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Name
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The Manannan Metrical History
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Description
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A verse history of Manannan mac Lir preserved by Train. The metrical history records the tribute paid to Manannan: the rent each landholder paid to him was a bundle of coarse meadow grass yearly. It describes his protection of the Island: he would set a man standing on a hill appear as if he were a hundred, and thus did wild Manannan protect that Island with all its booty. The metrical history is one of the sources that connects the constitutional ceremony at Tynwald to the pre-Christian offering of rushes.
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Type
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Verse History
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Oral Tradition
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Source
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Train, lines 5440-5517
