Texts

Cath Maige Tuired

Incoming data

A catalogue entry is available.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

London, British Library, MS Harley 5280

f. 63r–f. 70v

Text

London, British Library, MS Harley 5280

ff. 63a–70b

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.] Gray, Elizabeth A., Cath Maige Tuired: The second battle of Mag Tuired, Irish Texts Society, 52, Kildare: Irish Texts Society, 1982.

comments: Edition, with translation, introduction, notes and indexes, of the tale Cath Maige Tuired

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

Edition, with a translation of most of the text. Passages that are left untranslated occur in e.g. §§ 83, 84, 166 (the Morrígan's first rosc), 167 (the Morrígan's second rosc, cf. Carey below).

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “The second battle of Moytura”, Revue Celtique 12 (1891): 52–130, 306–308.

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

[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Zu irischen Texten”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918): 398–407.

Contents: Athirne von seiner Ungastlichkeit geheilt -- Aislingi Oengusai -- Cath Maige Tuired -- Nachträge.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

400–406 Edition of the retoirics omitted by Stokes.

[ed.] [tr.] Carey, John, “Myth and mythography in Cath Maige Tuired”, Studia Celtica 24–25 (1989–1990): 53–69.

66–69 Edition and translation of the rosc attributed to the Morrígan on the end of the world.

Secondary sources (select)

Carey, John, “Myth and mythography in Cath Maige Tuired”, Studia Celtica 24–25 (1989–1990): 53–69.

Gray, Elizabeth A., “Cath Maige Tuired: myth and structure (1-24)”, Éigse 18 (1981): 183–209.

Gray, Elizabeth A., “Cath Maige Tuired: myth and structure (24-120)”, Éigse 19:1 (1982): 1–35.

Gray, Elizabeth A., “Cath Maige Tuired: myth and structure (84-93, 120-67)”, Éigse 19:2 (1983): 230–262.

Gray, Elizabeth A., “Lug and Cú Chulainn: king and warrior”, Studia Celtica 24–25 (1989–1990): 38–52.

Murphy, Gerard, “Notes on Cath Maige Tuired”, Éigse 7 (1953–1955): 191–198.

Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Cath Maige Tuired as exemplary myth”, in: Pádraig de Brún, Seán Ó Coileáin, and Pádraig Ó Riain (eds), Folia Gadelica: essays presented by former students to R. A. Breatnach on the occasion of his retirement from the professorship of Irish language and literature at University College, Cork, Cork: Cork University Press, 1983. 1–19.