Texts
Tochmarc Moméra‘The wooing of Moméra’
- prose
- Cycles of the Kings, Tochmarca
Story in which Éogan Mór is invited to Spain and marries the daughter of the King of Spain. Afterwards he returns to contend for the kingship in Ireland and his first son, Ailill Aulom, is born to him.
Title
Tochmarc Moméra
‘The wooing of Moméra’
The title Tochmarc Moméra (ingine ríg Espáine) is known from two sources: (1) the conclusion of the tale (Conad Tochmarc Moméra ingeine rig Espane...), although the Spanish princess is never given a name before this; and (2) a passage in a genealogical tract (LL p. 319b), where the tale, or a version of it, is referred to (‘amal ro-scribsamar i Tochmarc Momera ingine rig Espaine’, a comment made in reference to the name Éogan Taídlech).
Manuscripts
Form
prose (primary)
verse (secondary)
Prose. There are two verse quatrains only.
Textual relationships
Cf. Cath Maighe Léna, Do bunad imthechta Éoganachta, Cóir anmann §§ 36-39 (in Stokes' edition)
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.] [tr.] O'Curry, Eugene [ed. and tr.], Cath Mhuighe Léana or The Battle of Magh Leana, together with Tochmarc Moméra or the Courtship of Moméra, Publications of the Celtic Society 4, Dublin: Celtic Society, 1855.
Internet Archive: <link>
152–167
Secondary sources (select)
Arbuthnot, Sharon, Cóir anmann: a late Middle Irish treatise on personal names, vol. 1: Part 1, Irish Texts Society 59, London: Irish Texts Society, 2005.
Contents: Introduction (pp 1-75, in 7 chapters); Editorial method (76); Diplomatic texts [BB and NLI MS G 2] and translation (79ff); App. I. Concordances of entries (200ff); App. II. Genealogical tables (222ff); Bibliography (234ff); Index of personal names (242ff).
65–66 Examines the relationship to derivative versions of portions of the narrative, such as the salmon wool episode, in Cóir anmann (third recension) and Cath Maighe Léna.
Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone [ed.], Cath Maighe Léna, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series 9, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1938.
CELT – edition: <link>
[‘Introduction’]
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Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2010, last updated: February 2019