Conailla Medb míchuru

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Title	Conailla Medb míchuru ‘Medb enjoined bad/illegal/evil contracts’
Initial words	‘Conailla Medb míchuru’
Ascribed to	Luccreth moccu Chíara
Manuscripts	Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 [s. xv], 94a (among genealogies of the Ciarraige)
Language	Old Irish
Date	7th century
Description	obscure 'accentual poem' by or at least attributed to Luccreth moccu Chíara. The first section deals with the Ulster hero Fergus mac Róich, his situation as an exile in the service of Medb and Ailill, and his participation in their wars over the cattle (bó) of the Ulstermen. The account is thought to refer to an early version of the Táin bó Cúailnge. According to Olmsted, other stories alluded to are the exile of Fergus (cf. Longes mac nUislenn), a raid undertaken by Fergus's son Fiacc to retrieve his grandfather's cattle (cf. Togail Bruidne Dá Choca) and the migration of Cland Cethirnd to Munster (cf. Tochomlod na nDéssi); the poem synthesizes these narratives in an attempt to explain why some peoples of Munster (dal Cethirnd) claim Ulster origins.[1][2]

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Editions and translations

Meyer, Kuno (ed.), “The Laud genealogies and tribal histories”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 8 (1912): 291—338. CELT: edition; Celtic Digital Initiative; Internet Archive

Henry, P. L. (ed.), “Conailla Medb míchuru and the tradition of Fiacc son of Fergus”, in: Mac Mathúna, Séamus, and Ailbhe Ó Corráin (eds.), Miscellanea Celtica in memoriam Heinrich Wagner, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Celtica Upsaliensia 2, Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 1997. 53—70.

Olmsted, Garrett S., “The earliest narrative version of the Táin: seventh-century poetic references to Táin bó Cúailnge”, Emania 10 (1992): 5—17.

Olmsted, Garrett S., “Conailla Medb míchuru and the origins of the Táin”, Études Celtiques 29 (1992): 333—342.

Olmsted, Garrett S., “Luccreth's poem Conailla Medb míchuru and the origins of the Táin”, Mankind Quarterly 29 (1988): 3—72.

Secondary sources

Carney, James P., “Three Old Irish accentual poems”, Ériu 22 (1971): 23—80.

Carney, James P., “The history of early Irish literature: the state of research”, in: Mac Eoin, Gearóid, Anders Ahlqvist, and Donncha Ó hAodha (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Celtic Studies, held in University College, Galway, 6-13 July, 1979, Dublin, 1983. 113—130.

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, “Prosopographical analysis of Táin Bó Cuailnge in a historical setting”, in: Tristram, Hildegard L. C. (ed.), New methods in the research of epic / Neue Methoden der Epenforschung, ScriptOralia 107, Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998. 153—159.

Olmsted, Garrett S., “Gaulish, Celtiberian and Indo-European verse”, The Journal of Indo-European Studies 19:3-4 (1991): 259—307.

Sproule, David, “Complex alliteration, full and unstressed rhyme, and the origin of deibide”, Ériu 38 (1987): 185—200.