Compares the uses of the Old English hide and its Irish equivalent (the property qualification of a normal freeman, or bóaire), and considers the possibility that this institution is a common inheritance in Celtic and Germanic.
On the relationship between the peregrinus (ailithir) and Irish social organisation; distinction of two grades of peregrinatioailithre); discussion of related terminology.
Republ. in The Otherworld voyage in early Irish literature, pp. 94-108.
Review article on Corpus iuris Hibernici, ed. by D. A. Binchy (Dublin: DIAS, 1978). Discusses in particular the question of when and by whom were the early Irish laws first written down.
Charles-Edwards (Thomas), Kelly (Fergus): Bechbretha: an Old Irish law-tract on bee-keeping.
Early Irish law series, 1. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983. xii + 214 pp.
Normalised edition with variants based mainly on MS TCD H 2. 15A (also TCD H 3. 18, H 3. 17, H 2.12 (8iii); Egerton 88; RIA 23 Q 6; Rawlinson B 502, Rawlinson B 487); with English translations and notes. Commentaries from MSS TCD H 2. 15A, H 3. 17, H 3. 18 and Egerton 88 printed with English translations in Apps. 1–4. App. 5 contains restored text with English translations of an Old Irish passage on Caithchi Bech ‘trespass-penalties of bees’, based on MSS TCD E 3. 5 and H 3. 18. App. 6 contains a normalised version of an Old Irish passage on Athgabál Bech ‘distraint of bees’, based on D. A Binchy's edition, in Celtica 10 (1973), pp. 72–86 (§11), from MS TCD H 3. 18. App. 7 contains some of the Welsh material relating to bees.
Rev. by
Pádraig Ó Riain, in Éigse 21 (1986), pp. 241-243.
Studies the textual relationship of De contrariis causis (book 67 in recension A of Collectio canonum Hibernensis) and corresponding material in other books (21-29), and suggests that the A recension is unfinished and was released after the death of compiler Ruben of Darinis (†725), while the B recension is based on a corrected and expanded copy, possibly the work of his collaborator Cú Chuimne of Iona (†747).
[1.] Introduction; [2.] The gelḟine; [3.] The derbḟine; [4.] Additional kinship changes when ego’s grandsons come of age: the íarfine; [5.] Additional kinship changes when ego’s grandsons come of age: the indḟine; [6.] Reckoning kinship by hand; [7.] Summary of proposed model; [8.] Problems with MacNeill’s model; [9.] The problem of the sprightly great-grandfathers; [10.] The problem of the indeterminate gelḟine; [11.] Subsequent modifications to MacNeill’s model; [12.] Supporting evidence: incl. discussion of the relationship between íarmue ‘great-grandson’ and íarfine, and between indue ‘great-great-grandson’ and indḟine; [13.] Conclusion: the basis of the kinship system was
the three-generation gelḟine. vs. E. MacNeill, Celtic Ireland (Dublin, 1921 [BILL II: 2136]); D. Binchy, in PBA 29 (1943), p. 223; T. Charles-Edwards, Early Irish and Welsh kinship (Oxford, 1993); N. Patterson, in BBCS 37 (1990), pp. 133–165.
1. Exegesis; 2. Arithmetic and the Paschal Computus; 3. Grammar. Suggests how a dictionary entry for dliged, restricted to Old Irish examples, distinguishing between native and Latinate usages, might be set out (pp. 75-78).
Focuses on the Fothairt saints Damnat, Brigit and Fintan, and argues that the characteristics of a particular saint’s cult were dependent on kindred, politics and territory. In appendix contains a translation of Bethu Phátraic lines 2195-2218 (as ed. by K. Mulchrone, 1939; cf. BILL II: 1993).
Edmonds (Fiona) (ed.), Russell (Paul) (ed.): Tome: studies in medieval Celtic history and law in honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards / edited by Fiona Edmonds and Paul Russell.