Texts

Iarfaiged nech acaib dam

Incoming data

Dinnshenchas poem which explains the name of the ‘Yew of the Disputing Sons’ (Ibar mac nAngciss) with reference to the cause of the Battle of Mag Mucrama. 35 stanzas.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

rubric: Cormac mac Culennain cecinit incipit: IARfaiged nech acaib dam⁽²⁾^{n. 2} Cf. ‘Iarfaiged nech atai dam’ in T. K. Abbott • E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in TCD (1921): 158. Poem. 35 stanzas.

p. 27a.35–p. 27b.52

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

p. 27a-27b

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Dillon, Myles, “The Yew of the Disputing Sons”, Ériu 14 (1946): 154–165.