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Glaeske
(Keith): The children of Adam and Eve in medieval Irish literature.
In
Ériu 56
(2006), pp. 1–11.
Examines Irish extra-biblical traditions concerning the number and names of Adam and Eve’s children, concluding that these are native for the most part and bear no relation to other Christian and Jewish expansions of the Genesis.
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K 3.3 Christianity: Other religious literature: Instructional, apocryphal, imaginative: General and various
Indexes:
First Lines of Verse:
Cethror cōic ichit iar fír
Cethror cóic [ḟ]ichit iar fír
Iarfaigid lib cóecaib cest
Author/Textual Sources:
Banshenchas
Dúan in chóicat cest innso sís
Lebor gabála Érenn
Sex aetates mundi