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Nicholls
(Kenneth): The ‘named’ son in late medieval Ireland.
In
Clerics, kings and Vikings [Ó Corráin essays]
(2015), pp. 185–189.
Argues that the term
sloinnteach éadrom
(‘bastard, natural son’) can be more precisely defined in relation to the practice of naming illegitimate children as ‘the child who was affiliated to a father some time after his birth’.
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Words/Proper Names:
sloinnteach éadrom
Author/Textual Sources:
Mac Aodhagáin, Giolla na Naomh (mac Duinn Shléibhe) (†1309)
MacEgan legal treatise