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Mo Ling and the brigands

• Early Irish
• prose, verse, prosimetrum
• Irish hagiography, Anecdote, Legend

Anecdote about Mo Ling

Initial words (prose)

• Fechtas aile do M'Ling is toidin co n-accai nonbur dona dibergachaib cuci

Manuscripts

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]
  p. 285a (line 30ff)

Language

• Early Irish

Form

prose, verse, prosimetrum (primary)

Classification

Irish hagiography

 Anecdote  Legend

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).
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Keywords

díberga, brigands

• 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> 190–194 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> 1241–1242 Diplomatic edition from LL direct link

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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>

Meyer, Kuno, “Mélanges: Anecdotes of St. Moling”, Revue Celtique 14 (1893): 188–194. Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> 190–194   “Book of Leinster, p. 285a: Moling and the brigands” Fechtas aile do M'Ling is tóidin..., edited and translated from LL

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