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Secht meic Carbaid cróda in chrech
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Early Irish genealogical poem (8qq) on the sons of Carbad mac Cais meic Fachtna Fáthaig.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2
context: Senchas síl Ír incipit: Seacht meic Carbaid croda in chreach 9qq.
f. 114(123)va
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12
context: Senchas síl Ír incipit: Seacht meic Carbaid crod in chreach 9qq.
f. 151(87)rbb.6ff
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
context: Senchas síl Ír rubric: De quibus hoc carmen dicitur incipit: Secht meic Carbad cróda in chrech 8qq.
f. 84va.30ff
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
context: Senchas síl Ír rubric: Senchas Sil hIr fo hErind incipit: hIr septimus filius Militis qui cum uenissent filii Militis ad Hiberniam in insola Sicciliae sepultus est de quo tertia plebs regalis generis exortus est incl. Secht prímríg for hÉrind áin, Secht meic Carbaid cróda in chrech Tract on the Ulaid and allegedly related population groups whose descent is traced from Ír, a son of Míl. Incl. (a) Opening passage in Latin (f. 84va.26-29); (b) genealogical section in Irish (f. 84va.30-vb.52), incl. verse beg. Secht meic Carbad cróda in chrech (8qq, headed De quibus hoc carmen dicitur), a list of kings of Ulster from Dál Fiatach, verse beg. Secht primrig for hErind ain (5qq, headed De quibus dicitur hoc carmen) and a list of 24 kings from Cermna to Cóelbad, headed Is iat so immorru na rig-sin; (c) two lists of Ulster kings, with regnal years, one headed Anmann inso na rig o Chimbaeth co Conchobor (ff. 84vb.52-85ra.) and the other Na rig immorro iar Conchobor (85r.6-15). Both f. 85r and f. 85v contain a single column. Ed. CGH 269-277.
in section: f. 84v(156)a.25–
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[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>
273–274
