Texts

Serglige Con Culainn

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Manuscript witnesses

MS

rubric: Seirgligi Con Culaind inso sís ⁊ óenét Emire incipit: OENACH dogníthe la Ultu cecha bliadna [...] added by H; from the Lebor buide Sláni

p. 43a.1–p. 50b.14

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25

Interpolated by H. According to a note in the top margin of f. 43r, the text was copied from the Lebor buide Sláni (now lost).

ff. 43a–50b

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363

[10] pp. 89–104.

Text

Lebor buide Sláni

Lost.

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.] Dillon, Myles [ed.], Serglige Con Culainn, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series, 14, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1953.

Edition based on LU.

CELT – edition: <link>

Edition based on LU.

[ed.] Windisch, Ernst [ed.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 1, Leipzig, 1880.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – Originally from Google Books: <link> – Vol. 1, part 1: View in Mirador – Vol. 1, part 2: Wörterbuch: View in Mirador

197–234, 325–330 [‘Cuchulainns Krankenlager und die einzige Eifersucht Emer’s’] Edition from LU, with introduction and notes.

[ed.] Dillon, Myles, “The Trinity College text of Serglige Con Culainn”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 6 (1949): 139–175.

[ed.] Dillon, Myles, “The Trinity College text of Serglige Con Culainn: corrigenda”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 7 (1953): 88.

[tr.] Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], Early Irish myths and sagas, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.

153–178.

[tr.] Dottin, Georges [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: Marie-Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville (ed.), L’épopée celtique en Irlande, 5, Paris: Thorin, 1892. [Various].

Internet Archive: <link>

170–216

[tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [tr.], “Wie Culanns Hund krank lag”, in: Rudolf Thurneysen [tr.], Sagen aus dem alten Irland, Berlin, 1901. 81–104.

CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Secondary sources (select)

Findon, Joanne, “Gender and power in Serglige Con Culainn and The only jealousy of Emer”, in: Maria Tymoczko, and Colin A. Ireland (eds), Language and tradition in Ireland: continuities and displacements, Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. 47–61.

Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Reflections on Compert Conchobuir and Serglige Con Culainn”, in: James P. Mallory, and Gearóid Stockman (eds), Ulidia: proceedings of the First International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Belfast and Emain Macha, 8–12 April 1994, Belfast: December, 1994. 85–89.

Carey, John, “The uses of tradition in Serglige Con Culainn”, in: James P. Mallory, and Gearóid Stockman (eds), Ulidia: proceedings of the First International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Belfast and Emain Macha, 8–12 April 1994, Belfast: December, 1994. 77–84.