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Abhac do fuair Fionn feardha

verse

27 st.;26 st.

beg. Abhac do fuair Fionn feardha

Expanded, modernised version of a poem concerning Fionn‘s harper Cnú Dereóil, which is found originally in Acallam na sénorach, where it begins Abhuc do fuair Finn ferdha (Stokes ll. 630–683).

Betha Decclain

prose

Vernacular Irish translation of the Latin Life of St Declán of Ardmore (Vita sancti Declani).

Betha Féchín Fabair

prose

Nicól ÓgNicól Óg

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Irish Life of St Féchín of Fore. According to a note in the manuscript (NLI MS G 5), it is based on a Latin work and was translated into Irish by Nicól Óg, abbot of Cong.

Bethadh Bibuis o Hamtuir

prose

Mac an Leagha (Uilliam)

Mac an Leagha (Uilliam)

(fl. 15th century)

Irish author, translator and scribe

Medieval Irish adaptation of the story of Bevis of Hampton, based on a Middle English version of the legend.

Bethadh Sir Gui o Bharbhuic

prose

In cath catharda

prose

Medieval Irish adaptation of the first seven books of the classical Latin poem Pharsalia by Lucan. It rates as one of the longest literary prose texts to survive from medieval Ireland.

De locis sanctis (Bede in Irish paraphrase)

prose

Middle Irish, abridged version of Bede’s De locis sanctis

Eachtra Sheóin Mandavil

prose

Ó Mathghamhna (Fínghin)Ó Mathghamhna (Fínghin)

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An Irish translation / adaptation, probably of The buke of John Maundeville, which is itself a Middle English version of the Anglo-Norman text on the travels of Sir John Mandeville.

Eachtra Uilliam

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Fiarfaidhi San Anselmuis

prose

Ua Conchubhair (Seán) [translator]

Ua Conchubhair (Seán) ... translator

(d. 1391?)

Seán Ua/Ó Conchubhair, Irish scholar, or possibly scholars of the same name, credited with the translation into Irish of the Dialogus de passione Christi attributed to St Anselm and the Liber de passione Christi attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. AFM s.a. 1391 records the killing of one Seaan mac Mathgamhna Uí Choncobhair. Their names may but need not refer to the same person.

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Irish version of the Dialogus de passione Christi... (wrongly) attributed to St Anselm, who is presented as conversing with the Virgin Mary on the passion of Christ. The translation and adaptation are believed to have been undertaken by Seán O Conchubhair.

Gabháltus Séarluis Mhóir

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Imtheachta Æniasa

prose

Irish vernacular adaptation of Vergil’s Aeneid, produced perhaps in the 12th century.

Irish abridgment of the Expugnatio Hibernica

prose

Early Modern Irish adaptation of part of Gerald of Wales’ Expugnatio Hibernica, I.1-II.19. According to Aisling Byrne (2013), it is “a translation of the Hiberno-English text and not, as has been previously assumed, an independent adaptation of the Latin original”.

Irish Life of Catherine of Alexandria

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Ó Gilláin (Enóg)Ó Gilláin (Enóg)

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Irish Life of St Catherine of Alexandria.

Irish Life of Mo Chóemóc of Leigh

prose

Irish translation of the Latin vita of St Mo Chóemóc, abbot of Liath Mo Chóemóc (Leamakevoge or Leigh, Co. Tipperary).

Irish version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica (Books I-II)

prose

Middle Irish version of the first two books of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

Leabhar Ser Marco Polo

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Lebor Bretnach

prose

Middle Irish adaptation of the Historia Brittonum ascribed to Nennius

Lorgaireacht an tSoidigh Naomhtha

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Páis Cristoforus

prose

Medieval Irish passion of Saint Christopher, dog-headed saint, evangelist and martyr.

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.

Romul ocus Remul

prose

Story of the birth of Romulus and Remus.

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.

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.

Sdair na Lumbardach

prose

A 15th-century Irish translation, probably of chapter 19 (‘De sancto Pelagio papa’) from Jacobus de Voragine’s hagiographic compilation Legenda aurea (1260 x 1270).

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