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Cath Ruis na Ríg

• Middle Irish
• prose
• Ulster Cycle

Manuscripts

Book of Leinster recension:

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

  pp. 171a–178a

Other versions:

• Two MSS belonging to John Colgan.
• London, British Library, MS Egerton 106 [1715]

  f. 53
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 37 (152) [s. xviii]

  pp. 198–219
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS E iv 3 (11) = Leabhar Uí Lochlainn (Book of Ó Lochlainn or the O’Loughlins) [1727]

  pp. 118–128
• A MS of Maynooth from before 1795

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Language

• Middle Irish

Date

Uáitéar Mac Gearailt dates the LL version to “possibly mid-way through the second half of the twelfth century” (1991: 129).

Form

prose (primary)

verse (secondary)

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle

id. 1797

Subjects

Cú ChulainnCú Chulainn
Young Ulster hero and chief character of Táin bó Cuailnge and other tales of the Ulster Cycle; son of Súaltam or Lug and Deichtire (sister to Conchobor); husband of Emer (ingen Forgaill)
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Ros na Ríg on the BoyneRos na Ríg on the Boyne

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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.

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 4, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1965. xxvii + pp. 761-1117.

CELT – pp. 761-781 and 785-841: <link>

761–779 (lines 22627–23283) Diplomatic edition of the text in LL. direct link

[ed.] [tr.] Hogan, Edmund [ed. and tr.], Cath Ruis na Ríg for Bóinn, Todd Lecture Series, 4, Dublin, 1892.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

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Contributors

Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown

Page created

April 2011, last updated: September 2022