Texts
Táin bó Dartada‘The raid of Dartaid's cattle’
- Late Old Irish, Early Middle Irish
- Ulster Cycle
Manuscripts
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 (1229) = Lebor na hUidre [s. xi/xii]f. 20bOpening lines only.
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xivex/xvin]cols 644–646
- London, British Library, MS Egerton 1782 [1516-1518]ff. 80r–81r
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1287 (H 1. 13) [1746]p. 345ff
- London, British Library, MS Additional 33993 [s. xvi]ff. 1v–2v
Language
- Late Old Irish Early Middle Irish
Date
“Die ältere Fassung [YBL/Egerton] zeigt die Sprache und Erzählungsart der älteren irischen Sagen etwa des 9. Jahrhunderts” (Thurneysen 1921).
Textual relationships
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.] Windisch, Ernst [ed. and tr.], “Táin bó Dartada”, in: Windisch, Ernst, and Whitley Stokes (eds.), Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 2:2, Leipzig, 1887. 185–205.
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185–187 (intro); 188–197 (text); 198–205 (translation into German); 255 (Nachträge) direct link
[ed.] Thurneysen, Rudolf [ed.], Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern [I], Abhandlungen der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-Historische Klasse 14.2, Berlin, 1912.
comments: Continued by Rudolf Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmälern II (1913).
90–92
Secondary sources (select)
Windisch, Ernst, “Nachträge”, in: Windisch, Ernst, and Whitley Stokes (eds.), Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch, 4 vols, vol. 2:2, Leipzig, 1887. 255–256.
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Contributors
C. A.,Dennis Groenewegen,Patrick Brown