Texts
Lebor Bretnach‘The book of the Britons’
- Middle Irish
- prose
- Irish legendary history, Adaptation
Middle Irish adaptation of the Historia Brittonum ascribed to Nennius
Manuscripts
The manuscripts with the sigla attached to them by Van Hamel:
- L1 =
- L2 =
- L3 =
- B = Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12 = Book of Ballymote [1384 x 1406]Interpolated version.
- D = Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 6 (first part), cols 710*-831 [s. xvi]cols 806–826
- H =
- U =
- A manuscript used by John Lynch, but now lost. See Dumville in Éigse 16 (1976).
Language
- Middle Irish
Form
prose (primary)
verse (secondary)
Textual relationships
- (Possible) sources:
- Historia Brittonum
- Related:
- Irish story of Silvius
- Historia Brittonum
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] Hamel, A. G. van [ed.], Lebor Bretnach: the Irish version of the Historia Britonum ascribed to Nennius, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1932.
Secondary sources (select)
Clancy, Thomas Owen, “Scotland, the ‘Nennian’ recension of Historia Brittonum, and the Lebor Bretnach”, in: Taylor, Simon (ed.), Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297: essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 87–107.
Dumville, David N., “The textual history of Lebor Bretnach: a preliminary study”, Éigse 16:4 (Geimhreadh 1976, 1975–1976): 255–273.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen,Patrick Brown
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