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Comrac Con Culainn re Senbecc ‘Cú Chulainn's meeting with Senbecc’

  • prose
  • Ulster Cycle
Two different versions of the story of Cú Chulainn and Senbecc.
Title
Comrac Con Culainn re Senbecc
‘Cú Chulainn's meeting with Senbecc’
This title does not occur in version B (BND).
Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.
Manuscripts
Version A:
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iv 2 (992) [s. xv]
f. 50b
rubric: ‘Comracc Conchulaind re Senbecc hua n-Ebricc a Segais in so’
Version B (in Bretha nemed dédenach):
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1317 (H 2. 15b) [s. xvii]
f. 143a
beg. ‘Senbheg ua Eibric a síodhaibh doluidh a maigh Seghaisi a ndeghaidh an iomhais’
Form
prose (primary)
verse (secondary)

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

Subjects

Cú Chulainn
Cú 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)
See more Senbecc
Senbecc (úa Ébricc/E(i)bricc)
No short description available
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Contents

Version A

Includes verse: Fuair hua Eibricc forsin sruth

Version B

Includes verse: Nidam mac, nidam fer

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.

Version A
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Irish miscellanies: Anecdota from the Stowe MS. n° 992”, Revue Celtique 6 (1883–1885): 173–186.
Internet Archive: <link>
183–184 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].
§ 77 Version A
Translation wanted
The poem has not been translated.
Version B
[ed.] Gwynn, E. J., “An Old-Irish tract on the privileges and responsibilities of poets”, Ériu 13 (1942): 1–60, 220–236.
26.17–27.3 (version B)
[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].
§ 78 Version B
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown
Page created
April 2011, last updated: March 2024
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