Texts

Táin bó Flidais

Incoming data

Early Irish tale which relates how Fergus mac Róich came to slay Ailill Find, king of the Ciarraige, and gained the latter's wife Flidais. It is regarded as one of the remscéla to the Táin bó Cúailnge.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25

Interpolated version, which lacks the beginning.

ff. 21a–22a

MS

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25

incipit: Cid dofuci or Ailill Find. Beginning missing.

p. 21a.1–p. 22a.30

Text

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48

[1] ff. 26ra–26rb pp. 21–22 in facsimile

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1287

Copy from the former.

p. 347

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1287

Transcript from Eg. 1782, f. 82r ff

p. 347

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/19 (pp. 565-628)

Glossed extracts.⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Johan Corthals, Manuscript sources to Old and Middle Irish tales (MsOmit) (2010); Ernst Windisch, ‘Táin bó Flidais’ in Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch... (1887): 206-207.

pp. 603–604

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337/19 (pp. 565-628)

Glossed extracts

p. 603b–p. 604

Text

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

ff. 247a–248a

MS

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339

rubric: Tain Bó Flidaisi. incipit: BOI Flidais ben Ailella Find i crích Ciarraige Prose

p. 247a.35–p. 248a

MS

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

f. 82r–f. 82v

Text

London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782

ff. 82r–82v

Quoted in

Medieval Irish tale lists

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.] Corthals, Johan, “Táin bó Regamna und Táin bó Flidais: zwei altirische Erzählungen”, diss. (unpublished), Hamburg University, 1979.

[ed.] [tr.] Windisch, Ernst [ed. and tr.], “Táin bó Flidais”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 2, Leipzig, 1887. 206–223.

comments: Edition of the texts in LL, Egerton 1782 and LU, with a translation into German and a brief introduction.

Internet Archive – Heft 2 and 1: <link>

Based on LL, Egerton 1782 and LU, with extracts in TCD 1337 direct link

[ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and Osborn Bergin [eds.], Lebor na hUidre: Book of the Dun Cow, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1929.

CELT – edition (pp. 1-338): <link> Internet Archive: <link>

55–58 Diplomatic edition of the text in LU direct link

[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern [I], Abhandlungen der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, 14.2, Berlin, 1912.

comments: Continued by Rudolf Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern II (1913).

95–96 RIA 23 O 48 text.

[tr.] Leahy, A. H. [tr.], Heroic romances of Ireland, 2 vols, Irish Saga Library, 2, London, 1905–1906.

Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link> Internet Archive – vols 1-2 (Google Books): <link> Internet Archive – Gutenberg (plain text): <link>

Vol. 2, 101–125

Secondary sources (select)

Windisch, Ernst, “Nachträge”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 2, Leipzig, 1887. 255–256.

Internet Archive: <link>