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Cnucha Cnoc os cionn Life

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Irish poem which has come down as a shorter version (6 st.) in Dinnshenchas Érenn dealing with the origin of the place-name Cnucha. A considerably longer one (64 st.) is attributed to Caílte in Agallamh bheag. Here the first 7 stanzas contain much overlap with the shorter version but then continues at some length with the kings of Ireland, with Finn and with Caílte’s present.

Manuscript witnesses

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Cork, University College, Book of Lismore 

context: Acallam bec   Prose story and poem (64 st).

f. 199ra-199vb  

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 6 

context: Acallam bec   Copy from the Book of Lismore.

ff. 199ar–v  

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 39 

Poem, without prose context, attributed to Caílte.

p. 185  

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 

context: Dinnshenchas of Cnucha II   6 st.

f. 525a  

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1 

context: Dinnshenchas of Cnucha II   6 st.

f. 81v  

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Power, Maura [ed. and tr.], “Cnucha Cnoc os cionn Life”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 11 (1917): 39–55.

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