Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó
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Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó
Scéla mucce Meic Da Thó‘The tale of Mac Da Thó's pig’
- Old Irish
- Ulster Cycle
Manuscripts
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1339 (H 2. 18) = Book of Leinster [s. xii2]ff. 112a–114a
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337 pp 708-776 (comprising parts of vols 22 and 23), pp 792-809 (comprising part of vol. 23) [1616]pp. 743–748
- London, British Library, MS Harleian 5280 [s. xviin]ff. 40r–42r
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512 I, (a) ff. 101-122, (b) ff. 1-36, (c) ff. 45-52 [s. xv / s. xvi]ff. 105v 2–108 r 2
- Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.36 [s. xvii]ff. 86r–91v
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1412 (H 6. 8) [s. xviii]pp. 37–50
Language
Old Irish
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 the entry for the relevant manuscript.
| [ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Scéla mucce Meic Dathó, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1935.
Internet Archive: <link>
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| [ed.] Windisch, Ernst [ed.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 1, Leipzig, 1880. |
| [ed.] Scarre, Annie M. [ed.], “Scél Muicce Maic Dá Thó”, in: Bergin, Osborn, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. O'Keeffe (eds.), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 5, Halle and Dublin, 1913. 8–17. |
| [ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Hibernica minora, being a fragment of an Old-Irish treatise on the Psalter, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series 8, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894.
Internet Archive: <link> TLH – Erchoitmed ingine Gulidi (ed. and tr.): <link>
199–207. Meyer's translation is reprinted in Koch, J. T., et al., The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales (2003): § 80. |
| [tr.] Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], Early Irish myths and sagas, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981. 179–187. |
| [tr.] Leahy, A. H. [tr.], Heroic romances of Ireland, 2 vols, Irish Saga Library 2, London, 1905–1906. |
| [tr.] Corthals, Johan, Altirische Erzählkunst, Forum Celticum: Studien zu keltischen Sprachen und Kulturen 1, Münster: Lit, 1996. Translation into German |
| [tr.] Draak, Maartje, and Frida de Jong (trs.), Van helden, elfen en dichters: de oudste verhalen uit Ierland, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1979. 92–103. |
Queried results
if available
| Corthals, Johan, Altirische Erzählkunst, rev. ed. (1996), CreateSpace, 2016. |
| McCone, Kim, “Die Spottwettkämpfe in der Geschichte von Mac Da Thós Schwein”, Keltische Forschungen 1 (2006): 149–161. |
| Corthals, Johan, Altirische Erzählkunst, Forum Celticum: Studien zu keltischen Sprachen und Kulturen 1, Münster: Lit, 1996. |
| Sayers, William, “Severed heads under Conall’s knee (Scéla mucce Meic Dathó)”, Mankind Quarterly 34 (1994): 369–378. |
| Sayers, William, “Serial defamation in two medieval tales: Icelandic Ölkofra þáttr and Irish Scéla mucce Meic Dathó”, Oral Tradition 6 (1991): 35–57. |
| Sayers, William, “Conall’s welcome to Cet in Scéla mucce Meic Dathó”, Florilegium 4 (1982): 100–108. |
| Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], Early Irish myths and sagas, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981. |
| Quin, E. G., “Textual notes”, Éigse 18:1 (1980): 93–98. 95–97 “Scéla mucce Meic Dathó” |
| Draak, Maartje, and Frida de Jong (trs.), Van helden, elfen en dichters: de oudste verhalen uit Ierland, Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1979. 92–103 “Het zwijn van Mac Dathó” |
| Schmidt, Karl Horst, “Boí rí amrae for Laignib, Mac Dathó a ainm”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 28 (1960–1961): 224–234. |
| Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Scéla mucce Meic Dathó, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series 6, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1935.
Internet Archive: <link>
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| Watson, W. J., “The Edinburgh version of Scel Mucci mic da Tho”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 17 (1928): 213–222. |
| Thurneysen, Rudolf, Die irische Helden- und Königsage bis zum siebzehnten Jahrhundert, Halle: Niemeyer, 1921.
Internet Archive: <link>
494–500 [2.51] “Scēl mucce Maic Dātho” |
| Scarre, Annie M. [ed.], “Scél Muicce Maic Dá Thó”, in: Bergin, Osborn, R. I. Best, Kuno Meyer, and J. G. O'Keeffe (eds.), Anecdota from Irish manuscripts, vol. 5, Halle and Dublin, 1913. 8–17. |
| Leahy, A. H. [tr.], Heroic romances of Ireland, 2 vols, Irish Saga Library 2, London, 1905–1906. |
| Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], Hibernica minora, being a fragment of an Old-Irish treatise on the Psalter, Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series 8, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894.
Internet Archive: <link> TLH – Erchoitmed ingine Gulidi (ed. and tr.): <link>
51–64 [Appendix] “The story of Mac Dáthó’s pig and hound” Meyer's translation is reprinted, in modernised form and with additional explanations, in John T. Koch • John Carey, The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales (2003): § 80. |
| Windisch, Ernst [ed.], Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 1, Leipzig, 1880. |
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