Texts

Aided Lóthair ‘The (violent) death of Lóthar’

  • prose
  • Táin bó Cúailnge, dinnshenchas, Aided

Story about the death of Medb’s cowherd Lóthar, with an additional anecdote about the search for the bull (tarb). It occurs only in the first recension of TBC.

Title
Aided Lóthair
‘The (violent) death of Lóthar’
The story is thus referred to in its conclusion (Conid Aided Lóthair ar Tána sin).
Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Táin bó Cúailnge
Táin bó Cúailnge
id. 624
dinnshenchasIrish narrative literature, onomastic lore and learning, topographical literature
dinnshenchas
id. 32607
AidedAided
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Subjects

Medb Chrúachna
Medb of Crúachan
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Queen of the Connachta, co-ruler with her husband Ailill mac Máta, in the Ulster Cycle. She is said to have a daughter, Findabair, and seven sons known as the seven Maines. Her lover is Fergus mac Róich.

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LótharLóthar
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Donn Cúailnge
Donn Cúailnge
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
The fertile brown bull of Cúailnge (Cooley, Co. Louth) in the Táin and foretales.

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

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Slíab Cuillinn
Slíab Cuillinn ... Slieve Gullion
County Armagh
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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.] OʼRahilly, Cecile [ed. and tr.], Táin bó Cúailnge: Recension I, Dublin: DIAS, 1976.
CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link>
31 (ll. 977–1001); 153 Recension 1
See Táin bó Cúailnge for the complete list
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
December 2012, last updated: January 2024