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Ceart claidib Cormaic ‘The decision as to Cormac's sword’

  • Late Middle Irish
  • prose
  • Cycles of the Kings
This is the third and last tale in the composite text known as Scél na Fír Flatha, Echtra Cormaic i Tír Tairngiri, ocus Ceart Claidib Cormaic, corresponding to §§ 59-80 of Stokes' edition.
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prose (primary)
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Contains poems
‘Co sluag dar buidhnibh balca’

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Sources

Notes

1.
Vernam Hull, ‘Echtra Cormaic maic Airt, ‘The adventure of Cormac mac Airt’’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 64 (1949).

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.

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “The Irish ordeals, Cormac’s adventure in the Land of Promise, and the decision as to Cormac’s sword”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 3, Leipzig, 1891. 183–221.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
199–202 (edition); 219–221 (translation); 227–229 (notes)
[ed.] Carey, John, “The testimony of the dead”, Éigse 26 (1992): 1–12.
9–10 Edition of a short passage as it stands in the TCD 1317 copy of Bretha Nemed déidenach, with variants. This passage is cited in § 77 of Ceart claidib Cormaic.
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