Texts

Aided Guill (meic Carbada) ⁊ Gairb (Glinne Rige) ‘The violent deaths of Goll and Garb’

  • Late Middle Irish
  • prose
  • Ulster Cycle

Classification

Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797

Subjects

Cú Chulainn
Cú 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)

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Conchobar mac Nessa
Conchobar mac Nessa
(time-frame ass. with Ulster Cycle)
king of the Ulaid in tales of the Ulster Cycle; son either of Cathbad or Fachtna Fáthach (father) and Ness (mother); husband of Mugain; father of Cormac Cond Longas, Cúscraid Mend Macha, Furbaide Fer Bend and Fedelm Noíchrothach; fosterfather of Cú Chulainn.

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Goll mac Carbada
Goll mac Carbada
No short description available

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Garb Glinne RígeGarb Glinne Ríge
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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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.

[ed.] [tr.] Stokes, Whitley [ed. and tr.], “The violent deaths of Goll and Garb”, Revue Celtique 14 (1893): 396–449.
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Secondary sources (select)

Fogarty, Hugh, “Aided Guill meic Carbada 7 Aided Gairb Glinne Rige: intertextuality and the inward look in a late Middle Irish prose saga”, in: Elizabeth Boyle, and Deborah Hayden (eds), Authorities and adaptations: the reworking and transmission of textual sources in medieval Ireland, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2014. 185–210.
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April 2011, last updated: January 2024