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Madh fiafraidheach budh feasach

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Long Irish bardic poem by Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh offering advice on the use of grammar.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 C 33

Stanzas 1-45 and 47-54 of McKenna's edition.

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 D 14

Stanzas 1-21, 25-45, 47, 49-51, 53-54 of McKenna's edition.

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS A v 2

Stanzas 1-4, 8, 10-17, 19-21, 24-40, 43-45, 47, 50-52, 54 of McKenna's edition.

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 1

43qq = stanzas 1, 3-17, 25-47, 50-52, 54 of McKenna's edition.

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] McKenna, Lambert, “A poem by Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh”, in: Séamus Pender (ed.), Féilscríbhinn Torna: essays and studies presented to professor Tadhg Ua Donnchadha (Torna) on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, September 4th, 1944, Cork: Cork University Press, 1947. 66–76.

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Reference works

Simms, Katharine, and Mícheál Hoyne, Bardic poetry database, Online: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2010–. URL: <http://bardic.celt.dias.ie>.

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