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Middle Irish poem attributed and presumably written by Flann Mainistrech.

Manuscript witnesses

Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 
context: Lebor gabála Érenn (Recension B)   rubric: De regibus Hibernie ab Erimon usque Eochu Feidlech et incipit ab Eocho usque ad Laegaire mac Neill et Flann cecinit   incipit: Ri Temra dia tesband tnú   37qq.
f. 15(24)vb.8-16(25)ra.35  
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 
rubric: Fland Manistrech cecinit   incipit: RIg Themra dia tesband tnú   35qq.
pp. 131b.35–132b.5   
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 
rubric: Fland Manistrech cecinit   incipit: RIg Themra dia tesband tnú   Poem. 35 stanzas.
p. 131b–p. 132a

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Hemprich, Gisbert, Rí Érenn – ‘König von Irland’ – Fiktion und Wirklichkeit, 2 vols, Bonner Beiträge zur Keltologie, 2, Berlin: curach bhán, 2015.
§ 12.3 Parallel edition of the texts in LL and Lecan, with translation.
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 3, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1957. xxi + pp. 471-760.
CELT – pp. 471-638 and 663: <link>
504–508