Aided Lócha ‘The (violent) death of Lócha’

prose
Táin bó Cúailnge, Dinnshenchas, Aided

Anecdote about the death of Medb's handmaid Lócha (Recension 1) or Loche (Recension 2).

Title

Aided Lócha

‘The (violent) death of Lócha’

The title occurs in recension I.

Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.

Táin bó Cúailnge I
Anecdote in recension I, headed Aided Lócha

Táin bó Cúailnge II
Anecdote (longer version) in recension II, without title

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

The placename Réid Locha also occurs in [[Táin bó Cúailnge III |Recension III]], but the story which accompanies it in the other recensions is omitted here.⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Rudolf Thurneysen, ‘Táin bó Cúailghni nach H.2.17’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 8 (1912): 542 (line 1550).

Classification

Táin bó Cúailnge
Táin bó Cúailnge

id. 624

DinnshenchasDinnshenchas
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AidedAided
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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 Medb CrúachnaMedb Crúachna

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

See more LóchaLócha

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

Réid LóchaRéid Lócha

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

See more CuincheCuinche

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

Sources

Notes

^1.

Rudolf Thurneysen, ‘Táin bó Cúailghni nach H.2.17’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 8 (1912): 542 (line 1550).

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See Táin bó Cúailnge for the complete list

[ed.] [tr.] OʼRahilly, Cecile [ed. and tr.], Táin bó Cúailnge: Recension I, Dublin: DIAS, 1976.

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

31 (lines 973–977); 152–153 Recension I.

[ed.] [tr.] OʼRahilly, Cecile [ed. and tr.], Táin bó Cúalnge: from the Book of Leinster, Irish Texts Society, 49, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967.

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

37 (lines 1340–1338); 175 Recension II in LL.