rubric: Coimpert Conchobair mic Nessae asan ... lam .c. na incipit: Ness ingen Echach Salbuide “(much rubbed and faint), headed Coimpert Conchobair mic Nessae asan ... lam .c. na” (Abbott).

p. 40

Text

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

p. 40 lines 1-10

MS

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

Version 2.

f. 77v–f. 78v

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

ff. 77v–78v

MS

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/III (ff. 75B-100, 37-44)

Story of Ness daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide

f. 100v

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/III (ff. 75B-100, 37-44)

f. 100vb lines 2ff

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.] Hull, Vernam [ed. and tr.], “The conception of Conchobor”, in: J. Fraser, Paul Grosjean, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Irish texts, fasciculus IV, London, 1934. 4–12.

CELT – edition: <link> Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link>

Version 1 from YBL, Book of Ballymote, Book of Lecan, Rawlinson 502, TCD 1337, TCD 1363, with G 7.

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Hibernica minora, being a fragment of an Old-Irish treatise on the Psalter, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series, 8, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894.

Internet Archive: <link> TLH – Erchoitmed ingine Gulidi (ed. and tr.): <link>

50. Version 1 from Rawlinson B 502.

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Irish miscellanies: Anecdota from the Stowe MS. n° 992”, Revue Celtique 6 (1883–1885): 173–186.

Internet Archive: <link>

173–182. Version 2 from D iv 2 and variants from YBL and Egerton 1782. Includes a translation.

Translations only

[tr.] Carey, John [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: John T. Koch, and John Carey (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, 4th ed., 1, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various].

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[tr.] Meyer, Kuno [tr.], and Eleanor Hull [adapt.], “The birth of Conachar”, in: Eleanor Hull (ed.), The Cuchullin saga in Irish literature: being a collection of stories relating to the hero Cuchullin, 8, London, 1898. 1–6.

comments: From Hull's introduction: "Abridged and adapted from the longer of the two main accounts of the birth of the king [Stowe 992], [...] edited and translated in full by [[Meyer 1884c |Kuno Meyer]] [...] Kuno Meyer has courteously furnished me with a revised translation of the lay 'Welcome the Stranger.'"

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

Abridged version of Meyer's translation (version 2 from D iv 2), but with a new translation by Meyer of the concluding poem.

[tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [tr.], “Conchobars Geburt”, in: Rudolf Thurneysen [tr.], Sagen aus dem alten Irland, Berlin, 1901. 63–65.

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

[tr.] Guyonvarc'h, Christian-J. [tr.], “La naissance de Conchobar. Version C”, Ogam 11 (1959): 335–336.

[tr.] Guyonvarc'h, Christian-J. [tr.], “La naissance de Conchobar. Version B”, Ogam 12 (1960): 235–240.

Longer version from D iv 2.

[tr.] Dottin, Georges [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: Marie-Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville (ed.), L’épopée celtique en Irlande, 5, Paris: Thorin, 1892. [Various].

Internet Archive: <link>

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Secondary sources (select)

Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Reflections on Compert Conchobuir and Serglige Con Culainn”, in: James P. Mallory, and Gearóid Stockman (eds), Ulidia: proceedings of the First International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Belfast and Emain Macha, 8–12 April 1994, Belfast: December, 1994. 85–89.