Macgnímrada Con Culainn ‘The boyhood deeds of Cú Chulainn’

prose
Táin bó Cúailnge

Not an independent(ly preserved) tale, but a story included in Táin bó Cúailnge, recension I and II.

Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.

Táin bó Cúailnge I
no. 398
lines 398–469
(Cecile O'Rahilly, Táin bó Cúailnge: Recension I (1976))

Táin bó Cúailnge II
no. 738
lines 738–819
(Cecile O'Rahilly, Táin bó Cúalnge: from the Book of Leinster (1967))

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

Cf. ‘Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind’

Related: Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rindRo-mbáe laithi rordu rindA poem of at least seven stanzas attributed to Cú Chulainn or Conchobar mac Nessa.

Classification

Táin bó Cúailnge
Táin bó Cúailnge

id. 624

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)

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.] [tr.] OʼRahilly, Cecile [ed. and tr.], Táin bó Cúailnge: Recension I, Dublin: DIAS, 1976.

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Lines 398–469 Recension I

[tr.] Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], Early Irish myths and sagas, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.

134–146 Four extracts from the LU version (Recension I).

[ed.] [tr.] OʼRahilly, Cecile [ed. and tr.], Táin bó Cúalnge: from the Book of Leinster, Irish Texts Society, 49, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link>

Lines 738–819 Recension II in LL.

[tr.] Draak, Maartje, and Frida de Jong [trs.], Van helden, elfen en dichters: de oudste verhalen uit Ierland, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1979.

37–53

[tr.] Guyonvarc'h, Christian-J. [tr.], “Les exploits d'enfance de Cuchulainn”, Ogam 11 (1959): 206–215, 325–335.

See Táin bó Cúailnge for a fuller list

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Contributors

Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown