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Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Selected Sources: The Celtic World

Contents

• The Celtic Loss of Britain
• Celtic Christianity
• Celtic Literature

• Gildas: The Ruin of Britain, c. 540.
• Nennius: History of the Britons, 8th cent. on King Arthur.
• The Annales Cambriae (The Annals of Wales) 447-954 [At this Site]
• Caradoc of Llancarfan: The Life of Gildas,1130-1150.
• Jocelyn, a monk of Furness:  The Life of Kentigern (Mungo), translated by Cynthia Whidden Green.
• 2ND Cynthia Whidden Green: Saint Kentigern, Apostle to Strathclyde: A critical analysis of a northern saint

• St. Patrick (5th Cent): Confession. [At CCEL] See also Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Patrick.
• St. Patrick (5th Cent): Letter to Coroticus. [At Yale]
• The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore, full text.
• Adamnan: Life of St. Columba and Latin Text: Book I and Book II, cc.1-30.
  St. Columba, who established the monastery at Iona, was one of the most famous of the Irish missionary saints.
• Saint Brigid of Ireland (ascribed): The Heavenly Banquet [At Eircom]
• The Rule of the Celi De as given by Saint Maelruain of Tallaght, 6th century,  [At Celtic Christianity.org]
• [Tierney 19.1] Rule of St. Columba, 6th Cent.
• Jonas the Monk: Life of St. Columban, d. 615, Full text.
  Columban travelled and worked in Merovingian Gaul. See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Abbey and Diocese of Bobbio
• [Tierney 19.2 ] St. Columban (d. 615): Boat Song, 600.
• The Irish Canons: Collection of the Tithe, c. 750 [early Ireland]
• Cain Adamnain: An Old-Irish Treatise on the Law of Adamnan
• Jocelyn, a monk of Furness:  The Life of Kentigern (Mungo), translated by Cynthia Whidden Green.
• 2ND Cynthia Whidden Green: Saint Kentigern, Apostle to Strathclyde: A critical analysis of a northern saint

• See also Later Medieval Ireland section.
• WEB Medieval Irish Poetry Page.
  Has bibliography and links to a variety of text not linked from here.
• WEB CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts [At UCC]
  Online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics.
• WEB Medieval Welsh Authors [At CCCCD]
  In Welsh
• Cuchulainn's Initiation. [At Eliade Page]
• The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel, c 1100 full text
• Irish Poem: An inaugural poem of a ri tuatha, [trans. Maureen S. O'Brien, mobrien@dnaco.net>][At Irish Poems]
• Irish Poem: from the pov of Gormflaith, the widow of Niall, [trans. Maureen S. O'Brien, mobrien@dnaco.net][At Irish Poems]
• Irish Poem: from the pov of Gormflaith, the widow of Niall, [trans. Maureen S. O'Brien, mobrien@dnaco.net][At Irish Poems]
• Irish Poem: First part of a poetic dispute over the ownership of the River Shannon, [trans. Maureen S. O'Brien,mobrien@dnaco.net][At Irish Poems]
• The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living. [At WVU]