Cath Maige Tuired

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Title	Cath Maige Tuired ‘The &#91’, ‘second&#93’, ‘battle of Mag Tuired’
Manuscripts	London, British Library, MS Harleian 5280 [s. xviin], ff. 63a—70b
Language	Middle Irish
Date	According to Gerard Murphy, the text is "the product of an eleventh or twelfth-century redactor working mainly upon ninth-century material"[1]
Textual relationships	The story is alluded to in the poem beginning ‘Innid scél scaílter n-airich’ and in Sanas Cormaic.

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Editions and translations

Gray, Elizabeth A. (ed. and tr.), Cath Maige Tuired: The second battle of Mag Tuired, Irish Texts Society 52, Kildare: Irish Texts Society, 1982. CELT: edition and translation

Stokes, Whitley (ed. and tr.), “The second battle of Moytura”, Revue Celtique 12 (1891): 52—130, 306—308. CELT: edition and translation; Internet Archive: 1, 2

Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Zu irischen Texten”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918): 398—407. 400—406. » Edition of the retoirics omitted by Stokes. Internet Archive: [1] [2]

Secondary sources

Carey, John, “Myth and mythography in Cath Maige Tuired”, Studia Celtica 24-25 (1989): 53—69.

Gray, Elizabeth A., “Cath Maige Tuired: myth and structure (1-24)”, Éigse 18 (1981): 183—209.

Gray, Elizabeth A., “Cath Maige Tuired: myth and structure (24-120)”, Éigse 19:1 (1982): 1—35.

Gray, Elizabeth A., “Cath Maige Tuired: myth and structure (84-93, 120-67)”, Éigse 19:2 (1983): 230—262.

Gray, Elizabeth A., “Lug and Cú Chulainn: king and warrior”, Studia Celtica 24-25 (1989): 38—52.

Murphy, Gerard, “Notes on Cath Maige Tuired”, Éigse 7 (1953—1955): 191—198.

Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Cath Maige Tuired as exemplary myth”, in: de Brún, Pádraig, Seán Ó Coileáin, and Pádraig Ó Riain (eds.), Folia Gadelica: essays presented by former students to R. A. Breatnach on the occasion of his retirement from the professorship of Irish language and literature at University College, Cork, Cork: Cork University Press, 1983. 1—19.