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Compert Conchobuir
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Compert Conchobuir
‘The conception and birth of Conchobor’
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Version 1 (shorter text) and 2 (longer text):
Version 1 (shorter text):
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 P 2 = Book of Lecan, ff. 181va line 42—181vb line 7, p. 191va line 42—191vb line 7 (facsimile)
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363 (H 4. 22) [various], p. 40 lines 1-10
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 (H 3. 18) [s. xv-xvi], p. 48b lines 1-16
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 [s. xv-xviin], f. 100vb lines 2ff
- Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G 7 (Phillipps 9748) [s. xvi], col. 4
Version 2 (longer text):
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comperta
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| Description
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The story of Conchobor's birth is also cited/related in Scéla Conchobuir meic Nessa.
Characters include: Cú Chulainn; Conchobor;
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Editions and translations
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Hull, Vernam (ed. and tr.), “The conception of Conchobor”, in: Fraser, J., P. Grosjean, and J. G. O'Keeffe (eds.), Irish texts, fasciculus IV, London, 1934. 4—12. » Version 1 from YBL, Book of Ballymote, Book of Lecan, Rawlinson 502, TCD 1337, TCD 1363, with G 7. CELT: edition; Celtic Digital Initiative
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Meyer, Kuno (ed. and tr.), Hibernica minora, being a fragment of an Old-Irish treatise on the Psalter, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series 8, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894. 50. » Version 1 from Rawlinson B 502.
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Meyer, Kuno (ed.), “Irish miscellanies: Anecdota from the Stowe MS. n° 992”, Revue Celtique 6 (1883—1885): 173—186. 173—182. » Version 2 from D iv 2 and variants from YBL and Egerton 1782. Includes a translation.  Internet Archive: [1]
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Carey, John (tr.), “[Various contributions]”, in: Koch, John T., and John Carey (eds.), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, Celtic Studies Publications 1, 4th ed. [1995], Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various]. § 73
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Meyer, Kuno (tr.), and Eleanor Hull (adapt.), “The birth of Conachar”, in: Hull, Eleanor (ed.), The Cuchullin saga in Irish literature: being a collection of stories relating to the hero Cuchullin, Grimm Library 8, London, 1898. 1—6. » Abridged version of Meyer's translation (version 2 from D iv 2), but with a new translation by Meyer of the concluding poem. Internet Archive: [2] [3]
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Thurneysen, Rudolf (tr.), “Conchobars Geburt”, in: Thurneysen, Rudolf (tr.), Sagen aus dem alten Irland, Berlin, 1901. 63—65. CELT: [4] Internet Archive: [5]
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Guyonvarc'h, Christian-J. (tr.), “La naissance de Conchobar. Version C”, Ogam 11 (1959): 335—336.
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Guyonvarc'h, Christian-J. (tr.), “La naissance de Conchobar. Version B”, Ogam 12 (1960): 235—240. » Longer version from D iv 2.
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Dottin, Georges (tr.), “[Various contributions]”, in: d'Arbois de Jubainville, Marie-Henri, L’épopée celtique en Irlande, Cours de littérature celtique 5, Paris: Thorin, 1892. [Various]. 13—21 Internet Archive
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Secondary sources
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Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, “Reflections on Compert Conchobuir and Serglige Con Culainn”, in: Mallory, James P., and Gerard Stockman (eds.), Ulidia: proceedings of the First International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Belfast and Emain Macha, 8–12 April 1994, Belfast: December, 1994. 85—89.
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