Texts
Mo Ling and Findat
Incoming data
Early Irish anecdote about Mo Ling and an old woman (caillech) named Findat who gave her son to him; also on the appearance of Christ as a leper (clam).
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 2324-2340
incipit: Caillech dorad a mac do Moling
f. 65
Sources
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[ed.] [tr.] Hull, Vernam, “Two anecdotes concerning St. Moling”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 18 (1930): 90–99.
95–99
[ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967. xv + pp. 1119-1325.
CELT – pp. 1119-1192 and 1202-1325: <link>
1240–1241 Diplomatic edition direct link