incipit: Togorma o tát Frigiae. mac sin Gomer mac Iaféd. Incomplete. Subheadings: ‘De chlannaib Cam meic Noi so sis ifechtsa’ (f. 1a); ‘De chlannaib Cannan meic Cam meic Noi so sis’ (f. 1b); ‘De clannaib Sem meic Noi só sis’ (f. 2a); ‘De senchas na torothor .i. na luprucan ⁊ na fomorach inso sis’ (f. 2a); ‘Den tres ais so sis ifechtsa’ (f. 2b).

p. 1a.1–p. 2b.46

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25

incipit: Togorma o tát Frigiae. mac sin Gomer mac Iaféd Followed by a lacuna in the manuscript.

pp. 1a–2b

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2

f. 22

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2

pp. 22–26

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12

Begins imperfect.

f. 2ra–f. 4rb.12 = p. 3a–p. 7b.12

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1295

p. 1

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 486/ff. 23-75

ff. 67r–74v

MS

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

f. 40v(68)b.16–f. 44r(75)

Text

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

Follows Saltair na rann

ff. 41r–44v

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.] [tr.] Tristram, Hildegard L. C. [ed.], Sex aetates mundi: die Weltzeitalter bei den Angelsachsen und den Iren. Untersuchungen und Texte, Anglistische Forschungen, 165, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1985.

Critical edition

[ed.] [tr.] Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí [ed.], The Irish Sex aetates mundi, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983.

Critical edition

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: I. Aus Rawlinson B. 502”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 3 (1901): 17–23.

Celtic Digital Initiative – All Mitteilungen of ZCP 3: <link> CELT – Sex aetates mundi (17-20): <link> CELT – ‘Cethrur do-raega ní dalb’ (20-22): <link> CELT – ‘Cenn ard Ádaim étrocht rád’ (23): <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Edition from Rawl. B 502.

Secondary sources (select)

Herbert, Máire, “The Irish Sex aetates mundi: first editions”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 11 (Summer, 1986): 97–112.

Jaski, Bart, “Sex aetates mundi”, in: R. G. Dunphy [ed.], The encyclopedia of the medieval chronicle, 2 vols, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. Vol. 2: 1353.

Oskamp, Hans P. A., “The author of Sex aetates mundi”, Studia Celtica 3 (1968): 127–140.

Clarke, Michael, “The lore of the monstrous races in the developing text of the Irish Sex aetates mundi”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 63 (Summer, 2012): 15–50.

Bisagni, Jacopo, “Leprechaun: a new etymology”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 64 (Winter, 2012): 47–84.