Texts

Mór ar bfearg riot a rí Saxan

Incoming data

Classical Irish poem by Gofraidh Fionn Ó Dálaigh in commemoration of Maurice fitz Maurice (Muiris Óg), second earl of Desmond. It includes an episode about Lug's arrival at Tara, after which Maurice is likened to the Irish deity.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS A iv 3

p. 652ff

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Bergin, Osborn, “Mór ar bfearg riot a rí Saxan”, in: Osborn Bergin, Irish bardic poetry: texts and translations, together with an introductory lecture, ed. Fergus Kelly, and David Greene, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1970. 73–81.

CELT – edition: <link>

The Lug episode only (beg. Tadhbhas do Lugh, leannán Teamhra)

[tr.] Carney, James P. [tr.], Medieval Irish lyrics, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

comments: Edition, with introduction, English translation and notes, of a selection of Irish and Hiberno-Latin poems.

86ff [id. 37.]

[ed.] Knott, Eleanor, An introduction to Irish syllabic poetry of the period 1200–1600, 2nd ed., Cork: Cork University Press, 1934.

comments: Reprinted in 1974 by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

54ff [‘The coming of Lugh’]