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Scél ar Chairbre Cinn Cait
prose
The second of two Middle Irish recensions, the other being Bruiden Meic Da Réo, which recount how in early Ireland, the vassal peoples (aithech-thúatha) rebelled and decimated the leading noble families. This is Thurneysen's ‘Recension I’, except for the modernised text in the Edinburgh MS, which he describes as ‘Recension III’.
Scél Mongáin
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Scél na Fír Flatha, Echtra Cormaic i Tír Tairngiri, ocus Ceart Claidib Cormaic
Scél na Fír Flathaprose
Scéla Áedo Oirdnidi
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Scéla Cairpri Chruimm ocus Ciaráin
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Scéla Cano meic Gartnáin
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Scéla Cennétig meic Gáethíne ocus na Lochlannach
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Medieval Irish account in the Fragmentary annals of Ireland concerning Cennétig son of Gáethíne, (over)king of the Loígis (d. 903), and his dealings with the Lochlannaig (vikings from Lochlann, typically translated as ‘Norway’).
Scéla Con-Corb ocus Lugdech Loíchsig
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Scéla Conaill Chuirc ocus Corcu Loígde
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Scéla Conaill Chuirc ocus rígi Caisil
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Scéla Cormaic ocus Ciarnaite
prose
verse
Brief account of the affair between Cormac mac Airt and Cíarnat, a Pictish princess who was taken captive.
Scéla Cormaic meic Cuilennáin ocus na crosán
verse
prose
beg. Truaghan sin, a Rí na righ
A brief Irish prose story, with poem, concerning the death of Cormac mac Cuilennáin, who was slain in the battle of Mag Ailbe (908). On the night before the battle, three entertainers (crossáin) promise the king to perform before him the following night, but the king and the crossáin do not live to meet again. By some act of divine providence, however, the crossáin are allowed to perform their art and utter a poem beg. Truaghán sin, a Rí na righ (10qq).
Scéla Cormaic meic Cuilennáin ocus fernóice Inse Celtra
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Very brief anecdote which recounts that Cormac mac Cuilennáin planted an alder-tree (fernóc) in Inis Celtra and that through a miracle of God, apples grew on it.
Scéla Cuinn ocus Airt ocus Cormaic
prose
verse
Scéla Éogain Móir ocus Chuinn Chétchathaig
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Irish account of the power struggle between Éogan Mór and Conn Cétchathach.
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Scéla Fiachna meic Báetáin ocus Fiachna meic Demmáin ocus aided Mongáinprose
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