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A chléirigh chanas na sailm

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Fenian lay concerning Mághnus Mór, a king of Lochlann who invades Ireland and fights the fíanna but is himself defeated in battle.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Cambridge, University Library, MS Additional 3085/b

ff. 36v.i–37r

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Cambridge, University Library, MS Additional 6563

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Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 428

Modern transcript by Seosamh Laoide (J. H. Lloyd).

pp. 217–?227

Text

Dublin, School of Celtic Studies Library, Ó Fearaoill manuscript

pp. 96b–100a

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Dublin, University College Library, MS Morris 20

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Ó Siochfhradha, Pádraig [An Seabhac], Laoithe na Féinne, Dublin: An Chumainn le Béaloideas Éireann, 1941.

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155–160

[ed.] Lloyd, Joseph Henry, Fian-laoithe: .i. tiomargadh laoitheadh bhFiannaigheachta as dá thír mhóra an tréfhórd .i. a hÉirinn is a hAlbain, Dublin: Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1916.

Internet Archive: <link>

70–78 (text); 91–92 (some notes); 114 (note on Mághnus)

[ed.] Campbell, J. F. [ed.], Leabhar na Féinne: heroic Gaelic ballads collected in Scotland chiefly from 1512 to 1871, vol. 1, London, 1872.

Internet Archive: <link>, <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>, <link>

74–76 [‘H.12. How Manus, king of Denmark, came to take away Fingal’s wife by force’] 43 qq. “Kennedy's 1st Collection, page 11. Advocates' Library, November 28, 1871. Copied by Malcolm Macphail. Dublin, December 9, 1871. — Known to everybody in Ireland, but no copy older than the 18th century known to Hennessy.”

[ed.] [tr.] Brooke, Charlotte [ed. and tr.], Reliques of Irish poetry: consisting of heroic poems, odes, elegies, and songs, 2nd ed., Dublin, 1816.

Text and translation of various Irish tales, originally published Dublin: Bonham, 1789; republished in 1816, with a memoir of Miss Brooke by Aaron Crossly Seymour and with the 'originals' given at pp. 393-464.

comments: See Ní Mhunghaile, Lesa, “The intersection between oral tradition, manuscript, and print cultures in Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques of Irish poetry (1789)”, in Oral and printed cultures in Ireland, 1600–1900 (2010) for a discussion of Brooks' treatment of written and oral sources.

Internet Archive – 1816 reprint: <link> Internet Archive – 1816 reprint (ends imperfectly): <link> Internet Archive – 1789 edition: <link>, <link>, <link>

271–277 (text); 35–65 (translation)

Tobar an dualchais = Kist o riches, Online: University of Edinburgh, ?–present. URL: <http://tobarandualchais.com>.

abstract:

Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches is a collaborative project which has been set up to preserve, digitise, catalogue and make available online several thousand hours of Gaelic and Scots recordings. This website contains a wealth of material such as folklore, songs, music, history, poetry, traditions, stories and other information. The material has been collected from all over Scotland and beyond from the 1930s onwards.

The recordings come from the School of Scottish Studies (University of Edinburgh), BBC Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland's Canna Collection.

Please note that not all material from the School of Scottish Studies Archives is available on the website.

Examples from these collections include

Stories recorded by John Lorne Campbell on wax cylinders in 1937
Folklore collected all over Scotland by Calum Maclean in the 19
50s Scots songs recorded by Hamish Henderson from travelling people in the 1960s
Conversations recorded on Radio nan Gàidheal

Please note that the sound quality is variable on of some of the recordings due to the sound recording equipment available at the time. The project will ensure that Scotland's rich oral heritage is safeguarded and made widely available for educational and personal use for future generations.

[‘LAOIDH MHÀNUIS’] Audio recording of two quatrains in song. direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Christiansen, Reidar Thorolf, The vikings and the viking wars in Irish and Gaelic tradition, Skrifter utgitt av det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo II, Hist.-filos. klasse, 1, Christiania: Jacob Dybwad, 1931.

Contents: The Fionn cycle -- The Ossianic ballads. -- The earlier stories about the vikings --The ballads of the viking wars. Translations and commentaries. -- Ballad texts and notes. -- Summary.

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