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Imshlige Glendamnach
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An early Irish tale of the Ulster Cycle referred to in both recension I and II of Táin bó Cúailnge as well as version B of the Middle Irish tale-lists, whose gnath-scéla section includes it along with several known episodes of the Táin. It seemingly dealt with a large battle at Glendamain or Glendomain/Glenn Domain. The battle described in the brief episode Bángleó Rochada is identified as such in recension I (YBL, but not in Stowe), if renamed in recension II. There are hints, however, of an alternative narrative that did not entirely find its way into the extant texts of the Táin.
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Dooley, Ann, Playing the hero: reading the Irish saga Táin bó Cúailnge, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
p.235 n. 48: “This is an incident with which U textual tradition seems to have difficulty. M's assertion that he knows another tradition of Cúr's death at Imshlige Glendamnach (ll. 1727–8), for which there is no correlation in Y, may mean that H's pairing of Aided Caúr and Aided Rígamus were both linked in his source. This makes H's isolation of the Rígamus episode more striking here. M's note on Cúr is not in Y.”
OʼRahilly, Cecile [ed. and tr.], Táin bó Cúalnge: from the Book of Leinster, Irish Texts Society, 49, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967.
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p.332: “ic Imlig in Glendamrach. Here YBL has i nGlenn Domain (2923). The incident, however, is entitled Imshlige Gleanndomnach (2926), imshlige [verbal noun] of imm-slig (Docertar and secht cét i n-imshligi Glindi Domain). From the title in TBC2 the LL compiler made the place-name Imlech in Glendamrach. Cp. supra 2321.”
