Scéla Mongáin ocus Echdach Rígéicis
Background information
References in the Annals of Ulster, the Annals of the Four Masters, the Annals of Tigernach and the Annals of Clonmacnoise
U575.1 The great convention of Druim Ceat at which were present Colum Cille and Aed son of Ainmire.
U594.1 The battle of Gerrthide, king of Ciannachta. At Éudann Mór it was won. Fiachna son of Baetán … was victor.
U595.1 Repose of Colum Cille on the fifth of the Ides of June in the 76th year of his age.
M592.2 Dallan Forgaill composed this on the death of Colum Cille:
Like the cure of a physician without light,
like the separation of marrow from the bone,
Like a song to a harp without the ceis,
are we after being deprived of our noble.
U597.2 The battle of Sliab Cua in the territories of Mumu, in which Fiachna son of Baetán was victor.
U602.3 The battle of Cúil Caíl in which Fiachna son of Demán took flight. Fiachna son of Báetán was victor.
U623.3 The storming of Ráith Guala by Fiachna son of Baetán.
U625.2 Mongán, son of Fiachna of Lurga, died.
U626.1 The battle of Leithet Midind in which Fiachna of Lurga fell. Fiachna son of Demán was victor.
T627.6 Mongan son of Fiachna Lurgan, stricken with a stone by Artur son of Bicoir Britone died. Whence Bec Boirche said:
Cold is the wind over Islay;
There are warriors in Cantyre,
They will commit a cruel deed therefor,
They will kill Mongan son of Fiachna.
AC627 Mongan mac Fiaghna, a very well-spoken man, and much given to the wooing of women, was killed by one [Arthur ap] Bicoir, a Welshman, with a stone.
U647.1 Mael Cobo son of Fiachna, king of Ulaid, was killed.
The History of Ireland (Geoffrey Keating), Volume 3
p. 81 Thrice then did the men of Ireland cast off the filés, and the Ulstermen retained them on each of these occasions. The first time they were banished they numbered a thousand; and Conchubhar and the nobles of Ulster maintained them seven years. On their second banishment, Fiachna, son of Baodan, king of Ulster, maintained them a year, and seven hundred was their number under Eochaidh Righeigeas, as the poet says … :
Eochaidh Righeigheas of noble laws,
Went to Fiachna, son of Baodan;
He gave him great welcome,
And he retained the filés.
The third time they were banished, when Maolcobha, king of Ulster, retained them, they amounted to twelve hundred, under Dallan Forgaill and Seanchan.
p. 95 The ardollamh of Ireland at that time (i.e., the convention of Drom Ceat) was Eochaidh Eigeas, son of Oilill, son of Earc, and it was he who was called Dallan Forgaill, and he sent out ollamhs and set them over the provinces of Ireland, namely, … Sanchan, son of Cuairfheartach, over the province of Connaught …
p. 105 Columcille’s age when he died was seventy-seven years, as Dallan Forgaill says in Amhra Choluim Chille itself, which was written by Dallan soon after the death of Columcille.
Related poem online: The Bodleian Amra Choluimb Chille (Stokes), Revue Celtique, 20, 1899
p. 37 Its (Amra Choluimb Chille) author was Dallán (called) ‘son of testimony’ (mac forgaill) of the Masraige of Mag Slecht from Brefne of Connaught.
p. 43 Now the men of Ireland rejected the poets thrice, but the Ulaid, from their generosity, retained them. Twelve hundred was their number at the first proscription, when Conchobar (mac Nessa) and the nobles of the Ulaid kept them for seven years. The second proscription was when Eochaid the king-poet (rigeces) with his seven hundreds was refused; but Fiacha, son of Baetán, retained them. Now the third time was the great proscription of the twelve hundred poets, including Eochaid the king-poet, and Dallán and Senchán, when Mael-coba, king of Ulaid, retained them for three years.
p. 133 Now at that time (i.e., the Convention of Druim Cetta) Dallán, the chief-poet (ardollam) of Ireland, came to parley with Columba.
pp. 133-135 Dallán and Columba.
p. 139
Thrice fifty men, severe, acute,
of Erin’s poets in one retinue,
including Senchán, comely Dallán
and Eochaid the king-poet.
pp. 435-436 Dallan’s death and burial.
