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Mórchath Ocha fersaitir
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An item of verse attributed to Becc mac Dé and quoted in a number of annalistic and similar historical contexts. It refers to the battle of Ocha (dated c.482) and the death of Ailill Molt.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2
context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension C);Lebor gabála Érenn/5A. Do fhlaithiusaib ocus aimseraib hÉrend iar Creitim rubric: unde Bec (mc) De dixit incipit: Morchath Ocha fersatir
f. 305rb.8-10
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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12
context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension C);Lebor gabála Érenn/5A. Do fhlaithiusaib ocus aimseraib hÉrend iar Creitim rubric: unde dixit Bec mac De incipit: Morchath Ocha fersaitir 1q quoted in the entry for Ailill Molt.
f. 33ra
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C iii 3
context: Annals of the Four Masters rubric: As don cath sin at-bert Becc mac Dé incipit: Mor chath Ocha fersaitir 1q.
f. 224v
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Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1292
context: Chronicon Scotorum rubric: unde Bec mac Dé dixit incipit: Morcath Ocha fer[s]a itir 2½qq quoted in CS s.a. 482.
f. 167ra-rb
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[ed.] [tr.] Mac Niocaill, Gearóid [ed. and tr.], and William M. Hennessy [tr.], “Chronicon Scotorum”, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, Online: University College Cork, 2008–. URL: <http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G100016 http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100016>.
15 (text), 30 (translation) CS s.a. 482.
[ed.] [tr.] OʼDonovan, John, Annala rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616, 7 vols, vol. 1: [Introduction; Epistle dedicatory; Approbations; 2242 BC–902 AD], 2nd ed., Dublin: Hodges, Smith & Co., 1856.
[ed.] [ed.] Macalister, R. A. Stewart [ed.], Lebor gabála Érenn: The book of the taking of Ireland, 5 vols, vol. 5, Irish Texts Society, 44, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1942.
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432–433 LGÉ.
