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Cath Maige Rath

Incoming data

A catalogue entry is available.

First and shorter recension of the tale of the battle of Mag Rath.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/6 (cols 281-344) 

‘The battle of Mag Rath’. Cols 281-282 are barely legible. Cf. cols 945-949.

col. 281–col. 310

MS

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

"The Battle of Mag Rath". Cf. the longer version at col. 321-332.

p. 209 = col. 945

Text

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

Shorter version edited by Marstrander

cols 945–948

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339/Supplement 

Fragment.

p. 409–p. 410

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.] Marstrander, Carl [ed. and tr.], “A new version of the battle of Mag Rath”, Ériu 5 (1911): 226–247.

TLH – edition: <link> TLH – translation: <link>

Edited from YBL cols 945-948

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.