Information AboutMetrical Dindshenchas |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT METRICAL DINDSHENCHAS | |
| early irish literature | |
| irish mythology | |
| irish texts | |
| medieval literature | |
| mythological cycle | |
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As a national compilation, the Metrical ''Dindshenchas'' has come down to us in two different . The first recension is found in the Twelfth-century manuscript the Book Of Leinster with partial survivals in a number of other manuscript sources. The text shows signs of having been compiled from a number of provincial sources and the earliest poems date from at least the Eleventh Century . The second recension survives more or less intact in thirteen different manuscripts, mostly dating from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries . This recension contains a number of poems composed after the Book of Leinster text. These may have been added by the compiler for completeness. Since many of the naming legends related in the poems concern the acts of mythological beings, the Metrical ''Dindshenchas'' is an important source for the study of Irish Mythology . USES OF THE METRICAL DINDSHENCHAS |
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