Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G301017
Togail Bruidne Da Derga
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Eleanor KnottElectronic edition compiled by Maxim Fomin, Beatrix Färber, Philip Irwin
Funded by University College, Cork and
Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project; formerly CURIA
2. Second draft, revised.
Extent of text: 27650 words
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Text ID Number: G301017
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Sources
Manuscript sources- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Lebor na hUidre, p. 83a99a.
- Dublin, Trinity College Library, Yellow Book of Lecan, col. 716739 (facs. p. 91a104).
- London, British Library, Egerton 1782, f. 108vb123vb.
- London, British Library, Egerton 92, f. 18ra23v (fragment, formerly belonging to the Book of Fermoy).
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Book of Fermoy, p. 213a216b (fragment).
- London, British Library, Additional 33993, f. 4r5v (beginning only).
- Dublin, Trinity College Library, H 2 17, p. 477a482b.
- Dublin, Trinity College Library, H 3 18, p. 528533.
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, D IV 2, f. 79ra86ra.
Editions- Whitley Stokes, The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel, Paris
1902. [From LU. Reprinted from Revue Celtique 22 (1901) 961; 165215; 282329;
390437; 23 (1902) 88]. With Engl. translation.
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1312.
Translations- Whitley Stokes, The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel, Paris 1902, from LU [Reprinted from Revue Celtique 22 (1901) 961; 165215; 282329; 390437;
XXIII (1902) 88] (English). Online at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1100derga.html and http://www.bartleby.com/49/3/.
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Harmondsworth 1981 60106 (English).
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554585.
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- Amy C. Eichorn-Mulligan, Togail Bruidne da Derga and the Anatomy of Politics, CMCS 49 (Summer 2005) 119.
- Ralph O'Connor, 'Prophecy, Storytelling and the Otherworld in Togail Bruidne Da Derga', in: Katja Ritari and Alexandra Bergholm (eds.), Approaches to Religion and Mythology in Celtic Studies (Newcastle 2008) 5568.
- Ralph O'Connor, The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel: Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga (Oxford 2013).
- Ralph O'Connor, 'Compilation as Creative Artistry: A Reassessment of 'Narrative Inconsistency' in Togail Bruidne Da Derga', Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 65 (Summer 2013).
The editions used in the digital edition- Togail Bruidne Da Derga. Eleanor Knott (ed), First edition [xxiv + 154 pp. vii Contents, ixxv Preface, xvixxiv Grammatical Introduction, 146 Text, 4769 Variants from RIA D IV 2, 69 Abbreviated
Titles, 7195 Notes, 97149 Glossary, 150154 Indexes.] Dublin Institute for Advanced StudiesDublin (1936) (reprinted 1963) (reprinted 1975) . Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series. , No. 8
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Sampling Declaration
The present text represents pp. 146 of the edited text, and has variants from pp. 4969. The paragraph numbering follows Stokes's edition. Paragraphs 112125, 149153, 160161, 1634 have been incorporated from LU.
Editorial Declaration
Correction
Text has been checked and proofread four times. All corrections and supplied text are tagged.
Normalization
The electronic text represents the printed text, with accents added by Eleanor Knott, and contractions silently expanded. F/f and S/s with overdot indicating lenition have been rendered F/f, S/s.
Instances of n and m with overdot representing nasalisation have been rendered n, m. H prefixed to nouns has been hyphenated off. Nasalising consonants prefixed to anlaut consonants have been hyphenated
off. Italicised letters have been regarded as expansions and tagged ex. The abbreviation for 'immurgu' was expanded. First letters starting sentences in the paragraphs incorporated from LU have been
capitalised. These paragraphs have been rendered add source="LU" n="".
Hyphenation
When a hyphenated word (hard or soft) crosses a page break or line break,
the break is marked after the completion of the hyphenated word.
Segmentation
div0=the saga; div1=the section (as in Stokes' edition). Page breaks are marked pb n=""; and line breaks lb n="". Poems are treated as embedded texts; line groups are numbered.
Interpretation
Names of persons (given names), places and group names are tagged. Quotes
have been rendered Q. Poems and passages of rhetoric speech
have been treated as embedded texts. Foliation has been marked up using mls unit="folio" n="".
Canonical References
This text uses the DIV1 element to represent the section.
Profile Description
Created: By one or more unknown author(s). The story belongs to the Old
Irish period. Date range: c.600900.
Use of language
Language: [GA] The text is in Old Irish
Language: [LA] One word is in Latin.
Language: [EN] The witness List is in English.
Revision History