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Scéla Cormaic meic Cuilennáin ⁊ fernóice Inse Celtra ‘The story of Cormac mac Cuilennáin and the alder of Inis Celtra’

  • Cycles of the Kings
Very brief anecdote which recounts that Cormac mac Cuilennáin planted an alder-tree (fernóc) in Inis Celtra and that through a miracle of God, apples grew on it.
Title
Scéla Cormaic meic Cuilennáin ⁊ fernóice Inse Celtra
‘The story of Cormac mac Cuilennáin and the alder of Inis Celtra’
Modern choice of title, per Dan M. Wiley, ‘An introduction to the early Irish king tales’ in Essays on the early Irish king tales... (2008)
First words (prose)
  • Cormac mac Cuilendan is e thuc lais in fernóc co hInis Celtra
Manuscripts

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Alder of Inis CeltraAlder of Inis Celtra
...
Cormac mac Cuilennáin
Cormac mac Cuilennáin
(d. 908)
bishop and king of Munster
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Inis Celtra
Inis Celtra ... Holy Island (Inish Cealtra)
County Clare
an island in Lough Derg
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Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Hull, Vernam, “The miraculous alder of Inis Cealtra”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 18 (1930): 72.
Edition and translation, based on YBl, with variants from Additional 30512 and Harleian 5280.
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno, “The Irish mirabilia in the Norse ‘Speculum Regale’ [Revised version]”, Ériu 4 (1908–1910): 1–16.
9 note 1 Edition of the Harleian 5280 version. Hull supra points out a number of misreadings in this edition.
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno, “The Irish mirabilia in the Norse ‘Speculum Regale’”, Folk-Lore 5 (1894): 299–316.
Internet Archive: <link>
309 note 1 An earlier version of Meyer's edition of the Harleian 5280 version.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2010, last updated: January 2024
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