Texts
Bruidne Érenn (prose)
Incoming data
A brief prose account of the five or six hostels of Ireland (bruidne Érenn) and their owners occurs in a number of early Irish literary compositions and as an independent anecdote in the Book of Lismore.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Cork, University College, Book of Lismore
incipit: Coicc bhruighne hEireann Note in prose (in darker ink) on the five or six hostels of Ireland and their owners.
f. 200vb
Text
Cork, University College, Book of Lismore
incipit: Coicc bhruighne hEireann Five hostels plus one.
f. 200vb (line 25ff)
Text
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339
Six hostels.
Text
London, British Library, MS Harley 5280
context: Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó Five hostels (and hospitallers)
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512
context: Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó Five hostels.
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.
- Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó
[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Scéla mucce Meic Dathó, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1935.
- Bruiden Da Choca
[ed.] [tr.] Toner, Gregory [ed. and tr.], Bruiden Da Choca, Irish Texts Society, 61, London: Irish Texts Society, 2007.
§ 31
[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “Da Choca’s hostel”, Revue Celtique 21 (1900): 149–165, 312–327, 388–402.
- Fled Dúin na nGéd
[ed.] Lehmann, Ruth P. M. [ed.], Fled Dúin na nGéd, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 21, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1964.
CELT – edition: <link>
16
- Book of Lismore version
Secondary sources (select)
McCone, Kim, “Aided Cheltchair maic Uthechair: hounds, heroes and hospitallers in early Irish myth and story”, Ériu 35 (1984): 1–30.
OʼRahilly, T. F., Early Irish history and mythology, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1946.
121ff
Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Scéla mucce Meic Dathó, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1935.
