For Áed, see Heist, W.W., ed. Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae. Subsidia
Hagiographica 28. Brussels, 1965, p 172. (cf Plummer, Charles, ed. Vitae
Sanctorum Hiberniae. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910; vol I.38).
For Ciarán of Saigir, see Heist, 348; Plummer, VSH I.221 and Bethada Náem
nÉrenn, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922, vol II.101, 112.
For Cainnech of Achadh Bó, see Heist, 197.
For Brigid, see "Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae," trans. Sean Connolly, Journal
of the Royal Society of the Antiquaries of Ireland (1989): 45; "Cogitosus's
Life of St. Brigit," trans. Sean Connolly and J.M. Picard, Journal of the
Royal Society of the Antiquaries of Ireland (1987): 16.
Fascinating stuff!
Maeve
At 07:37 PM 11/11/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Although my examples are not precisely abortions, they have the same
>effect (a pregnant woman becomes thin again, with no child in sight)
>after miraculous delivery by saints. I will be happy to forward references
>to Maeve (or other interested) in exchange for precise refs.
>to these Irish examples.
>Meg
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