Texts

Táin bó Dartada ‘The raid of Dartaid's cattle’

  • Late Old Irish, Early Middle Irish
  • Ulster Cycle
Language
  • Late Old Irish Early Middle Irish
Date
“Die ältere Fassung [YBL/Egerton] zeigt die Sprache und Erzählungsart der älteren irischen Sagen etwa des 9. Jahrhunderts” (Thurneysen 1921).
Textual relationships
Related: Dinnshenchas of Áth Clíath MedraigeDinnshenchas of Áth Clíath MedraigeDinnshenchas on Áth Clíath Medraige, in prose and verse.

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

Subjects

Eochu Becc mac Coirpri
Eochu Becc mac Coirpri
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
king of Cliu in Munster, according to Táin bó Dartada and related texts.

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DartaidDartaid
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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Ailill mac Máta
Ailill mac Máta
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
king of Connacht, husband of Medb of Connacht

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Orlám mac AilellaOrlám mac Ailella
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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.] Windisch, Ernst [ed. and tr.], “Táin bó Dartada”, in: Ernst Windisch, and Whitley Stokes [eds.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 2, Leipzig, 1887. 185–205.
Internet Archive: <link>
185–187 (intro); 188–197 (text); 198–205 (translation into German); 255 (Nachträge) 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).
90–92
[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: 73–81

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>
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown
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April 2011, last updated: January 2024