Texts

Sanas Cormaic/Mug Éme

Incoming data

A narrative included in the entry for Mug Éme in Sanas Cormaic

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.] Russell, Paul, Sharon Arbuthnot, and Pádraic Moran, Early Irish glossaries database, Online: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2010–. URL: <http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries>.

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[ed.] Stokes, Whitley [ed.], Three Irish glossaries: Cormac’s Glossary, O’Davoren’s Glossary and a glossary to the Calendar of Oengus the Culdee, London: Williams and Norgate, 1862.

TLH – ‘Cormac’s Glossary’ (pp. 1-44): <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link>

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed.], and John OʼDonovan [tr.], Sanas Chormaic: Cormac’s Glossary, Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, Calcutta: O.T. Cutter, 1868.

Internet Archive: <link> HathiTrust: <link>, <link> Google Books: <link>

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Sanas Cormaic. An Old-Irish glossary compiled by Cormac úa Cuilennáin, king-bishop of Cashel in the tenth century”, in: Osborn Bergin, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 4, Halle and Dublin, 1912. 1–128 (text), i–xix (introduction).

Internet Archive – vols 1-5: <link> Internet Archive – vols 3-5: <link>

[tr.] Russell, Paul, “Poets, power and possessions in medieval Ireland: some stories from Sanas Cormaic”, in: Joseph F. Eska (ed.), Law, literature and society, 7, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 9–45.

Translation.

[tr.] Byrne, F. J., Irish kings and high-kings, 2nd ed., Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001.

183–184 Translation

[tr.] Kenney, James F., “Chapter I: History in Ireland”, in: James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Revised ed., 11, New York: Octagon, 1966. 1–109.

149 Translation.

[tr.] Draak, Maartje, and Frida de Jong, De lastige schare, gevolgd door vijf anekdoten over dichtergeleerden, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1990.

Dutch translations of: Tromdámh Guaire, based on the edition of Maud Joynt (1931) -- three entries from Sanas Chormaic (Mug Eme, Lethec and Gaire) -- Passages from Immacallam in dá Thúarad (Colloquy of the two sages) -- Passages from Scéla Mongáin ⁊ Echdach Rígéicis (Why Mongán was deprived of noble issue).

89–92 Dutch translation

Secondary sources (select)

Dumville, David N., “Historia Brittonum: an insular history from the Carolingian age”, in: Anton Scharer, and Georg Scheibelreiter [eds.], Historiographie im frühen Mittelalter, 32, Vienna: Oldenbourg, 1994. 406–434.

428–429 Includes Kenney's translation supra