Texts

Fingal Rónáin

Incoming data

A catalogue entry is available.

Manuscript witnesses

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/22c-23a (pp. 708-776, 792-809)

p. 749–p. 754

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/22c-23a (pp. 708-776, 792-809)

pp. 749–754

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

pp. 271–273

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

p. 271–p. 273

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.] Greene, David [ed.], Fingal Rónáin and other stories, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 16, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1955.

CELT – Fingal Rónáin (ed.): <link> TITUS – Fingal Rónáin (ed.): <link> CELT – Orgain Denna Ríg (ed.): <link> CELT – Esnada tige Buchet (ed.): <link> CELT – Orgguin trí mac Diarmata meic Cerbaill (ed.): <link>

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “Fingal Rónáin”, Revue Celtique 13 (1892): 368–397. Corrigenda in Revue Celtique 17 (1896): 319.

CELT – translation (pp. 372–396): <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Edited from LL and variants from TCD 1337.

[ed.] [tr.] Greene, David, and Frank OʼConnor [Michael O'Donovan], A golden treasury of Irish poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200, London: Macmillan, 1967.

Edition, with English translation, of the poetic dialogue beginning 'Is úar gaeth' ("The wind is cold").

[tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [tr.], “Ronans Sohnesmord”, in: Rudolf Thurneysen [tr.], Sagen aus dem alten Irland, Berlin, 1901. 105–114.

CELT: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Translation based on LL.

[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].

Secondary sources (select)

Hollo, Kaarina, “Fingal Rónáin: The medieval Irish text as argumentative space”, in: John Carey, Máire Herbert, and Kevin Murray (eds), Cín Chille Cúile: texts, saints and places. Essays in honour of Pádraig Ó Riain, 9, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2004. 141–149.

Boll, Sheila, “Seduction, vengeance and frustration in Fingal Rónáin: the role of foster-kin in structuring the narrative”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 47 (Summer, 2004): 1–16.

Poppe, Erich, “Deception and self-deception in Fingal Rónáin”, Ériu 47 (1996): 137–151.

Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “The rhetoric of Fingal Rónáin”, Celtica 17 (1985): 123–144.

Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Varia III: The trial of Mael Ḟothartaig”, Ériu 36 (1985): 177–180.

Charles-Edwards, T. M., “Honour and status in some Irish and Welsh prose tales”, Ériu 29 (1978): 123–141.

Dillon, Myles, The cycles of the kings, London: Oxford University Press, 1946.

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