Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G303029
Imrum Snedhghusa ocus Mic Ríagla
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Whitley StokesElectronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber and Ruth MurphyProof corrections by Ruth Murphy, Hilary Lavelle
Funded by The HEA via the LDT Project and PRTLI 4
1. First draft, revised and corrected.
Extent of text: 3670 words
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College Road, Cork, Ireland (2009) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G303029
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Sources
Manuscript sources- Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1318 alias H 2 16, alias Yellow Book of Lecan, col. 391395; 14th century (prose, edited by Stokes in this edition).
- Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1318 alias H 2 16, alias Yellow Book of Lecan, col. 707715; 14th century (verse, edited by Stokes in RC 26).
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1134, olim 23 E 29, alias Book of Fermoy, fol. 86.
- London, British Library Add. 30,512 (used by Tomás Ó Máille).
Editions- Rudolf Thurneysen (ed.), Zwei Versionen der mittelirischen Legende von Snedgus und Mac Riagla, Programm zur Feier des Geburtstages seiner königlichen Hoheit des Grossherzogs Friedrich des durchlauchtigsten Rector Magnificus der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität zu Freiburg i. Br. (Halle 1904), repr. Gesammelte Schriften I-III, ed. Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel and Rolf Ködderitzsch (Tübingen 1991) II, 538585.
- Tomás Ó Máille, ed., Merugud Cléirech Choluim Chille, Miscellany presented to Kuno Meyer 1912, 307326 [from British Museum Additional, with variants from the Book of Fermoy].
- Whitley Stokes, ed. and trans., The Adventure of St. Columba's Clerics, in: RC 26, 1905, 130-170 [from Yellow Book of Lecan, cols. 707715].
Translations- Eugene O'Growney, Iomramh Sneadhghusa agus Mhic Riagla in: Gaelic Journal 4 (1891) 8588 (Modern Irish translation).
- Rudolf Thurneysen, Sagen aus dem alten Irland. Berlin 1901 (German translation.)
- Donncha Ó hAodha, The Poetic Version of the Voyage of Snédgus and Mac Ríagla, in Dán do Oide (Dublin 1997) 419-438 (Modern Irish translation).
Literature- Eugene O'Curry, Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of ancient Irish history. (Dublin 1861) 289; 333334.
- Heinrich Zimmer, Keltische Beiträge II: Brendans Meerfahrt, Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum 33 no. 24. Berlin 1889.
- Gustav Schirmer, Zur Brendanus-Legende. (Leipzig 1888).
- A.G. van Hamel (ed.), Immrama (Dublin 1941).
- J. Wooding (ed.), The Otherworld voyage in early Irish literature. (Dublin 2000).
- Kevin Murray, The role of the Cuilebad in Immram Snédgusa ocus Maic Riagla, in: J. Wooding (ed.), The Otherworld voyage in early Irish literature. (Dublin 2000) 187193.
The edition used in the digital edition- Whitley Stokes, The Voyage of Snedgus and Mac Riagla in Revue Celtique. Volume 9, Paris, Émile Bouillon (1888) page 1425
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div0=the saga.
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Created: By an unknown Irish scribe
Date range: 900-1200.
Use of language
Language: [GA] The text is in Middle Irish.
Language: [FR] A term in the introduction is in French.
Language: [LA] A word in the introduction is in Latin.
Language: [CY] A word in the introduction is in Welsh.
Language: [EN] Introduction and some words in the notes are in English.
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