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Sgéala muice Meic Dhá Thó ‘The story of Mac Da Thó's pig’

  • Early Modern Irish
  • Ulster Cycle
Early modern version of Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó
Manuscripts

Breatnach (1990) lists four manuscript copies:

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 12 (90) [s. xvii]
pp. 199–212
Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 448
pp. 67–89
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1412 (H 6. 8) [s. xviii]
pp. 37–50
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.36 [s. xvii]
ff. 86r–91v
“abridged and corrupt” (Breatnach)
Language
  • Early Modern Irish
Textual relationships
(Possible) sources: Scéla mucce Meic Da ThóScéla mucce Meic Da Thó

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.

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.] Breatnach, Caoimhín [ed.], Patronage, politics and prose: Ceasacht ingine Guile, Sgéala muice Meic Dhá Thó, Oidheadh Chuinn Cheadchathaigh, Maynooth Monographs, 5, Maynooth: An Sagart, 1996.

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Caoimhín, “The early modern version of Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó: tempus, locus, persona et causa scribendi”, Ériu 41 (1990): 37–80.
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February 2011, last updated: January 2024
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