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The Táin

Book 15 — APPENDIX D THE PRINCIPAL SOURCES FROM WHICH THE NARRATIVE HAS BEEN DRAWN

Mary A. (Mary Ann) Hutton translation

THE FINDING OF THE TÁIN

1. Do fallsigud tána bó cualṅge, “The revealing of the Táin bo Cualṅge.” L.L. 245ᵇ3-42.

2. Imtheacht na Tromdháime, Ina bh-foillsighthear cionas do fuaras an Táin ar tús, 7c. “The journeying of the burdensome learned men, in which it is revealed how the Táin was first found,” &c. Oss. vol. v.

3. The version of the Revealing of the Táin in Egerton 1782, fol. 87ᵇ. Printed in Archiv. iii. 3.

4. The version of the Revealing of the Táin, MS. D. 4. 2 (R.I.A.) fol. 49ᵇ2. Printed in Archiv. iii. 4.

[These four versions differ very much from each other.]

5. “Lives of the Saints from the Book of Lismore,” edited by Dr. Whitley Stokes, Oxford, 1890.

6. “Life of St. Kieran of Saighir.” Silv. Gad.

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