Interrogation of the Old Men, The
- Interrogation of the Old Men, The
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Irish Agallamh Na Seanórach , also called Dialogue of the Ancients or Colloquy of the Ancients
in
Irish literature, the preeminent tale of the Old Irish
Fenian cycle of heroic tales. The “old men” are the Fenian poets Oisín (
Ossian) and Caoilte, who, having survived the destruction of their comrades at the Battle of Gabhra, return to Ireland from the timeless Land of Youth (Tír na nÓg) to discover they have been gone 300 years. They meet St. Patrick (
Patrick, Saint), who interrogates them about the deeds of Finn MacCumhaill (MacCool) and the heroes of the past. Oisín joins his mother in a fairy mound; Caoilte travels with St. Patrick throughout Ireland, recounting the legends, history, and myths associated with each place they visit, while St. Patrick's scribe Brogan records the tales. This framework combines the traditional Irish
Dinnsheanchas (Dindshenchas) (“Histories of Places”) with heroic legend and folklore. St. Patrick's delight in the tales and his desire to record them confirm the sympathetic attitude of monastic scribes to the pagan past.
The
Interrogation was probably compiled from older sources and oral tradition by a single author in about 1200. Preserved in the 16th-century manuscript
The Book of the Dean of Lismore (Lismore, The Book of the Dean of), it is written in prose with verse passages that later gave rise to the
Ossianic ballads.
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