The early Irish law tract Fidbretha ‘Tree-judgments’
By Charlene M. Eska
Published in North American journal of Celtic studies, 2025.
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Published in North American journal of Celtic studies, 2025.
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Abstract
, abstract:, This article concerns the fragmentarily attested early Irish legal text Fidbretha ‘Tree-Judgments’. Although this text is often mentioned by scholars of early Irish law as an important source of information about early Irish trees, no edition or translation of the text has been published thus far. Fidbretha is compared with other sources related to trees and forests and an edition and translation of the text appears in the Appendix.