Gaelic Version A: Difference between revisions

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The Gaelic version of the Seven Sages, surviving in only one manuscript in the National Library of Scotland, is incomplete. Only the final four stories remain - but according to Greene (1944), they accord closely with the details and pattern expected of the Version A tradition. This prose text differs sufficiently in style and detail from the Middle English Version A (which is a verse redaction) to preclude the English from being its source. Greene has instead proposed a Latin text of Version A, found in an Irish manuscript (Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667), as a possible source text.

The National Library of Scotland's catalogue indicates that this text may be associated with an 'Alexander MacDonald' - who may potentially be identified as the famous Jacobite Gaelic poet Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, also known as Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair.

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Parent Versions	A (Seven Sages)
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Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages
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Literature & Editions
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A (Seven Sages) Dutch Version A Dutch Verse Version: Van den seven vroeden van binnen Rome French Version A: Roman des Sept Sages Group U Group V Group W Group X Group Y Group Z Gaelic Version A German Version A: Allegatio/Libellus Italian Version A Italian Prose (V) Libro dei Sette Savj (A) Storia favolosa di Stefano (S) Latin Version A Latin Version A: Allegatio / Libellus Middle English Version A Midland Version Y Group Northern English Southern English Old Swedish Version A: Sju vise mästare Old Swedish Redaction A Old Swedish Redaction B Older Scots Version A: Buke of the Sevyne Sagis Welsh Version A: Chwedleu Seith Doethon Rufein Early Modern and Modern Welsh Version A Middle Welsh Version A

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Notes
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Pattern of embedded stories in this version

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator
Vidua	12	Sixth Master
Roma	13	Empress
Inclusa	14	Seventh Master

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+|Has Description=The Gaelic version of the ''Seven Sages'', surviving in only one manuscript in the National Library of Scotland, is incomplete. Only the final four stories remain - but according to [[Greene (1944)]], they accord closely with the details and pattern expected of the [[A (Seven Sages)|Version A]] tradition. This prose text differs sufficiently in style and detail from the [[Middle English Version A]] (which is a verse redaction) to preclude the English from being its source. Greene has instead proposed a Latin text of Version A, found in an Irish manuscript ([[Dublin Trinity College Library Ms 667]]), as a possible source text.
+The National Library of Scotland's catalogue indicates that this text may be associated with an 'Alexander MacDonald' - who may potentially be identified as the famous Jacobite Gaelic poet Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, also known as Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair.
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