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Cath Aenaig Macha ‘The battle of the assembly (óenach) of Macha’

  • Ulster Cycle
Manuscripts
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C i 2 (1234) [s. xv-xvi (?)]
context: Cóir anmann
The story is also preserved as a summary included in Cóir anmann (see there), which gives additional details.

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

The term ‘Ulster Cycle’ is used in modern scholarship to refer to a body of Irish narrative literature set in the heroic age of the Ulaid around the time of Conchobar mac Nessa.

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.] Dobbs, Margaret E. [ed. and tr.], “Battle of the assembly of Macha”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 16 (1926–1927): 145–161.
Internet Archive: <link>
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
April 2011, last updated: January 2024
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