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Misc. magic and divination prognostications
Dia ngaire dam dum láim chlí
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8 st.
beg. Dia ngaire dam dum láim chlí
Dreanacht
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Passage on prognostications from a wren
Irish version of the Somniale Danielis
prose

Irish prose tract on omens and visions of the night, deriving from a version of the Somniale Danielis, a popular medieval Latin handbook for interpreting dreams.

Tonfeid a Chríst conic muir
verse
9 st.
beg. Tonfeid, a Chríst, conic muir

Early Irish poem on the eight winds blowing on the kalends of January.

Torann Domhnaigh créd fatá
verse
8 st.
beg. Torann Domhnaigh créd fatá
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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Colum Cille
Colum Cille
(fl. 6th century)
founder and abbot of Iona, Kells (Cenandas) and Derry (Daire).

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Medieval Irish poem variously attributed to Fintan or Colum Cille, containing prognostications from thunder. The first part deals with thunder as it may occur on different days of the week, while the second one deals with the phenomenon at different times of the day.