Texts
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. 10raCorrupt 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–117vaFragment 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. xivex/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–11rafound together with version 1 above
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS B iv 1a (236a) = Book of the Ó Duibhgeannáin [s.xvii (?)] p. 37Fragment
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'.
Associated items
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.] Best, R. I. [ed.], “The tragic death of Cúrói mac Dári”, Ériu 2 (1905): 18–35.
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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.
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The text of ACR 2 in Laud Misc. 610, largely without the poem.
Version 3
[ed.] [tr.] Best, R. I. [ed.], “The tragic death of Cúrói mac Dári”, Ériu 2 (1905): 18–35.
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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.
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[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.
Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Nachträge zur Sage von CuRoi”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913): 336.
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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
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431–444.
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen,Patrick Brown
