Senchas muici fhéili Martain ‘The story of the Martinmas pig’
- Irish
- prose
Short Irish anecdote which gives an origin story for the monastic custom of slaughtering pigs on the eve of St Martin‘s feast-day (Martinmas, celebrated on 11 November). St Patrick is said have received the monastic tonsure from St Martin and to have instituted the custom in his honour.
- Irish
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