Texts
Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind
Incoming data
A poem of at least seven stanzas attributed to Cú Chulainn or Conchobar mac Nessa.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2
context: Senchas síl Ír incipit: Rombai laithi rordu rind.
8 qq.
f. 116r
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
context: rubric: Aisneidem di araill incl. Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind, A Fhiachnae na ráid in gáe On the descendants of Conchobar, Fergus and Mog Ruith (mag Fergusa); section headed Dimittans interim Claind Fergusa dicamus Claind Conaill Cernaig (331b); pedigrees of descendants of Conall Cernach and Conchobar mac Nessa; incl. 2 qq beg. Maicne Chonchobuir ind ríg [cf. longer citation in Rawl. B 502, beg. A Fhiachnae ná ráid in gáe], headed Mongan cecinit (331c); and 7 qq beg. Rom-bói lathe rordu rind, headed Conchobor cecinit (331c); pedigrees headed Fergus mc do Roig; .g. Dal Moga Ruith (331ca-cc).
in section: p. 331a–
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha
context: Senchas síl Ír incipit: Rombe lathe rordu rind
7 qq attributed to Conchobar.
f. 109rb-109va.1
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha
context: rubric: Cland Conchubor [sic] iterum incl. Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind, Macne Conchobuir ind ríg
Item on Conchobar, which includes two qq attributed to Mongán, beg. Macne Conchobuir ind ríg, and 7 qq attributed to Conchobar, beg. Rombe lathe rordu rind.
in section: f. 109rb–
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
context: Senchas síl Ír incl. Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind, A Fhiachnae na ráid in gáe Genealogical sections headed: (a) De forslointib .h. nEchach (f. 85r.15-19); (b) De forslointib Ulad iar coitchiund inso (f. 85r.19-f. 85v.), incl. verse attr. to either Cú Chulainn or Conchobor mac Nessa, beg. Rombae laithi rordu rind (3qq, f. 85v.2ff), and verse attr. to Mongán mac Fiachnai (Mongan m. Fiachna cecinit do thecosc a athar), beg. A Fhiachnae na raid in gae (23qq); (c) Item g. Con Caulaind (f. 85v.32, with heading in left margin), pedigree of Cú Chulainn, occupying one line followed by an erasure of about five lines; (d) G. Sil Moga Ruith (85v.38-54), with pedigrees for Cú Allaid and Mog Ruith, ending i sunn condrecat fri Ciarraige. Ed. CGH 278-286.
in section: f. 85r(157).15–
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.] 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>
[ed.] [tr.] Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, “Prosopographical analysis of Táin bó Cuailnge in a historical setting”, in: Hildegard L. C. Tristram (ed.), New methods in the research of epic / Neue Methoden der Epenforschung, 107, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998. 153–159.
Text (O'Brien's ed. with emendations) and translation of Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind on p. 155
