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Scéla Conaill Chuirc ⁊ Corcu Loígde ‘The story of Conall Corc and the Corcu Loígde’

  • Middle Irish
  • Cycles of the Kings
Manuscripts
Language
  • Middle Irish
  • Middle Irish.

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80

Subjects

Conall Corc
Conall Corc
Legendary ancestor of the Éoganachta and a key figure in origin stories about the kingship of Cashel.

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Corcu Loígde
Corcu Loígde
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Sources

Notes

Kuno Meyer, ‘Conall Corc and the Corco Luigde’ in Anecdota from Irish manuscripts... (1910); Johan Corthals, Manuscript sources to Old and Middle Irish tales (MsOmit) (2010).

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.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Conall Corc and the Corco Luigde”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 3, Halle and Dublin, 1910. 57–63.
Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link> CELT – edition: <link>
[tr.] Hull, Vernam [tr.], “Conall Corc and the Corco Luigde”, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 62 (1947): 887–909.
[ed.] Hull, Vernam [ed.], “On Conall Corc and the Corco Luigde”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 27 (1958–1959): 64–74.

Secondary sources (select)

Downey, Clodagh, “Medieval literature about Conall Corc”, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 110 (2005): 21–32.
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2010, last updated: January 2024