Texts
Trí Fothaid Elgga cen chron
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Brief poem (3qq) on the three Fothaid, grandsons or sons of Lugaid mac Garrchon, and the significance of their bynames Óendé/Óendia (for Fothaid Airctech), Cáindé (F. Canann) and Tréndé (F. Cairptech).
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336/6.2
context: Reicne Fothaid Canainne incipit: Tri Fothaig Elcca cen on Slightly different version.
col. 856
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
context: Genealogical tract on the three Fothaid rubric: Item na Fothaid incipit: Na tri Fothaith id est Fothud Airgdech ⁊ Fothud Carptech ⁊ Fothud Canann incl. Trí Fothaid Elgga cen chron, Noco rabi rígdomna Genealogical material on the three Fothaid and their origins. First words in larger, ornamental script. First section (84rb.27-84va.4) incl. verse beg. Tri Fothaid Elgga cen chron (2qq, headed De quibus hoc carmen dicitur) and 2 lines beg. Noco rabi rigdomna (anonymous: is de ro-chét). Then two further sections headed Hucusque de Psalterio Caisil scriptum est (84va.4-21) and G. hUaithne Tire (84va.21-25). Ed. CGH 264-268. Cf. material on f. 70va-b.
in section: f. 84r(155)b.26–
Sources
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[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>
597
[dipl. 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>
264
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “Reicne Fothaid Canainne”, in: Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht: being a collection of hitherto inedited Irish poems and tales relating to Finn and his Fiana, 16, London: Hodges, Figgis, 1910. 1–21.
