Texts
Trí hollamain Chondacht
Incoming data
Short Irish prose tale about three poets of Connacht, Mac Liac, Mac Coise and Flann mac Lonáin. The text occurs in the Yellow Book of Lecan by way of a preface to the verse Dinnshenchas of Slíab nEchtga II attr. to Flann and follows another prose introduction about and poem attributed to Flann (Bó bithblicht meic Lonán).
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 (cols 573-958)
Prose story about three Connacht poets, Mac Líacc (chief poet of Brian Boru), Mac Coise and Flann mac Lonáin, which serves to introduce the poem on Slíab Echtge.
p. 195 = col. 916.1–
Sources
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[ed.] [tr.] Gwynn, E. J., The metrical dindsenchas, 5 vols, vol. 3, Todd Lecture Series, 10, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1913.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 3: <link> Internet Archive – vols. 1-3: <link> : View in Mirador
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