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| Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS. 23 P 16 (early 15th cent.), p. 90 | ISOS |
Friday, February 5, 2021
"When I am among my seniors I am proof that games are forbidden; when I am among the wild, they think that I am younger than they."
An anonymous 10th-century quatrain ("Tan bím eter mo shruithe
") attributed to St. Mo Ling (d. c. 697; "Mo Ling dixit") and associated with 17 June, his feast day. In Early Irish lyrics eighth to twelfth century, ed. and trans. Gerard Murphy (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1956), 33 (32-33), 186 (185-186). CODECS.
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