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Do faillsigud Tána bó Cúailnge‘How (the) Táin bó Cúailnge was found’

• prose
• Medieval Irish literature about poets, Ulster Cycle

Manuscripts

• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii²]
  p. 245b
• London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 [1516-1518]
  f. 87v
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D iv 2 (992) [s. xv]
  ff. 47vb–48rb
• Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS C vi 3 (740) [s. xvii]
  f. 27r–27v
• † Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.32
   
  The text was previously found in Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.32, but this manuscript has been missing since the 1840s.

  ^{n. 1} Rudolf Thurneysen, ‘Zu irischen Texten’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918): 407.

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

Medieval Irish literature about poets Ulster Cycle

• Sources

Notes

^1.

Rudolf Thurneysen, ‘Zu irischen Texten’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918): 407.

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 the entry for the relevant manuscript.

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Neue Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Die Wiederauffindung der Táin Bó Cúalnge”, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 3 (1907): 2–6. CELT – edition from Egerton 1782: <link> CELT – edition from Stowe D iv 2: <link> Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link> From Egerton 1782 and Stowe D iv 2.

[ed.] Murray, Kevin [ed.], “The finding of the Táin”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 41 (Summer, 2001): 17–23. LL version.

[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. O'Brien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967. CELT – pp. 1119-1192 and 1202-1325: <link> LL version. direct link

[ed.] [tr.] Zimmer, Heinrich, “Keltische Studien 5. Über den compilatorischen karakter der irischen sagentexte im sogenannten Lebor na hUidre”, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der indogermanischen Sprachen 28, Neue Folge 8 (1887): 417–689. Internet Archive: <link> 433–435 Edition with German translation.

[ed.] Carey, John, “Varia II: The address to Fergus's stone”, Ériu 51 (2000): 183–187. retoiric

[ed.] Corthals, Johan, “Why did Fergus rise from his grave?”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 55 (2008): 1–9. retoiric

[tr.] Kinsella, Thomas [tr.], The Tain: translated from the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, London: Oxford University Press, 1969. 1–2 Literary translation in English.

Secondary sources

Szövérffy, Joseph, “Siaburcharpat Conculainn, the Cadoc-legend, and the Finding of the Táin”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 17:2 (1957): 69–77.

Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Zu irischen Texten”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918): 398–407. Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

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Davies, Morgan Thomas, “Cultural memory, the finding of the Táin, and the canonical process in early Irish literature”, in: Rekdal, Jan Erik, and Erich Poppe (eds), Medieval Irish perspectives on cultural memory, Studien und Texte zur Keltologie 11, Münster: Nodus Publikationen, 2014. 81–108.

Bondarenko, Grigory, “Oral past and written present in ‘The finding of the Táin’”, in: Ó hUiginn, Ruairí, and Brian Ó Catháin (eds.), Ulidia 2: proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Maynooth 24-27 July 2005, Maynooth: An Sagart, 2009. 18–24. University of Ulster – eprint: <link>

Corthals, Johan, “Why did Fergus rise from his grave?”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 55 (2008): 1–9.

Murray, Kevin [ed.], “The finding of the Táin”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 41 (Summer, 2001): 17–23.

Carey, John, “Varia II: The address to Fergus's stone”, Ériu 51 (2000): 183–187.

Kinsella, Thomas [tr.], The Tain: translated from the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, London: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. O'Brien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967. CELT – pp. 1119-1192 and 1202-1325: <link>

Szövérffy, Joseph, “Siaburcharpat Conculainn, the Cadoc-legend, and the Finding of the Táin”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 17:2 (1957): 69–77.

Carney, James, Studies in Irish literature and history, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1955. 165–188   [5] “The Vita Kentegerni and the finding of the Táin”

Thurneysen, Rudolf, Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert, Halle: Niemeyer, 1921. Internet Archive: <link> 251–267   [2.12] “Faillsigud tāna bō Cuailnge”

Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Zu irischen Texten”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 12 (1918): 398–407. Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

Flower, Robin, “Quidam Scotigena .i. discipulus Boëthii, or Boëthius and the four conditions of a tale”, Ériu 8 (1916): 150–154.

Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “Neue Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Die Wiederauffindung der Táin Bó Cúalnge”, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 3 (1907): 2–6. CELT – edition from Egerton 1782: <link> CELT – edition from Stowe D iv 2: <link> Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link>

Zimmer, Heinrich, “Keltische Studien 5. Über den compilatorischen karakter der irischen sagentexte im sogenannten Lebor na hUidre”, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der indogermanischen Sprachen 28, Neue Folge 8 (1887): 417–689. Internet Archive: <link>

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