

#Táin Bó Regamna


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Táin Bó Regamna
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Author: [unknown]
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Funded by University College Cork 2. Second draft, revised and corrected.Proofed and marked for structure by Peter Flynn

Extent of text: 1570 words#### Publication


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**Printed editions**2. Táin Bó Regamna in Irische Texte, Zweite Serie, 2. Heft, Ed. Whitley Stokes and Ernst Windisch. S. Hirzel, Leipzig, (1887) [pages 241–247]
3. Táin Bó Regamna. Johan Corthals (ed), Österreichische Akademie der WissenschaftenVienna (1987) . Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. , No. 478, Keltische KommissionVeröffentlichung Nr. 5

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Created: Written down by a monastic scribe in the Old Irish period.

 Date range: 600–900.#### Use of language


##### Language: [GA] The text is in Old Irish.


##### Language: [EN] Witness list is in English.


##### Language: [LA] Four words are in Latin.


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* (2010-04-27) Beatrix Färber (ed.)

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* Text scanned from the Egerton text in Stokes &

Windisch edition (pp 241-247).




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### Táin Bó Regamna: Author: [unknown]


### List of witnesses


* **E**: Egerton 1782 (BL, London, approx 1517)
* **Y**: Yellow Book of Lecan (TCD, Dublin, H 216, approx 1391)




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p.29


Incipit Táin Bó

Ragamna

*A* mbuí Cú Chuluinn i nDún

Imrid gu *g*cúala ní an géim. Co

ndíuchrustar triana c*h*otlad conid corustar asa imda

go riacht ind aridin ina suidiu for lár. Íar sin

immach do suidiu ar les. Cu mbu hí a 
  
5] ben bertho

a étach ocus a armb ina diaig. Co n-*f*acco ní

Láeg aro chinn ina charpat innelt*a*i oc Ferta

Læig intúaig.


‘Cid dot-ugai?’ ol Cú Chuluinn fri

Lóeg.


‘Géim ro-chúalai issin

ma*i*gh’, ol Lóeg.


‘Cid leth?’ ol Cú Chuluinn.



  
10] ‘Aníart*h*úaig

amne’, ol Lóeg.


‘Ina ndiaig’, ol Cú Chuluinn.



Tíaguit ass íarum gu hÁth da

Ferta. In tan mbátar ann íarum gu

*g*cúalatar culguiri in charpuit hi toíb

Grellchui Culguiri. Tíaguit fóe co n-*f*accatar

ní in carpat *ara cinn no* reimib. Óenech derg

foa ocus 
  
15] óenchoss fo suidiu ocus síthve

in charpuit sethnu ind eich co ndechuid 


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p.30


geinn trít

fri fosad a étain anair. Be*a*n derg hissin charpat

ocus bratt derg impi ocus di braí dergai lé ocus a brat

eter di feirt in charpuit síar co sliged lár ina

diaig ocus fer mór hi comuir in charpuit. Fúan forbbthai

imme ocus gaballorg finnchuill fria aiss og immáin na

bó.




  
20] ‘Ní fóelid in bó lib

oga himm*u*áin’, ol Cú Chuluinn.


‘Ní dír duit éim a hetercert na

bó so’, ol in ven. ‘Ní bó charat na

choi*g*céliu duit.’


‘Is dír dam-so éim ba*í*

hUlad huili’, ol Cú Chuluinn.


‘Eter-certar so in ba, a Chú’, ol in ven.



  
25] ‘Ced arndid *i* in ben

atum-gládat*h*ar?’ ol Cú Chuluinn. ‘Cid

nach é in fer atom-gládathar?’


‘In fer sin at-gládai*g*ther-su’, ol

in ven.


‘Ia’, ol Cú Chuluinn, ‘ol is tusso

ara-labrathar.’


‘hÚargóeth sceo lúachuir

sgeo. . .ainm in fir sin’, olsí.



  
30] ‘Amae, is amru fot in anmu’, ol Cú

Chului nn. ‘Ba tusa trá atom glátathar in fecht so ol

nim acalladar in fer. Cía do chomainm-siu féin?’ ol

Cú Chuluinn.


‘Ní ansa. In ben sin

at-gládaither-su’, ol in fer, ‘fóebar beo

béoil, coim diúir, foltt sge*a*nb,

gairit*t* sgeo *úath* hí a hainm’,

olse.




  
35] ‘Meraigi do-gníth-siu dim-so’, ol

Cú Chuluinn, ‘fon innus sin.’


Lingid Cú Chuluinn la soduin issin

c*h*arpat ocus fo-rrumai a da 


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p.31


chois fora dib

glúinib-siu ocus a c*h*leitíni fora

mullach.


