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Aided Fergusa meic Roich‘The violent death of Fergus mac Roich’

• Early Irish
• Ulster Cycle

Manuscripts

• Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.40 [s. xv-xvi]

  ff. 3r–3v
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 6, cols 281-344 = Section of YBL

  col. 343

  Extract about Fergus' journey to Connacht, following the death of the sons of Usnech, and his death there.

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Language

• Early Irish

Classification

Ulster Cycle

Subjects

Fergus mac RóichFergus mac Róich
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
warrior in tales of the Ulster Cycle; former king of Ulster in exile in Connacht; Medb’s lover
See more Ailill mac MátaAilill mac Máta
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
king of Connacht, husband of Medb of Connacht
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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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], The death-tales of the Ulster heroes, Todd Lecture Series 14, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1906.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

32–35 (ed. and tr.); 45 (notes). Edited from Gaelic MS XL.

[ed.] [tr.] Hull, Vernam [ed. and tr.], “The death of Fergus mac Roig”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 18 (1930): 304.

Edited from YBL.

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Fergus macc Rōig”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918): 375.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Extract from YBL.

[tr.] Carey, John [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: Koch, John T., and John Carey (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, Celtic Studies Publications 1, 4th ed. (1995), Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various].

§ 85

[tr.] Guyonvarc'h, Christian-J. [tr.], “Le meurtre de Fergus fils de Roeg”, Ogam 12 (1960): 344–348.

Based on Meyer's text.

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Contributors

Dennis Groenewegen,Patrick Brown