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Ro batar laeich do Laigneib

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Middle Irish poem on the birth of Áedan mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riata, and Brandub mac Echach, king of Leinster.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)

f. (86)a.7ff

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)

context: Laídshenchas Laigen incipit: Ro batar laeich do Laigneib incl. Ro batar laeich do Laigneib [Poem 12] Poem on the birth of Brandub mac Echach, king of Leinster, and Áedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Riada. Cf. the prose version of the story on f. 47r.

in section: f. 49v(86)a.7

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[ed.] [tr.] OʼBrien, M. A., “A Middle-Irish poem on the birth of Āedān mac Gabrāin and Brandub mac Echach”, Ériu 16 (1952): 157–170.