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Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó ‘The tale of Mac Da Thó's pig’

  • Old Irish
  • Ulster Cycle
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Language
  • Old Irish
Textual relationships
Related: Sgéala muice Meic Dhá ThóSgéala muice Meic Dhá ThóEarly modern version of Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó
Associated items
Bruidne Érenn (prose)Bruidne Érenn (prose)

A brief prose account of the five or six hostels of Ireland (bruidne Érenn) and their owners occurs in a number of early Irish literary compositions and as an independent anecdote in the Book of Lismore.

Muc mic Dá Thó, tlacht-múad torcMuc mic Dá Thó, tlacht-múad torcPoem on Mac Da Thó's pig.

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.

Subjects

Ailill mac Máta
Ailill mac Máta
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
king of Connacht, husband of Medb of Connacht
See more Bricriu
Bricriu
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
hostel-keeper (briugu) in the Ulster Cycle of tales
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Celtchar (mac Uithechair)
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Celtcha(i)r mac U(i)thechair, warrior in the Ulster Cycle of tales.
See more Cet mac Mágach
Cet mac Mágach
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Warrior in the Ulster Cycle of tales; hero of Connacht; in some texts, brother of Findchóem and uncle of Conall Cernach.
See more Conall Cernach
Conall Cernach
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Warrior of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle; son of Amergin and Findchóem. In Irish genealogies, he is presented as an ancestor of the kings of the Dál nAraidi and the Uí Echach Coba.
See more Conchobar mac Nessa
Conchobar mac Nessa
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
king of the Ulaid in tales of the Ulster Cycle; son either of Cathbad or Fachtna Fáthach (father) and Ness (mother); husband of Mugain; father of Cormac Cond Longas, Cúscraid Mend Macha, Furbaide Fer Bend and Fedelm Noíchrothach; fosterfather of Cú Chulainn.
See more Crimthann Nia Náir
Crimthann Nia Náir
son of Lugaid Ríab nDerg; high-king of Ireland in Irish tradition
See more Cúscraid Mend Macha
Cúscraid Mend Macha
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
warrior in the Ulster Cycle, son of the Ulster king Conchobar mac Nessa.
See more Eógan mac Durthacht
Eógan mac Durthacht
No short description available
See more Fergus mac Róich
Fergus mac Róich
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
warrior in tales of the Ulster Cycle; former king of Ulster in exile in Connacht; Medb’s lover
See more Lóegaire Búadach
Lóegaire Búadach
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Hero in tales of the Ulster Cycle; said to be a son of Connad Buide and grandson of Iliach
See more Lugaid mac Con Roí
Lugaid mac Con Roí
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Warrior in the Ulster Cycle, son of Cú Roí. In the tale Brislech Mór Maige Muirthemne, he is identified as the one who slew Cú Chulainn after wounding him with a spear.
See more Medb CrúachnaMedb Crúachna
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
See more Munremar mac Gerrcind
Munremar mac Gerrcind
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
warrior in tales of the Ulster Cycle; commonly identified as a son of Gerrcend
See more Mac Da Thó
Mac Da Thó
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
king of Leinster in the tale known as Scéla mucce Meic Mac Da Thó
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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.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Scéla mucce Meic Dathó, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1935.
Internet Archive: <link>  : View in Mirador
[ed.] Windisch, Ernst [ed.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 1, Leipzig, 1880.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – Originally from Google Books: <link> – Vol. 1, part 1: View in Mirador – Vol. 1, part 2: Wörterbuch: View in Mirador
93–112.
[ed.] Scarre, Annie M. [ed.], “Scél Muicce Maic Dá Thó”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 5, Halle and Dublin, 1913. 8–17.
Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link> Internet Archive – Anecdota vols 1-5: <link> Internet Archive – Anecdota vols 3-5: <link>
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Hibernica minora, being a fragment of an Old-Irish treatise on the Psalter, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 8, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894.
Internet Archive: <link> TLH – Erchoitmed ingine Gulidi (ed. and tr.): <link>
199–207. Meyer's translation is reprinted in Koch, John T., et al. (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales (2003): § 80.
[tr.] Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], Early Irish myths and sagas, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
179–187.
[tr.] Leahy, A. H. [tr.], Heroic romances of Ireland, 2 vols, Irish Saga Library, 2, London, 1905–1906.
Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link> Internet Archive – vols 1-2 (Google Books): <link> Internet Archive – Gutenberg (plain text): <link>
vol. 1: 33–49.
[tr.] Corthals, Johan, Altirische Erzählkunst, Forum Celticum: Studien zu keltischen Sprachen und Kulturen, 1, Münster: Lit, 1996.
Translation into German
[tr.] Draak, Maartje, and Frida de Jong [trs.], Van helden, elfen en dichters: de oudste verhalen uit Ierland, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1979.
92–103.
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