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c.1000, Anonymous, published in (1935) Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó (in Middle Irish), Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 10–12, page 1: “Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori. ― seven doors in the hall and seven paths through it and seven hearths and seven cauldrons.”
c.900, Aided óenfir Aífe from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in “The death of Conla”, Ériu 1 (1904), pages 113–121, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §2
Do·luid in mac dia secht mbliadan do chuindchid a athar.
The seven-year-old boy came in search of his father.