Tristram, Hildegard L. C., “Die handschriftliche Überlieferung des altirischen Prosaepos über den ‘Rinderraub von Cuailnge’ (Táin bó Cuailnge)”, Acta Linguistica Petropolitana: Transactions of the Institute for Linguistic Studies 7:1 (2011): 465–507.
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The Old Irish “Cattle-Raid of Cooley” (Táin Bó Cuailnge or The Táin in short) is the centre piece of a cycle of heroic prose tales about an ethnic strife between the Ulaid, i.e. the kingship of Ulster in the North of the island, and the other kingships of Ireland under the leadership of the Connachta, i.e. the kingship of Connacht in the West of the country. The symbolic bone of contention is the Brown Bull of Cooley. This bull belongs to the Ulaid, but the queen of the Connachta desires it for herself. The outcome of the raiding expedition to capture the bull leads to a stalemate situation, which lasts for seven years before the dispute between the Ulaid and the other kingships flairs up again.
Although the tale is set in the pre-Christian Ireland, the first two written records date only from the 12c. So far, the research on the Táin has focused on reconstructing both the oral and written prehistory of this tale. Scholars have been particularly concerned with, or have speculated about the putative origin of the tale (“the backward look”).
The present study undertakes a “forward look” into the 800 years of the manuscript transmission of the tale till the years of 1870 and 1880 when the Royal Irish Academy published facsimile editions of the two 12c manuscripts (LU and LL). The editions contain the earliest textual evidence of the written Táin and represent photolithographic reproductions made from Seosamh cs manual transcripts. He and his son were the last of a long series of Irish scholar scribes who penned, preserved, and transmitted the ancient lore of the Irish from the High Middle Ages to the end of the 19c.
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