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De maccaib Conaire ‘Concerning the sons of Conaire’

  • Cycles of the Kings, Ulster Cycle, minor Irish prose tales
Prose narrative in which the sons of Conaire mac Moghaláma take revenge on Nemed mac Srobcind for slaying their father. Gwynn suggests that the scribe of the Book of Leinster amended his text so as to make this story a continuation of Togail bruidne Da Derga.
Manuscripts
Language
  • Middle Irish?
Textual relationships
Cf. Togail bruidne Da Derga. A fuller account, which also includes the tale of Nemed (Neimed)'s death, is told by Keating in Foras feasa ar Éirinn.

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings
id. 80
Ulster Cycle
Ulster Cycle
id. 1797
minor Irish prose tales (foscéla)Irish narrative literature
minor Irish prose tales (foscéla)
id. 33994

Relatively short prose tales in Irish. In learned discourse from the Middle Irish period and later, a distinction is sometimes made between the longer prím-scél and the shorter fo-scél. See eDIL s.v. ‘foscél’ for some references. In the first two volumes of BILL (1913 and 1942), Best included separate headings for ‘Minor tales’.

Subjects

Cycle of Conaire MórCycles of the Kings
Cycle of Conaire Mór
id. 49693
Conaire mac MoghalámaConaire mac Moghaláma
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
See more Nemed mac Srobcind
Nemed mac Srobcind
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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.] Gwynn, Lucius [ed. and tr.], “De maccaib Conaire”, Ériu 6 (1912): 144–153.
Based on LL.
[dipl. ed.] Best, Richard Irvine, and M. A. OʼBrien, The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núachongbála, vol. 5, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967. xv + pp. 1119-1325.
CELT – pp. 1119-1192 and 1202-1325: <link>
1262–1264 direct link
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen, Patrick Brown
Page created
October 2010, last updated: January 2024
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