Texts
Fianna bátar i nEmain (addenda by Finn bishop of Kildare)
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An interpolated section in the Book of Leinster copy of the poem Fianna bátar i nEmain, consisting of 11 additional stanzas added and quite possibly composed by Finn, bishop of Kildare, and ending with a quatrain devoted to Díarmait Mac Murchada and the battle of Móin Mhór (1151).
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
rubric: húc usque Cinaed cecinit. Find episcopus Cilli dara hoc addidit [margin left] 11 quatrains interpolated by Bishop Finn of Kildare into the text of Fianna bátar i nEmain, where they comprise quatrains 30-41, ending with Díarmait mac Murchada.
p. 32a–
Sources
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[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 1, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954. 260 pp. + 4 pl.
CELT – edition (pp. 1-260): <link>
132–133
