Texts

Aided Meic Con ‘The violent death of Mac Con’

  • Middle Irish
  • Cycles of the Kings, Aideda
Language
  • Middle Irish
  • Middle Irish (Dillon)(1)n. 1 “[...] it is in the early style, but the language is Middle Irish. The independent pronoun occurs in §§2 and 3, and many of the verbal forms are late. It may perhaps be assigned to the eleventh century.” Myles Dillon, ‘The death of Mac Con’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 60 (1945): 340.

Date
11th century?(2)n. 2 See Dillon supra.
Textual relationships
The story of Mac Con's death is also told in Cath Maige Mucrama and Scéla Moshauluim ocus Maic Con ocus Luigdech.
Related: Sanas Cormaic/RincneSanas Cormaic/Rincne

Entry for ‘rincne’ in Sanas Cormaic, with an anecdote about Ferchess, Mac Con and Finn úa Báiscni.

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80
AidedaAideda
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Sources

Notes

“[...] it is in the early style, but the language is Middle Irish. The independent pronoun occurs in §§2 and 3, and many of the verbal forms are late. It may perhaps be assigned to the eleventh century.” Myles Dillon, ‘The death of Mac Con’, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 60 (1945): 340.
See Dillon supra.

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[ed.] [tr.] Dillon, Myles [ed. and tr.], “The death of Mac Con”, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 60 (1945): 340–345.
TLH – edition: <link> TLH – translation: <link>
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October 2010, last updated: January 2024