Texts

Bruidne Érenn (prose)

Middle Irish, Old Irish
prose
Ulster Cycle, Medieval Irish literature, Hexad

A brief prose account of the five or six hostels of Ireland (bruidne Érenn) and their owners occurs in a number of early Irish literary compositions and as an independent anecdote in the Book of Lismore.

Title

Bruidne Érenn (prose)

No title occurs in the manuscripts. See note below.

Scope

multiple versions

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

Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó

Bruiden Da Choca

Fled Dúin na nGéd

independentThe text comes down in a relatively independent form as opposed to being embedded within a larger textual framework.
Book of Lismore version

Manuscripts

At least four versions of the prose account are known.

Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó

Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó § 1 (...in chóiced bruden ro-boí i nhÉrinn).

London, British Library, MS Harley 5280 [s. xvi¹]

context: Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó

Five hostels (and hospitallers)

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 [s. xv–xviⁱⁿ]

context: Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó

Five hostels.

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

Six hostels.

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 pp 708-776 (comprising parts of vols 22 and 23), pp 792-809 (comprising part of vol. 23) [1616]

Six hostels.

Bruiden Da Choca

Bruiden Da Choca § 31 (... in sesiod rígbruiden Érenn) t.b.a.

Fled Dúin na nGéd

Fled Dúin na nGéd t.b.a.

Independent version

Cork, University College, Book of Lismore = Book of Lismore (Leabhar Leasa Móir) [s. xv]

f. 200vb (line 25ff)

beg. ‘Coicc bhruighne hEireann’

Five hostels plus one.

Language

Middle Irish Old Irish

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

Cf. ‘Sé bruidni Érenn gan dáil’

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle

id. 1797

Medieval Irish literatureMedieval Irish literature
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HexadHexad
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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.

Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó

[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Scéla mucce Meic Dathó, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1935.

Internet Archive: <link>

1

Bruiden Da Choca

[ed.] [tr.] Toner, Gregory [ed. and tr.], Bruiden Da Choca, Irish Texts Society, 61, London: Irish Texts Society, 2007.

§ 31

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “Da Choca’s hostel”, Revue Celtique 21 (1900): 149–165, 312–327, 388–402.

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§ 31 direct link

Fled Dúin na nGéd

[ed.] Lehmann, Ruth P. M. [ed.], Fled Dúin na nGéd, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 21, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1964.

CELT – edition: <link>

16

Book of Lismore version

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], Lives of saints from the Book of Lismore, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 5, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890.