Texts

Compert Mongáin ‘The conception and birth of Mongán’

Early Irish
prose
Cycles of the Kings, Compert

Brief early Irish story of the conception and birth of Mongán

Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 (1229) = Lebor na hUidre [s. xi/xii]

f. 133a–b

beg. ‘...decming a chobair di’

Fragment (beginning missing)

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv^ex/xvⁱⁿ]

cols 911–912

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 18, pp. 542–564 [c. s. xiv]

p. 555

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (967) = Book of Ballycummin [s. xvi]

pp. 63–64

London, British Library, MS Egerton 88 [c. 1564]

f. 15va

Language

Early Irish

Form

prose (primary)

verse (secondary)

Contains poems

‘Tíag dum daim’

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings

id. 80

CompertCompert
...

Subjects

Mongán mac Fiachnai

Mongán mac Fíachnai

No short description available

See more Manannán mac Lir

Manannán mac Lir

mythological figure in Irish literature, typically associated with the sea

Ráith Mór [(Mag Line)]

Ráith Mór ... Rathmore

County Antrim

No short description available

Keywords

ConceptionConception
...
BirthBirth
...

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.] White, Nora [ed. and tr.], Compert Mongáin and three other early Mongán tales, Maynooth Medieval Irish Texts, 5, Maynooth: Department of Old and Middle Irish, National University of Ireland, 2006.

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, and Alfred Nutt, The voyage of Bran, son of Febal to the land of the living, 2 vols, vol. 1: The happy otherworld, London: David Nutt, 1895.

Internet Archive: <link>

42–43; 44–45 direct link

[tr.] Carey, John [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: John T. Koch, and John Carey (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, 4th ed., 1, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various].

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