Texts
Na trí Fothaid
Incoming data
One of the rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’. The three Fothads, Find fer Umail, and Find Fili, king of Leinster, are said to descend from Núadu Necht.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
incipit: NA trí Fothaid .i. Fothad Airgtech ⁊ Fothad Carptech. ⁊ Fothad Canann. Genealogical tract in prose concerning the three Fothaid. It concludes with a poem (3qq) attributed to Find (amal asbert Find), beginning ‘Na tri Fothaid’ (190b).
p. 190b
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
context: Tract on the Laigin rubric: Duil laechsluinte Lagen in so sis acht on is diamair incipit: Na tri Fothaid .i. tri m. Maicnia m. Lugdach incl. Na trí Fothaid, Cóic ríg tríchat do Laignib, Secht ríg do Laignib na lerg, Sé ríg dá fhichet co n-gail Further genealogies of the Laigin. Incl. section headed Genelach Find m. hUmaill, incl. verse items: (a) beg. Na trí Fothaid (7 lines only), attr. to Find File mac Rosa (as-bert Find File m. Rosa); (b) 1 line beg. Secht rig do Laignib na lerg, for which see f. 48r(83); (c) 1 line beg. Coic rig trichat do Laignib (de quibus hoc carmen dictum est), for which see f. 48r(83); (d) beg. Se rig da fhichet co ngail (1q).
in section: f. 70v(128)a.i–
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.] Corthals, Johan [ed.], “The rhymeless ‘Leinster poems’: diplomatic texts”, Celtica 24 (2003): 79–100.
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[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Über die älteste irische Dichtung II. Rhythmische alliterierende reimlose Strophen, Berlin, 1914.
Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link>
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[ed.] Campanile, Enrico, Die älteste Hofdichtung von Leinster: alliterierende reimlose Strophen, Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 503, Vienna, 1988.
33–34
[ed.] OʼBrien, M. A. [ed.], Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1962.
comments: Reprinted in 1976 and 2005, with an introduction by J. V. Kelleher.
CELT – pp. 1–332 (Rawl. B 502): <link>
99 Rawlinson B 502 version
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, “Find mac Umaill”, Revue Celtique 32 (1911): 391–395.
Internet Archive: <link>
