Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G300008

The four jewels of the Tuatha Dé Danann

Author: Unknown

Background details and bibliographic information

File Description

Vernam Hull

Electronic edition compiled by Philip Irwin

2. Second draft.

Extent of text: 1326 words

Publication

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt

(2004) (2010)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G300008

Availability

Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.

Sources

    Manuscript Source
  1. Dublin, Trinity College, 1318 [Yellow Book of Lecan], p. 190, col. 907. For full details see T. K. Abbott and E. J. Gwynn (eds.), Catalogue of the Irish manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (Dublin 1921) MS 1318, pp 94–110 and 342–48.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Vernam Hull, The four jewels of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie. vol 18, Halle/Saale, Max Niemeyer (1930) page 73–89

Encoding

Project Description

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Sampling Declaration

The present text represents pages 83–85 of the published edition. All editorial introduction, translation and commentary have been omitted. Variants from the apparatus criticus are cited. Editorial corrigenda are incorporated as supplied text.

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Text has been thoroughly checked and proofread.

Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text. Words are segmented in line with CELT practice. MS contractions were expanded silently in the edited text.

Hyphenation

Hypheantion was introduced. Soft hyphens do not occur in the edited text.

Segmentation

div0=the saga. Page-breaks are marked pb n="" .

Interpretation

Names of persons, groups, and places are tagged. Offices and titles (king, earl) are tagged. Numbers are tagged.

Canonical References

The n attribute of each text in this corpus carries a unique identifying number for the whole text.

The title of the text is held as the first head element within each text. div0 is reserved for the text (whether in one volume or many).

Profile Description

Created: By (an) unknown Irish monastic author(s). Date range: 900–1200.

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in Middle Irish.
Language: [LA] One word is in Latin.
Language: [EN] The witness list is in English.

Revision History