Texts

Aided Derbforgaill ‘The violent death of Derbforgaill’

Early Irish
prose, verse, prosimetrum
Ulster Cycle

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

pp. 125a–125b

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iv 2 (992) [s. xv]

ff. 52v–53r (= 54v–55r in earlier pagination).

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 pp 708-776 (comprising parts of vols 22 and 23), pp 792-809 (comprising part of vol. 23) [1616]

pp. 728–731

Language

Early Irish

Form

prose, verse, prosimetrum (primary)

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle

id. 1797

Subjects

Cú Chulainn

Cú Chulainn

Young Ulster hero and chief character of Táin bó Cuailnge and other tales of the Ulster Cycle; son of Súaltam or Lug and Deichtire (sister to Conchobor); husband of Emer (ingen Forgaill)

See more Lugaid Ríab nDerg

Lugaid Ríab nDerg (Reóderg)

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)

legendary high-king of Ireland; said to have been born out of an incestuous relationship between the three Findemna (sons of Eochaid Feidlech) and their sister Clothru

See more Derbforgaill [daughter of the king of Lochlann]Derbforgaill ... daughter of the king of Lochlann

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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Ingridsdotter, Kicki, “Aided Derbforgaill ‘The violent death of Derbforgaill’: a critical edition with introduction, translation and textual notes”, PhD dissertation, Uppsala University, 2009. http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=2&pid=diva2:213892.

[ed.] [tr.] Marstrander, Carl [ed. and tr.], “The deaths of Lugaid and Derbforgaill”, Ériu 5 (1911): 201–218.

CELT – edition: <link>

Edited from LL and variants.

[add.] Meyer, Kuno, “Addendum ad p. 208 sq.”, Ériu 5 (1911): 252.

Internet Archive: <link>

[ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 2, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1956. xi + pp. 261-470 + 2 pl.

CELT – pp. 400-470: <link>

463–466 direct link

[tr.] Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín [ed.], “Gormlaith and her sisters, c. 750-1800”, in: Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather, and Maria Luddy [et al.] (eds), The Field Day anthology of Irish writing, vol. IV: Irish women's writing and traditions, Cork: Cork University Press, 2002. 166–249.

204–206

[tr.] Zimmer, Heinrich, “Keltische Beiträge I: Germanen, germanische Lehnwörter und germanische Sagenelemente in der alteste Überlieferung der irischen Heldensage”, Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum und deutsche Litteratur 32 (1888): 196–334.

Digizeitschriften.de: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

217–219. Translation of the prose in LL.