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The Dindshenchas in the Book of Leinster
This thesis explores the nature of the Dindshenchas in the Book of Leinster (s. xii2). The Dindshenchas is a twelfth-century compilation of stories, in prose and verse, which explain the etymologies and origins of medieval Irish place names. The textual history of the Dindshenchas is complex and …
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Compilation and Creativity in Medieval Fíanaigecht: a Case-Study of 'Three Men and the Dog of Irúath'
… be considered part of Scribe A’s collection of dindshenchas texts. I then discuss the version of the poem found in Cork, University College 204, The Book of Lismore (s. xv), as part of *Agallamh Bheag* ‘The Small Colloquy’ (*AB*), and present a scholarly edition of the poem and its prose …
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‘Transfiguration’s coming’: An investigation of the depiction of interspecies transformation in medieval Irish literature
… from a Christian afterlife. Chapter 5 examines *Dindshenchas Érenn*, a group of texts which focus on the names and histories of the places of Ireland. Within these texts, transformation almost always leads to death, and has less of the explicitly religious context of the texts appearing in …