Texts
Dinnshenchas of Almu I
Incoming data
Dinnshenchas poem on Almu (the Hill of Allen, Co. Kildare), which recounts the tale of the conception of Finn mac Cumaill.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25
context: Fotha catha Cnucha Four stanzas quoted
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
incipit: Almu Lagen les na Fían Poem on Almu (Almu I in Gwynn's edition)
p. 202a
Sources
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[ed.] [tr.] Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 2, Todd Lecture Series, 9, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1906.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link> : View in Mirador
72–77 [id. 16. ‘Almu I’] direct link direct link direct link
Secondary sources (select)
Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 2, Todd Lecture Series, 9, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1906.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link> : View in Mirador
106–107 [id. 16. ‘Almu I’] direct link