Texts
Aided Derbforgaill‘The violent death of Derbforgaill’
- Early Irish
- prose, verse, prosimetrum
- Ulster Cycle
Manuscripts
Language
- Early Irish
Form
prose, verse, prosimetrum (primary)
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.
[ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. O'Brien, 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: Bourke, Angela (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.
Secondary sources (select)
Thurneysen, Rudolf, Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert, Halle: Niemeyer, 1921.
comments: Part 1 (chapters 1-23): Allgemeines; Part 2 (chapters 1-85): Die Ulter Sage
Internet Archive: <link>
426–428
web page identifiers
page name: Aided Derbforgaill
page url: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Aided_Derbforgaill
redirect: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Redirect/page/2991
numerical alternative: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?curid=2991
page ID: 2991
page ID tracker: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Show:ID&id=2991
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown
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April 2011, last updated: August 2020