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Serglige Con Culainn ‘The wasting sickness of Cú Chulainn’

  • Old Irish
  • prose
  • Ulster Cycle
Author
Anonymous
Manuscripts
Lebor buide Sláni ‘The Yellow Book of Slane’
Lost.
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 (1229) = Lebor na hUidre [s. xi/xii]
ff. 43a–50b
Interpolated by H. According to a note in the top margin of f. 43r, the text was copied from the Lebor buide Sláni (now lost).
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363 (H 4. 22) [various]
pp. 89–104.
part 10
Language
  • Old Irish
  • Old Irish
Form
prose (primary)
verse (secondary)
Textual relationships
The text includes the wisdom-text Bríatharthecosc Con Culainn.
Associated items
Bríatharthecosc Con CulainnBríatharthecosc Con CulainnAn early Irish wisdom text found in the context of an episode in Serglige Con Culainn concerning royal candidacy and inauguration.Ránac-sa rem rebrad ránRánac-sa rem rebrad rán

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

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)
See more Emer ingen Forgaill
Emer ingen Forgaill
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
wife of Cú Chulainn in the Ulster Cycle of tales
See more Manannán mac Lir
Manannán mac Lir
mythological figure in Irish literature, typically associated with the sea
See more

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.] Dillon, Myles [ed.], Serglige Con Culainn, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 14, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1953.  
Edition based on LU.
CELT – edition: <link>
Edition based on LU.
[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
197–234, 325–330 [‘Cuchulainns Krankenlager und die einzige Eifersucht Emer’s’] Edition from LU, with introduction and notes.
[ed.] Dillon, Myles, “The Trinity College text of Serglige Con Culainn”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 6 (1949): 139–175.
[ed.] Dillon, Myles, “The Trinity College text of Serglige Con Culainn: corrigenda”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 7 (1953): 88.
[tr.] Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], Early Irish myths and sagas, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
153–178.
[tr.] Dottin, Georges [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: Marie-Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville (ed.), L’épopée celtique en Irlande, 5, Paris: Thorin, 1892. [Various].
Internet Archive: <link>
170–216
[tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [tr.], “Wie Culanns Hund krank lag”, in: Rudolf Thurneysen [tr.], Sagen aus dem alten Irland, Berlin, 1901. 81–104.
CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Findon, Joanne, “Gender and power in Serglige Con Culainn and The only jealousy of Emer”, in: Maria Tymoczko, and Colin A. Ireland (eds), Language and tradition in Ireland: continuities and displacements, Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. 47–61.
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Reflections on Compert Conchobuir and Serglige Con Culainn”, in: James P. Mallory, and Gearóid Stockman (eds), Ulidia: proceedings of the First International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Belfast and Emain Macha, 8–12 April 1994, Belfast: December, 1994. 85–89.
Carey, John, “The uses of tradition in Serglige Con Culainn”, in: James P. Mallory, and Gearóid Stockman (eds), Ulidia: proceedings of the First International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Belfast and Emain Macha, 8–12 April 1994, Belfast: December, 1994. 77–84.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown
Page created
December 2010, last updated: January 2024
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