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 By unknown scribes in Irish monasteries. c.900-1200 The text is in Middle Irish. Some formulaic words are in Latin. Annotations are in English. prose medieval prose Cormac mac Cuillenáin 2010-01-18 Beatrix Färber ed. Bibliographic details added. SGML and HTML files created. 2010-01-14 Beatrix Färber ed. Header created. File converted to XML; structural markup added; file proofed (2). Personal and place-names marked up, expansions tagged. File parsed. 1996-05-04 Elva Johnston ed. File proof-read (1); word segmentation modified. 1992-08-12 Charlotte Holland data capture Text keyed in. Cormac mac Cuillenáin and the jestersI am indebted to Professor Osborn Bergin for drawing my attention to the version in F 23 16 and for his transcript of it. The portion in prose does not occur in F23 16.

Cf. the Donnbo story in O'Donovan's Three Fragments of Irish Annals. Tri briathra do-ratt Coprmac mac Cuildenain.i. nach biad en-aghaid re a lind gan tri neithe do denam .i. cen ní do tiodhnacadh &ersir; cen ilceola anaitenta d' eistecht &ersir; gan iarmeirge dutrachtach do denam i n-onóir in aird-righ.

Et in aghaid re c-cath do tabairt dó do Cerball mac Muiregain do-battar triar crossan fa mór airmittin &ersir; gratsa aicce ina focair in aghaid-sin. Et do-rat duine tri h-ubla mora aidble do Corpmac et adubairt; A crossana, ar se, da n-derntai airfitedh amarach dam, do-gebhtai na h-ubla sech in slogh uile, &ersir; do-gabattar do laimh co n-dingnedis ge mad beo marbh iat. Tabraidh mo lamh fa comhall-sin, ar Corbmac, &ersir; do-naiscc orra amlaid-sin, &ersir; tuccadh in cath arna marach &ersir; do-rochair Cormac ann. Et ar t-techt na h-aidhce da n-ionnsaighe adubairt Cerball: Eirgidh nech uaibh, ar se, d' fis an armaigh &ersir; do fechain Corbmaic an comhaillfed-se a luighe. &ersir; do-cuaidh in techtaire dia fis &ersir; mar do-bí ann at-connairc cinnu na c-crosan ic com-aentuccud cum a cele.

Is ann adubairt Gegan, an brathair ba h-amhra &ersir; ba h-aireghda dibh: Druididh cuccainn ille, ar se, et an f-fedabair cuin do-gabhabair do laimh airfittedh do denam do mac Cuilennain et as mor an feidhm a dingbáil airfidigh do denam dó, &ersir; dá madh beo sinde, do-génmais a airpeitedh &ersir; do-cedaigh in Coimdhe dún a airfidedh-somh et sind marbh. Et at-bert Gegan na roinn-si: Truaghan sin, a Rí na righ, a Rí firen fichtib sluaigh, is eolcaire na gach ceol ceol na c-cend in aidche &fdot;uair. A chind Gégain, druid ille, co n-dernamais coinircle, mór inní fa t-tuccsam láimh airfeitedh mic Cuilendain. Ar t-triur brathar dúin aréir maith ar lathar imon sluagh, anocht ge 'táit ar tri cind acc airfittedh co tim truagh. Uch monuar on uch monuar, ge gerr ó dhomnach go luan as giorra bíos rí na nell ag denam trein go m-ba truagh. Do-rat uball cech fir dún flaith do-bí ag fulang na sluagh, agus do-naiscc oirn da deoin co n-dingnemis ceol bud truagh. O do-tuit Pol le Neir— sgel mor isa domhan toir— nochar faccbadh ar in n-glend indsamhail chinn Corbmaic cain. Uchan, ach, do-tuit Cormac isin cath, o thesta a sil asin m-bith, maisi righ Caisil at-bath. Corbmac a Tulach na righ do-badh rí ar Mumain muadh gach ni do-fuighill a bel, do-fuiling gach tren is grach truagh. Maith do suidhe dabach mór, maith do dluighe ralach ruadh, maith do tabairt laich i l-lén, maith do denamh trén do truagh. Camhair-so, coisccidh bhar c-ceol, mithid dibh eistecht monuar, beiridh bennachtain anocht is eirgidh chum bhar c-corp truagh.