Cín Dromma Snechtai
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Cín Dromma Snechtai, also known as Leabhar Dromma Snechtai.
A now long-lost early Irish codex, it was believed to have been written between c. AD 700 - 750. Apparently "named from the place of its origin or preservation, namely Druim(m) Snechta (Drumsnat, County Monaghan), where a monastery had been founded in the sixth century."[1]
Rudolf Thurneysen made a convincing reconstruction of its contents in 1912-13; his chief sources were Egerton 88, Royal Irish Academy 23 N10,[clarify] which contains excerpts noted as originating from Cín Dromma Snechtai, which he lists as:
- Immran Brain ("the voyage of Bran")
- Compert Con Culainn ("the conception of Cúchulainn")
- Compert Mongán ("the conception of Mongán")
[edit] Notes
- ^ Thomás Ó Concheanainn (Winter 1988). "A Connacht Medieval Literary Heritage: Texts derived from Cín Dromma Snechtai through Lebor na hUidre", Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, 16, p. 3.
[edit] References
- TCD MS H.4.22;LU[clarify]