synchronic history in Ireland.

Nuadu Necht ní dámair anflaith

verse

52 st.

beg. Nuadu Necht ní dámair anflaith

Find Fili mac Rossa Rúaid

Find Fili mac Rossa Rúaid

legendary poet and king of Leinster; son of Russ Rúad

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One of the rhyming ‘Leinster poems’.

Prima etas mundi (Irish tract)

prose

An Irish prose tract on the first five ‘ages of the world’ and synchronisms of Irish prehistory with Assyrian, Greek and Roman history.

Prose Banshenchas

prose

Prose version of the Banshenchas

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

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.

Scél Tuáin meic Cairill do Finnen Maige Bile

form undefined

Scéla Alaxandair maic Pilip

prose

Middle Irish saga on the career and conquests of Alexander the Great, based on an account in Orosius’ Historiae adversus paganos, Alexander’s letter to Aristotle about India and the correspondences known as the Collatio cum Dindimo.

Sex aetates mundi

form undefined

Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

Dinnshenchas of Slíab Betha

prose

verse

6 st.

beg. Atchíu lecht deóraid do chéin

Dinnshenchas of Slíab Betha

Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Slíab nGam

prose

verse

4 st.

beg. Gam, gilla Eireamanon oirrdric

Dinnshenchas of Slíab nGam

Suidiugud tellaig Temra

prose

Temaile fáid Miled Espáin

prose

A prose passage in the Book of Leinster about a certain Temaile or Témaile, a prophet (fáid) of Míl Espáine whose name is associated with Druim Témaile (place unidentified). Because the outer edge of the manuscript page is worn, the text is now only partly legible.

Dinnshenchas Érenn C

Dinnshenchas of Temair I

verse

11 st.

beg. Temair Breg, cid ní diatá

Fintan mac Bóchra

Fintan mac Bóchra

(time-frame ass. with universal history)

A figure of medieval Irish tradition who survives the Flood and lives to give eye-witness accounts of the history of Ireland

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Poem on the former names and legendary associations of the Hill of Tara. Versions are extant in recensions of LGÉ as well as the Dinnshenchas Érenn.

Tochomlad mac Miledh a hEspain i nErind

prose

Togail Tuir Chonaind (TCD 1316 version)

prose

verse

An independent version of the story of the children of Nemed and the attack on the tower of Conaing.

Independent, Lebor gabála Érenn, Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension C)

Tuán mac Cairill ro clos

verse

beg. Tuán mac Cairill ro clos

Turas na dTaoiseach nUltach as Éirinn

prose