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Scéla Labrada Luirc ‘The story of Labraid Lorc’

  • Late Middle Irish
  • prose
  • Cycles of the Kings
Middle Irish tale which tells how Labraid Lorc tried to conceal the fact that he had the ears of a horse and how the truth came out.
Title
Scéla Labrada Luirc
‘The story of Labraid Lorc’
This is the title adopted by Dan Wiley in his overview of the Irish historical tales.(1)n. 1 Dan M. Wiley, ‘An introduction to the early Irish king tales’ in Essays on the early Irish king tales... (2008).
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Language
Form
prose (primary)
verse (secondary)

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Cycle of Labraid LoingsechCycles of the Kings
Cycle of Labraid Loingsech
id. 47964
Labraid Loingsech
Labraid Loingsech
(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)
also Labraid Lorc or Labraid Móen, legendary Irish king, son of Ailill Áine; regarded as an ancestor of the Laigin

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Craiphtine
Craiphtine
(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)
Craiphtine or Craiftine, legendary Irish harper associated with Labraid Loingsech

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Sources

Notes

Dan M. Wiley, ‘An introduction to the early Irish king tales’ in Essays on the early Irish king tales... (2008).
Brian Ó Cuív, ‘Some items from Irish tradition’, Éigse 11 (1965–1966): 171.

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[ed.] [tr.] Ó Cuív, Brian, “Some items from Irish tradition”, Éigse 11:3 (1965–1966): 167–187, 290.
The version from NLI G 50 edited and translated.
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, “Mythological notes”, Revue Celtique 2 (1873–1875): 197–203, 507.
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197–199 The version from YBL edited, translated and only briefly discussed.

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Cuív, Brian, “Some items from Irish tradition”, Éigse 11:3 (1965–1966): 167–187, 290.
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