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Dinnshenchas Érenn C supplement

Dinnshenchas of Umall

prose

verse

1 st.

beg. Umall gilla Fíntain fhél

Text on the dinnshenchas of Umall

Middle Irishdinnshenchasfirst battle of Mag TuiredFintan mac BóchraManannán mac LirUmall ... Owles, Co. MayoUmall ... servant of Fintan mac Bóchra

Táin bó Cúailnge I, Táin bó Cúailnge II

Ús in Duib Chúalngni for táin

prose

The final episode of the Táin (I, II) and an epilogue to the story of the fight of the two bulls. In the texts, Donn Cúailnge, severely wounded after its triumph over Finnbennach, returns home, scattering body parts of its opponent on the road and giving rise to new placenames. It dies at the end of its journey, either in Druim Tairb (TBC I) or near Taul Tairb (TBC II). Both recensions make use of dinnshenchas in describing the bull’s itinerary, but differ in the placenames they refer to.

Early IrishFinnbennach (Aí)Donn CúailngeCúailnge ... Cooley, Co. Louth

Independent, Tochmarc Emire

Verba Scáthaige

verse

beg. A mbé eirr óengaile

Poem in the form of a prophecy delivered by Scáthach to Cú Chulainn.

Old IrishMedb of CrúachanAilill mac MátaFinnbennach (Aí)Cú ChulainnDonn CúailngeScáthach

Vita Darercae

form undefined

Latin languageMo Ninne of Killevy

Vita Mariani Scotti

prose

A Latin biography of Marianus Scottus, written by an anonymous Irish monk at the Benedictine abbey of St James in Regensburg, about a century after his death. It offfers a glimpse of the history of the Schottenklöster in southern Germany and Austria, particularly those in Regensburg and the daughter houses in Vienna, Würzburg and Eichstätt.

Latin languageMarianus Scottus of Regensburg

Vita metrica sanctae Brigidae

verse

beg. Christe Dei uirtus, splendor, sapienta Patris

Donatus Scottus of Fiesole

Donatus Scottus of Fiesole

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A metrical Latin Life of St Brigit thought to have been composed by the Irishman Donatus, bishop of Fiesole between 829–877. BHL 1458-1459.

Latin languageBrigit of Kildare

Vita prima sanctae Brigitae

prose

Latin Life of St Brigit. BHL 1455-1456.

Hiberno-LatinBrigit of Kildare

Vita quarta sanctae Brigitae

prose

Animosus [al. Anmchad]Animosus ... al. Anmchad

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A recension of a Latin life of St Brigit of Kildare which survives only in two Franciscan editions of the 17th century. The editors are John Colgan, who attributed the work to one Animosus (whose name he thought to be a Latin counterpart to the Irish name Anmchad), and Hugh Ward, who attributed it to Ultán of Ardbraccan. Richard Sharpe has argued that it was part of the so-called Dublin collection of Irish saints’ lives. BHL 1460.

Latin languageBrigit of Kildare

Vita sanctae Brigitae (Cogitosus)

prose

CogitosusCogitosus

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CogitosusCogitosus

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Early Latin Life of St Brigit, possibly the earliest of its kind to survive. BHL 1457.

Hiberno-LatinBrigit of Kildare

Vita sanctae Brigitae (lost)

prose

It is thought that a lost 7th-century Latin Life of St Brigit underlies both the vernacular Bethu Brigte (9th century) and the Vita prima sanctae Brigitae (of uncertain date).

Hiberno-LatinBrigit of Kildare

Vita sanctae Moninnae

prose

ConchubranusConchubranus

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Latin languageMoninne ... version by Conchubranus

Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae

Vita sancti Abbani

prose

Latin Life of St Abbán of Mag Arnaide (Moyarney, now Adamstown in Co. Wexford)

Hiberno-LatinLatin languageAbbán of Moyarney (Adamstown)

Vita sancti Aedi filii Bricc

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Latin Life of Áed mac Bricc, patron saint of Rahugh, in three recensions

Latin languageÁed of Rahugh

Vita sancti Albarti archiepiscopi Casellensis

prose

BHL 218.

Latin languageAlbert of Cashel

Vita sancti Albei

prose

Latin life of St Ailbe of Emly.

Latin languageAilbe of Emly

Vita sancti Boecii

prose

Latin Life of St Buite (Buithe, Latin Boecius) of Monasterboice. It is a composite work, consisting of two parts: §§ 1-18, ending with the death of the saint, and §§ 19-31, on the saint’s miracles.

Latin languageBuíte of Monasterboice

Vita sancti Brendani

prose

Latin Life of St Brénainn, abbot of Clonfert, of which there are five main recensions.

Latin languageBrénainn of Clonfert

Vita sancti Cainnechi

prose

Latin Life of St Cainnech of Aghaboe (BHL 1519), which is known in three recensions.

Latin languageCainnech of Aghaboe

Vita sancti Ciarani Cluanensis

prose

Latin languageCiarán (mac int Shaír) of Clonmacnoise

Vita sancti Columbae (Adomnán)

form undefined

Adomnán

Adomnán

(fl. c.628–704)

Adomnán mac Rónáin was abbot of Iona (r. 679–704) and author of the Latin Life of St Columba and an account of the holy places of the Near East (De locis sanctis). He is credited with the proclamation of the Lex innocentium or Cáin Adomnáin at the Synod of Birr.

Latin Life of St Columba (Ir. Colum Cille), Irish missionary, monk and founder of Iona, written by Adomnán, abbot of Iona, about a century after the saint’s death. The work is organised into three books: one on the saint’s prophetic revelations, another on the miracles performed by him and the final one on angelic apparitions. Despite its hagiographic content, it remains an important source of historical study.

Latin languageColum Cille

Vita sancti Declani

prose

Latin vita of Declán of Ardmore

Latin languageDéclán of Ardmore

Vita sancti Endei abbatis de Arann

form undefined

Medieval Latin Life of St Énda of Aran

Latin languageCiarán (mac int Shaír) of ClonmacnoiseÉnda of AranMo Nennus

Vita sancti Fechini

form undefined

Latin life of St Féchín, abbot of Fore.

Latin languageFéchín of Fore

Vita sancti Fechini ex MSS Hibernicis (Colgan)

prose

Colgan (John)

Colgan (John)

(d. 1658)

Irish Franciscan at St Anthony’s College, Louvain; scholar, theologian, editor and hagiographer.

The second vita of St Féchín printed by John Colgan in his Acta sanctorum Hiberniae. Colgan made use of three Irish sources, which he conflated and translated into Latin to produce a composite text. The first life he found in a manuscript associated with Féchín's monastery in the island of Omey (vnam fusam ex Codice Immaciensi in Connacia, quam eius compilator aliàs recentior ... indicat ... desumptam esse ex alia latina); the second life is described as aliam habemus stylo plane uetusto et magnae fidei, sed principio et fine carentem. Plummer suggests that these lives must have corresponded to the vernacular life and homily found in NLI MS G 5. The third source is a metrical version now lost (tertiam uero uetusto et eleganti metro lxxiv distichis constante).

Latin languageFéchín of Fore

Vita sancti Findani confessoris

form undefined

Life of the 9th-century Irish saint Fintán of Rheinau (modern Switzerland, near Schaffhausen). He is said to be a Leinsterman whom vikings carried off as a captive to the Orkneys, after which he escaped and travelled as a pilgrim to Rome. On his way home, he met and joined the community of anchorites based at Rheinau.

Latin languageFintan (Findan) of Rheinaupilgrimages

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