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|Title=''Tochmarc Étaíne'' | |Title=<i>Tochmarc Étaíne</i> | ||
|TranslatedTitle=The wooing of Étaín | |||
|TitleInfo=Title headings in the manuscripts do not give the third tale a separate title other than indicating that the story of ''Tochmarc Étaíne'' is being continued, e.g. ''Tochmarc Etaine beos'' (‘''Tochmarc Étaíne'' again’), etc. It appears from other sources, however, that a version of the tale, or an individual episode, may have been known by the title ''Tromdám Echach Aireman'', which is attested in the introduction to the LU version of ''[[Orgain brudne Uí Dergae]]'' and in the section of so-called ''gnáthscéla'' in [[medieval Irish tale lists | |||
|tale list B]]. | |||
|Defaultsort=Tochmarc Etaine | |||
|Classification=Subject:Irish Mythological Cycle;Subject:Ulster Cycle | |||
|NarrativeWorlds=Subject:Cycle of Conaire Mór | |||
|AgentCategory=Eochaid Airem;Midir;Étaín ... mythological figure | |||
|Categories=Mythological Cycle; Ulster Cycle | |Categories=Mythological Cycle; Ulster Cycle | ||
|Summary=Following Bergin and Best (1938), ''Tochmarc Étaíne'' can be divided into three tales. | |||
The third tale concerns the attempts by Midir of Brí Léith to (re)gain Étain, whose former incarnation used to be his lover (part I), but who has been reborn around the time of the Ulaid to become the wife of Eochaid Airem, king of Tara (part II). Without revealing his true intentions, Midir engages Eochaid in a series of ''fidchell'' games, at the height of which he takes her back. Eochaid tracks down the couple, but is tricked into choosing his own daughter from a company of doubles and begets a daughter (the mother of Conaire Mór, future king of Tara). Finally, an epilogue tells of Eochaid’s violent death. | |||
|LanguageAuto=Middle Irish | |||
|Textual relationships=The Book of Leinster preserves a poetic adaptation of the beginning of the tale. It is attributed to [[Cináed ua hArtacáin]] and begins ‘[[Secht o. f. n.]]’. The ''dindsenchas'' poem ''[[Sund dessid domunemar]]'' also relates. | |||
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|MS=Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 | |||
|comments=This copy contains all three tales, but it is wanting in parts: (1) pp. 129a-129b line 19: story I (fragment due to a gap in the manuscript); (2) 129b line 20-130b: story II (complete); (3) pp. 130b-132a: story III (lacks the middle and end of the text). Incipit: ‘Tochmarc nÉtaine da''no'' so sís’. | |||
|pages=129a-132a | |||
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|MS=Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 | |||
|comments=Complete copy of story 2 | |||
|pages=175a–175b (in facsimile) | |||
|columns=876–877 | |||
|MS title=Tochmarc Etaine andso | |||
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|MS=Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 4 | |||
|comments=Complete copy: (1) col. 985 ff: story I; (2) col. 990 ff: story II; (3) cols 992-997: story III. Incipit: ‘Tochmarc Etaine beos’. | |||
|columns=985–997 | |||
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|MS=London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 | |||
|comments=A somewhat expanded version, including some versifications. It precedes a copy of <em>Togail bruidne Da Derga</em>. | |||
|folios=106r–108v | |||
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|MS=Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/19 | |||
|comments=Glossed extracts | |||
|pages=605–606 | |||
}} | }} | ||
|FormPrimary=prose | |||
|FormSecondary=verse | |||
|StatusDescription=Re: "which is attested in the introduction to the LU version of ''[[Orgain brudne Uí Dergae]]''" - LU and Eg. ? | |||
MSS: | |||
London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 | |||
205 a, the finding of Étaín -- from ''Togail bruidne Da Derga'' ? | |||
| | |Published=Yes | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:00, 7 January 2024
Tochmarc Étaíne ‘The wooing of Étaín’
- Middle Irish
- prose
- Mythological Cycle, Ulster Cycle
- Middle Irish
A repertory of Cú Chulainn's feats, similar to that contained in Scéla Conchobuir meic Nessa.
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