Texts

Cath Finntrága ‘The battle of Ventry’

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Finn Cycle
Title
Cath Finntrága
‘The battle of Ventry’
Or in more modern spelling, Cath Fionntrágha.
Manuscripts
One vellum manuscript:
14 paper manuscripts:
p. 243
The earliest paper MS.
London, British Library, MS Egerton 149
pp. 109 ff
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 17
pp. 57–110
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.2.8
pp. 197–237
Language
  • Early Modern Irish

Classification

Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle
id. 578

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.], Cath Finntrágha, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 20, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1962.
CELT – edition (pp. 1–47 with variants from the appendix): <link>
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Cath Finntrága or The Battle of Ventry, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 1.4, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885.  
Edition based on Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 487; variants from BL Egerton 149.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Caoimhín, “The historical context of Cath Fionntrágha”, Éigse 28 (1994): 138–155.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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May 2011, last updated: January 2024