Ends in the 1170s, so it has no 1200 events, but it was composed about then for the Marshal interest in Leinster and lists the enfeoffments by which Strongbow and Hugh de Lacy parcelled out Leinster and Meath. That list is the title deed of the lordship as it stood in 1200, when William Marshal held Leinster through his wife and the de Lacys held Meath. Partisan and sometimes muddled, but with names no other source gives.
About this source
- Title
- La geste des Engleis en Yrlande (The Song of Dermot and the Earl)
- Author
- Anonymous (an Anglo-Norman clerk drawing on Morice Regan, Diarmait Mac Murchada's interpreter)
- Written
- about 1200 to 1225
- Language
- Anglo-Norman French verse
- Covers
- 1152 to about 1176
- Kind
- Poem
The only manuscript (Lambeth, Carew 596) is a later copy; the date of composition is argued between about 1200 and the 1220s.
Where to read it
Editions
- G. H. Orpen (ed. and trans.), The Song of Dermot and the Earl (Oxford, 1892), French with English
- E. Mullally (ed.), The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland (2002), not free (not freely online)