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Scéla Néill Fhrossaig ‘The story of Níall Frossach’

  • Middle Irish
  • Cycles of the Kings
Saga about Níall Frossach mac Fergaile (d. 778), king of Tara from the Cenél nÉogain.
Manuscripts
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]
ff. 273b.1–274a
beg. ‘Buí rí fírén . . . i n-ardrígi for Herind .i. Niall Frossach mac Fergail’
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48a (476) = Liber Flavus Fergusiorum, part 1 [c. 1435-1440]
ff. 10vb.inf–11ra
beg. ‘Bai righ amhra for Erind .i. co firen fial fordligi fosaid fiaitheamail’
A version which according to Dan Wiley, is “somewhat expurgated”.
Language
  • Middle Irish

  • Middle Irish.

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Níall Frossach mac Fergaile
Níall Frossach mac Fergaile
(d. 778)
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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.] 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>
1202–1203 Diplomatic edition direct link
[tr.] Greene, David [tr.], “The ‘Act of Truth’ in a Middle-Irish story”, Saga och Sed (1976): 30–37.

Secondary sources (select)

Thanks to Christina Cleary (TCD) for alerting us to the copy in the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum (RIA MS 23 O 48a).

Wiley, Dan M., “Niall Frossach’s true judgement”, Ériu 55 (2005): 19–36.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
October 2010, last updated: January 2024
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