‘Na himbir imrinniu éim formb’, ol Cú

Chuluinn.


‘Scuith dim didiu’, olsii. ‘Am

banc*h*áinti-siu ém’, olsí, ‘ocus

is ó 
  
40] Dáiriu mac Fiachno a

cCúailgniu tuccus in mbuin si a ndúais

n-airc*h*etail.’


‘Cluinium th'airchetal didiu’, ol Cú

Chuluinn.


‘Scuith dim nammá’, ol in ven. ‘Ní

 ferdo duitt amin na chrothai húas mo chinn’,

olsí.


Tét didiu Cú Chuluinn íarum co

mbuí eter di feirt in charpuit. 
  
45] Gaibid-se in

laíd si:


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Fo-ceird Cú Chuluinn bedg ina c*h*arpat

feissin íarum. Naicc ní *i n*neoch íarum

in mnaí nach in carpat nach in n-ech nach in fer nach
  
55] 

in mbuin ocus co n-*f*aco-sium íarum ba

hén-si dub forsin c*h*roíb ina


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p.32




farrud.


‘Doltach ben atat-c*h*omnaic’, ol Cú

Chuluin n.


‘Is Dollud dono bias forsinn gre*a*llaig si co

bráth’, ol in ben. Grellach Dolluid íarum a hainm

ó hoin ille.



  
60] ‘Ochti ro-feisind bed tú ní

samluid no-scarfamais’, ol Cú Chuluinn.


‘Ci*d* donrignis’, olsí, ‘bieith

olec de.’


‘Ni c*h*umgai olc dam’, ol Cú

Chuluinn.


‘Cumgaim écin’, ol*s*in ven. ‘Is

oc *do* ditin do báis-*s*iu atáu-so

ocus bia’, ol*l*sí. ‘Do-ucus-sa in mboin si

éim’, olsí, ‘a síd Crúachan 
  
65] condo rodart in Donn Cúailgni lem .i.

tarb Dáre maic Fiachnui ocus is é aret bia-so i

mbetho gu rab dartaid in lóeg fil ina bruinn ina bó so

ocus is hé consaídfe Táin Bé

Cúailgni.’



‘Bíam airdirciu-sa di din Táin hí

sin’, ol Cú Chuluinn.


* ‘‘Géna a n-ánrado.
  

  
70] Brisfe a mérchatho.
  
Bia tigba na Táno.’’


‘Cinnus con-igfa-sa anní sin’, ol

*in* ven. ‘Ar in tain no-mbia-sa oc comrac fri fer

comt*h*rén comc*h*roda comc*h*liss

comfobaith coméscaith comc*h*iníuil

comgaiscid comméti friut *.i.* bam esccung-so 
  
75] ocus fo-chichiur curu immot chossa issinn

áth gu mba héccomlunn mór.’


‘For-tonga do día tuingthe Ulaid’, ol

Cú Chuluinn, ‘fortat-n*a*esab­


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p.33


su fri

glaisslecta ind átho ocus nicot bia ícc húaim-siu

de gu bráth manim derguis-*s*o.’



‘Bia sod-sa dono glass duit-si’, olsí,

‘ocus géba bréit do*t*

dóidin*d*
  
80] deiss conicci do rigid

clí.’


‘Tongu-sa do día tuingti hUlaid’, ol

Cú Chuluinn, ‘not-benabsi secham gom

c*h*letíne gu mbeba do súil it chinn ocus

nocot bia ícc húaim-siu de go bráth manim

dergais-*s*i.’


‘Biam samuiscc-siu finn áu*o*derg

dono’, olsissiu, ‘ocus do-rag 
  
85] issinn linn hi fail inn

áthu in n-atan ro-mbia-so oc comrucc fri fer buss

c*h*oimc*h*liss duitt ocus cét noud finn

n-óbrecc imm diaig ocus me*m*buis inn ét huili

im diaig-siu issin n-áth ocus con-bibustar fír fer

fort-so a llaa sin ocus géttair do chenn ditt issinn áth

sin.’


‘Tungu et reliqua, fo-chichiur-sa

hurc*h*ur asmo t*h*ábaill fortt­
  
90] sa co me*m*b*a* do gerr gara

foat ocus nico mbia ícc húaim-si de co bráth

manim dergais-*s*i ocus nicom géntar-so a llá

sin etir’, ol Cú Chuluinn.


Scarsa*i*t íar sin ocus luid Cú

Chuluinn for cúlo dorithisiu do Dún Imrit*h*

ocus luithi in Morrígan cona buin hi síd Crúachan

la Connachta.



  
95] Finit.












