Texts

Táin bó Dartada ‘The raid of Dartaid's cattle’

Late Old Irish, Early Middle Irish
Ulster Cycle

Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 (1229) = Lebor na hUidre [s. xi/xii]

f. 20b

Opening lines only.

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv^ex/xvⁱⁿ]

cols 644–646

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 [1516-1518]

ff. 80r–81r

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1287 (H 1. 13) [1746]

p. 345ff

London, British Library, MS Additional 33993 [s. xvi]

ff. 1v–2v

Language

Late Old Irish Early Middle Irish

Date

“Die ältere Fassung [YBL/Egerton] zeigt die Sprache und Erzählungsart der älteren irischen Sagen etwa des 9. Jahrhunderts” (Thurneysen 1921).

Textual relationships

Related: Dinnshenchas of Áth Clíath MedraigeDinnshenchas of Áth Clíath MedraigeDinnshenchas on Áth Clíath Medraige, in prose and verse.

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle

id. 1797

Subjects

Eochu Becc mac Coirpri

Eochu Becc mac Coirpri

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)

king of Cliu in Munster, according to Táin bó Dartada and related texts.

See more DartaidDartaid

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more Ailill mac Máta

Ailill mac Máta

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)

king of Connacht, husband of Medb of Connacht

See more Orlám mac AilellaOrlám mac Ailella

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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.] Windisch, Ernst [ed. and tr.], “Táin bó Dartada”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 2, Leipzig, 1887. 185–205.

Internet Archive: <link>

185–187 (intro); 188–197 (text); 198–205 (translation into German); 255 (Nachträge) direct link

[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern [I], Abhandlungen der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, 14.2, Berlin, 1912.

comments: Continued by Rudolf Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern II (1913).

90–92

[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. 2: 73–81