Texts

Irish story of Comgall and the foreign monk

  • Irish
  • prose
Anecdote about Comgall of Bangor facing devotional competition from a foreign monk. 
Manuscripts
f. 141v
beg. ‘Manach craibthech tánic tairis anoir do chomsinedh crabaid re Comgall Bennchair’
f. 4va
beg. ‘Manach craibdich tainic tairis anoir do comsinid crabaid re Comgall Bendcair’
Language
  • Irish
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Subjects

Comgall of Bangor
Comgall of Bangor
(d. 601/602)
Comgall (mac Sétnai) moccu Araidi, patron saint of Bangor

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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.

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, “Anecdota from Irish MSS: 10. MS Rawlinson B 512, fo. 141b, 2; ib., 142a, 2 [and] Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, MS 2324-40, fo. 6”, The Gaelic Journal 4:47 (November 1893, 1889–1893): 229.
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Stories from the Edinburgh MS. XXVI (Kilbride Collection No 22)”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 3, Halle and Dublin, 1910. 7–10.
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April 2020, last updated: July 2023