Texts

Ní accus bith na mbéo

Incoming data

A phophetic rosc attributed to the Morrígan about the unhappy end of the world. It occurs at the very end of the Middle Irish text Cath Maige Tuired, following a rosc attributed to the same deity about wealth and prosperity.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

London, British Library, MS Harley 5280

f. 70v

Quoted in

Cath Maige Tuired

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.] Carey, John, “Myth and mythography in Cath Maige Tuired”, Studia Celtica 24–25 (1989–1990): 53–69.

66–69 Diplomatic and critical edition, with translation

[ed.] [tr.] Gray, Elizabeth A., Cath Maige Tuired: The second battle of Mag Tuired, Irish Texts Society, 52, Kildare: Irish Texts Society, 1982.

comments: Edition, with translation, introduction, notes and indexes, of the tale Cath Maige Tuired

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link>

72–73 [id. 166.] Text, with a partial English translation

[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Zu irischen Texten”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918): 398–407.

Contents: Athirne von seiner Ungastlichkeit geheilt -- Aislingi Oengusai -- Cath Maige Tuired -- Nachträge.

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

406 Text

Secondary sources (select)

Carey, John, “Myth and mythography in Cath Maige Tuired”, Studia Celtica 24–25 (1989–1990): 53–69.

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