Discusses the relationship between the various literary and folk versions of this folktale type (represented in Irish tradition by the stories of Labhraidh Loingseach and of King Eochaid).
Re-edition of the variant to the pedigree of Ó Cearbhaill of Éile previously edited by P. O'Dinneen, Foras feasa ar Éirinn iv (London 1914), pp. 43-46, 115-118 [‘Genealogy Q’], from Franciscan MS A 15. Incl. a further variant from the Maryland MS, as well as other Ó Cearbhaill pedigrees from various other MSS.