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Bretha Echach maic Luchta

• 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 text has 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

Eochaid mac LuchtaEochaid mac Luchta
Eochu mac Luchtai
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
legendary king of Munster or in Munster, especially as king of North Munster while Cú Roí is king of South Munster.
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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.  

comments: A companion to Binchy (D. A.) 1978a. Review article: McLeod, N., “A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici”, Peritia 19 (2005).

176 [id. 5.11. ‘Bretha Echach Maic Luchta’]

web page identifiers

page name: Bretha Echach maic Luchta

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redirect: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Redirect/page/14450
numerical alternative: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?curid=14450
page ID: 14450
page ID tracker: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Show:ID&id=14450

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Contributors

C. A., Dennis Groenewegen

Page created

January 2013, last updated: August 2020