Texts
Dinnshenchas of Achall
Incoming data
Dinnshenchas poem mostly on Achall, i.e. the Hill of Skreen, Co. Meath, with prose on Duma nEirc and Duma nAichle. Both the poem and the prose text offer the story according to which Achall died of grief for her brother Erc, who was killed in vengeance for Cú Chulainn’s death, and was buried in the mound that would bear her name.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1
rubric: Dumha nEirc canas rohainmigheadh. Ni ansae incipit: Eearc mac Cairbri meic Eirc meic Cairbre Niafer Prose only (no poem).
85(144)va.24-va.
MS
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598/ff. 90-125
incipit: Dumhae nEirc canus rohainmnighedh Prose dinnshenchas of Dumae nEirc and Duma Aichle (Stokes no. 2: Dumae n-Eirc)
f. 92rb–
MS
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598/ff. 90-125
Verse dinnshenchas of Achall
f. 92rb–
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.
Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 1, Todd Lecture Series, 8, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1903.
For corrigenda and addenda, see Vol. 5 (1935): 125-126; and Meyer, Kuno, “Erschienene Schriften”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908).
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link> : View in Mirador
46–53 [id. 6. ‘Achall’] direct link direct link direct link
Stokes, Whitley, “The prose tales in the Rennes dindshenchas”, Revue Celtique 15 (1894): 272–336, 418–484.
An edition and translation of the prose texts in the Dinnshenchas Érenn as they occur in Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598. Missing texts are supplied from the Book of Lecan version.
TLH – edition (I, pp. 277-336): <link> TLH – translation (I): <link> TLH – edition (II, pp. 418-484): <link> TLH – translation (II): <link> Celtic Digital Initiative: <link> Internet Archive – 272–336: <link> Internet Archive – 272–336: <link> Internet Archive – 418–484: <link> Internet Archive – 418–484: <link>
289–290 [id. 2. ‘Dumae n-Eirc’] direct link
Secondary sources (select)
Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 1, Todd Lecture Series, 8, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1903.
For corrigenda and addenda, see Vol. 5 (1935): 125-126; and Meyer, Kuno, “Erschienene Schriften”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908).
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link> : View in Mirador
80–82 [id. 6. ‘Achall’] direct link
