Texts
Comae ríaguil in Choimded
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Early Irish religious poem which prescribes a set of moral guidelines that together make up ‘the rule of the Lord’ (ríagal in Choimded). Strachan, who first edited the poem, distinguishes between two recensions, A and B, both of which carry some interpolations of their own.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5100-5104
rubric: Riagail Comhgaill Bendchair indso
pp. 31–33
Sources
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[ed.] [tr.] Strachan, John [ed.], “An Old-Irish metrical rule”, Ériu 1 (1904): 191–208.
