Includes an appendix on the principal divisions in early Irish social ideology, the four main classes being áes dána, díberga, briugaid, féni (flaithi / ríg).
Edition of Version 1, based on MSS TCD H 2. 16 and TCD H 3. 18; and of Version 2, based on Egerton 1781 and RIA B iv 1; with English translation and notes. Includes an examination of the historical background and literary themes.
Edited from MSS RIA 23 E 25 (Lebor na hUidre), RIA 23 E 29 (Book of Fermoy), TCD H 3. 18, Laud Misc. 610, and Rawlinson B 512. With translation and notes.
ad T. F. O’Rahilly, in Ériu 13 (1942), pp. 216-217 (BILL 1717). Argues that OIr. forbrú has lenited bh by analogy with abhra, fabhra ‘eyelash, eyelid, (eye)brow’.
Pierre-Yves Lambert, in ÉtC 24 (1987), pp. 369-372.