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Dá brón flatha nime
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Dá brón flatha nime
‘Two sorrows of the kingdom of heaven’
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Redaction 2:
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2], ff. 280a—281a
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 (H 2. 16) = Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv-xv], col. 770b
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29 (1134) = Book of Fermoy [s. xiv/xv], pp. 114a—115b
- Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS 24682 (Fonds celtique 1) [s. xv], ff. 27v*b—28r*b
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Description
Kenney describes the text as follows:
The two sorrows of the kingdom of heaven are the prophets Enoch and Elias, who have passed thither with their mortal bodies and are awaiting the end of time when they may die. The piece has much value as a source for the religious ideas of the time, especially the idea of Anti-Christ. As in the other writings of this class, the author worked from the basis of certain European Latin works: here probably the pseudo-Hippolyte De consummatio mundi, the pseudo-Augustine De Antichristo, and the Libellus de Antichristo of Adso of Montiér-en-Der, sometimes attributed to Alcuin. The text, apparently, was written in the eleventh century.[1]
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Editions and translations
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Volmering, Nicole (ed. and tr.), “Dá brón flatha nime: a semi-diplomatic edition, translation and verbal analysis of version LL fol. 280a-281a”, M.Phil dissertation: Trinity College, Dublin, 2009.
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Herbert, Máire (tr.), “The two sorrows of the kingdom of heaven”, in: Herbert, Máire, and Martin McNamara (eds.), Irish biblical Apocrypha: selected texts in translation, Edinburgh: Clark, 1989. 19—21.
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Secondary sources
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Kenney, James F., The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies 11, Revised ed. [1929], New York: Octagon, 1966. 738, no. 614.
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