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Failet sunna eter dá fhert

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89) 
context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Míniugud)   incipit: Do rochair tra Sirna Sirsaeglach mac Dein m. Demail la Rothechtaid Rotha mac Moen   incl. Cimbáeth no chinned cech cáin, Failet sunna eter dá fhert, Mac Echach ard orddan   Acephalous. Fragment of the Míniugud-recension of Lebor gabála Érenn, containing part of the tract on pre-Christian kings of Ireland known as De fhlaithiusaib Érenn = CGH 117-122 ~ R. A. S. Macalister, Lebor gabála Érenn: The book of the taking of Ireland, vol. 5 (1942): 240–281 (§§ 525–561). One of the sectons is headed Gen. Cimbaeda (f. 74rb.9ff). Incl. verse: (a) beg. Cimbaeth no chinnedcech cain (6qq), anonymous (inde dicitur); (b) beg. Failet sunna eter da fhert (1q), attrib. to Cú Chulainn (Cu Chulainn dicebat); (c) Mac Echach ard orddan (3qq), attr. to Cormac (Unde Cormac hoc carmen cecinit).
in section: f. 74r(135)a.1–f. 74v(136)b.34

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