The Sex aetates mundi is an 11th-century short chronicle in Middle Irish which gives an overview of Old Testament history organized under the schema of the six ages of the world in alternating prose and verse.[1] It is found in several manuscripts, including the Lebor na hUidre.
It draws in part on the 9th-century Latin Historia Brittonum, incorporating a version of the 6th-century "Frankish" Table of Nations that itself is derived from the 1st-century Germania of Tacitus.[2]
Editions
edit- Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (ed.), The Irish Sex Aetates Mundi, 1983.
References
edit- ^ Bart Jaski, "Sex Aetates Mundi", in Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, 2010, p. 1353.
- ^ Patrick Wadden (2012), Theories of National Identity in Early Medieval Ireland (PhD dissertation), Oxford University, UK, pp. 209–232.
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