Comram na Clóenfherta

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Title Comram na Clóenfherta
‘The triumph of the Sloping Mound’
The description Mortlaid ban Temra (‘The death of the women of Tara’) occurs at the end of the text, referring to the slaying of several women in Tara at the hands of Dúnlaing, king of Leinster.
Manuscripts

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 [s. xi/xii + s. xvii], f. 73v, p. 134a-...in facsimile

Language "Linguistically, the text is not susceptible of accurate dating. Some features in it are in line with Old Irish usage [...] But it also contains spellings, forms and usages which are more representative of Middle Irish texts" (Ó Cuív)[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Brian Ó Cuív, ‘Comram na Cloenfherta’ (1976): 169.

Sources

Editions and translations

Open book nae 02.png Ó Cuív, Brian (ed. and tr.), “Comram na Cloenfherta”, Celtica 11 (1976): 168—179.
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