Texts

Longes Labrada

  • Middle Irish
  • Cycles of the Kings
The version of the story of Labraid’s exile, Moriath and her harper, and his return to Ireland as it occurs in longer copies of the Amra Choluim Chille commentary.
Title
Longes Labrada
The tale occurs without a title in the manuscripts. A tale with the title Longes Labrada occurs in version A of the medieval Irish tale lists (see the [[Medieval Irish tale lists/Immrama |immrama]]).
Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.
Language
  • Middle Irish
Textual relationships

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Labraid Loingsech
Labraid Loingsech
(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)
also Labraid Lorc or Labraid Móen, legendary Irish king, son of Ailill Áine; regarded as an ancestor of the Laigin

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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.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “The Bodleian Amra Choluimb Chille”, Revue Celtique 20 (1899): 31–55, 132–183, 248–289, 400–437. Corrigenda in Revue Celtique 21 (1900): 133–136.
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429–434
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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June 2013, last updated: January 2024