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Compert Fíachach Muillethain ‘The conception and birth of Fiachu Muillethan’

  • Early Irish
  • Cycles of the Kings, Birth-tales, Comperta, minor Irish prose tales
Brief anecdote about Éogan Mór mac Ailello and the birth of Fíachu Muillethan.
Manuscripts
Language
  • Early Irish

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80
Birth-talesBirth-tales
...
CompertaComperta
...
minor Irish prose tales (foscéla)Irish narrative literature
minor Irish prose tales (foscéla)
id. 33994

Relatively short prose tales in Irish. In learned discourse from the Middle Irish period and later, a distinction is sometimes made between the longer prím-scél and the shorter fo-scél. See eDIL s.v. ‘foscél’ for some references. In the first two volumes of BILL (1913 and 1942), Best included separate headings for ‘Minor tales’.

Subjects

Éogan Mór mac Ailella
Éogan Mór mac Ailella
(time-frame ass. with Éogan Mór mac Ailella)
Eponymous ancestor of the Éoganachta of Munster; son of Ailill Ólomm, king of Munster
See more Fíachu Muillethan
Fíachu Muillethan mac Éogain
(fl. 507–514)
Fíachu (Mun- or Muil-lethan) mac Éogain; son of Éogan mac Ailella; king of Munster
See more Díl maccu Chrecga
Díl maccu Chrecga
Tréth/Tríath (?, gen. Treth in Scéla Éogain ocus Cormaic) or Díl (Cath Maige Mucrama); father of Moncha, wife of Éogan Mór.
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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 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.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “A note about Fiacha Muillethan”, Revue Celtique 11 (1890): 41–45.
TLH – edition and translation: <link>, <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link>
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2010, last updated: January 2024
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