Texts

Aided Guill (meic Carbada) ⁊ Gairb (Glinne Rige) ‘The violent deaths of Goll and Garb’

Late Middle Irish
prose
Ulster Cycle

Manuscripts

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

ff. 107b–111b

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

ff. 15ra–19rb

part 3

Language

Late Middle Irish
Late Middle Irish

Form

prose (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 Conchobar mac Nessa

Conchobar mac Nessa

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)

king of the Ulaid in tales of the Ulster Cycle; son either of Cathbad or Fachtna Fáthach (father) and Ness (mother); husband of Mugain; father of Cormac Cond Longas, Cúscraid Mend Macha, Furbaide Fer Bend and Fedelm Noíchrothach; fosterfather of Cú Chulainn.

See more Goll mac Carbada

Goll mac Carbada

No short description available

See more Garb Glinne RígeGarb Glinne Ríge

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “The violent deaths of Goll and Garb”, Revue Celtique 14 (1893): 396–449.

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

LL version

Secondary sources (select)

Fogarty, Hugh, “Aided Guill meic Carbada ₇ Aided Gairb Glinne Rige: intertextuality and the inward look in a late Middle Irish prose saga”, in: Elizabeth Boyle, and Deborah Hayden (eds), Authorities and adaptations: the reworking and transmission of textual sources in medieval Ireland, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2014. 185–210.

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April 2011, last updated: January 2024