No edit summary
Line 4: Line 4:
|Ascribed to=The LL copy of the first recension of the poem ascribes the work to [[ascribed to::authored by::Máel Muru Othna]] (d. 887), who may well be the author of the poem.
|Ascribed to=The LL copy of the first recension of the poem ascribes the work to [[ascribed to::authored by::Máel Muru Othna]] (d. 887), who may well be the author of the poem.
|Manuscripts=First recension (Máel Muru Othna):
|Manuscripts=First recension (Máel Muru Othna):
* {{MS |Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339|page=163b}}
* {{MS |Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339|folio=163b}}
* {{MS |Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1  }}
* {{MS |Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1  }}
Second, later recension:
Second, later recension:

Revision as of 21:55, 2 June 2011

Texts

This page has not as yet been published.

It is work in progress, but we hope to get it published in the foreseeable future.

Details


Page name:
Dinnshenchas of Áth Líac Find I
Namespace
Main
Current visibility
Page class
texts

Summary

The place-name Áth Liac Find ('The ford of Finn's stone') is explained with reference to a story about the fian-leader Finn, who is here called 'Finn mac Umaill'. The stone is said to have been used by Finn to crush his enemies in a certain battle and to have been entrusted to him for this purpose by the síd-woman Sinand, daughter of Mongán.

Characters

  • Finn mac Umaill
  • Sinand ingen Mongáin
  • Gúaire Goll (Blind Gúaire), identified by Meyer as another name for Oisín.[1]
  • etc.

Sources