Texts

Scél asa mberar co mbad hé Find mac Cumaill Mongán ocus aní dia fíl aided Fothaid Airgdig ‘A story from which it was inferred that Mongán was Find mac Cumaill, and the cause of the death of Fothad Airgdech’

prose
Cycles of the Kings, Finn Cycle, Aided

Manuscripts

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 E 25 (1229) = Lebor na hUidre [s. xi/xii]

ff. 133a, line 25 – 133b, line 17

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1318 cols 573–958 = section of the Yellow Book of Lecan [s. xiv^ex/xvⁱⁿ]

col. 912

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (967) = Book of Ballycummin [s. xvi]

p. 64

London, British Library, MS Egerton 88 [c. 1564]

f. 15b

⁽¹⁾^{n. 1} Alfred Nutt • Kuno Meyer, The voyage of Bran, son of Febal to the land of the living: The happy otherworld, vol. 1 (1895): 45.

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1363 4, pp. 40-53 [s. xv]

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

Cycles of the Kings
Cycles of the Kings

id. 80

Finn Cycle
Finn Cycle

id. 578

AidedAided
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Subjects

Mongán mac Fiachnai

Mongán mac Fíachnai

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Fothad Airctech (Airgtech)

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Finn mac Cumaill (Find úa Báiscni)

(time-frame ass. with Finn Cycle, Finn mac Cumaill, Cormac mac Airt)

Finn mac Cumaill (earlier mac Umaill?), Find úa Báiscni: central hero in medieval Irish and Scottish literature of the so-called Finn Cycle; warrior-hunter and leader of a fían

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Sources

Notes

^1.

Alfred Nutt • Kuno Meyer, The voyage of Bran, son of Febal to the land of the living: The happy otherworld, vol. 1 (1895): 45.

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] White, Nora [ed. and tr.], Compert Mongáin and three other early Mongán tales, Maynooth Medieval Irish Texts, 5, Maynooth: Department of Old and Middle Irish, National University of Ireland, 2006.

[ed.] [tr.] Meyer, Kuno, and Alfred Nutt, The voyage of Bran, son of Febal to the land of the living, 2 vols, vol. 1: The happy otherworld, London: David Nutt, 1895.

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45–48 (edition); 49–52 (translation)

[ed.] Hull, Vernam [ed.], “An incomplete version of the Imram Brain and four stories concerning Mongan”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 18 (1930): 409–419.

[tr.] Lea, Anne [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: John T. Koch, and John Carey (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, 4th ed., 1, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various].

comments: See Koch, John T., et al. (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales (2003) for a list of contributions in this book.

§ 103 ("Scél asa mBerar Combad hé Find Mac Cumaill Mongán 7 aní día fil Aided Fothaid Airgdig a Scél so sís: A Story from which it is Inferred that Mongán was Find mac Cumaill and Concerning the Cause of the Death of Fothad Airgdech.").