Manuscripts
Results gathered for Tochmarc Étaíne
Text
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 4
Complete copy: (1) col. 985 ff: story I; (2) col. 990 ff: story II; (3) cols 992-997: story III. Incipit: ‘Tochmarc Etaine beos’.
cols 985–997
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25
incipit: ... a thaigi ⁊ a gríanan co senistrib solsib fri techt ass [...] First story, incomplete. Due to a gap in the manuscript, the beginning of the text is missing.
p. 129a.1–
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25
rubric: Tochmarc Etaine inso beos. incipit: GABAIS Eochaid Haeremon ríge nÉrend [...] Second story.
p. 129b.20–
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25
This copy contains all three tales, but it is wanting in parts: (1) pp. 129a-129b line 19: story I (fragment due to a gap in the manuscript); (2) 129b line 20-130b: story II (complete); (3) pp. 130b-132a: story III (lacks the middle and end of the text). Incipit: ‘Tochmarc nÉtaine dano so sís’.
pp. 129a–132a
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25
rubric: Tochmarc nÉtaine dano so sís. incipit: FECHT n-aile asraracht Eochaid Airem rí Temrach lá n-álaind i n-amsir samrata fosrocaib for sosta na Temrach do imcaisiu Maigi Breg. Third story. Page 131 and 132 bear one column each, since the leaf has been cut in half.
p. 130b.19–
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1288
Both texts are transcribed from Egerton 1782, but in mixed order.
f. 26–
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 (cols 573-958)
rubric: Tochmarc Etaine andso Complete copy of story 2
pp. 175a–175b (in facsimile) cols 876–877
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/19 (pp. 565-628)
Glossed extracts, edited in Ludwig Christian Stern, ‘Das Märchen von Étáin’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 5 (1905).
p. 605–
Text
London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782
A somewhat expanded version, including some versifications. It precedes a copy of Togail bruidne Da Derga.
ff. 106r–108v
MS
London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782
Middle part, introducing Togail Bruidne Da Derga
f. 106ra–
