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Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 1a 

Fragment

p. 37  

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 (cols 573-958) 

"The violent death of Cú Roí", on the deaths of Cú Roí mac Dáire and Blathnát

p. 123.47 = col. 776.47

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/16 (cols 573-958) 

Includes a version of Amrae Chon Roí

cols 776–780 (123a–125a in facsimile)

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 88 

Corrupt version, followed by version 3.

f. 10ra  

MS

London, British Library, MS Egerton 88 

incl. Amrae Chon Roí

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 88 

found together with version 1 above

ff. 10va–11ra  

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha 

Fragment in prose which accompanies the poem Brinna Ferchertne.

f. 117rb-117va  

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha 

f. 117rb.4–f. 117va.10

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Medieval Irish tale lists

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.

Version 1 (Egerton 88)

[ed.] [tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed. and tr.], “Die Sage von CuRoi”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 189–234.

CELT – edition of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> CELT – German translation of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

190–198

[ed.] Best, R. I. [ed.], “The tragic death of Cúrói mac Dári”, Ériu 2 (1905): 18–35.

Internet Archive: <link>

32–34

Version 2

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Irish miscellanies: Addenda to M. de Jubainville’s Catalogue de la littérature épique de l’Irlande”, Revue Celtique 6 (1883–1885): 187–191.  

Addenda.

Internet Archive: <link>

The text of ACR 2 in Laud Misc. 610, largely without the poem.

[tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed. and tr.], “Die Sage von CuRoi”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 189–234.

CELT – edition of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> CELT – German translation of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

202–214 A number of passages are given in translation

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “Brinna Ferchertne”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 3 (1901): 40–46.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

The poem Brinna Ferchertne only.

Version 3

[ed.] [tr.] Best, R. I. [ed.], “The tragic death of Cúrói mac Dári”, Ériu 2 (1905): 18–35.

Internet Archive: <link>

Based on YBL (20–31), with part of the text and variants from Egerton 88 given in the appendix (34–35)

[ed.] Stokes, Whitley [ed.], “The eulogy of Cúrói (Amra Chonrói)”, Ériu 2 (1905): 1–14.

Internet Archive: <link>

[tr.] Tymoczko, Maria [tr.], Two death tales from the Ulster Cycle: The death of Cu Roi and The death of Cu Chulainn, Dolmen Texts, 2, Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1981.

Based on YBL, with variants

Secondary sources (select)

Hellmuth, Petra S., “The Dindshenchas and Irish literary tradition”, in: John Carey, Máire Herbert, and Kevin Murray (eds), Cín Chille Cúile: texts, saints and places. Essays in honour of Pádraig Ó Riain, 9, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2004. 116–126.

Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed. and tr.], “Die Sage von CuRoi”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 189–234.

CELT – edition of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> CELT – German translation of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

includes discussion and notes, together with related texts such as the dinnshenchas tale of Finnglais from LL and BB and Keating’s version.

Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Nachträge zur Sage von CuRoi”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 336.

Internet Archive: <link>

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>

431–444.