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The three drinking horns of Cormac úa Cuinn' (From the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum)
Feacht n-ann do luid Aedh Oirdnidhi mac Neill Frosaidh mic Fearghuile mic Maile Duin do ordugud fer cuigid 1 Connacht. Do luid dar Eas Ruaidh ⁊ do baithed a fuis meisi ⁊ a cuirnn ann. Tainic Aedh co riacht Corca Tri, co n-deisidh a tigh righ Corca Tri. Coeca righ do riguibh Eirenn maille re h-Aedh.
Longuis Aedh adhaigh domhnaidh ⁊ an rigraidh: ⁊ cia ro loing Aed, ni sib digh, uair ní bai corn lais, or do baitheadh a cuirnn ⁊ a cuaich ac Ath Enaigh uas Eas Ruaidh, oc tiachtain don t-sluadh thairis. As amlaid imorro robai Aed cona sibh digh a leastur aile o ra dealuigh re cich a mathar acht a curn namha. Ba bron tra do righ Corca Tri ⁊ dia seithid, each ic ol ⁊ righ Erenn gin ol. Togbuis Angal a lamha fri Dia, ⁊ feicis gin codladh gin tomailt co madain, gu n-eabert a bean fris ara barach, “Eirg,” ar si, “co Dirlus Guaire mic Colmain, uair ba tealach feile ⁊ naire o aimsir Dathi anall, dus an fuigbithea corn tria firta na feile ann.” Cechaing Angal righ Corca Tri tar dorus na ratha amach, ⁊ tuisleas a cois deas, co ra tuisil cloch leis isin lis .i. an cloch do bai ar belaib an t-suirn a rabudar na tri cuirn as deach robai a n-Eirinn .i. an Cam-corn ⁊ an Litan ⁊ an Easgung. Cuirn sin tucad do Cormac u Cuinn dar muir, ⁊ ro folaig Niamh mac Lugna Firtri an dara comalta do Cormac u Cuinn, iar n-dith Cormuic, co toracht Coirpri Lifeachuir dar muir ⁊ cia ro fritha na cuirn aile la Cairpri, ni fritha na cuirn-siu co h-aimsir na næmh ⁊ Aeda Oirdnidi mic Neill, or tucad cealtar tairsib o Dia, co ru-s-̇foillsid do righ Corca Tri tria firta na feile.
Altaigis a buidi do dia an t-i Angal ⁊ beiris leis na curna, cona tri lan do mid inntibh. Do-bert a p.187 laim Aeda Oirdnidi righ Eirenn, ⁊ atlaigi do dia ⁊ do-bert an Litan a laim righ Ulad, ⁊ do-bert an Easguing a laimh righ Connacht, ⁊ fagbuis aigi budhein an Cam-cornn. Co toracht iartain do Mailseachloinn mac Domhnuill, co tuc-sidhe do Dia ⁊ do Ciaran a coitcinne co brath.
Finid.
E. J. Gwynn
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Title (uniform): The three drinking-horns of Cormac úa Cuinn
Title (extended): [From the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum]
Editor: E. J. Gwynn
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Date: 2004
Date: 2010
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Manuscript Sources
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 23 O 48 (Liber Flavus Fergusiorum). Vellum; ca. 1435–40; for details see Kathleen Mulchrone, T. F. O'Rahilly et al. (eds.), Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin 1926–43) MS 476, pp. 1254–73.
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 23 N 10, 56–56i; for details see Richard Irvine Best (ed.), Ms. 23 N 10 (formerly Betham 145) in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy: with descriptive introduction (Dublin 1954), xiv; see also Kathleen Mulchrone, T. F. O'Rahilly et al. (eds.), Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin 1926–43), MS 967, pp. 2769–80.
Editions and translations
- E. J. Gwynn (ed. and trans.), The three drinking horns of Cormac úa Cuinn (From the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum), Ériu 2 (1905) 186–88.
- Kuno Meyer (ed.), Abenteuer Königs Aed Oirdnide, Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften, Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 8 (1912) 102–3. (Available on CELT as file G100044.)
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‘The three drinking horns of Cormac úa Cuinn [From the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum]’ (1905). In: Ériu 2. Ed. by E. J. Gwynn, pp. 186–188.
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Creation: by an unknown author 900–1200
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