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Comram na Clóenfherta ‘The triumph of the Sloping Mound’

  • Early Irish
  • Cycles of the Kings
Title
Comram na Clóenfherta
‘The triumph of the Sloping Mound’
The description Mortlaid ban Temra (‘The death of the women of Tara’) occurs at the end of the text, referring to the slaying of several women in Tara at the hands of Dúnlaing, king of Leinster.
Manuscripts
Language
  • Early Irish
  • "Linguistically, the text is not susceptible of accurate dating. Some features in it are in line with Old Irish usage [...] But it also contains spellings, forms and usages which are more representative of Middle Irish texts" (Ó Cuív).(1)n. 1 Brian Ó Cuív, ‘Comram na Cloenfherta’, Celtica 11 (1976): 169.

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Sources

Notes

1.
Brian Ó Cuív, ‘Comram na Cloenfherta’, Celtica 11 (1976): 169.

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.] Ó Cuív, Brian [ed. and tr.], “Comram na Cloenfherta”, Celtica 11 (1976): 168–179.
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