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Misc. religious apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature

Late Middle Irish

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Abstalón, adba na ríg

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beg. Abstalón, adba na ríg

Late Middle Irish poem on the beheading of St John the Baptist by Mog Ruith.

Ad-fét Augustín...

prose

Early Irish anecdote attributed to St Augustine concerning a terrifying Leviathan-like monster in India, on land and in the sea, which is causing the tides by swallowing and spewing water and continually contends with the sun.

Anum ó téid as a corp

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beg. Anum ó téid as a corp

Late Middle Irish poem (9 + 4 qq) on the seven days’ journey, or seven journeys, of the soul after it leaves the body.

How Samson slew the Gesteda

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NehemiahNehemiah

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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.

Irish legends of the finding of the Cross

prose

A series of Irish legends of the finding of the Cross.

Scél saltrach na rann

prose

A prose redaction of the Middle Irish biblical poem Saltair na rann. Myles Dillon distinguishes between two main recensions of the tract, which are most fully represented by the (incomplete) versions in the Leabhar Breac and the Book of Uí Maine respectively. The first section in the Leabhar Breac, covering the narratives from Creation to Adam and Eve, has no extant counterpart in the the Book of Uí Maine. (There is also a prose summary corresponding to the first section. It is found as a commentary to the note on place (locc) in the Pseudo-historical prologue to the Senchas Már).

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