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Scéla Ailello Aulumm ocus a fhiacla fidha ‘The story of Ailill Aulomm and his poisonous tooth’

  • Late Middle Irish
  • prose
  • Cycles of the Kings
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Language
  • Late Middle Irish
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Ailill Ólomm
Ailill Ólomm
(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)
king of Munster; reputed ancestor of the Éoganacht and Dál Cais; a prominent figure in various king-tales, such as those revolving around the Battle of Mag Mucrama.

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Sources

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Arbuthnot, Sharon [ed. and tr.], Cóir anmann: a late Middle Irish treatise on personal names, 2 vols, Irish Texts Society, 59, 60, London: Irish Texts Society, 2005–2007.
Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “Cóir anmann (Fitness of names)”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 3, Leipzig, 1897. 285–444, 557.
CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
304–307 (§ 41)
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October 2010, last updated: January 2024