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Scéla Éogain ⁊ Cormaic‘The story of Éogan and Cormac’

• Old Irish
• prose
• Cycles of the Kings

Manuscripts

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

  f. 96ra (line 35) – 97ra

   

  Abrupt ending.
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336 (H 3. 17) [s. xvi]

  cols 782 line 17–784

   

  Lacks beginning and focuses more on Cormac's story.

See also results from manuscript descriptions

Language

• Old Irish
• Ó Cathasaigh argues that the two manuscript versions derive from a common ancestor written in classical Old Irish. While he allows for the possibility that the latter may be a reworking of the text made in the Middle Irish period, “we can be reasonably sure that the content of the story is much as it was in the O. I. ancestor of L and H”.^{(1)n. 1} Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt (1977): 115–117.

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

• Related:
• Cath Mhaighe Mochruimhe

Classification

Cycles of the Kings

Subjects

Éogan Mór mac AilellaÉogan Mór mac Ailella / Éogan Mór / Éogan mac Ailella (ass. time-frame: Éogan Mór mac Ailella) – Eponymous ancestor of the Éoganachta of Munster; son of Ailill Ólomm, king of Munster
See more Cormac mac AirtCormac mac Airt (ass. time-frame: Cormac mac Airt) – legendary high-king of Ireland; son of Art son of Conn Cétchathach; contemporary of Finn mac Cumaill
See more Fíachu MuillethanFíachu Muillethan (fl. 507–514) – Fíachu (Mun- or Muil-lethan) mac Éogain; son of Éogan mac Ailella; king of Munster
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Sources

Notes

^1.

Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt (1977): 115–117.

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.] Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, The heroic biography of Cormac mac Airt, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1977.

119–127 Edition, with translation, based on Laud Misc. 610 and TCD 1336.

[ed.] [tr.] O'Daly, Máirín [ed. and tr.], Cath Maige Mucrama: The battle of Mag Mucrama, Irish Texts Society 50, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1975.

64–73 Based on Laud Misc. 610.

[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], “The Laud genealogies and tribal histories”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 8 (1912): 291–338.

CELT – edition: <link> Celtic Digital Initiative – PDF: <link> Internet Archive: <link>

309–312. The Laud Misc. 610 version. direct link

[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf, “Allerlei Irisches”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 10 (1915): 421–443.

Internet Archive: <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google Books: <link>

422–423 Variants from TCD 1336, section 6 direct link

web page identifiers

page name: Scéla Éogain ocus Cormaic
page url: https://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/Sc%C3%A9la_%C3%89ogain_ocus_Cormaic
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