Texts
Aided Bresail meic Díarmata‘The violent death of Bressal mac Díarmata’
- Early Irish
- Cycles of the Kings, Aideda
A brief, early Irish saga and hagiographical legend, which relates how Díarmait mac Cerbaill had his son Bresal slain for appropriating a nun’s cow and how St Béccán rescued the soul of the king’s son from hell, resuscitating him.
Manuscripts
- Independently attested
- Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 3 = detached folios from the Book of Leinster [s. xii]p. 358 context: Martyrology of TallaghtText written in the left margin. The main text is that of the Martyrology of Tallaght.
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48a (476) = Liber Flavus Fergusiorum, part 1 [c. 1435-1440]f. 20(72)va.i–vb.m
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 3 A, ff. 1-19 [c.1467]f. 11vbbeginning: ‘Fecht do rigne Bresal mac Diarmaddo’
- Version incorporated in the second recension of Aided Díarmata meic Cerbaill.
- Cork, University College, Book of Lismore = Book of Lismore (Leabhar Leasa Móir) [s. xv]f. 136va.1–va.33 context: Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill II
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 25 (258) [c.1809 × 1813]context: Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill IITranscript.
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 M 7 (287) [1818 × 1819]context: Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill IIAnother transcript by Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin, written between 1818 and 1819.
- Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 17 [1817]context: Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill IIAnother transcript by Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin.
- Context: Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill IITranscripts of Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin, possibly one or more of the above.
- Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 362pp. 111–112heading: ‘Scéal air Bhreasal mac Diarmada ⁊ air Bhéacán naomh’ context: Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill II
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- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 H 6 (478) [1868]context: Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill IIAnother transcript.
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Language
- Early Irish
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.
[dipl. ed.] OʼSullivan, Anne [ed.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983. xv + pp. 1327-1708.
CELT – pp. 1327–1595 (excl. pp. 1596–1708): <link>
1612 Diplomatic edition of the text in LL
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Aided Bresail”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 7 (1910): 305–307.
comments: Aided Bresail, based on Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 2.
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.
Cf. the Martyrology of Donegal, under 5 April:
Secondary sources (select)
Wiley, Dan M., “An introduction to the early Irish king tales”, in: Dan M. Wiley (ed.), Essays on the early Irish king tales, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 13–67.
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October 2010, last updated: December 2022