Texts

Táin bó Flidais ‘The raid of Flidais' cattle’

Old Irish
Ulster Cycle, remscéla to Táin bó Cúailnge

Early Irish tale which relates how Fergus mac Róich came to slay Ailill Find, king of the Ciarraige, and gained the latter's wife Flidais. It is regarded as one of the remscéla to the Táin bó Cúailnge.

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]

ff. 247a–248a

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

ff. 82r–82v

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

p. 347

Copy from the former.

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48

ff. 26ra–26rb pp. 21–22 in facsimile

part 1

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

ff. 21a–22a

Interpolated version, which lacks the beginning.

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 19, pp. 565–628 [s. xvi (?)]

pp. 603–604

Glossed extracts.⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Johan Corthals, Manuscript sources to Old and Middle Irish tales (MsOmit) (2010); Ernst Windisch, ‘Táin bó Flidais’ in Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch... (1887): 206-207.

Language

Old Irish

Textual relationships

Cf. the Early Modern Irish recension [[Táin bó Flidaise II |Táin bó Flidaise]], which tells quite a different version of the story, and its sequel Tóraigheacht tána bó Flidaise.

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

remscéla to Táin bó CúailngeUlster Cycle
remscéla to Táin bó Cúailnge

id. 29262

Subjects

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 Flidais

Flidais

No short description available

See more 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

See more Dubthach Dáel UladDubthach Dáel Ulad

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Sources

Notes

^1.

Johan Corthals, Manuscript sources to Old and Middle Irish tales (MsOmit) (2010); Ernst Windisch, ‘Táin bó Flidais’ in Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch... (1887): 206-207.

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.] Corthals, Johan, “Táin bó Regamna und Táin bó Flidais: zwei altirische Erzählungen”, diss. (unpublished), Hamburg University, 1979.

[ed.] [tr.] Windisch, Ernst [ed. and tr.], “Táin bó Flidais”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 2, Leipzig, 1887. 206–223.

comments: Edition of the texts in LL, Egerton 1782 and LU, with a translation into German and a brief introduction.

Internet Archive – Heft 2 and 1: <link>

Based on LL, Egerton 1782 and LU, with extracts in TCD 1337 direct link

[ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and Osborn Bergin [eds.], Lebor na hUidre: Book of the Dun Cow, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1929.

CELT – edition (pp. 1-338): <link> Internet Archive: <link>

55–58 Diplomatic edition of the text in LU 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).

95–96 RIA 23 O 48 text.

[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, 101–125