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Comlond Diarmata meic Cerbaill fri Ruadán ‘Díarmait mac Cerbaill’s contention with Ruadán’

  • Middle Irish
  • prose
  • Cycles of the Kings
First words (prose)
  • Bec mac Dé is é fáith is dech bui i nErinn ina aimsir
Manuscripts
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 16 (1230) = Leabhar Breac (‘Speckled Book’) [s. xvin]
p. 260b
rubric: ‘Comlond Diarmata meic Cerbaill fri Ruadan inso’
beg. ‘Bec mac Dé is é fáith is dech bui i nErinn ina aimsir’
Language
  • Middle Irish

  • Middle Irish

Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Díarmait mac Cerbaill
Díarmait mac Cerbaill
(supp. d. 565)
In Irish historical tradition, high-king of Ireland, son of Fergus Cerrbél.
See more Ruadán of Lorrha
Ruadán of Lorrha
(d. 584)
(time-frame ass. with Díarmait mac Cerbaill)
Ruadán mac Fergusa Birn, patron saint of Lothra (Lorrha, Co. North Tipperary)
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Sources

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Edition wanted

A new edition, with translation, by Dan Wiley is forthcoming.

[ed.] Wiley, Dan M., “An edition of Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill from the Book of Uí Maine”, unpublished PhD thesis, Harvard University, 2000.
205–210 (Appendix A)

Secondary sources (select)

Wiley, Dan M., “An introduction to the early Irish king tales”, in: Dan M. Wiley (ed.), Essays on the early Irish king tales, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 13–67.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
October 2010, last updated: January 2024
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