BachelorDragon.png

The bachelor programme Celtic Languages and Culture at Utrecht University is under threat.

Texts
  1. Home
  2. Texts
  3. Togail bruidne Da Derga

Togail bruidne Da Derga ‘The destruction of Da Derga's hostel’

  • prose
  • Ulster Cycle, Cycles of the Kings, Togla

Early Irish narrative text about Conaire Mór, from his conception and rise to power to the violation of his gessi and death at the siege of the hostel of Da Derga.

First words (prose)
  • Bui rí amra airegda for Érinn, Eochaid Feidleach a ainm
Manuscripts

A distinction is sometimes made between two main recensions: an earlier, summarised narrative, which is covered instead by Orgain brudne Uí Dergae (also known as Togail brudne Uí Dergae), and the Middle Irish redaction presently covered, which Máire West calls Recension II.

LU =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 (1229) = Lebor na hUidre [s. xi/xii]
ff. 83ra–99ra (+H)

Corr. to line 222 ff of Knott's edition, since its beginning is missing. This version stands apart because of its substantial additions by Interpolator H.

YBL =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xivex/xvin]
pp. 91a (line 1)–104a (line 17) in facsimile cols 716–739
Complete text.
YBL2 =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 3, pp. 123-124 = YBL fragment of Togail bruidne Da Derga [s. xiv/xv]
pp. 123–124 (432–433)
Fragment, corr. to lines 1-99 of Knott's edition.
D, or S [Stowe] =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iv 2 (992) [s. xv]
ff. 79ra.1–92ra.40
Complete text.
Add. =
London, British Library, MS Additional 33993 [s. xvi]
ff. 4r–5v
part 1
Beginning only, lines 1-145 of Knott's edition.
E, or Eg1 =
London, British Library, MS Egerton 92 = Book of Fermoy fragment [s. xv]
ff. 18ra–23v
Fragment corresponding to the Fermoy fragment. Lines 1-482 and 644-1044 of Knott's edition.
F =
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29 pp. 17-216 = Book of Fermoy ‘proper’ [s. xiv/xv]
pp. 213a–216b
part 2
Fragment, corr. to lines 1045-1351 of Knott's edition.
H =
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1319 pp. 477a-482b [s. xv?]
pp. 477a–482b
Three fragments, corr. to  lines 164-361, 546-894 and 1045-1197 of Knott's edition.
Composite recension
Eg. =
London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 [1516-1518]
ff. 108vb–123vb
Composite text. Imperfect.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1288 (H 1. 14) [c. 1750]
ff. 26r–52v
A copy of the former
Extracts
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 17, pp. 503–541
pp. 528–533
Glossed extracts.
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 6, cols 281-344 = Section of YBL
col. 343
Extract concerning the warrior Fén dar Crínach. Two (slightly rephrased) lines from § 41 (ed. Knott). Edited by Meyer (1918).
Form
prose (primary)
verse (secondary)
Textual relationships
Related: Irish glossary from TCD 1337, pp. 623-628Irish glossary from TCD 1337, pp. 623-628Medieval Irish glossary in TCD 1337, pp. 623-628. Many of the entries are known from other works and learned compilations, such as Sanas Cormaic.Orgain brudne Uí DergaeOrgain brudne Uí Dergae

Old Irish tale of Uí/Da Derga’s hostel (bruiden), which is thought to have been contained in the lost Cín Dromma Snechtai. Tantalisingly, Ii gives only a summarised version of events, in stark contrast to the later, considerably expanded version known as Togail bruidne Da Derga.

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.

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80
ToglaTogla
...

Subjects

Cycle of Conaire MórCycles of the Kings
Cycle of Conaire Mór
id. 49693
Conaire Mór
Conaire Mór
legendary high-king of Ireland; son of Eterscél (Mór) and Mess Búachalla; tragic protagonist of Togail bruidne Da Derga
See more Conall Cernach
Conall Cernach
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
Warrior of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle; son of Amergin and Findchóem. In Irish genealogies, he is presented as an ancestor of the kings of the Dál nAraidi and the Uí Echach Coba.
See more Da Derga
Da Derga
(time-frame ass. with Conaire Mór)
No short description available
See more

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.] Knott, Eleanor [ed.], Togail bruidne Da Derga, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 8, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1936.
CELT – edition: <link> Internet Archive: <link>  : <link>
Based on YBL, with some variants. Variants from D iv 2 are given in the appendix (47-69).
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “The destruction of Dá Derga’s hostel”, Revue Celtique 22 (1901): 9–61, 165–215, 282–329, 390–437, 260 (erratum).
CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – reprint: <link>
Based on LU, with variants from YBL and other MSS. A revised, abbreviated version of Stokes' translation is printed in Koch, John T., et al. (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales (2003): § 90.
[add.] [corr.] Stokes, Whitley, “The destruction of Da Derga’s hostel [corrigenda et addenda]”, Revue Celtique 23 (1902): 88.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link>
[dipl. 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>
207–245 Diplomatic edition of the text in LU.
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Fēn dar Crīnach”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918): 375.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Fén dar Crínach episode in YBL.
Translations only:
[tr.] Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], Early Irish myths and sagas, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
[tr.] Draak, Maartje, and Frida de Jong [trs.], Van helden, elfen en dichters: de oudste verhalen uit Ierland, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1979.
[tr.] McCone, Kim R. [tr.], and Pádraig Ó Fiannachta [tr.], Scéalaíocht ár sinsear, Dán agus Tallann, 3, Maynooth: An Sagart, 1992.  
A collection of early Irish tales in a Modern Irish translation.
71–90. Translation in Modern Irish.

Secondary sources (select)

Borsje, Jacqueline, “Approaching danger: Togail Bruidne Da Derga and the motif of being one-eyed”, in: Joseph Falaky Nagy (ed.), Identifying the 'Celtic', 2, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. 75–99.
West, Máire, “The genesis of Togail bruidne Da Derga: a reappraisal of the ‘two-source’ theory”, Celtica 23 (1999): 413–435.
West, Máire, “Aspects of díberg in the tale Togail Bruidne Da Derga”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 49–50 (1997): 950–964.
West, Máire, “Leabhar na hUidhre’s position in the manuscript history of Togail bruidne Da Derga and Orgain brudne Uí Dergae”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 20 (Winter, 1990): 61–98.
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “On the Cín Dromma Snechta version of Togail brudne Uí Dergae”, Ériu 41 (1990): 103–114.
Thurneysen, Rudolf, Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert, Halle: Niemeyer, 1921.  

Contents: Part 1 (chapters 1-23): Allgemeines; Part 2 (chapters 1-85): Die Ulter Sage.

Internet Archive: <link>
621 [id. 81.]
Gwynn, Lucius, “The recensions of the saga Togail Bruidne Da Derga”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 10 (1915): 209–222.
Internet Archive: <link>
Nettlau, Max, “On the Irish text Togail bruidne dá Derga and connected stories”, Revue Celtique 12 (1891): 229–253, 444–459.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link>
Nettlau, Max, “On the Irish text Togail bruidne dá Derga and connected stories (suite)”, Revue Celtique 13 (1892): 252–266.
Internet Archive: <link>
Nettlau, Max, “On the Irish text Togail bruidne dá Derga and connected stories”, Revue Celtique 14 (1893): 137–152.
Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
web page identifiers
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown
Page created
October 2010, last updated: March 2024
Retrieved from ‘https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/index.php?title=Togail_bruidne_Da_Derga&oldid=305158’