Texts

Manuscript witnesses

MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 
rubric: Immram curaig Mail Dúin inso. tri bliadna ⁊ uii. mis iss ed boí for merogod issind ócian.   incipit: BAÍ fer amra di Eoganacht Ninussa   Incomplete. Ends imperfectly.
p. 22a.31–p. 26b.40
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1135 
English translation by W. M. Hennessy of Immram curaig Mail Dúin from LU
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318/10 
‘The voyage of Máel Dúin's coracle’.
p. 1 = col. 370–col. 391
Text
cols 370–391
Text
ff. 124R–125V  
MS
London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 
Fragments from the prose text.
f. 124r–f. 125v
MS
London, British Library, MS Harley 5280 
rubric: Inncipit de nauigatione Maelduin   Tale in prose and verse. The text here corresponds only to the first part of the text known from YBL.
f. 12r–f. 20v
Text
ff. 12r–20v  

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.] Stokes, Whitley, “The Voyage of Mael Duin [part 1]”, Revue Celtique 9 (1888): 447–495.
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[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley, “The Voyage of Mael Duin [part 2]”, Revue Celtique 10 (1889): 50–95.
Internet Archive: <link>
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Incipit do Imrum Curaig Mældúin andso”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 1, Halle and Dublin, 1907. 50–74, 80.
Celtic Digital Initiative: <link> Internet Archive: <link>
Text of YBL collated with that of Harleian 5280
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno, “Maeldúins Meerfahrt, ein altirisches Gedicht”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 11 (1917): 148–165.
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[ed.] Hamel, A. G. van, Immrama, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 10, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1941.
26–77
[ed.] Oskamp, H. P. A., The Voyage of Máel Dúin. A study in early Irish voyage literature followed by an edition of Immram Curaig Máele Dúin from the YBL in TCD, Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1970.

Secondary sources (select)

Hamel, A. G. van, “The text of Immram curaig Maíldúin”, Études Celtiques 3:5 (1938): 1–20.
Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 3, fascicule 5, 1938: <link> Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 3, fascicule 6, 1938: <link>