Texts
Longes mac nUislenn‘The exile of the sons of Uisliu’
- Early Irish
- Ulster Cycle, remscéla to Táin bó Cúailnge
Manuscripts
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]ff. 192rb line 11 – 193rb line 24
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xivex/xvin]cols 749.20–753
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Language
- Early Irish
Textual relationships
Cf. the Early Modern Irish version Oidheadh chloinne hUisneach.
Related: Oidheadh Chloinne hUisneachOidheadh Chloinne hUisneach
Tale of the Ulster Cycle which can be described as a later, Early Modern Irish version of Longes mac nUislenn.
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.] Pokorny, Julius, A historical reader of Old Irish: texts, paradigms, notes and a complete glossary, Halle, 1923.
9–11. Critical edition of the prose sections
[ed.] [tr.] Murphy, Gerard [ed. and tr.], Early Irish lyrics: eighth to twelfth century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
CELT – Early Irish poetry to c. 1200 (many of the editions are available online here): <link>
xvii–xviii. Stanzas from Deirdre's lament.
[ed.] O'Curry, Eugene, Theophilus O'Flanagan, and Ernst Windisch, “The exile of the sons of Uisnech”, Gaelic Journal 1:12 (1883): 378–391.
[ed.] [tr.] O'Curry, Eugene [ed. and tr.], “The ‘Trí thruaighe na scéalaigheachta’ (i.e. the ‘Three most sorrowful tales’,) of Erinn. — I. ‘The exile of the children of Uisnech’”, The Atlantis 3:4 (1862): 377–422.
comments: Edited from YBL
HathiTrust – originally from Google Books: <link>
Edited from YBL
[tr.] Draak, Maartje, and Frida de Jong (trs.), Van helden, elfen en dichters: de oudste verhalen uit Ierland, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1979.
23–33.
[tr.] Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone [tr.], A Celtic miscellany: translations from the Celtic literatures, Revised ed. (1951), Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
49–53 (§ 7). Translation of prose sections, based on Hull.
[tr.] Dottin, Georges [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: d'Arbois de Jubainville, Marie-Henri, L’épopée celtique en Irlande, Cours de littérature celtique 5, Paris: Thorin, 1892. [Various].
Internet Archive: <link>
220–236
[tr.] McCone, Kim R., and Pádraig Ó Fiannachta (trs.), Scéalaíocht ár sinsear, Dán agus Tallann 3, Maynooth: An Sagart, 1992.
A collection of early Irish tales in a Modern Irish translation.
109–116. Translation into Modern Irish.
Secondary sources (select)
Johnston, Elva, “Kingship made real? Power and the public world in Longes mac nUislenn”, in: Edmonds, Fiona, and Paul Russell (eds.), Tome: studies in medieval Celtic history and law in honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards, Studies in Celtic History 31, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. 193–206.
Doi, Toshio, “Verbal nouns in Longes mac nUisnig”, Journal of Indo-European Studies 14 (1986): 247–258.
Thurneysen, Rudolf, Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert, Halle: Niemeyer, 1921.
comments: Part 1 (chapters 1-23): Allgemeines; Part 2 (chapters 1-85): Die Ulter Sage
Internet Archive: <link>
321–327.
web page identifiers
page name: Longes mac nUislenn
page url: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Longes_mac_nUislenn
redirect: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Special:Redirect/page/681
numerical alternative: https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?curid=681
page ID: 681
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
December 2010, last updated: August 2020
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