Irish Sagas at UCC University College Cork

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Ceart Claidib Cormaic

Online sources

Manuscript sources and printed editions
See scél na fír flatha in MsOmit 2017
See ceart claidib cormaic in CODECS

Digital Image of manuscript
The saga is part of the longer text that appears in the manuscript MS 23 P 12 (Book of Ballymote), in the Royal Irish Academy, starting in f. 142v, column b, line 44, beginningRi uasal ornide rogabastar flaithe ocus forlamas for Erinn. A digital image of this manuscript is available at: Irish Script on Screen.

This saga is part of the longer text that appears in the manuscript MS 1318 (Yellow Book Of Lecan), in Trinity College Dublin, starting in III, col. 889, line 26. A digital image of this manuscript is available at: Irish Script on Screen.

Medieval Irish text and English translation
Whitley Stokes (ed. & tr.), The Irish Ordeals, Cormac’s Adventure in the Land of Promise, and the Decision as to Cormac’s Sword, in: Irische Texte, Ser. III.1, (Leipzig: Hirzel, 1891), pp. 199-202, 217-221.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 199-202); (pp. 217-221); English translation at MaryJones.us; English translation at Tech Screpta

English translation
Eugene O’Curry and W. K. O’Sullivan, On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, Vol. 2, (London: Williams and Norgate, 1873), pp. 322-324.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 322-324)