Texts
verse beg. Mad bé ríg rofessir recht flatha
- Old Irish
- verse
- Early Irish law texts, Early Irish poetry
Legal poem cited at the end of Críth gablach. It numbers 104 lines in Binchy’s edition.
Initial words (verse)
- Mad bé ríg rofessir recht flatha
“If you are a king you should know the prerogative of a ruler”
Context(s) The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.
Manuscripts
Only a single manuscript copy is known (Binchy):
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 volume 2 (pp. 1-14) [s. xvi]f. 7a–7b context: Críth gablach
Language
- Old Irish
- Old Irish. Although “most of the archaic forms and orthography have been ironed out [in the manuscript, ...] the poem passes most of the tests used to distinguish archaic from ‘classical’ Old Irish” (Binchy).(1)n. 1 D. A. Binchy, ‘An archaic legal poem’, Celtica 9 (1971): 152–153.
Form
verse (primary)
Number of lines
104
Sources
Notes
D. A. Binchy, ‘An archaic legal poem’, Celtica 9 (1971): 152–153.
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.
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Contributors
C. A.,Dennis Groenewegen
