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Fled Bricrenn ‘The feast of Bricriu’

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  • Ulster Cycle
Title
Fled Bricrenn
‘The feast of Bricriu’
Also spelled Fled Bricrend.
Manuscripts
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 (1229) = Lebor na hUidre [s. xi/xii]
ff. 99b–112b
+H (interpolated). End missing.
London, British Library, MS Egerton 93 [s. xv (?)]
ff. 20r–25v
Fragment.
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.40 [s. xv-xvi]
ff. 35r–36v pp. 69–76
part 5
Fragment, Cennach ind ruanada episode only.
Leiden, University Library, MS VLQ 7 [s. xvi]
ff. 3r–9v
Fragments.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 5, cols 681-710 [s. xv]
cols 683–710
Fragment; ends imperfect.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 19, pp. 565–628 [s. xvi (?)]
p. 607
Glossed extracts.(1)n. 1 George Henderson, Fled Bricrend (1899): xxiv–xxx; Johan Corthals, Manuscript sources to Old and Middle Irish tales (MsOmit) (2010).
Form
prose (primary)
verse (secondary)
Textual relationships
Related: Cles Con CulainnCles Con Culainn

A repertory of Cú Chulainn's feats, similar to that contained in Scéla Conchobuir meic Nessa.

Irish glossary from TCD 1337, pp. 623-628Irish glossary from TCD 1337, pp. 623-628Medieval Irish glossary in TCD 1337, pp. 623-628. Many of the entries are known from other works and learned compilations, such as Sanas Cormaic.

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

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Subjects

BricriuBricriu
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
hostel-keeper (briugu) in the Ulster Cycle of tales
See more 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)
See more Conall CernachConall Cernach
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Warrior of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle; son of Amergin and Findchóem. In Irish genealogies, he is presented as an ancestor of the kings of the Dál nAraidi and the Uí Echach Coba.
See more Lóegaire BúadachLóegaire Búadach
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Hero in tales of the Ulster Cycle; said to be a son of Connad Buide and grandson of Iliach
See more Cú RoíCú Roí (mac Dáiri)
Cú Roí mac Dáire, Cú Roí mac Dáiri
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Warrior and king of Munster in tales of the Ulster Cycle.
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Sources

Notes

1.
George Henderson, Fled Bricrend (1899): xxiv–xxx; Johan Corthals, Manuscript sources to Old and Middle Irish tales (MsOmit) (2010).

Primary sources

[ed.] [tr.] Henderson, George [ed. and tr.], Fled Bricrend, Irish Texts Society, 2, London and Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1899.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
[ed.] Windisch, Ernst [ed.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 1, Leipzig, 1880.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link>
235–311, 330–336 Text based on LU, with variants.
[ed.] Stern, Ludwig Christian [ed.], “Fled Bricrend nach dem Codex Vossianus”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 4 (1903): 143–177.
CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “The Edinburgh version of the Cennach in Rúanado”, Revue Celtique 14 (1893): 450–459.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <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].
[id. 81.] Based on Henderson's translation.
[tr.] Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], Early Irish myths and sagas, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
219–255
[tr.] Draak, Maartje, and Frida de Jong, Het feestgelag van Bricriu: een heldenverhaal, uit het Oudiers vertaald, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1986.
Translation into Dutch.
[tr.] d'Arbois de Jubainville, Marie-Henri [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: Marie-Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville (ed.), L’épopée celtique en Irlande, 5, Paris: Thorin, 1892. [Various].
Internet Archive: <link>
81–146

Secondary sources (select)

Slotkin, Edgar M., “The structure of Fled Bricrenn before and after the Lebor na hUidre interpolations”, Ériu 29 (1978): 64–77.
Borsje, Jacqueline, “Úath mac Imomain und andere Schreckgespenster — Phantasievolle Kreationen oder traditionelle Elemente des irischen mittelalterlichen Erbes”, in: Helmut Birkhan (ed.), Kelten-Einfälle an der Donau. Akten des Vierten Symposiums deutschsprachiger Keltologinnen und Keltologen ... Linz/Donau, 17.-21. Juli 2005, Denkschriften, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007. 51–65.
Downey, Clodagh, “Intertextuality in Echtra mac nEchdach Mugmedóin”, in: John Carey, Máire Herbert, and Kevin Murray (eds), Cín Chille Cúile: texts, saints and places. Essays in honour of Pádraig Ó Riain, 9, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2004. 77–104.

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