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Aided Muirchertaig meic Erca
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Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1136
Modern ‘somewhat incorrect copy of part of the story’(1)n. 1 Lil Nic Dhonnchadha, Aided Muirchertaig meic Erca (1964): ix. by W. M. Hennessy.
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/6 (cols 281-344)
‘The death of Muirchertach mac Ercae’
p. 313b–
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[ed.] Nic Dhonnchadha, Lil [ed.], Aided Muirchertaig meic Erca, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 19, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1964.
CELT – edition (pp. 1–73): <link>
[em.] Ó Concheanainn, Tomás, “The act of wounding in the death of Muirchertach mac Erca”, Éigse 15:2 (Geimhreadh, 1973): 141–144.
Offers an emendation of the crucial passage that relates the threefold death of the protagonist.
[corr.] [add.] Stokes, Whitley, “The death of Muirchertach mac Erca [corrigenda and addenda]”, Revue Celtique 27 (1906): 202.
Internet Archive: <link>
[tr.] Guyonvarc'h, Christian-J. [tr.], “La mort de Muirchertach, fils d'Erc”, Annales Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations 38:5 (1983): 985–1015.
[tr.] Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín [ed.], “Gormlaith and her sisters, c. 750-1800”, in: Angela Bourke, Siobhán Kilfeather, and Maria Luddy [et al.] (eds), The Field Day anthology of Irish writing, vol. IV: Irish women's writing and traditions, Cork: Cork University Press, 2002. 166–249.
213ff Translation taken from Stokes, but incorporating the emendation by Tomás Ó Concheanainn.
