Texts

Cath Cumair ‘The battle of Cumar’

Ulster Cycle

Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 37 (152) [s. xviii]

pp. 1ff

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.], “Cath Cumair”, Revue Celtique 43 (1926): 277–342.

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Secondary sources (select)

Bhreathnach, Edel, “Tales of Connacht: Cath Airtig, Táin bó Flidhais, Cath Leitreach Ruibhe, and Cath Cumair”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 45 (Summer, 2003): 21–42.

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April 2011, last updated: January 2024