Texts
Irish story of Silvius
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A short Irish account of Silvius, son of Ascanius and father of Brutus of Troy. The text is indebted to the Irish adaptation of the Historia Brittonum known as Lebor Bretnach, which it quotes in places, but also adds material to it, such its opening passage on Vulcan the smith.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/6 (cols 281-344)
incipit: Ainiccis mac Caipein meic Essairg dorinne mac re Ueinir On the arrival of Silvius, grandson of Ascanius, in Britain. Cf. Lebor Bretnach.
p. 330b.1 = col. 344.1
Sources
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Secondary sources (select)
Poppe, Erich, A new introduction to Imtheachta Æniasa: The Irish Æneid: the classical epic from an Irish perspective, Irish Texts Society, Subsidiary Series, 3, London: Irish Texts Society, 1995.
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