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abstract: Breatnach 2016 provides a comprehensive inventory of the many legal and literary instances of cétmuinter and concludes by suggesting that his linguistic analysis of the word proves that polygyny in early Christian Ireland did not exist. This paper reviews Breatnach's work; re-examines the early Irish marriage laws more generally; puts those laws within their larger medieval European context; and concludes that the situation in medieval Ireland is not as clear-cut as Breatnach would suggest.
Charlene M. Eska (Fri,) studied this question.