Texts

verse beg. Mór ar bfearg riot a rí Saxan, a sé a dhamra

Ó Dálaigh (Gofraidh Fionn)

Early Modern Irish
verse
Classical Irish poetry, Mythological Cycle

Classical Irish poem by Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh in commemoration of Maurice fitz Maurice (Muiris Óg), second earl of Desmond. It includes an episode about Lug's arrival at Tara, after which Maurice is likened to the Irish deity.

First words (verse)

Mór ar bfearg riot a rí Saxan, a sé a dhamra

Author

Gofraidh Fionn Ó DálaighÓ Dálaigh (Gofraidh Fionn)
(d. 1387)
also Gofraidh Ó Dálaigh Fionn; Irish bardic poet of the Ó Dálaigh family
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Ascribed to: Gofraidh Fionn Ó DálaighÓ Dálaigh (Gofraidh Fionn)
(d. 1387)
also Gofraidh Ó Dálaigh Fionn; Irish bardic poet of the Ó Dálaigh family
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Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS A iv 3 (743) [s. xvii]

p. 652ff

Language

Early Modern Irish

Date

Bergin dates the composition of the poem to the late 1350s, within a few years of the death of the poem's subject.

Form

verse (primary)

Length

Number of stanzas: 60

Classification

Classical Irish poetryClassical Irish poetry
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Mythological CycleMythological Cycle
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Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] Bergin, Osborn, “Mór ar bfearg riot a rí Saxan”, in: Osborn Bergin, Irish bardic poetry: texts and translations, together with an introductory lecture, ed. Fergus Kelly, and David Greene, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1970. 73–81.

CELT – edition: <link>