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Cath Maige Rath (second recension) ‘The battle of Mag Rath’

• Late Middle Irish, Early Modern Irish
• prose
• Cycles of the Kings

Second and longer recension of the tale of the battle of Mag Rath.

Scope

redaction/recension

Manuscripts

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 6, cols 281-344 = Section of YBL

cols 281–310

Version edited by John O'Donovan. The first page is illegible and a folio is missing.

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 K 44 (58) [1721-1722]

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 1a (236a) = Book of the Ó Duibhgeannáin [s.xvii (?)]

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 9 (739) [1651]

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 pp. 377–410 = Supplement to the Book of Leinster [c. s. xvi]

pp. 409–410

Fragment only.

Language

• Late Middle Irish Early Modern Irish
• Myles Dillon (Éigse 7: 201) suggests that the longer recension is “in late Middle Irish, perhaps of the late thirteenth or even of the fourteenth century” and that “the verse is probably earlier than the prose”.
  

Form

prose (primary)

verse (secondary)

Textual relationships

(Possible) sources: Cath Maige RathCath Maige RathFirst and shorter recension of the tale of the battle of Mag Rath.

Related: Buile ShuibneBuile Shuibne

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings

id. 80

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.] OʼDonovan, John [ed. and tr.], The banquet of Dun na n-Gedh and the battle of Magh Rath, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1842.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: View in Mirador

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Secondary sources (select)

Dillon, Myles, “A note on the texts of Cath Maige Rath preserved in the Yellow Book of Lecan”, Éigse 7:3 (1955): 199–201.

Ó Riain, Gordon, “Varia I: 1. Two quatrains in Cath Maighe Rath; 2. An unrecorded scribal note in RIA 23 Q 16; 3. IGT II 1258”, Ériu 63 (2013): 145–151, 151–153, 152.

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June 2019, last updated: January 2024