Excerpt from Caithreim Cellachain Caisil; The Victorious Career of Cellachan of Cashel, or the Wars Between the Irishmen and the Norsemen in the Middle of the 10th Century: The Original Irish Text, Edited, With Translation and Notes
A fac-simile of the first page of the text in the Book of Lismore is found in >>fac-similes of the national mss. Of ed. Sir John Gilbert (part III, plate LVII). The fac-simile copy is accompanied by a transcript and a trans lation of the text.
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