Texts
Fothairt for clannaib Concorb
Incoming data
Poem on St Brigit's people, the Fothairt, and their expulsion from Tara. It is 19 stanzas long in both manuscripts.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2
context: On the settlement of the Fotharta and the Laigsi incipit: Fothart for trebaib Choncorbb 16 qq.
f. 95(104)vc
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
incipit: FOthart for trebaib Con Corbb Poem. 19 stanzas.
p. 35a.11
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
incipit: Fothart for trebaib Con Corbb Independent copy. 19 st.
p. 35.11ff
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
context: Laídshenchas Laigen incipit: Fothairt for clannaib Concorb incl. Fothairt for clannaib Concorb [Poem 8] Poem on expulsion of the Fothairt from Tara.
in section: f. 48r(83)b–
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
context: Laídshenchas Laigen incipit: Fothairt for clannaib Concorb Part of the Laídshenchas Laigen. 19 st.
f. 48rb ff p. 83b (facsimile)
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.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “An Old-Irish parallel to the motive of the Bleeding Lance”, Ériu 6 (1912): 157–158.
Edition, with translation, of only part of the poem. This is the passage (6 stanzas) which relates how Art mac Cuind expelled Eochaid Fúath nAirt, chief of the Fothairt, beginning ‘Cid frisndechaid assa thír’ (6th stanza in LL).
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, Osborn Bergin, M. A. OʼBrien, and Anne OʼSullivan [eds.], The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, 6 vols, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1954–1983.
CELT – 1-260: <link> CELT – 400-470 (excl. Táin bó Cúailnge): <link> CELT – 471-638 and 663 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn): <link> CELT – 761-781 and 785-841 (excl. Dinnshenchas Érenn and Togail Troí): <link> CELT – 1119-1192 and 1202-1325 (excl. Esnada tige Buchet and Fingal Rónáin ): <link>
Vol. 1: 154–156. Diplomatic edition of the LL text. direct link
