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Frithfolaid ríg Caisil fri túatha Muman ‘Counter-obligations of the king of Cashel towards the peoples of Munster’

  • Early Irish
  • prose
  • Irish texts
Manuscripts

(1)n. 1 This overview is based on Bart Jaski, ‘King and household in early medieval Ireland’ in Familia and household in the medieval Atlantic province... (2011).

Recension I
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1298 1-238 [s. xiv ?]
ff. 187a.27–188b.11
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan (Leabhar Leacain) [s. xvin]
ff. 52vb.26–52vb.51
Imperfect
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 6, cols 281-344 = Section of YBL
col. 339
beg. ‘Frithfolaith Caisil fri tuatha Muman’
Preceded by the Tract on the Dál Caladbuig
Recension II
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan (Leabhar Leacain) [s. xvin]
f. 192rb.36–192vb.11
Language
  • Early Irish

  • Early Irish.

Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Irish textsIrish texts
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Subjects

kings of Cashelkings of Cashel
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Corcu Loígde
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See more Uí Liatháin
Uí Liatháin

Early Irish dynasty based in Munster whose kingdom was situated in what is now roughly south-east Cork. Eochu Liathán, son of Dáire Cerbba, is the eponymous ancestor from whom the Uí Liatháin claimed descent.

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Sources

Notes

1.
This overview is based on Bart Jaski, ‘King and household in early medieval Ireland’ in Familia and household in the medieval Atlantic province... (2011).

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.] OʼKeeffe, J. G. [ed.], “Dál Caladbuig and reciprocal services between the kings of Cashel and various Munster states”, in: J. Fraser, Paul Grosjean, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Irish texts, fasciculus I, London, 1931. 19–21, i (corrigenda) + fasc. V: 100 (corrigenda).
Celtic Digital Initiative: <link>
20–21 (§§ 8–18) Recension I
[ed.] Hull, Vernam, “A passage in Dál Caladbuig”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 30 (1967): 12–13.
Recension I: offers a reading for part of § 9 in O’Keeffe’s edition.
Edition wanted
No edition of the second recension is known at this stage.

Secondary sources (select)

Charles-Edwards, T. M., Early Christian Ireland, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
534–548
Jaski, Bart, Early Irish kingship and succession, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000.  
Early medieval Ireland was politically fragmented, with a multitude of lordships and kingships ruled by dynasties of which many were genealogically inter-related. This book begins by discussing the political power of the Irish lords and kings over their subjects, their roles as mediators between natural and divine forces and their position as rulers over their subjects. It then moves on to a detailed analysis of the rule of succession in early Ireland. A lord or king had to be qualified for his office, and for this many considerations were taken into account, such as his pedigree, the status of his mother, his behaviour and his physical appearance. This is widely evidenced in legal material, saga literature, annals and other sources, and the author sets these notions in a wider context of various aspects of Irish political and social life, such as the division of the inheritance, loss of noble and royal status, clientship and suretyship. The meaning of the titles rígdamna and the office of tánaise ríg are also examined. The Irish custom of succession forms the background to the tendency of close and distant relatives to compete for power and of the ruling dynasties to expand and fragment. It also explains why it was so difficult for one dynasty to become permanently paramount in Ireland. The book concludes with a discussion of the nature of the kingship of Tara.
205–207
Jaski, Bart, “King and household in early medieval Ireland”, in: Benjamin T. Hudson [ed.], Familia and household in the medieval Atlantic province, 3, Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Publications, 2011. 89–122.
Byrne, F. J., Irish kings and high-kings, 2nd ed., Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001.
196 199
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