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Irish story of gigantic women cast ashore

prose

Two anecdotal stories about giantesses being cast ashore.

Irish language

Irish story of Silvius

prose

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.

AeneasBrutus legendSilviusAscaniusLavinia

Irish story of the death of Absalom

prose

Irish languageDavidAbsalom

Irish story of the nine answers of Christ

prose

A short Irish devotional story about a poor man of God who through prayer, made Christ reveal to him the nine things that are most pleasing to God. It provides a version of the so-called ‘nine answers’ or ‘nine virtues of Christ’, which circulated more widely in Europe, in both Latin and the vernacular, during the 14th and 15th centuries. It differs from another Irish version in which it is Albert of Germany who receives the responses. The present text comes with the statement that the miraculous incident took place in 1315 (mile bliadhna ⁊ tri cet ⁊ .u. bliadhna deg).

Early Modern Irishmiracles performed after a saint’s lifetime

Irish tract on the origins of alphabets

prose

A Middle Irish tract on the invention or discovery of the Hebrew, Greek and Latin alphabets.

Middle Irish

Irish treatise on the twelve apostles (genealogy, appearance, death)

prose

An Irish treatise on the Twelve Apostles, their genealogies, their personal appearances (chiefly hair and beards), their deaths and their burial places.

Middle IrishTwelve Apostles

Irish version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica (Books I-II)

prose

Middle Irish version of the first two books of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

Middle Irish

Is aoibhinn Sliabh Cua rod clos

verse

beg. Is aoibhinn Sliabh Cua rod clos

A ballad on the death of Garaid’s son Aod. The story of Aod's quarrel with Muc Smaile for killing his uncle Goll mac Morna, which is known from the Acallam na senórach (ed. Stokes, ending on line 2009), is continued here. E. J. Gwynn⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} E. J. Gwynn • J. H. Lloyd, ‘The burning of Finn’s house’, Ériu 1 (1904): 13. summarises the tale as follows:

“Muc Smaile had killed Aod's uncle Goll mac Morna, and had refused to give an eric that Aod considered sufficient. Aod seeks him out at Sliabh Cua, and kills him in single combat: whereupon he is surrounded, with a handful of the Clann Morna, by six hundred of Muc Smaile's men, all of whom are slain in the fight that follows, except their leader Fionn mac Cubhain. But Aod has been twice wounded; 'clouds of weakness' fall on him; the sea comes in, he is unable to stir, and is drowned by the rising tide”.

Irish language

Duanaire Finn, Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne

Is cuimhin liom an imirt

verse

27 st.;21 st.

beg. Is cuimhin liom an imirt

Early Modern Irish

Dinnshenchas of Snám Dá Én

Is de sin atá Áth Lúain

verse

1 st.

beg. Is de sin atá Áth Lúain