Texts

Ship seen in the air at Clonmacnoise (Edinburgh version)

Incoming data

A catalogue entry is available.

Narrative anecdote in prose based on one of the wonders in De ingantaib Érenn.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.26

Part of a manuscript miscellany (ff. 1-4, 11) of monastic legends

f. 2va

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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Stories from the Edinburgh MS. XXVI (Kilbride Collection No 22)”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 3, Halle and Dublin, 1910. 7–10.

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8–9

[tr.] Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone [tr.], A Celtic miscellany: translations from the Celtic literatures, Revised ed., Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.

165

[tr.] Carey, John, “Aerial ships and underwater monasteries: the evolution of a monastic marvel”, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 12 (1992): 16–28.

18

Secondary sources (select)

Carey, John, “Aerial ships and underwater monasteries: the evolution of a monastic marvel”, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 12 (1992): 16–28.