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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).

Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.

Commentary on the Amra Choluim Chille
§ 20
here as a second appendix (after the story of Labraid’s exile) to the scholia on the term céis in the phrase crot cen cheis of line 20 of the poem.

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv^ex/xvⁱⁿ]

cols 690–691

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 50 [s. xvii]

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 [1516-1518]

to be confirmed

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C iii 2 (1236) [s. xvi]

to be confirmed

Language

Late Middle Irish
Late Middle Irish (Ó Cuív).⁽²⁾^{n. 2} Brian Ó Cuív, ‘Some items from Irish tradition’, Éigse 11 (1965–1966): 171.

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

See more Craiphtine

Craiphtine

(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)

Craiphtine or Craiftine, legendary Irish harper associated with Labraid Loingsech

Sources

Notes

^1.

Dan M. Wiley, ‘An introduction to the early Irish king tales’ in Essays on the early Irish king tales... (2008).

^2.

Brian Ó Cuív, ‘Some items from Irish tradition’, Éigse 11 (1965–1966): 171.

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.] 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.

Internet Archive: <link>

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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