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Mide maigen Clainne Cuind
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Middle Irish poem on the kings of Mide.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 2569-2572
incipit: Mide maigen chloinne Cuinn. 51qq.
ff. 76v–78v
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
incipit: MIde magen clainne Cuind Poem. 51 stanzas.
p. 184b–
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
incipit: Mide maigen clainni Cuind 57qq.
ff. 88r(163)b.18–v(164)b.20
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
rubric: Do rig hUisnich inso sis incipit: Mide maigen clainni Cuind Poem (57qq) on the kings of Mide.
f. 88r(163)b.18–
Sources
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[ed.] [tr.] Smith, Peter J., “Mide maigen Clainne Cuind: a medieval poem on the kings of Mide”, Peritia 15 (2001): 108–144.
abstract:
This paper presents a critical edition (with introduction, translation, and commentary) of the Middle-Irish poem Mide Maigen Clainne Cuind, which can be dated c.1030×1106 on internal evidence.
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 4, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1965. xxvii + pp. 761-1117.
CELT – pp. 761-781 and 785-841: <link>
803–809
