Poem (22 stanzas) in the Sex aetates mundi.
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Middle Irish poem (9 qq) on the seven journeys of the soul after if leaves the body. It is found in the Leabhar Breac, where it is attributed to Moelmoedóc Ua Mongair but internally, in the final quatrain, to Moelmoedóc mac Diarmada, possibly referring to the abbot of Glen Uissen (Killeshin, Co. Laois) (ob. 917).
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A group of ten Middle Irish poems on the week before Judgment Day, which is found as an addition at the end of Saltair na rann.
Old Irish version of the Sunday Letter (Carta Dominica), a letter allegedly written by Christ insisting on strict Sunday observance. In the manuscripts it is commonly found together with another Old Irish text, Cáin Domnaig.
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Late Middle Irish tale in which Jewish traditions about Samson are combined with Greek traditions about the Trojans. Ferann na nGeisteda, the homeland of the pagan Gesteda in the tale, has been identified as a reference to the Land of Goshen in Egypt.
A series of Irish legends of the finding of the Cross.
An Irish apocryphal anecdote on the appearance of a rectangular ingot of gold (tinde cethur-uillech de ór) in Arabia on the day after Christ was born. An imperfect copy is found in a manuscript (Egerton 92) which formerly belonged to the Book of Fermoy. It may bear some relationship to an Irish tract on the 17 wonders which appeared on the night of Christ’s birth, a copy of which is found in the Book of Fermoy.
