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The sons(?) of Éogan Táidlech ('The Shining'), also known as Mug Núadat and Éogan Fitheccach, come with a large fleet to Ireland and make landfall at Inber Colpthai, the mouth of the River Boyne. They are met by the men of Ireland, with whom they exchange silver for food. The men of Ireland are impressed with the wealth of the newcomers and take Éogan into fosterage in return for a handsome fosterage fee. [...]

Sources

Editions and translations

Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “The Laud genealogies and tribal histories”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 8 (1912): 291–338.

CELT – edition: <link> Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

312–314.

Byrne, F. J., Irish kings and high-kings, 2nd ed., Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001.

199–200 (translation of a single passage).

Secondary sources

Byrne, F. J., Irish kings and high-kings, 2nd ed., Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001.

199–201

Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, “Irish origin legends and genealogy: recurrent aetiologies”, in: Tore Nyberg, Iørn Piø, and P. M. Sørenen (eds), History and heroic tale: a symposium, Odense: Odense University Press, 1985. 51–96.

Sproule, David, “Origins of the Éoganachta”, Ériu 35 (1984): 31–37.