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The Metrical Dindshenchas

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Edward Gwynn

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    Manuscript sources
  1. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1229 (alias 23 E 25 alias Lebor na hUidre). Three main scribes, including Máel Muire mac Célechair meic Cuind na mBocht (slain by raiders at Clonmacnoise in 1106); see Kathleen Mulchrone and Elizabeth FitzPatrick, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy xxvi–xxvii (Dublin 1943) 3367–3379.
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    Editions/Translations
  1. The corresponding prose versions of the poems contained in this file were published in Stokes' edition of the Rennes Dindshenchas, RC 15 and 16.
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    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. The Metrical Dindshenchas. in Volume 3Edward Gwynn (ed), Second reprint [x + 562 pp. words] Dublin Institute for Advanced StudiesDublin (1991) (first published 1906) (reprinted 1941)

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Created: By one or more unknown authors in Irish monastic scriptoria. Date range: Middle Irish period.

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