Texts
Dinnshenchas of Carraic Lethdeirg
Incoming data
Tract on the dinnshenchas of Carraic Lethdeirg. The place has not been identified, apparently a “stronghold on some lake or seashore” (Gwynn). Roland M. Smith suggests that the name may refer to “Carrick on the shore of Lough Ennell” (Carrick on the Shannon).
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598/ff. 90-125
incipit: [C]arrac Leithdeirg canas ro-ainmnigedh Prose (Stokes no. 92: Carraic Lethdeirg)
f. 117rb–
MS
Rennes, Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole, MS 598/ff. 90-125
incipit: Lethderg taidbritis ar tuir Verse
f. 117rb–
Sources
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[ed.] [tr.] Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 4, Todd Lecture Series, 11, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1924.
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120–123 [id. 25. ‘Carraic Lethderg’] Poem. direct link direct link direct link
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, “The prose tales in the Rennes dindshenchas”, Revue Celtique 16 (1895): 31–83, 135–167, 269–312, 468.
Secondary sources (select)
Smith, Roland M., “Guinganbresil and the Green Knight”, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 45 (1946): 1–25.
22 On Carrick on the Shannon as a possible location.
Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 4, Todd Lecture Series, 11, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1924.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 4: <link> : View in Mirador
406 [id. 25. ‘Carraic Lethderg’] direct link
