Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: T308002

Aislinge Meic Con Glinne

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1. First draft, revised and corrected.

Proof corrections by Uwe Seefloth

Extent of text: 15820 words

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Text ID Number: T308002

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Sources

    Manuscript sources
  1. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1230, formerly no. 23 P 16, al. Leabhar Breac ('B') , pp. 213–219.
  2. Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1337, formerly H. 3. 18 ('H'), pp. 732–743.
    Editions
  1. Kuno Meyer, Aislinge Meic Conglinne, The Vision of MacConglinne, a Middle-Irish wonder tale. Edited [from the Lebar Brecc p. 213, and H. 3. 18, p. 732] with a translation (based on W. M. Hennessy's), notes, and a glossary. With an introduction by Wilhelm Wollner. London 1892.
  2. Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, Aislinge Meic Conglinne. [Edited from photostats of B, and of H for significant variants, particularly the poems; with introduction, notes, grammatical appendix, glossary and indexes.] Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1990.
    Translations
  1. William M. Hennessy, Mac Conglinny's Vision. A humorous satire, translated from the original Irish in the 'Leabhar Brec,' a manuscript transcribed about the year 1400, in: Fraser's Magazine, 58, September 1873, 298-323 [with serious shortcomings discussed by Meyer p. viii f.]
  2. Kuno Meyer, see above.
  3. Rudolf Thurneysen, Sagen aus dem alten Irland. Berlin 1901 [Reprinted 1987 in Keltische Sagen aus dem alten Irland. Der Streit um das Heldenstück, Wiesbaden: VMA-Verlag 1987, 132–148. (German).
    Secondary literature
  1. Joseph O'Longan, Leabhar Breac, the Speckled Book, the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin 1876).
  2. T. K. Abbott and E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of the Irish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College Dublin (Dublin and London, 1921) 140–158.
  3. Georges Dottin, La vision de Mac Conglinne et l'Hymne de Callimaque à Dêmêtêr, in: Revue Celtique 14 (1893) 297–298.
  4. Rev. Peter O'Leary, An Craos–Deamhan ó'n seana–sgéal 'Aislinge Meic Con Glinne' [with Vocabulary], Dublin 1905.
  5. Nora K. Chadwick, Geilt. in: Scottish Gaelic Studies 5 (1942), 106–153.
  6. Vernam Hull, Early Irish seimtille, in: Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 27 (1958/59), 223–226.
  7. Gearóid Mac Eoin, Review of above, in: Studia Hibernica 1 (1961) 259–260.
  8. Breandán Ó Buachalla: Aislinge Meic Conglinne, in: Galvia 7 (1960) 43–49.
  9. Vernam Hull, The verbal system of Aislinge Meic Conglinne, in: Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 29 (1962/64) 325–378.
  10. Scott James Gwara, Gluttony, Lust, and Penance in the B-Text of Aislinge Meic Conglinne, in: Celtica 20 (1988) 53–72.
  11. William Sayers, Diet and Fantasy in Eleventh-Century Ireland: The Vision of Mac Con Glinne. Food and Foodways 6/1 (1994), 1–17.
  12. Marged Haycock, Review of Jackson 1990, Studia Celtica 26/27 (1991–1992), 281–283.
  13. Pierre–Yves Lambert, Review of Jackson 1990, Études Celtiques 30 (1994), 328–329.
  14. Gearóid Mac Eoin, Review of Jackson 1990, Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 48 (1996), 324–330.
  15. Éimear Williams, 'Aislinge Meic Con Glinne, Apples, and Byrthferth's Enchiridion' Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 48 (Winter 2004) 45–73.
  16. Catherine McKenna, A Vision and Revision, Iteration and Reiteration, in Aislinge Meic Con Glinne. In: Joseph Falaky Nagy and Leslie Ellen Jones (eds.), Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Tradition. A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford. CSANA Yearbook 3–4 (Dublin 2005) 269–282.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Aislinge Meic Conglinne, The Vision of MacConglinne, a Middle-Irish wonder tale. Edited with a translation, notes, and a glossary. With an introduction by Wilhelm Wollner. Kuno Meyer First edition [liii + 212 pp. (Contents v, Preface vii-xi, Introduction xiii-liii, Text and Translation of the "Leabhar Breac" Version 2-113, Text of H. 3. 18 Version 114-129, Notes 130-147, Translation of H. 3. 18 Version 148-55, Glossary 156-199, Index of Persons 200-204, Index of Places and Tribes 205-207, Addenda 208-212.] David NuttLondon (1892)

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Created: By Kuno Meyer, based on William M. Hennessy's translation (c.1891)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in English
Language: [GA] Some terms are in Middle Irish.

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