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[Tánic sam], verse beg. ‘Tánic sam slán sóer’

» In English: “Noble, perfect summer has come” » Language(s): Old Irish, Middle Irish » Form: verse » Stanzas: 7 st. » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Text entries
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Poem on the coming of summer, attributed to Finn mac Cumaill. It evokes an image of the season by referring, for instance, to the appearance and behaviour of stags, dogs, salmon and birds such as the cuckoo and the blackbird.


» Author(s): Id:Boethius » Language(s): Latin language » Form: prose, verse » Categories: Non-Celtic texts, Text entries
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Collective title for short theological treatises by Boethius: 1. De trinitate; 2. Utrum pater et filius et spiritus sanctus de divinitate substantialiter praedicentur; 3. Quomodo substantiae or De hebdomadibus; 4. De fide catholica; 5. Contra Eutychen et Nestorium.


[Ro-chúala crecha is tír thair], verse beg. ‘Ro-chúala crecha is tír thair’

» In English: “I have heard of plunderings in a land in the east” » Author(s): Id:Airbertach mac Cosse Dobráin » Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: verse » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Text entries
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Poem on the Midianites (Book of Numbers 31).


» In English: “Tidings of doomsday” » Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: form undefined » Categories: Irish religious texts, Text entries

» In English: “The story of Conchobar mac Nessa” » Language(s): Early Middle Irish » Form: prose » Categories: Ulster Cycle, Text entries
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Medieval Irish saga concerning the career of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of the Ulaid


» Initial words (prose): ‘Mo Lling Luachra dalta do Maehóc Ferna’ » Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: prose » Categories: Irish hagiography, Text entries » Type: anecdote, legend
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Middle Irish anecdote about Mo Ling, here presented as a fosterson of St Máedóc of Ferns, and the trenching of a watercourse or millstream (taídiu) at Tech Mo Ling.


[Dinnshenchas of Tipra Sengarmna], verse beg. ‘Tipra Sen-Garmna fo a snas’ , part of or cited in: Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

» In English: “The Well of Sen-Garman, with its chip of wood” » Ascribed author(s): Id:Fergus Fínbél » Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: prose, verse » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, Finn Cycle, Text entries » Type: Subject:dinnshenchas
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Text on the dinnshenchas of Tipra Sengarmna.


» In English: “The history of the Britons” » Ascribed author(s): Id:Nennius » Language(s): Latin language » Form: prose » Categories: Cambro-Latin texts, Text entries

» In English: “Medb's husband allowance” » Language(s): Late Middle Irish » Form: prose » Categories: Ulster Cycle, Text entries

» In English: “The Conception of Conall Cernach” » Form: form undefined » Categories: Ulster Cycle, Text entries

» In English: “The battle of Ventry” » Language(s): Early Modern Irish » Form: form undefined » Categories: Finn Cycle, Text entries

[Dinnshenchas of Mag mBreg], verse beg. ‘Secht maic Breogain, bríg cen brón’ , part of or cited in: Dinnshenchas Érenn C, Dinnshenchas Érenn B

» Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: prose, verse » Stanzas: 7 st. » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, Text entries » Type: dinnshenchas
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Text on the dinnshenchas of Mag mBreg.


[Dinnshenchas of Fornocht], verse beg. ‘Fornocht do dún, a Druim nDen’ , part of or cited in: Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

» In English: “Your keep is bare, Druim Den” » Ascribed author(s): Id:Finn mac Cumaill, Id:Find » Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: verse, prose » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, Finn Cycle, Text entries » Type: Subject:dinnshenchas
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Dinnshenchas of Fornocht, formerly Druim Den.


[Dinnshenchas of Druim Criaich], verse beg. ‘Druim Criaich, céte cét cuan’ , part of or cited in: Dinnshenchas Érenn A, Dinnshenchas Érenn C

» Ascribed author(s): Id:Cúán úa Lothcháin » Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: verse, prose » Stanzas: 54 st. » Categories: Ulster Cycle, Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, Text entries » Type: Subject:dinnshenchas
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Poem and prose text on the dinnshenchas of Druim Criaich (Drumcree, Co. Westmeath), which is here said to have been known as Druim Cró and Druim n-úar nAirthir. In the Book of Leinster, the poem is attributed to Cuán ua Lothcháin (d. 1024). The poem falls into two sections. The story of the first is that of the quarrel between Eochu Feidlech, high-king of Ireland, and his three sons known as the three Findemna. On the night before the battle of Druim Criaich, in which the brothers are killed, their sister Clothru sleeps with each one of them in order to produce royal offspring. She later gives birth to Lugaid Riab nDerg, high-king of Ireland.


[Dinnshenchas of Cnocc Rafann], verse beg. ‘Inráith morsa (ł hisa) forsna mfil’ , part of or cited in: Sanas Cormaic, Dinnshenchas Érenn A

» Ascribed author(s): Id:Comgán Mac Dá Cherda » Language(s): Middle Irish » Form: verse, prose » Stanzas: 1 st. » Categories: Early Irish poetry, Dinnshenchas Érenn, Text entries » Type: Subject:dinnshenchas
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Dinnshenchas of Cnocc Rafann


» Author(s): Id:Isidore of Seville » Language(s): Latin language » Form: prose » Categories: Non-Celtic texts, Text entries
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Work on nature and astronomy written by Isidore, archbishop of Seville (d. 636) and dedicated by him to the Visigothic king Sisebut in c. 612/613.


» Author(s): Id:Boethius » Language(s): Latin language » Categories: Non-Celtic texts, Text entries

» Author(s): Id:Polybius » Language(s): Ancient Greek » Form: form undefined » Categories: Ancient Greek texts, Text entries

» Author(s): Id:Priscian of Caesarea » Language(s): Latin language » Form: prose » Categories: Non-Celtic texts, Text entries
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Treatise on Latin grammar by Priscian of Caesarea


» Author(s): Id:Ratramnus of Corbie » Language(s): Latin language » Form: form undefined » Categories: Non-Celtic texts, Text entries
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Treatise written by the Carolingian scholar Ratramnus of Corbie at the request of Odo, bishop of Beauvais. Ratramnus argues against the idea uttered by the Irish master Macharius and his anonymous pupil that there is but one universal soul (anima universalis) rather than many individual ones.