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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. 20b

   

  Opening lines only.
• Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv^ex/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

See also results from manuscript descriptions

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

• Related:
• Dinnshenchas of Áth Clíath Medraige

Classification

Ulster Cycle

Subjects

Eochu Becc mac CoirpriEochu Becc mac Coirpri (ass. time-frame: Subject:Ulster Cycle) – king of Cliu in Munster, according to Táin bó Dartada and related texts.
See more DartaidDartaid
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
See more Ailill mac MátaAilill mac Máta (ass. time-frame: Subject:Ulster Cycle) – king of Connacht, husband of Medb of Connacht
See more Orlám mac AilellaOrlám mac Ailella
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.] 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.

Internet Archive: <link>

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

[tr.] Leahy, A. H. [tr.], Heroic romances of Ireland, 2 vols, Irish Saga Library 2, London, 1905–1906.

Internet Archive – vol. 1: <link> Internet Archive – vol. 2: <link> Internet Archive – vols 1-2 (Google Books): <link> Internet Archive – Gutenberg (plain text): <link>

vol. 2: 73–81

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.

Internet Archive: <link>

web page identifiers

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Contributors

C. A.,Dennis Groenewegen,Patrick Brown