Texts

Compert Con Culainn

Incoming data

A catalogue entry is available.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Cín Dromma Snechtai

Egerton 88; RIA 23 N 10; Lebor na hUidre (said to be a Libur Dromma Snechta)

Text

Cín Dromma Snechtai

Lost. This manuscript source is so identified by reviser H of the Lebor na hUidre (a Libur Dromma Snechta).⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Tomás Ó Concheanainn, ‘The textual tradition of Compert Con Culainn’, Celtica 21 (1990): 441.

Text

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 7

cols 7–9

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25

rubric: Compert Con Culaind inso sís a Libur Dromma Snechta from Cín Dromma Snechtai

p. 128a.1–p. 128b.47

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25

Earliest manuscript version, but with an ending which differs from that in the later copies of version 1. What follows is a "fragment of a sequel written over an erasure by the reviser (H) of the manuscript".⁽²⁾^{n. 2} Tomás Ó Concheanainn, ‘The textual tradition of Compert Con Culainn’, Celtica 21 (1990): 441.

ff. 128a–128b

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10

No title heading.

pp. 62–63.

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iv 2

Both versions.

ff. 46rb–47v

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iv 2

Version I

f. 46(48)b

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iv 2

Version II

f. 47(49)

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1287

pp. 342 ff.

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1287

Recension I. Transcript from Eg. 1782, f. 78v ff

p. 342

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1287

Recension II. Transcript from Eg. 1782, f. 79r ff

p. 343

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363/4 (pp. 40-53)

pp. 46–47

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363/4 (pp. 40-53)

See Rudolf Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern [I] (1912): 34.

p. 44.13

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 88

Here entitled Gineamain Chonculainn.

ff. 12vb–13rb

MS

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

Also known as Feis Tige Becfoltaig. Two versions.

f. 78v–f. 80r

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

Both versions.

ff. 78v–80r

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.] Hamel, A. G. van [ed.], Compert Con Culainn and other stories, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 3, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1933.

CELT – Compert Con Culainn (1-8): <link> CELT – Aided Óenfir Aífe (9-15): <link> Internet Archive: <link>

1–8.

[ed.] Windisch, Ernst [ed.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 1, Leipzig, 1880.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – Originally from Google Books: <link> – Vol. 1, part 1: View in Mirador – Vol. 1, part 2: Wörterbuch: View in Mirador

134–145, 324–325 Editions from LU and Egerton 1782 direct link direct link

[ed.] [tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern [I], Abhandlungen der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, 14.2, Berlin, 1912.

comments: Continued by Rudolf Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern II (1913).

31–41, 41–48 (1) Edition, with translation into German, of the text in LU, Egerton 88, 23 N 10 and Egerton 1782; (2) Edition, with translation, of the first version from D iv 2.

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Feis Tige Becḟoltaig”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 5 (1905): 500–504.

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

Edition of Feis Tige Becḟoltaig, the second version from D iv 2.

[tr.] Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], Early Irish myths and sagas, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.

130–133.

[tr.] Draak, Maartje, and Frida de Jong [trs.], Van helden, elfen en dichters: de oudste verhalen uit Ierland, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1979.

34–36 Translation into Dutch.

[tr.] Even, Arzel [tr.], “La conception de Cuchulainn”, Ogam: tradition celtique 4 (1952): 273–276.

[tr.] Even, Arzel [tr.], “La conception de Cuchulainn, selon le Libur Dromma Snechta”, Ogam: tradition celtique 5 (1953): 313–314.

Bibliotheque.idbe-bzh.org – PDF: <link>

[tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [tr.], “Setantas Geburt”, in: Rudolf Thurneysen [tr.], Sagen aus dem alten Irland, Berlin, 1901. 58–62.

Internet Archive: <link>

[tr.] Duvau, Louis [tr.], “La légende de la conception de Cûchulainn”, Revue Celtique 9 (1888): 1–13.

Reprinted by Arbois de Jubainville (1892): 22-38.

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

Secondary sources (select)

Ó Concheanainn, Tomás, “The textual tradition of Compert Con Culainn”, Celtica 21 (1990): 441–455.

Dias.ie – PDF: <link>

Hull, Vernam, “The version of Compert Con Culainn in MS. Phillipps G.7”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 24 (1954): 128–131.

External links

Wikidata (Q1121419)