Old Irish wisdom attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria : an edition of <em>Bríathra Flainn Fhína maic Ossu</em> / edited and translated by Colin A. <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ireland</span>.

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Ireland (Colin A.) (ed.): Old Irish wisdom attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria : an edition of Bríathra Flainn Fhína maic Ossu / edited and translated by Colin A. Ireland.

MRTS, 205. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. xii + 244 pp. 1 plt. (Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies, 205).

Eclectic critical edition based on an examination of 33 MSS witnesses, which are divided in three main recensions represented by their oldest MSS: RIA 23 N 10, YBL and LL. Text normalized to Class. OIr. spelling, with order of sections and sequence of maxims following that of RIA 23 N 10; with variants from the oldest nine MSS, facing Engl. transl., textual and linguistic notes. Additional texts given in Appendices: 1. §8 Cía fégam ránac; 2. §9 Secht comarthai déc; 3. Y₁: diplomatic edition; 4. L₁: diplomatic edition; 5. N₁: diplomatic edition and collation with Y₁ and L₁.

Rev. by
John Hudson, in Medium aevum 70/1 (2001), pp. 177-178 [short notice].
Nicolas Jacobs, in CMCS 40 (Winter, 2000), pp. 88-90.
Caoimhín Ó Muirigh, in Peritia 15 (2001), pp. 432-434.
Pádraig P. Ó Néill, in Éigse 35 (2005), pp. 173-174.
David Stifter, in Die Sprache 40/1 (1998), pp. 123-128.

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