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Mo Ling and Máel Doborchon

• Early Irish
• prose
• Irish hagiography, minor Irish prose tales

Anecdote about Mo Ling

Initial words (prose)

• Fechtas do M. is toidin co n-acca Mael Doborchon

Manuscripts

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]
  p. 283b (line 29ff)
• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 ff. 59–72 and ff. 123–146 = part of the Book of the White Earl [c. s. xv¹]
  context: Commentary on Félire Óengusso
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1319 vol. 2, pp. 397b-432
  p. 397b

Language

• Early Irish

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

Irish hagiography

 minor Irish prose tales (foscéla)

Subject tags

Mo LingMo Ling of Ferns, Moling Luachra (d. 697) – Irish saint, abbot and patron saint of Tech Mo Ling (St Mullins, Co. Carlow) and reputed ‘bishop’ of Ferna (Ferns).
See more Máel DoborchonMáel Doborchon
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• 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 the entry for the relevant manuscript.

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, “Mélanges: Anecdotes of St. Moling”, Revue Celtique 14 (1893): 188–194. Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> 188–190 Text from LL

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. O'Brien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967. CELT – pp. 1119-1192 and 1202-1325: <link> 1236 Diplomatic edition from LL direct link

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, The martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Henry Bradshaw Society 29, London: Harrison, 1905. CELT – edition (prefaces, prologue, main text and epilogue): <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>, <link> 152ff Text from Laud Misc 610

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Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. O'Brien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967. CELT – pp. 1119-1192 and 1202-1325: <link>

Stokes, Whitley, The martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Henry Bradshaw Society 29, London: Harrison, 1905. CELT – edition (prefaces, prologue, main text and epilogue): <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>, <link>

Meyer, Kuno, “Mélanges: Anecdotes of St. Moling”, Revue Celtique 14 (1893): 188–194. Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> 188–190   “Book of Leinster, p. 283b: Moling and Mæl Doborchon” Fechtas do M'Ling is' toidin..., edited and translated from LL

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