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La geste des Engleis en Yrlande
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Anglo-Norman narrative poem, a kind of chanson de geste, composed in Ireland, which relates how the stage was set for the invasion and conquest of Ireland and seeks to justify English occupation. It focuses on the story of Díarmait Mac Murchada, the ousted king of Leinster, who secured military aid from Richard ‘Strongbow’ de Clare, earl of Pembroke, to help him regain his kingdom and paved the way for the invasion by Henry II of England.
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Text
London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS Carew 596
incipit: Par soen demeine latimer The only known copy. The beginning and end of the text are missing and there are a number of lacunae.
ff. 1ra–23rb
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[ed.] [tr.] Mullally, Evelyn [ed.], The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland. La Geste des Engleis en Yrlande. A new edition of the chronicle formerly known as The Song of Dermot and the Earl, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002.
[ed.] [tr.] Conlon, Denis J., The song of Dermot and Earl Richard Fitzgilbert: Le chansun de Dermot e li quens Ricard fiz Gilbert, Studien und Dokumente zur Geschichte der romanischen Literaturen, 24, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1992.
[ed.] [tr.] Orpen, Goddard Henry, The song of Dermot and the Earl: an Old French poem from the Carew manuscript no. 596 in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth Palace, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892.
