Texts
Cathair cenn cóicid Banba
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Middle Irish poem which gives a version of the tale known in prose form as Esnada tige Buchet.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
context: Laídshenchas Laigen incipit: Cathair cenn coicid Banba incl. Cathair cenn cóicid Banba [Poem 13], the metrical version of Esnada tige Buchet (“The songs of Buchet's House”). Cf. f. 73.
in section: f. 50r(87)a–
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.] Greene, David [ed.], Fingal Rónáin and other stories, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 16, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1955.
Secondary sources (select)
Bhreathnach, Edel, “Kings, the kingship of Leinster and the regnal poems of laídshenchas Laigen: a reflection of dynastic politics in Leinster, 650–1150”, in: Alfred P. Smyth (ed.), Seanchas. Studies in early and medieval Irish archaeology, history and literature in honour of Francis J. Byrne, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 299–312.
