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verse beg. Feidlimid athair Echach

Middle Irish
verse

Middle Irish poem on battles fought by Cú Chorb, king of Leinster, with Eochaid Find Fúath nAirt, ancestor of the Fothairt, against the men of Munster.

First words (verse)

Feidlimid athair Echach

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

p. 35b.1ff

beg. ‘Feidlimid athair Echach’

12qq.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502 2, ff. 19–89 = Lebar Glinne Dá Locha (?) [1125 x 1150]

f. 48r(83)b.31ff

beg. ‘Fedeilmid athair Echach’

context: Laídshenchas Laigen

Language

Middle Irish

Form

verse (primary)

Classification

Subjects

Fothairt

Fothairt

No short description available

See more Cú Chorb mac Moga Corb

Cú Chorb mac Moga Corb

prehistoric king of Leinster; son of Mug Corb; given as the father of four eponymous progenitors of Leinster ruling families: Nia Corb (a quo Dál Niad Corb), Mess Corb (a quo Dál Messe/Messin Corb), Cormac (a quo Dál Cor(b)maic) and Cairpre Cluithechair (a quo Dál Coirbbri)

See more Eochaid Find Fúath nAirt

Eochaid Find Fúath nAirt

(supp. fl. c.2nd century)

In Irish historical tradition, eponymous ancestor of the Fothairt, a son of Feidlimid Rechtaid and brother of Conn Cétchathach.

Leinster

Leinster/Cúige Laighean

No short description available

See more Munster

Munster/Cúige Mumhan

No short description available

Sources

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.

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 1, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954. 260 pp. + 4 pl.

CELT – edition (pp. 1-260): <link>

157–158

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, “Miszellen”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918): 432–441.

Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

435–438 [‘Cú Chorb and Echu Find Fuath nAirt’]

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