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Áed Bennán bruth rígi ríg
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Versified genealogy (7 couplets) of Áed Bennán mac Crimthainn, a Munster chief or ruler from the Éoganachta of Loch Léin. It belongs to a group of genealogical poems that are attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2
context: Éoganacht poems attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara rubric: D'Eoganacht Lacha Lein so incipit: Áed Beandan bruth rigi rig
f. 214vb
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2
context: Éoganacht poems attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara rubric: Duilti sloindti na ngaed. is friu certaigter na genelaigi Luchred meic .h. Chiarda int eges is e do-rad in snaithi coimgni foita indso’ incl. Cú cen máthair, Dúngal Raithlind rui a chuirn, Áed Bennán bruth rígi ríg, Fáelgus Nad Fráech febda cland, Amalgaid Énna én ar gart, Éogan án éo cautmai cáem, Óengus crobderg cathach rí
in section: f. 214va–
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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 12
context: Éoganacht poems attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara rubric: De Eoganacht Locha Lein incipit: Aed Beandan bruth rige rí
f. 173(98)rc
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
context: rubric: Incipit de genelogia Sil Ebir incipit: Imprudens Scottorum genus rerum suarum obliuiscens acta quasi inaudita incl. Cú cen máthair, Dúngal Raithlind rui a chuirn, Clann Ailella Oluim uill, Áed Bennán bruth rígi ríg, Fáelgus Nad Fráech febda cland, Amalgaid Énna én ar gart, Éogan án éo cautmai cáem, Óengus crobderg cathach rí Contents: (a) a brief Latin preface; (b) genealogical prose for Mug Nuadat and Ailill Ólomm, incl. (c) genealogical poem beg. Clann Ailella Auluimb uill (8qq, f. 80rb-va); (d) genealogies of the descendants of Éogan Mór (Éoganacht); (e) pedigree of Cathal mac Finguine, headed Gen. Eoganachta Caissil (f. 80va.56); (f) section headed Incipiunt duili sluinti na ngenelach ar is friu certaigter na genelaige ⁊ Luccraid moccu Chiara do bretha snaithi coimgne tria filidecht foithib (vb.30), followed by a series of verses attr. to Luccreth moccu Chíara and headings for six of them: (f1) poem beg. Cu cen mathair (36qq); (f2) Gen. Eoganachta Locha Lein (81ra.12): verse beg. Aed Bennan / bruth rigi rig (3½qq); (f3) De Eoganacht Raithlind (ra.15): verse beg. Dungal Raithlind / rui a chuirn (2½qq); (f4) De Eoganacht Caissil (ra.18): verse beg. Faelgus Nad Fráech / febda cland (2½qq); (f5) De Eoganacht Aine (ra.21): verse. beg. Amalgaid Enna / en ar gart (2½qq); (f6) D'Eoganacht Glennamnach (ra.24): verse. beg. Óengus Crobderg / cathach rí (3qq); and finally (f7) De hUib Cairpri (ra.28): verse beg. Eogan an / eo cautmai caem (4qq). Ed. CGH 192–204.
in section: f. 80r(147)b.30–
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502/2 (ff. 19-89)
context: Éoganacht poems attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara rubric: Gen. Eoganachta Locha Lein incipit: Aed Bennan bruth rigi ríg 3½qq.
f. 81ra.12ff
Sources
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[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>
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