]> Die Wiederauffindung der Táin Bó Cúalnge [Egerton 1782, fo. 87b] An electronic edition unknown Kuno Meyer Electronic edition compiled by Benjamin Hazard University College, Cork The Higher Education Authority via the LDT Project Second draft. 1125 CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a Department of History Project of University College, Cork
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 Manuscript Source London, British Library, Egerton 1782, fo. 87b. For full MS details see Robin Flower and Standish Hayes O'Grady (eds.), Catalogue of Irish manuscripts in the British Museum (London 1926; repr. Dublin 1992), vol. 2, 259–98. Internet availability of Meyer's annotated edition See http://www.ucc.ie/academic/smg/CDI/PDFs_textarchive/Meyer_Neue_Mitteilungen_ACL3.pdf Secondary Literature James Carney, Studies in Irish literature and history (Dublin 1955). [See chapter 5 on The Vita Kentegerni and the Finding of the Táin, especially p. 168.] Joseph Szövérffy, Siaburcharpat Conculainn, the Cadoc-legend, and the Finding of the Táin, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 17 (pt. 2, 1957) 69–77. F. J. Byrne, Introduction to Tim O'Neill, The Irish hand: scribes and their manuscripts from the earliest times (Dublin 1984). [Byrne remarks that the exchange of the Táin for Isidore of Seville's Culmen shows how the popularity of monastic Latin culture had threatened Irish heroic and mythological tradition.] Kevin Murray, The Finding of the Táin, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 41 (Summer 2001) 17–24. The edition used in the digital edition Kuno Meyer Die Wiederauffindung der Táin Bó Cúalnge [Egerton 1782, fo. 87 b] Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie 3 1 Halle/Saale Max Niemeyer 1905 2–4

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 By unknown Irish monastic author(s). The Egerton version is from the Old Irish period, the Stowe version later. c.700–1200 The text is in Old and Middle Irish. Some words and phrases are in Latin. Opening remarks and footnotes are in German. saga prose medieval Táin Bó Cúalnge 2014-09-10 Beatrix Färber ed. File updated. 2010-11-27 Beatrix Färber ed. Conversion script run; new wordcount made. 2008-10-05 Beatrix Färber ed. Header modified; keywords added; file validated. 2005-08-25 Julianne Nyhan ed. Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion 2005-08-04T15:56:41+0100 Peter Flynn ed. Converted to XML 2005-05-16 Beatrix Färber ed. File including markup proofed; file re-parsed; new HTML file created. 2005-05-10 Benjamin Hazard ed. File proofed (2); structural and content markup applied to the file; header constructed and bibliographic details compiled; file parsed; HTML file created. 1998-06-29 Staff of the CELT Project ed. Data captured by scanning; file proofed (1). Die Wiederauffindung der Táin Bó Cúalnge [Egerton 1782, fo. 87b] Ich teile hier zwei bisher unbekannte Versionen dieser Sage mit, eine ältere aus Egerton 1782, wohl die älteste Fassung, die wir besitzen, und eine jüngere aus der Stowe Collection available on CELT as file G302020..

Cethardo connadur da gach eladuin is cuinncesta don eladuin si na Táno. Loc dī cētamus lige Fergusa maic Rōich āitt in rohadnucht ar Mag nĀi. Tempus autem Díarmato maic Ceruaill in regno Hibernie. Perso dī Fergus mac Róich, ar is hē rothirchan dona h-ēxib archena. A tucaid sgrībinn dono dia n-dechaid Senchán Torpéist cona trí cóica rígēcius mnāib maccuib scēo ingenuib lēo do shaigid Gūaire rīg Connacht. Fuidis didu Gūaire essomuin friu &ersir; rusnothrastar mīs for bliadain fo glēri gach maithiusa. Forellsid inn ēcis autem for mianuib decmuici ardāig enich Gūairi do brith &ersir; rofrestuil in Cuimdiu inechgresa in rīg tar a chent, gu m-but ōga a n-ocobair.

Maruhān mucaid immorro sanct n-amra, fāith is dech būi hi nĒri, is ann bātar na himtolta di ocus is hē rustairbir tar a chenn genmothá fīr ind flatha fesin. Luidi didu Marbán laithi n-ann co tech na trommdaime iarna n-ōgrēir uli d'aithe a n-indligid foruib. Cuingis immorro ar na h-ēcsib risi boo Cūalgne do fhaisnēs do. Ro-m-gab imtholta im erscéluib Tāno do fhaisnēis dam. Ro-lā side socht for na h-ēxib ōthá ollamain gu mac forrm, ar rob ainfethaig firu h-Ērenn a n-imthūs Táno cosin anall. Nī frīth didu acu archena īcc na cesta sin. Dū-s-mbert Marbán iarum: ō nār'damuir dono fodeisni dligi don rīg imorna Etwa fünf Buchstaben verwischt, vielleicht 'imornaimtusaib'. indligthecha, gautuim-si=gataim-si. nem &ersir; talam foirb &ersir; berid tríst &ersir; mallachtuin nōem nh-Ērenn im beith dā oidchi i n-ōenmaigin co tuidecht na Tāno lib. Cuirit immorro inn ēgis mórchúairt h-Ērenn &ersir; Alban dia fochmurc. Sōut Vier oder fünf Buchstaben verwischt, 'iarum'? co tech Gūaire aitherruch, conustann Unleserlich. allin nāem m math;sc eisidi. Is hī mo airle dūib, ol sē, 'naeim h-Ērenn do accomul i n-óenmaigin for lige Fergusa maic Róich &ersir; tredan trī laa co n-aidchi for in g-Cuimdid imo thodūscud dūib, dús in fuigbithi in imcomurc. Gnīsitt samlaid. Cinn teora laithelaithee (Zeilenende) MS. iarum atfraigh Fergus tria fertuib in Chuimded dōib et ro-chachuin Tāin dōib ina lige ro-latur h-ūad ina shesam ar a airdi. Conutaing didu Senchān &ersir; rocuir hi cairtlibur.