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Bruiden Meic Da Réo
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Bruiden Meic Da Réo (also spelled Bruiden Maic Da Réo, Bruiden Maic Dareo)
‘Mac Da Réo's hostel’
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| Manuscripts
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First recension:
Second recension, called Scél ar Chairbre Cinn Cait (‘A tale of Cairpre Cathead’) by Eugene O'Curry:
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 (536) = Book of Ballymote [1384 x 1406], ff. 140ra—140rb, pp. 255–256 (facsimile)
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan, ff. 185vb–186ra
- Chatsworth (Derbyshire), Book of Lismore [s. xv], ff. 184ra–184va
- Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.28 (Gaelic XXVIII) [s. xv-xvi], ff. 5r—5v. Modernised version.
Other copies with modernised spelling are preserved in a number of late manuscripts, including:
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 C 21 (Betham 90, 672) [s. xix]
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 28 (712) [s. xviii]
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 47 (Hodges & Smith 51, 97, 105, 182, 186, 973) [1776]
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 2 (1080) [1627-1628], ff. 125r—127r
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 (H 3. 17) [s. xvi], part 5, pp. 740—743[1][2]
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| Type or category
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Cycle of Fiachu Findfolad and Tuathal Techtmar
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| Language
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Middle Irish
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| Date
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possibly 11th or 12th century (O'Connor)
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| Description
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A Middle Irish saga which recounts how in Ireland, the vassal peoples (aithech-thúatha) rebelled and decimated the leading noble families and how the survivors regained power through the mediation of the judge Morann.
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Description
- The two Middle Irish recensions include Sáerchlanna Érenn uile, a Middle Irish syllabic poem in 12 stanzas.
- The two Middle Irish tale-lists include the title Orgain Cairpri Chind Chait for sáerchlannaib Érenn ("Cairpre Cenn Cait's massacre of the nobles of Ireland")[1]
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Sources
Editions and translations
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Thurneysen, Rudolf (ed.), “Morands Fürstenspiegel”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 11 (1917): 56—106. 56–73. Internet Archive
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Ó Raithbheartaigh, Toirdhealbhach (ed.), Genealogical tracts. Vol. 1, Dublin: Irish Manuscript Commission, 1932. 107–116. » "The aithech-thuatha and the story of Bruiden Maic Da Reo", edition of the Book of Ballymote text, with translation, by Terrence Rafferty.  CELT: edition
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Craigie, W. A. (ed.), “Cairpre Cindchait and the Athach Tuatha”, Revue Celtique 20 (1899): 335—339. » Edited from Gaelic MS XXVIII. Internet Archive
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MacNeill, Eoin (tr.), “The revolt of the vassals”, The New Ireland Review 26 (1906): 96—106.
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Secondary sources
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O'Connor, Ralph, “Searching for the moral in Bruiden Meic Da Réo”, Ériu 56 (2006): 117—143.
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