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Mo Ling and Grác

• Old Irish
• prose
• Irish hagiography, Legends, minor Irish prose tales

Anecdote about Mo Ling and a neighbouring couple, Grác and his wife Crón

First words (prose)

• Drochcomaithech ro baí i n-ocus dosom .i. Grác

Manuscripts

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

p. 284a (line 6ff)

Only known manuscript copy

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Language

• Old Irish
• ?

Form

prose (primary)

verse (secondary)

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
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LegendsLegends
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minor Irish prose tales (foscéla)Irish narrative literature
minor Irish prose tales (foscéla)

id. 33994

Relatively short prose tales in Irish. In learned discourse from the Middle Irish period and later, a distinction is sometimes made between the longer prím-scél and the shorter fo-scél. See eDIL s.v. ‘foscél’ for some references. In the first two volumes of BILL (1913 and 1942), Best included separate headings for ‘Minor tales’.

Subjects

Mo Ling

Mo Ling

(d. 697)

Irish saint, abbot and patron saint of Tech Mo Ling (St Mullins, Co. Carlow) and reputed ‘bishop’ of Ferna (Ferns).

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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.] Hull, Vernam, “Two anecdotes concerning St. Moling”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 18 (1930): 90–99.

90–94 [‘Mo Lling and Grác’] LL

[ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967. xv + pp. 1119-1325.

CELT – pp. 1119-1192 and 1202-1325: <link>

1236–1237 Diplomatic edition from LL direct link

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May 2014, last updated: January 2024