Aided Chonchobuir

Title	Aided Chonchobuir; Aided Chonchobair ‘The death of Conchobor’
Manuscripts	Version A: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2], pp. 123b (line 40)—124b Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.40 (Gaelic XL) [s. xv-xvi], part 1, ff. 1r—2r, pp. 1—3. Illegible in part. Version B: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (Betham 145, 967) [s. xvi], p. 16. Version C: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 O 48, part 2, f. 105a1 or 52ra—52rb ? Version D: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iv 2 (992) [s. xv], f. 54 a 3. Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.5 (Gaelic V), ff. 7rb—8rb
Form (primary)	prose, verse » Versions A, B and C are in prose, while version D consists of two poems, each with a prose introduction.
Form (secondary)	verse, prose » retoiric below; prose introductions of version D
Contains poems:	‘Ba haprainn nan dáil cu Artrig n-arnac’, ‘Cóica traighedh tólaibh tlacht’, ‘A chloch thall for elaid uair’ » In Meyer's text, the difficult retoiric ‘Ba haprainn nan dáil cu Artrig n-arnac’ is left untranslated, but it has been re-edited and translated by Johan Corthals from LL and 23 N 10. Version D contains two poems: a quatrain ascribed to Flann Mainistrech, beginning ‘Cóica traighedh tólaibh tlacht’, and a poem ascribed to ‘the poet’ (file), beginning ‘A chloch thall for elaid uair’, which takes up the bulk of the text.
Textual relationships	Cf. ‘Cet mac Mágach roteilc in cloich’