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Forfess Fer Fálgae ‘The siege/night-watch of the men of Fálgae/Fálchae’

  • Ulster Cycle
Manuscripts
Cín Dromma Snechtai [s.viii / s. xin]
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363 4, pp. 40-53 [s. xv]
pp. 45, 50
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (967) = Book of Ballycummin [s. xvi]
p. 70
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 1a (236a) = Book of the Ó Duibhgeannáin [s.xvii (?)]
ff. 36–37
Fragment.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1287 (H 1. 13) [1746]
p. 360
London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 [1516-1518]
f. 19ra–19rb
London, British Library, MS Egerton 88 [c. 1564]
f. 11ra–11rb
London, British Library, MS Harley 5280 [s. xvi1]
f. 63r
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 I, (a) ff. 101-122, (b) ff. 1-36, (c) ff. 45-52 [s. xv/xvi]
f. 118v
See Hellmuth (2004): 196 and 196 note 6.

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

The term ‘Ulster Cycle’ is used in modern scholarship to refer to a body of Irish narrative literature set in the heroic age of the Ulaid around the time of Conchobar mac Nessa.

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.

Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern [I], Abhandlungen der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, 14.2, Berlin, 1912.  
comments: Continued by Rudolf Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern II (1913).
53–58
Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Forfess Fer Falgae”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 8 (1912): 564–565.
CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Egerton 1782, with variants from Harleian 5280 and Egerton 88.

Secondary sources (select)

Hellmuth, Petra S., “Zu Forfess Fer Fálgae”, in: Erich Poppe (ed.), Keltologie heute: Themen und Fragestellungen. Akten des 3. Deutschen Keltologensymposiums, Marburg, März 2001, 6, Münster: Nodus, 2004. 195–210.
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Contributors
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October 2010, last updated: January 2024
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