Texts
Araile felmac féig don Mumain
Incoming data
Short Middle Irish tale concerning poets.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/22c-23a (pp. 708-776, 792-809)
The text is uniquely preserved in this manuscript.
pp. 754–755
Sources
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[ed.] [tr.] Breatnach, Liam, “Araile felmac féig don Mumain: unruly pupils and the limitations of satire”, Ériu 59 (2009): 111–137.
This paper offers an annotated edition and translation of a short Middle Irish tale about poets. It includes discussion of language and date, Bérla na Filed, the metre aí fhreisligi and the use of satire as a means of gaining redress.
(source: p. 111)
(source: p. 111)
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Bestrafter Pferdediebstahl”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 7 (1910): 304–305.
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Breatnach points out that Meyer's transcription contains a number of errors.
