Texts

Scéla Néill Fhrossaig

Incoming data

Saga about Níall Frossach mac Fergaile (d. 778), king of Tara from the Cenél nÉogain.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48a

incipit: Bai righ amhra for Erind .i. co firen fial fordligi fosaid fiaitheamail A version which according to Dan Wiley, is “somewhat expurgated”.

ff. 10vb.inf–11ra

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

incipit: BUI rí fírén forglide fíal fossad flaithemda i n-ardrígi for Herind .i. Niall Frossach mac Fergaile Title supplied in the diplomatic edition: Niall Frossach.

p. 273b–p. 274a

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

incipit: Buí rí fírén . . . i n-ardrígi for Herind .i. Niall Frossach mac Fergail

ff. 273b.1–274a

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.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967. xv + pp. 1119-1325.

CELT – pp. 1119-1192 and 1202-1325: <link>

1202–1203 Diplomatic edition direct link

[tr.] Greene, David [tr.], “The ‘Act of Truth’ in a Middle-Irish story”, Saga och Sed (1976): 30–37.

Secondary sources (select)

Thanks to Christina Cleary (TCD) for alerting us to the copy in the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum (RIA MS 23 O 48a).

Wiley, Dan M., “Niall Frossach’s true judgement”, Ériu 55 (2005): 19–36.