Texts

Bethu Brigte ‘The Life of (St) Brigit’

Old Irish
prose
Irish hagiography

Author

Anonymous

Manuscripts

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 I, (a) ff. 101-122, (b) ff. 1-36, (c) ff. 45-52 [s. xv/xvi]

ff. 31ra–36rb

The beginning is lost.

Language

Old Irish
Secondary language(s): Hiberno-Latin

Date

9th century (?)

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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Subjects

Brigit of KildareBrigit of Kildare
(c. 439/452–c. 524/526)
patron saint of Kildare, whose cult spread both within and outside of Ireland.
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Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] [tr.] Ó hAodha, Donncha [ed.], Bethu Brigte, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link>

Edition, with translation, introduction and notes

[ed.] Plummer, Charles [ed.], J. Fraser, and P. Grosjean, “Vita Brigitae”, in: J. Fraser, Paul Grosjean, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Irish texts, fasciculus I, London, 1931. 2–18, i (corrigenda) + fasc. V: 100 (corrigenda).

Celtic Digital Initiative: <link>

[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.

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319–331 An edition, with translation, of passages that have been selected for comparison with the Middle Irish Betha Brigte and the Vita prima direct link

[tr.] OʼBrien, M. A., “The Old Irish Life of St. Brigit: Part I. Translation”, Irish Historical Studies 1:2 (September, 1938): 121–134.