Texts

Táin bó Regamain ‘The raid of Regamon's cattle’

prose
Ulster Cycle

Manuscripts

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

cols 646–648

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

ff. 81r–82r

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

p. 346

Transcript from Egerton 1782.

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

p. 605

Glossed extracts, modern version.

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 pp 708-776 (comprising parts of vols 22 and 23), pp 792-809 (comprising part of vol. 23) [1616]

pp. 757–759

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

ff. 1r–1v

Partly illegible, modern

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle

id. 1797

Subjects

The seven Maines

The seven Maines

(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle, Conaire Mór, Conchobar mac Nessa)

In the Ulster Cycle, the seven Maines (na secht Maine) are a collective designation for the seven, or eight, sons of Medb and Ailill, all of whom are named Maine: Maine Máithremail and Maine Aithremail, Maine Míngor and Maine Mórgor, Maine Andóe, Maine Milscothach and/or Maine Mó Epert, and Maine Conda(s)gaib/Cotagaib Uile.

See more Medb CrúachnaMedb Crúachna

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

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.

[crit. ed.] [tr.] Malek, Danielle, “Táin bó Regamon”, doctoral thesis, Centre for Celtic Studies, University of Sydney, 2002.

CELT – critical edition and English translation of the YBL version: <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).

92–95

[ed.] [tr.] Windisch, Ernst [ed. and tr.], “Táin bó Regamain”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 2, Leipzig, 1887. 224–238.

Internet Archive: <link>

224–238; 255–256

[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: 87–99