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Mesca Ulad

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J. Carmichael Watson

Electronic edition compiled by Pádraig Bambury , Marcos Balé , Beatrix Färber

proof corrections by Pádraig Bambury, Ruth Murphy

Funded by University College, Cork and
Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project

1. First draft, revised and corrected.

Extent of text: 9340 words

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(2001)

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Text ID Number: G301040

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Sources

    Manuscript sources
  1. The Book of Leinster, facs. 261b-268b. [LL]
  2. Lebor na hUidre, fo. 19a-20b.[LU]
  3. National Library of Ireland, Dublin, no. 8214 of the Phillipps Collection of Irish MSS, cols. 959-972; originally part of the Yellow Book of Lecan [YBL]
  4. National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Gaelic MS. XL, fols. 49-67.
    Editions
  1. William M. Hennessy, Mesca Ulad; or, the intoxication of the Ultonians. With translation and introductory notes [Book of Leinster, p. 261 and Lebor na hUidre, p. 19] Todd Lecture Series 1. Dublin 1889 [English]; translation reprinted in: Eleanor Hull, The Cuchullin Saga in Irish literature, London 1898.
    Translations
  1. J. Carmichael Watson, Mesca Ulad, Scottish Gaelic Studies 5 (1938) 1-34 (LL, LU text) [English].
  2. Jeffrey Gantz, The intoxication of the Ulaid, in: Early Irish Myths and Sagas, Harmondsworth 1981, 188-217 [English, available on http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/2330/intox.html].
  3. C.-J. Guyonvarc'h, L'ivresse des Ulates, Ogam 12 (1960) 487-506; 13 (1961) 343-360 [=Celticum 2 (1962) 1-38] [French].
    Secondary literature
  1. Rudolf Thurneysen, Zu irischen Handschriften und Litteraturdenkmäern. Zweite Serie (Kgl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaft zu Göttingen. Abhandl. 14 nro. 3), Berlin 1913 [17. Mesca Ulad].
  2. Áine de Paor, The common authorship of some Book of Leinster texts [III. Mesca Ulad], Ériu 9 (1923) 118-146.
  3. J. Carmichael Watson, Mesca Ulad: the redactor's contribution to the later version, Ériu 13 (1940) 95-112.
  4. T. F. O'Rahilly, Early Irish History and Mythology, Dublin 1946.
  5. William Sayers, Three Charioteering Gifts in Mesca Ulad and Táin Bó Cúalnge: immorchor delend, foscul dírich, léim dar boilg, Ériu 32 (1981) 163-167.
  6. Anne O'Sullivan (ed.), The Book of Leinster, Formerly Lebar na Núachongbala, Dublin 1983.
  7. Review of O'Sullivan, (1) Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Peritia 4 (1985) 390-393.
  8. Review of O'Sullivan, (2) Uaitear Mac Gearailt, Studia Hibernica 24 (1984-88) 190-197.
  9. Review of O'Sullivan, (3) P.-Y. Lambert, Études Celtiques 22 (1985) 380.
  10. Review of O'Sullivan, (4) Máire Herbert, Éigse 22 (1987) 166-168.
  11. Philip O'Leary, Verbal Deceit in the Ulster Cycle, Éigse 21 (1986) 16-26.
  12. Uáitéar MacGearailt, The Edinburgh Text of Mesca Ulad, Ériu 37 (1986) 133-180.
  13. Tomás Ó Concheanainn, The Manuscript Tradition of Mesca Ulad, Celtica 19 (1987) 13-30.
  14. N. B. Aitchison, The Ulster Cycle: Heroic Image and Historical Reality, Journal of Medieval History 13 (1987) 87-116.
  15. Ruth P. Lehmann, Death and Vengeance in the Ulster Cycle. Zeitschrift f[uml ]r celtische Philologie 43 (1989) 1-10.
  16. J. P. Mallory and Ruairí Ó hUiginn, The Ulster Cycle: A Check List of Translations, in: J. P. Mallory and Gerard Stockman (eds.), Ulidia: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales (Belfast 1994) 291-303.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Mesca Ulad. J. Carmichael Watson (ed), First edition [xxxix + 131 p., v Preface, vi List of Abbreviations, vii-xxxix Introduction, 1-40 LL Text, 40-47 LU Text, 48-50 Appendix, 51-61 Commentaries, 62-122 Glossaries, 123-131 Indices.] Dublin Institute for Advanced StudiesDublin (1941) (Reprinted 1967) (Reprinted 1983) . Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series. , No. 13

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Created: By one or more unknown Irish monastic author(s). Date range: c.700-1000.

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in Old and Middle Irish.

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