Aided Echach meic Maireda

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Title	Aided Echach meic Maireda ‘The death of Eochu mac Maireda’
Manuscripts	Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 (1229) = Lebor na hUidre [s. xi/xii], ff. 39a—41b. Story interpolated by H
Type or category	aideda
Description	On the origin of Lough Neagh ("lake of Eochu")

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Editions and translations

O'Grady, Standish Hayes (ed. and tr.), Silva Gadelica, 2 vols, London: Williams & Norgate, 1892. Vol 1: 233—237; vol 2: 265—269. Internet Archive: vol. 1 vol. 1 vol. 1 vol. 2 vol. 2

Herbert, Máire (ed.), “Society and myth, c. 700-1300”, in: Bourke, Angela, et al. (eds.), The Field Day anthology of Irish writing, vol. IV: Irish women's writing and traditions, Cork: Cork University Press, 2002. 250—272. 271—272: » introduction by Máire Herbert and a reprint of O'Grady's translation, with much of the verse left out.

Crowe, John O'Beirne (ed. and tr.), “Ancient lake legends of Ireland — No. I. Aided Echac maic Mairedo. The destruction of Eochad, son of Mairid; from the original Irish in Lebor na h-Uidre, a manuscript preserved in the library of the Royal Irish Academy”, The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 4th series, 1 (1870—1871): 94—112. Internet Archive: [1]

Joyce, P. W. (tr.), Old Celtic romances, 3rd ed. [1879], London: Longmans, 1907. 97—105. Internet Archive: 1920 reprint

Secondary sources

Imhoff, Helen, “The themes and structure of Aided Echach maic Maireda”, Ériu 58 (2008): 107—131.

Vries, Ranke de, “Het onafwendbare einde van Eochu, zoon van Mairid”, in: Genee, Inge, Bart Jaski, and Bernadette Smelik (eds.), Arthur, Brigit, Conn, Deirdre... Verhaal, taal en recht in de Keltische wereld. Liber amicorum voor Leni van Strien-Gerritsen, Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak, 2003. 186—202.

Vries, Ranke de, “The names of Lí Bán”, in: Nagy, Joseph Falaky (ed.), Myth in Celtic literatures, CSANA Yearbook 6, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 39—54.