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The Milesian invasion of Ireland
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Text
Cín Dromma Snechtai
That is, if the attribution in LL is accurate. See below.
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2
incipit: Luid longos do chenel Iafed mac Noí a tirib Grec Fuller version.
f. 181va (lines 8-41) p. 366a (lines 8-41)
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
rubric: A Cín Dromma Snecta so sis incipit: Asberat senchaide boí longes ingen [...] Ebríb Excerpt on the Hebrew women who are blown to Ireland by a storm. It names the Cín Dromma Snechtai as the source of the text.
p. 190c.27-36
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
rubric: A Cín Dromma Snecta so sis incipit: Asberat senchaide boí longes ingen [...] Ebríb A passage extracted from the Cín Dromma Snechtai on the Hebrew women who had been driven to Ireland before the arrival of the Milesians.
p. 190c.27–
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.
[ed.] [tr.] Hull, Vernam, “The Milesian invasion of Ireland”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 19 (1933): 155–160.
Text and translation.
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 4, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1965. xxvii + pp. 761-1117.
CELT – pp. 761-781 and 785-841: <link>
840 Passage in LL.
[tr.] OʼCurry, Eugene, “Lecture I. Introduction/ Of the lost books, etc.”, in: Eugene OʼCurry, Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history, delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland during the sessions of 1855 and 1856, Dublin, 1861. 1–25.
Secondary sources (select)
Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part II: the growth of the tradition”, Ériu 39 (1988): 1–66.
comments: This article continues Scowcroft, R. Mark, “Leabhar Gabhála. Part I”, Ériu 38 (1987).
10–11
Carey, John, “On the interrelationships of some Cín Dromma Snechtai texts”, Ériu 46 (1995): 71–92.
Celtic Digital Initiative: <link>
92 A note on the attempt of the Gaels to land in Dál Riata. Carey regards this detail as another possible clue to the northern provenance of the Cín Dromma Snechtai and the texts contained therein.
