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Kimpton, Bettina, Cú Chulainn’s death: a critical edition of Brislech Mór Maige Murthemni, rev. ed., 2024.

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Cú Chulainn’s death: a critical edition of Brislech Mór Maige Murthemni
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2024
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The death tale of the early medieval Irish warrior hero Cú Chulainn features a taut narrative interwoven with stunningly complex poetry. This revised critical edition with introduction, text, translation, textual notes, and glossary provides linguistic, literary, and metrical analyses of the tale, as well as a brief discussion of early Irish poetics.

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Kimpton, Bettina [ed. and tr.], The death of Cú Chulainn. A critical edition of the earliest version of Brislech Mór Maige Muirthemni, Maynooth Medieval Irish Texts, 6, Maynooth: School of Celtic Studies, National University of Ireland, 2009.
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Ulster Cycle vernacular Irish verse
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textual editing textual translation
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Dennis Groenewegen
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July 2024