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Tesmolta Cormaic ⁊ aided Finn

• Middle Irish
• Finn Cycle

Manuscripts

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 ff. 1–58 and ff. 73–122 = Leabhar na Rátha [1453–1454]

  ff. 121va–122vb
• London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 [1516-1518]

  ff. 24rb–25rb
  • Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 130 [s. xviii]

    pp. 41–44

    Transcript from Egerton 1782.
• London, British Library, MS Egerton 92 = Book of Fermoy fragment [s. xv]

  f. 6ra

  Fragment.

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Language

• Middle Irish

Date

12th century (Meyer).^{(1)n. 1} Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910): xxvi–xxvii.

Textual relationships

The version in Laud 610 is followed by a fragment of another account of Finn's death.

Classification

Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle

id. 578

Subjects

Cycle of Cormac mac AirtCycles of the Kings
Cycle of Cormac mac Airt

id. 43520

death of Finn mac Cumaillbiography of Finn mac Cumaill
death of Finn mac Cumaill

id. 61055

Cormac mac AirtCormac mac Airt
(time-frame ass. with Cormac mac Airt)
Legendary high-king of Ireland; son of Art son of Conn Cétchathach; contemporary of Finn mac Cumaill.
See more Finn mac CumaillFinn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)
Fionn mac Cumhaill, Find úa Báiscni
(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)
Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían
See more

Sources

Notes

^1.

Kuno Meyer, Fianaigecht (1910): xxvi–xxvii.

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.] OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, Silva Gadelica (I–XXXI): a collection of tales in Irish, vol. 1: Irish text, London: Williams & Norgate, 1892.

Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>, <link> CELT – various: <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>, <link>

89–92 Edition.

[tr.] OʼGrady, Standish Hayes, Silva Gadelica (I–XXXI): a collection of tales in Irish, vol. 2: translation and notes, London: Williams & Norgate, 1892.

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96–99 Translation.

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Cath Finntrága or The Battle of Ventry, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 1.4, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885.  

Edition based on Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 487; variants from BL Egerton 149.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

72–76 Edition from Laud 610 and variants from Egerton 1782.

Secondary sources (select)

Parsons, Geraldine, “Breaking the cycle? Accounts of the death of Finn”, in: Sharon J. Arbuthnot, and Geraldine Parsons (eds), The Gaelic Finn tradition, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. 81–96.

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June 2011, last updated: July 2022