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The colloquy between Fintan and the hawk of Achill

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Poem presenting a conversation between Fintan mac Bóchra, the sole survivor of the Flood, and an ancient hawk (seboc) of the island of Achill.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29/pp. 17-216 

f. 99b = p. 158

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29/pp. 17-216 

Imperfect

f. 99v  p. 158  

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 12 

p. 144  

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1286/pt 2 

incipit: Arsaidh sin a eouin Accla   

p. 54

MS

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 

f. 47a1–f. 49b1

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 

ff. 47ra–49va  

Sources

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[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “The colloquy between Fintan and the hawk of Achill”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 1, Halle and Dublin, 1907. 24–39.

CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

[tr.] Hull, Eleanor, “The hawk of Achill or the legend of the oldest animals”, Folk-Lore 43:4 (1932): 376–409.

Discussion, with an English translation of part of the text (with assistance from Maud Joynt).

Translation wanted

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