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The Dindshenchas of Emain Macha

Author: Unknown

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2. Second draft, revised and corrected.

Extent of text: 1430 words

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Text ID Number: G301033

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Manuscript Source
1. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 967 olim 23 N 10, p. 68 (late sixteenth century); for the facsimile edition see Richard Irvine Best (ed.), MS. 23 N 10, formerly Betham 145, (Dublin 1954); for further details see Kathleen Mulchrone, T. F. O'Rahilly et al. (eds.), Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin 1926–70) MS 967, 2769–80.

Literature
1. Edward Gwynn (ed. and trans.), The Metrical Dindshenchas, 5 volumes. Todd Lecture Series 8–12 (1903–1906; repr. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 1941, 1991). Electronic editions of volumes 1-4 are available online at the CELT website.
2. Edmund Ignatius Hogan, Onomasticon Goedelicum, locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae. An index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes (London 1910; repr. Dublin 1993 and 2000). An electronic edition compiled by the Locus Project, na Ranna Gaeilge, University College Cork, is available online at http://minerva.ucc.ie:6336/dynaweb/locus/
3. Nicholas Aitchison, Armagh and the royal centres in early medieval Ireland: A.D. 400–1169 (Woodbridge 1994).
4. Kay Muhr, The Northern Ireland Place-name Project 1987–97, Ainm 7 (1996–97) 118–119.
5. Gregory J. Toner, Collecting and recording place-names: fieldwork guidance and methodology, in Ulster Local Studies 19 (1997) 1, 32–51.
6. Patrick McKay, A dictionary of Ulster place-names (Belfast 1999).
7. Kay Muhr, Territories, people and place names in Co. Armagh, in: A. J. Hughes and William Nolan (eds.), Armagh: history and society, interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county (Dublin 2001) 295–332.
8. Kay Muhr, The early place-names of County Armagh, Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, 19:1 (2002) 1–54.

The edition used in the digital edition
1. Kuno Meyer, The Dindshenchas of Emain Macha in Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie. volume 3, pt. 4, Halle/Saale, Max Niemeyer (1907) page 325–326

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Created: Date range: 600–900.

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Language: [GA] The text is in Old Irish.

Language: [EN] Some words in annotations are in English.

Language: [LA] Formulaic closing words are in Latin.

Revision History

• (2008-10-05)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G301033

The Dindshenchas of Emain Macha: Author: Unknown

p.325

Cid diatá Eomuin Machae? Ni hanse. Bui righi n-Erenn hi comflaithius etir Ruad mac m-Bodhuirn & Cimbaeth mac Finntain & Dithorbae mac Dimain. Secht m-bliedna do cech oe hi flaith h-Erenn. Imcloeth beus hi cinn hsecht m-bliada na. Ocus is amlaid do-faspenta a righe do flaith nod-gebed beus: ‘Ind flaith si do-asselbtur duit a taspenad uait a n-ógi .i. dom-biur duit cen gái cen ethech cen imarbae cen anfir flatha. Glinne aurut friss .i. secht n-octhigerna & secht righ (no druith) & secht file .i. na h-oigthigirn dot fognam, na druith dot ressadh & dott imdergadh, na filid dott aorad tre m-bricht co rabuit i talmain ria nomaide’. Is amlaid sin tra do-aissilbith ind flaith co m-betiss immurgu na torthae iarna coir lasna flaithi. Is aire dognidiss in sin.

Marb iar suidhiu Dithorba mac Demain, co n-gabsat a mec a forba flatha .i. Baeth & Brass & Betach & Uallach & Borbchass coic maic Dithorbai maic Demain. Do-rochair lobra dano for Ruad mac m-Boduirn, diata Ess Ruaid isin tuaiscert. Ni farcuib side cloinn inge aoningin namma. Macha a h-ainm-sidhe. O ssniastar side in flaith {MS page 69} a comarbus a h-athar nissnarroet Cimbaeth i comflaithius. ‘Do-ber-sa dam-sa illau catha’, ol sissi. Do-gnither son & feguir cath eturru & memaid for Cimbaeth. Gebaid si in flaith co cend secht m-bliadan. Tanic do Chimbaeth aimserá na flatha. ‘Ni bera’, ol in ingen, ‘conidruca ar ecin’. Fechuir cadh ann eturrua. Memaid for Cimbaeth. Geabuid si dano flaithius co cenn secht m-bliadan. Tanic co maccuib Dithorbae in sel flatha. Feruid si cadh friu. Maidid rempe-si. Do meil si dano flaithius Dithorbai. Luid Cimbaeth cuice-si co m-bu he a fer & gaibid sí righi n-Erenn. Lottar maic Dithorbae for fogail & ba trom in chaladfhogal. Cech mac uilc robai ind-Eire do-choid chuca. In baile hi fuacartais nofhoglatiss ann. Ro-hearbad dano h-uadi-si naonbur cech tuaithe for a n-iarair ocus do rimarta geill cecha feine di-si dar cenn na n-drochmac batar

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