Texts

Mac Lesc mac Ladáin aithech

Incoming data

Story in which Finn mac Cumaill and his servant Mac Lesc mac Ladáin are separated from the Fían. A number of verses are exchanged (cf. ‘Fuit (poem)’).

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

No heading. The anecdote contains Fuitt co brath, but not Tánic sam.

p. 208a

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

No title occurs in the manuscript. It includes the poem beginning ‘Fuit co bráth’

p. 208a

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)

No heading. The anecdote includes two poems: (1) Fuitt co brath, four quatrains attributed to Mac Lesc, and (2) Tánic sam, seven quatrains attributed to Finn.

ff. 59vb–60ra

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)

incl. Fuit (poem) No title in the manuscript; includes the poem beginning Fuit co bráth.

in section: f. 59v(106)b.42

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Four Old-Irish songs of summer and winter, London: Nutt, 1903.