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On the Fomorians and the Norsemen ,*v*A . \Ar,. 4 > ;-, f- % !' LIBRARY y <F ON THE FOMORIANS AND THE NORSEMEN DUALD MAC FIRBIS THE ORIGINAL IRISH TEXT, EDITED, WITH TRANSLATION AND NOTES ALEXANDER BUGGE PROFESSOR INT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHRISTIAN! A PUBLISHED FOR DE'f NORSK.E HISTORISKE KILDESKRIFTFOXD CHRISTIANIA J, CIIR. GUNDERSEXS BOGTRYKKERT Det norske historiske Kildeskriftfoncls Skrifter* 1. Norske Samlinger. Efter offentlig Foranstaltning udgivne af Christian C. A. Lauge. Bind II. Christiania. Feilberg & Landmarks For- lag. 18581860. 8vo. ,,Norske Samlinger, udgivne af et bistorlsk Sainfund i Christi- ania. F0rstf Kind" udkom paa sammo Forlag i Aarene 18491852. (Nu gaaot over til N. W. Damm & S0ne Porlag, dcr indtil vldere sselgor Bd, I II tils, til nedsat Pris Kr. 5,00). 2. Norske Magasin. Skrifter og optegnelser angaaende Norge og forfattede efter reformationen. Samlede og udgivne af N. Nicolaysen. Bind I III. Chra. Johan Dahls Forlagsboghandel (H. 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Et politisk Stridsskrift fra' Kong Sverres Tid, udgivet efter ofientlig Foranstaltning ved Dr. Gustav Storm. Chra. 1885. Svo. (Kr. 0,80). 19. Borgarthings aeldste Kristenret i fofcolithografisk Gjengivelse efter Tons- bergs Lovbog fra c. 1320. Chra. 1886. 4t'o. (Kr. 4,00). (Foi >aa Omslagets Sclie Side.) ON THE FOMORIANS AND THE NORSEMEN BY DUALD MAC FIRBIS THE ORIGINAL IRISH TEXT, EDITED, WITH TRANSLATION AND NOTES BY ALEXANDER BUGGE PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHRISTIANIA PUBLISHED FOR DET NORSK.E HISTORISKE KILDESKRIFTFOND CHRISTIANIA J. CHR. GUNDERSENS BOGTRYKKERI 1905 LIBRARY tl MAY 2 1966 The tract on the Fomorians and the Lochlannachs (i. e. Norsemen) forms part of the Book of Pedigrees (Leabhar Genealach), a work compiled by the Irish historian and antiquary Firbis the last of a Duald Mac (Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh) , long line of historians and chroniclers of Lecan Mic Fhirbhisigh, in the barony of Tir-Fhiachradh, or Tireragh, in the county of 1 Duald Firbis who is one of the foremost names Sligo. ) Mac of the Irish Renaissance, belonged to an ancient family, of which many members have been distinguished by literary achievements. The Great Book of Lecan, now in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, was compiled in the year 1416 by Gilla Isa Mor, the direct ancestor of Duald Mac Firbis, and the Yellow Book of Lecan, now in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, was written in the Mac Firbis. 2 Duald year 1391 by Donogh ) Mac Firbis was born in the latter part of the 1 6th century. He was a young man about the year 1595, and he was unfortun- ately murdered at Dunflin, in the county of Sligo, in 1670. His most important work is The Book of Pedigrees . This large and comprehensive volume of the pedigrees of nearly all the most important ancient Irish and Anglo-Norman families was compiled in the year 1650. Mac Firbis himself says in the preface to his work: The branches of relation- ship and genealogical ramifications of every colony that took of traced from this time to Adam /\ possession Erin, up J) (excepting only those of the Fomorians, Lochlannachs, and ^ > , Saxon-Galls, of whom we however treat as they have settled in our country), together with a sanctilogium and a catalogue of the of Erin and an which M ' kings ; finally, index, comprises, in alphabetical order, the surnames, and the remarkable places materials of Irish 120. Materials, *) E. O'Curry, MS. History, p. -) MS. p. 125. IV mentioned in this book, which was compiled by Duald Mac Firbis of 1 Lecan, ^o.* ) The original manuscript of the Book of Pedigrees is in the possession of the Earl of Roden. But the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, possesses an excellent fac-simile copy, made in the year 1836 by the late E. O'Curry whose services to Irish history and literature cannot be too highly appreciated. I have not seen the original manuscript, but during my stay in Dublin, the autumn and wdnter 1901 1902, I was able to make use of used O'Curry's copy. I am much indebted to the officials of the Academy for kind assistance given me while studying the manuscripts under their charge. The tract on the Fomorians and Lochlannachs forms the gth book of Mac Firbis's work, and its pages are numbered p. 768 777, these figures, no doubt, referring to the numbering of the pages of the original MS., for in O'Curry's own copy the whole tract only occupies little more than five pages. Mac Firbis's tract consists of two distinct parts. In the first part he gives a short review of the history of the Norsemen in Ireland; in the second he deals with the so called Fomorians and with the Irish families who are descended from the Norsemen, and lastly he gives the pedigrees of the Mac Leods and of the Mac Cabes. Most of what Mac Firbis tells us in the first part of his treatise is also found in the annals, and especially it bears a strong resemblance to the beginning of The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill (Cogadh Gaedhil re Gal- edited the late Dr. Todd. 2 In at first one laibh], by ) fact, sight would think that Mac Firbis had only given a short summary of this famous work. But a closer inspection of the facts will show that Mac Firbis gives some reterences, \vhich are not to be found elsewhere. I refer to the two lists of Viking chief- tains. The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill contains two similar lists, one in chapter XXXVI (about the year 930), and the other in ch. CXVII (an enumeration of chieftains killed in the battle of Clontarf in 1014). But the names which Mac Firbis gives, are not exactly the same as those Avith the Gaill have found in The War of the Gaedhil ; they more resemblance to the list given in the Annals of Clon- macnois (a 830, p. 133). And neither of these works mention J MS. 121 and Rerum Britannicarum medii revi ) Materials, pp. 541. ~) scriptores, London 1809. JV in what parts of Ireland the above mentioned Vikings plundered and settled down. Mac Firbis is the only author who gives information about this. In the second part of his work he also gives some details which are not found elsewhere, e. g. the fact that Amhlaibh of e. was in the PortLairge (i. Waterford) present battle of Clontarf, and the epithets Magnus of the swift ship, and Ivar of the judgments -. This shows that Mac Firbis has made use of some Manuscripts now lost. He himself the Great Book of Lecan of Mac Firbis quotes , compiled in the year 1416 by Gilla Isa Mor Mac Firbis of Lecan Mic Fhirbisigh. The original MS. of this work still exists, in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, but it contains nothing relating to the history of the Norsemen in Ireland. O'Curry, who has drawn attention to this curious fact, in his Academy Catalogue (p.
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