Mellbretha
''Mellbretha'' (Old Irish for "Sport-judgements") is an fragmentarily preserved early Irish legal text on the law of sports. The surviving fragment deals with accidental injuries, and the liability they incur, in various sports. It gives the names of twenty-five sports, some quite obscure, but including such games as hurling and fidchell. Manuscripts A fragment of ''Mellbretha'' was discovered in 1968 by Anne and William O'Sullivan on a piece of scrap vellum used in the binding of Trinity College Library, Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363. D. A. Binchy edited and translated this fragment, connecting it with some unattributed quotes in a legal commentary on liability for injuries caused by games, preserved in British Library, MS Egerton 88. Liam Breatnach disagrees with Binchy about which of these quotations belong to ''Mellbretha''. Contents ''Mellbretha'' begins with an ''accessus ad auctores'' schema, giving a pseudo-historical account of the place, time, author, and cause of t ...
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