"We returned by the road to king Ó Néill who received us very well and had great joy"

"We returned by the road to king Ó Néill who received us very well and had great joy"

Lough Derg--Travelogue--Middle Ages--Purgatory

A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory

Ramón de Perellós

The Journey of Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory, p. 26

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

1398

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork. Translated by Alan Mac an Bhaird.

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Electronic text translation

English, translated from Spanish

Travelogue

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"And leaving there we returned by the road to king Ó Néill who received us very well and had great joy. And I celebrated Christmas day where he held great court according to their custom, which to us here is very strange for a king to do, albeit he had so many people. And I departed from there and we returned to the land which the English hold in that island of Ireland. And at New Year37 we were with the Countess of March in a castle of hers and she received us honorably and competently gave us jewels. And everywhere where we passed they gave us great honor, appearing to show us great devotion as we are delivered out of those so great dangers. And if I had wished to reply, I was questioned much more in the island than I was afterwards."

The Journey of Viscount Ramon De Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory. Alan Mac an Bhaird (ed), First edition [i + 23 pp] CELT Cork (2012)