Aided Maelodráin
Background information
References in the Annals of Tigernach
T651.2 The slaying of Donnchadh and Conall, the two sons of Blathmac son of Aodh Sláine, by Maol Odhráin of Leinster, in the mill of Maol Odhráin.
O mill,
Though thou hast ground much wheat,
This was not a grinding upon oats,
Thou groundest on Cearbhall’s grandson.
The grain which the mill
Grinds is not oats, but red wheat.
Of the saplings of the mighty tree
Is the feed of Maol Odhráin’s mill.
Related saga online: Orgguin trí mac Diarmata mic Cerbaill (The Death of the Three Sons of Diarmait son of Cerrbél)
David Greene (ed.), Fingal Rónáin and other stories, (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1955; repr. 1993), pp. 48-51.
Digital Edition at CELT (pp. 48-51)
Kuno Meyer (ed. & tr.), Hibernica minora, being a fragment of an Old-Irish treatise on the Psalter, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series 8, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894), pp. 70-75.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 70-75 (88-93))
Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae (O'Brien)
pp. 35-38 DE GENELOGIA DÁIL MESSIN CORB.
¶118 … Máelodrán m. Dícolla m. Gobbáin m. Caindera m. Dímmae (.i. Cróin).
R = The Rennes Dindshenchas (Stokes), Revue Celtique, 15-16, 1894-1895
M = The Metrical Dindshenchas (Gwynn)
R: Móin Gai Glaiss §14 (See Section 5), Part 1, pp. 305-307, (‘Móin Gai Glaiss’) (Irish text at CELT (p. 54))
Gae Glas son of Luinde son of Lug Liamna was Fiacha Srabtine’s champion. ’Tis for him that the smith made the intractable spear. From the south Cúldub son of Dían went on the day of samain (Nov. 1) to seek to slay some one, and he slew Fidrad son of Dam Dub, from whom Ard Fidraid is called. Then Gae Glas went a-following him and hurled at him the lance which the smith had made for him by magic, and it passed through Cúldub into the bog, and that lance was never found afterwards save once, when Mael-Odrán son of Dimma Cron, after he [leg. it?] had been a year in the ground, found it and slew therewith Aithechdae king of Húi Máil. Whereof he sang this stave: Imlech Ech, etc.
This lance was the Carr of Belach Duirgen: ’tis it that would slay the thirty bands. Thus it was, with a fork under its neck, and none save the Devil would move it. So long as the lance is with its point southwards the strength of Conn’s Half (the North of Ireland) will not be broken by Leinster.
M: Moin Gai Glais (See Section 5), Volume 2, p. 65, p. 104
R: Belach nDuirgein §24 (See Section 5), Part 1, pp. 323-325, (‘Belach nDuirgein’)
M: Belach Durgein, (See Section 5), Volume 3, pp. 85-87, p. 492
Cóir Anmann: Fitness of Names (Stokes), Irische Texte,Ser. III.2
Laigin §174 (See Section 1), pp. 363-365, p. 419
Ossairge §213 (See Section 1), p. 375, p. 420
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Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502
Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512
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