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Middle Irish poem which, as the opening quatrain announces, lists 35 kings of Leinster who were high-kings of early Ireland, from Labraid Loingsech to Nad Buidb mac Eirc.

Manuscript witnesses

Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89) 
context: Laídshenchas Laigen   9qq.
f. 48r(83)  
Text
f. 70v(128)  
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89) 
context: Laídshenchas Laigen   incipit: Coic rig trichat do Laignib   incl. Cóic ríg tríchat do Laignib   [Poem 4] Poem on kings of Leinster who ruled early Ireland
in section: f. 48r(83)a.34
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89) 
context: Tract on the Laigin   rubric: Duil laechsluinte Lagen in so sis acht on is diamair   incipit: Na tri Fothaid .i. tri m. Maicnia m. Lugdach   incl. Na trí Fothaid, Cóic ríg tríchat do Laignib, Secht ríg do Laignib na lerg, Sé ríg dá fhichet co n-gail   Further genealogies of the Laigin. Incl. section headed Genelach Find m. hUmaill, incl. verse items: (a) beg. Na trí Fothaid (7 lines only), attr. to Find File mac Rosa (as-bert Find File m. Rosa); (b) 1 line beg. Secht rig do Laignib na lerg, for which see f. 48r(83); (c) 1 line beg. Coic rig trichat do Laignib (de quibus hoc carmen dictum est), for which see f. 48r(83); (d) beg. Se rig da fhichet co ngail (1q).
in section: f. 70v(128)a.i–f. 70v(128)b

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[ed.] [tr.] Hemprich, Gisbert, Rí Érenn – ‘König von Irland’ – Fiktion und Wirklichkeit, 2 vols, Bonner Beiträge zur Keltologie, 2, Berlin: curach bhán, 2015.
732 (11.6) Edition and German translation.