Texts
Abstalón, adba na ríg
Incoming data
Late Middle Irish poem on the beheading of St John the Baptist by Mog Ruith.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.1 (1)
incipit: Apsalon baile in righ A different and shorter version of the poem (6 qq) appended to a prose tale of John the Baptist.
f. 7v (14) b
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.] Ó Cuív, Brian, “Two items from Irish apocryphal tradition”, Celtica 10 (1973): 87–113.
[id. 2.]
[ed.] [tr.] Mackinnon, Donald, “The executioner of John the Baptist”, The Celtic Review 8 (1912–1913): 168–170.
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The version from the Edinburgh MS
