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Bretha Doet Nemthine

• Old Irish
• Early Irish law texts

An early Irish legal text that is known from references elsewhere. It does not survive or at least, no passages have been identified as belonging to this text.

The text is mentioned in a list of bretha that occurs in the Pseudo-historical prologue to the Senchas Már as well as the literary tale Scél na Fír Flatha (§ 5).

Language

• Old Irish
• Hypothetical.

Classification

Early Irish law textsEarly Irish law texts
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Subjects

Nemthenn

Nemthend/Nemthenn ... Nephin

County Mayo

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Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.  

A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).

176 [id. 5.10. ‘Bretha Doet Nemthine’]

web page identifiers

page name: Bretha Doet Nemthine

page url: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Bretha_Doet_Nemthine
redirect: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Redirect/page/14449
numerical alternative: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?curid=14449
page ID: 14449
page ID tracker: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Show:ID&id=14449

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Contributors

C. A., Dennis Groenewegen

Page created

January 2013, last updated: August 2020