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Mo Ling and Findat

  • Early Irish
  • prose, verse
  • Irish hagiography, minor Irish prose tales
Early Irish anecdote about Mo Ling and an old woman (caillech) named Findat who gave her son to him; also on the appearance of Christ as a leper (clam).
Initial words (prose)
  • Caillech dorat a mac dósum do M'Ling. Findat a h-ainm
Manuscripts
Language
  • Early Irish
Form
prose, verse (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Mo Ling and the leperMo Ling and the leperIrish anecdote about St Mo Ling and a leper. 

Classification

Irish hagiographyIrish hagiography
...
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 LingMo Ling
(d. 697)
Mo Ling of Ferns, Moling Luachra
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.
95–99
[ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. O'Brien, 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>
1240–1241 Diplomatic edition direct link
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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May 2014, last updated: April 2021
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