Related saga online: Tromdámh Guaire (Guaire’s Burdensome Company)
Owen Connellan (ed. & tr.), Imtheacht na Tromdháimhe, Transactions of the Ossianic Society, for the year 1857, 5, 1860, pp. 2-129.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 2-129); English translation at Tech Screpta
Maud Joynt (ed.), Tromdámh Guaire, (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1931), pp. 1-40.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 1-40); Digital Edition at NLS.uk (pp. 1-40 (21- 60)); Irish text at CELT
Related saga online: Immram Brain (The Voyage of Bran mac Febal)
Kuno Meyer (ed. & tr.), The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living, (London: David Nutt, 1895), Volume 1, pp. 2-35.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 2-35); Digital Edition at Sacred-Texts.com; English translation at MaryJones.us; English translation at Tech Screpta
Related saga online: Compert Mongáin (The Conception of Mongán)
Kuno Meyer (ed. & tr.), The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living, (London: David Nutt, 1895), Volume 1, pp. 42-45.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 42-43); English translation at Archive.org (pp. 44-45); English translation at Sacred-Texts.com; English translation at MaryJones.com; English translation at Tech Screpta
Related saga online: Scél asa m-berar co mbad hé Find mac Cumaill Mongán
(A Story from which it is inferred that Mongán was Find Mac Cumaill)
Kuno Meyer (ed. & tr.), The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living, (London: David Nutt, 1895), Volume 1, pp. 45-52.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 45-48); English translation at Archive.org (pp. 49-52); English translation at Sacred-Texts.com; English translation at MaryJones.us; English translation at Tech Screpta
Related saga online: Scél Mongáin inso (A Story of Mongán)
Kuno Meyer (ed. & tr.), The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living, (London: David Nutt, 1895), Volume 1, pp. 52-56.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 52-54); English translation at Archive.org (pp. 54-56); English translation at Sacred-Texts.com; English translation at MaryJones.us; English translation at Tech Screpta
Related saga online: Tucait Baile Mongáin inso (The occasion of Mongán’s ‘Frenzy’ this here)
Kuno Meyer (ed. & tr.), The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living, (London: David Nutt, 1895), Volume 1, pp. 56-58.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 56-57); Irish text at CELT; English translation at Archive.org (pp. 57-58); English translation at Sacred-Texts.com; English translation at MaryJones.us; English translation at Tech Screpta
Related saga online: Compert Mongáin ocus Serc Duibe-Lacha do Mongán
(The Conception of Mongán and Dub-Locha’s love for Mongán)
Kuno Meyer (ed. & tr.), The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living, (London: David Nutt, 1895), Volume 1, pp. 58-84.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 58-70); English translation at Archive.org (pp. 70-84); English translation at Sacred-Texts.com English translation at MaryJones.us; English translation at Tech Screpta
Related saga online: Mionannala (Fragmentary Annals)
Standish H. O’Grady (ed. & tr.), Silva Gadelica, (London: Williams and Norgate, 1892), Volume 1, pp. 390-394; Volume 2, pp. 424-428.
Irish text at Archive.org (pp. 390-394); Irish text at CELT (Annal 615-628); English translation at Archive.org (pp. 424-428 (460-464))
Related saga online: The colloquy of Colum Cille and the youth
Kuno Meyer (ed. & tr.), Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie, 2, 1899, pp. 313-320.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 313-320); Irish text at CELT; English translation at CELT; English translation at MaryJones.us
Related saga online: How Fiachna mac Báedáin obtained the kingship of Scotland
C. Marstrander (ed. & tr.), How Fiachna mac Báedáin obtained the kingship of Scotland, Ériu, 5, 1911, pp. 113-119.
Digital Edition at JSTOR
Betha Colaim Chille (O’Kelleher/Schoepperle)
Dallán Forgaill and Colmcille §§336-339 (See Section 11), pp. 359-363 (447-452)
The Death of Cúrói mac Dári (Best), Ériu, 2, 1905
“I should think the Children of Deda upreared them, to build the City of Cú Roí” (See Section 3).
It was on that day she gave counsel to Cúrói namely, that a splendid fortress should be built by him for his city, of every pillar-stone standing or lying in Ireland. It was the Clan Dedad who set out in one day for the building of the stronghold, §4, p. 23 (35)
Lectures of the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History (O’Curry)
List of Historic Tales in the Book of Leinster includes:
Echtra Mongain mic Fiachna (The Adventures of Mongan, son of Fiachna), p. 589 (625)
D = The Martyrology of Donegal (O’Donovan)
G = The Martyrology of Gorman (Stokes)
O = The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (Stokes)
D: 29 January, Dallán Forgaill, of Maighin, of the race of Colla Uais, monarch of Ireland. His name was Eochaidh, son of Colla, son of Erc. It was he that composed the celebrated panegyric of Colum Cille, which is called Amhra Choluim Chille, and another little Amhra on Seanán of Inis-Cathaigh. And he was interred at Inis-Caoil (Inishkeel, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal), a place sacred to Conall of Inis-Caoil. The Life of Maedhog of Fearna states, chap. 72, that this is the Dallán who was at Cill-Dalláin (Killdallan, barony of Tullyhunco, Co. Cavan), and that the two children were brother’s sons — namely, Maedhog son of Sedna, son of Erc and Dallán, son of Colla, son of Erc (See Section 1), p. 31 (93)
G: 29 January, Dallán, Forgall’s modest son from Maigen (See Section 1), p. 27
O: 29 January, Dallán ‘son of testimony,’ of Maigen (See Section 1), p. 55 (114)
Cóir Anmann: Fitness of Names (Stokes), Irische Texte, Ser. III.2
Conall Cernach §§251-252 (See Section 3), pp. 393-395, p. 423
Fiachna Lurgan §258 (See Section 1), p. 397, p. 423
Ulaid §245 (See Section 1), pp. 387-389, p. 422
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