Texts
Scél Tuáin meic Cairill do Finnen Maige Bile
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Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25
rubric: Scél Tuain meic Cairill do Finnen Maige Bile inso incipit: IAR dudecht do Finnén Maige Bile cosin toscelu i tír nÉrend i crich Ulad luid dochum laich saidbir and […] Incomplete.
p. 15a.34–
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 29/pp. 17-216
Followed by the poem Tuán mac Cairill ro clos
pp. 155a–156a
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/3 (pp. 15-58)
‘Tuan mac Cairill's story to Finnén of Mag Bile’
p. 38–
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610/Leabhar na Rátha
rubric: Incipit Imacallaim Tuain fri Finnia
f. 102rb.15–
Text
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512
Followed by the poem Tuán mac Cairill ro clos
MS
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512/III (ff. 75B-100, 37-44)
“The story of Tuan mac Cairill by Finnian of Mag Bile”
f. 97vb.1–
Sources
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[ed.] [tr.] Carey, John, “Scél Tuáin meic Chairill”, Ériu 35 (1984): 93–111.
Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link>
[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “Appendix A. Tuan mac Cairill's story to Finnen of Moville”, in: Alfred Nutt, and Kuno Meyer, The voyage of Bran, son of Febal to the land of the living, 2 vols, vol. 2: The Celtic doctrine of rebirth, London: David Nutt, 1897. 285–301.
