Aidedh Ferghusa meic Léide
Background information
References in the Annals of the Four Masters
M2545.1 Rudhruidhe, son of Parthalon, was drowned in Loch Rudhruidhe, the lake having flowed over him; and from him the lake is called.
Annals of Tigernach, Revue Celtique, 16, 1895
p. 404 Fergus mac Leti, qui conflixit contra bestiam hi Loch Rudraige et ibi demersus est, regnauit in Emain annis .xii.
Lebor Gabála Érenn (Macalister), Volume 3
p. 7 Loch Rudraige [is named] from Rudraige. It was there that Rudraige was buried; when his grave was dug and he was buried, it was there that the lake burst over the land at that time.
p. 63 After that he [Parthalon] reached Inis Fail, to Ireland from Spain.
Lebor Gabála Érenn (Macalister), Volume 5
p. 301 Eterscél Mór … took the kingship of Ireland for a space of five years. Fergus son of Leite was over the Ulaid at that time.
The History of Ireland (Geoffrey Keating), Volume 1
p. 101 The seventh name [for Ireland] was Inis Fail; and it is the Tuatha Dé Danann gave that name to it, from a stone they brought with them into it, which was called the Lia Fail.
p.165 … the eruption of Loch Rudhruidhe, in which Rudhruidhe himself was drowned.
The History of Ireland (Geoffrey Keating), Volume 2
p. 159 It was Eochaidh Feidhlioch who divided the provinces of Ireland amongst the following. He gave the province of Ulster to Fearghus son of Leide.
Related saga online: Echtra Fergusa maic Léti (The Saga of Fergus mac Léti)
D. A. Binchy (ed. & tr.), The Saga of Fergus mac Léti, Ériu, 16, 1952, pp. 37-46.
Digital Edition at JSTOR; Irish text at TLH; English translation at TLH
Realted saga online: Caithréim Conghail Cláiringhnigh (Martial career of Conghal Cláiringhneach)
Patrick M. MacSweeney (ed. & tr.), Caithréim Conghail Cláiringhnigh: Martial career of Conghal Cláiringhneach, (London: Irish Texts Society, 1904).
Digital Edition at Archive.org
Fergus mac Léti and Conghal Cláiringhneach
Fianna batar i nEmain (Stokes)
The death of Fergus mac Léite (See Section 35), q. 3, p. 305, p. 318, p. 323, p. 331
Fergus son of Léite was a hero:
he went to the monster — ’twas a silly start —
so that they have fallen together
on the red Fertais Rudraigi.
Táin Bó Cúalnge from the Book of Leinster (O’Rahilly)
pp. 266-268 “And Fergus [mac Róig] grasped the Caladbolg in both hands and swung it back behind him so that its point touched the ground, and his intent was to strike three terrible and warlike blows on the Ulstermen so that their dead might outnumber their living …
Now that sword, the sword of Fergus, was the sword of Leite from the elf-mounds. When one wished to strike with it, it was as big as a rainbow in the air. — Then Fergus turned his hand level above the heads of the hosts and cut off the tops of the three hills which are still there in the marshy plain as evidence. Those are the three Máela of Meath.” (See Section 34)
Airec Menman Uraird Maic Coise (Byrne), Anecdota from Irish Manuscripts, Volume 2
List of the gnathscela Herenn includes:
Echtra Fergussa maic Lete, p. 44 (140), §4, line 4
R = The Rennes Dindshenchas (Stokes), Revue Celtique, 15-16, 1894-1895
M = The Metrical Dindshenchas (Gwynn)
B = The Bodleian Dinnshenchas (Stokes), Folklore, 3, 1892
E = The Edinburgh Dinnshenchas (Stokes), Folklore, 4, 1893
S = Silva Gadelica (O’Grady), Volume 2
R: Emain Macha §161 (See Section 2), Part 5, pp. 279-283
M: Emain Macha (See Section 2), Volume 4, pp. 309-311, p.459
R: Laigin §9 (See Section 6), Part 1, pp. 299-301, (‘Laigin’)
M: Lagin I (See Section 6), Volume 2, p. 51, p. 102
M: Lagin II (See Section 6), Volume 2, p. 53, p. 102
B: Laigin §3 (See Section 6), pp. 471-473, (‘Laigin’)
S: Laigin (See Section 6), p. 500 (535)
Cóir Anmann: Fitness of Names (Stokes), Irische Texte, Ser. III.2
Fergus mac Róich (= mac Rossa) §282 (See Section 34), p. 407, p. 425
Laigin §174 (See Section 6), pp. 363-365, p. 419
Muma §1 (See Section 6), p. 289, p. 412
Ulaid §245 (See Section 7), pp. 387-389, p. 422
Wikipedia
Cycles of the Kings
Ulster Cycle
Egerton 1782
Fergus mac Léti; Kings of Ulster
Fergus mac Róich = Fergus mac Rossa; Kings of Ulster
Emain Macha
Dunseverick
Caladbolg = Caladcholg