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Aided Chon Roí‘The death of Cú Roí’

• Old Irish
• prose
• Ulster Cycle

Manuscripts

Version 1:

• London, British Library, MS Egerton 88 [c. 1564]

  f. 10ra

  Corrupt version, followed by version 3.

Version 2: prose fragment and the poem Brinna Ferchertne (q.v.):

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 610 ff. 1–58 and ff. 73–122 = Leabhar na Rátha [1453–1454]

  f. 117rb–117va

  Fragment in prose which accompanies the poem Brinna Ferchertne.

Version 3 (later, expanded version = Thurneysen’s ACR II)

• YBL =
  Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv^ex/xvⁱⁿ]

  cols 776–780 (123a–125a in facsimile)

  Includes a version of Amrae Chon Roí
• London, British Library, MS Egerton 88 [c. 1564]

  ff. 10va–11ra

  found together with version 1 above
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 1a (236a) = Book of the Ó Duibhgeannáin [s.xvii (?)]

  p. 37

  Fragment

See also results from manuscript descriptions

Language

• Old Irish

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

See also Amrae Chon Roí, which is included in the Yellow Book of Lecan copy of Version 3, and preserved independently in H 3. 18. The dindsenchas of Finnglais tells much the same story, and a version of Aided Chon Roí is included in Keating (Geoffrey)'s Foras feasa ar Éirinn (I 36). Cú Roí's death is also referred to in the poem beginning 'Innid scél scaílter n-airich'.

• Related:
• Coimétor liph cend an rígh
• He amae fet gae geir

Associated items

Amrae Chon Roí

Classification

Ulster Cycle

Subjects

Cú RoíCú Roí (mac Dáiri)
Cú Roí mac Dáire, Cú Roí mac Dáiri
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
warrior and king of Munster in tales of the Ulster Cycle
See more Cú ChulainnCú Chulainn
Young Ulster hero and chief character of Táin bó Cuailnge and other tales of the Ulster Cycle; son of Súaltam or Lug and Deichtire (sister to Conchobor); husband of Emer (ingen Forgaill)
See more

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

Version 1 (Egerton 88)

[ed.] [tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed. and tr.], “Die Sage von CuRoi”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 189–234.

CELT – edition of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> CELT – German translation of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

190–198

[ed.] Best, R. I. [ed.], “The tragic death of Cúrói mac Dári”, Ériu 2 (1905): 18–35.

Internet Archive: <link>

32–34

Version 2

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Irish miscellanies: Addenda to M. de Jubainville's Catalogue de la littérature épique de l'Irland”, Revue Celtique 6 (1883–1885): 187–191.

Internet Archive: <link>

The text of ACR 2 in Laud Misc. 610, largely without the poem.

[tr.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed. and tr.], “Die Sage von CuRoi”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 189–234.

CELT – edition of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> CELT – German translation of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

202–214 A number of passages are given in translation

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], “Brinna Ferchertne”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 3 (1901): 40–46.

CELT – edition: <link> CELT – translation: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

The poem Brinna Ferchertne only.

Version 3

[ed.] [tr.] Best, R. I. [ed.], “The tragic death of Cúrói mac Dári”, Ériu 2 (1905): 18–35.

Internet Archive: <link>

Based on YBL (20–31), with part of the text and variants from Egerton 88 given in the appendix (34–35)

[ed.] Stokes, Whitley [ed.], “The eulogy of Cúrói (Amra Chonrói)”, Ériu 2 (1905): 1–14.

Internet Archive: <link>

[tr.] Tymoczko, Maria [tr.], Two death tales from the Ulster Cycle: The death of Cu Roi and The death of Cu Chulainn, Dolmen Texts 2, Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1981.

Based on YBL, with variants

Secondary sources (select)

Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed. and tr.], “Die Sage von CuRoi”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 189–234.

CELT – edition of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> CELT – German translation of Aided Chon Roí I: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

includes discussion and notes, together with related texts such as the dinnshenchas tale of Finnglais from LL and BB and Keating’s version.

Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Nachträge zur Sage von CuRoi”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 336.

Internet Archive: <link>

Thurneysen, Rudolf, Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert, Halle: Niemeyer, 1921.  

comments: Part 1 (chapters 1-23): Allgemeines; Part 2 (chapters 1-85): Die Ulter Sage

Internet Archive: <link>

431–444.

web page identifiers

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Contributors

Dennis Groenewegen,Patrick Brown