Dinnseanchas or Dinnsheanchas R0017


Dindsenchas or Dindshenchas R0017
(modern spellings: Dinnseanchas or Dinnsheanchas), meaning "lore of places" (the modern Irish word dinnseanchasmeans "topography") is a class of onomastic text in early Irish literature, recounting the origins ofplace-names and traditions concerning events and characters associated with the places inquestion.

[1] (the modern Irish word dinnseanchas means "topography ") 

[2] is a classofonomastic text in early Irish literature , recounting the origins of place-names and traditionsconcerning events and characters associated with the places in question. Since many of thelegends related concern the acts of mythic and legendary figures, the dindsenchas is animportant source for the study of Irish mythology The literary corpus of then dindsenchas comprises about 176 poems plus a number of prosecommentaries and independent prose tales (the so-called "prosedindsenchas" is oftendistinguished from the "verse", "poetic" or "metrical dindsenchas"). As a compilationthe dindsenchasnhas survived in two different recensions. The first recension is found in the Bookof Leinster, a manuscript of the 12th century, with partial survivals in a number of othermanuscript sources. The text shows signs of having been compiled from a number of provincialsources and the earliest poems date from at least the 11th century. The second recensionsurvives more or less intact in thirteen different manuscripts, mostly dating from the 14th and15th centuries. This recension contains a number of poems composed after the Book of Leinstertext. Dindsenchas stories are also incorporated into saga texts such as Táin BóCúailnge and Acallam na Senórach

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DindsenchasThis is something we as Druids should seek to know and understand better. Where ever we are.Both the History and the Genus Loci, which requires talking to the land and its spirits.

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