Texts

Aided Meic Con ‘The violent death of Mac Con’

Middle Irish
Cycles of the Kings, Aideda

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv^ex/xvⁱⁿ]

p. 205b in facsimile col. 938

Language

Middle Irish
Middle Irish (Dillon)⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} “[...] it is in the early style, but the language is Middle Irish. The independent pronoun occurs in §§2 and 3, and many of the verbal forms are late. It may perhaps be assigned to the eleventh century.” Myles Dillon, ‘The death of Mac Con’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 60 (1945): 340.

Date

11th century?⁽²⁾^{n. 2} See Dillon supra.

Textual relationships

The story of Mac Con's death is also told in Cath Maige Mucrama and Scéla Moshauluim ocus Maic Con ocus Luigdech.

Related: Sanas Cormaic/RincneSanas Cormaic/Rincne

Entry for ‘rincne’ in Sanas Cormaic, with an anecdote about Ferchess, Mac Con and Finn úa Báiscni.

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings

id. 80

AidedaAideda
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Sources

Notes

^1.

“[...] it is in the early style, but the language is Middle Irish. The independent pronoun occurs in §§2 and 3, and many of the verbal forms are late. It may perhaps be assigned to the eleventh century.” Myles Dillon, ‘The death of Mac Con’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 60 (1945): 340.

^2.

See Dillon supra.