Mesca Ulad

Online sources

Manuscript sources and printed editions
See mesca ulad in MsOmit 2017
See mesca ulad in CODECS
See Background details and bibliographic information at CELT

Digital Image of manuscript

This saga appears in the manuscript MS 1339 (the Book of Leinster) in Trinity College Dublin, starting on page 261b, line 25, beginning Ó do-ríachtatar Meic Míled Espáine Hérind. The second part is missing. A digital image of this manuscript is available at: Irish Script on Screen

This saga appears in the manuscript known MS 23 E 25 (Leabhar na hUidhre) in the Royal Irish Academy, starting on page 19a, beginning dianda tairle mo lorgsa mairfidus. The first part is missing. A digital image of this manuscript is available at: Irish Script on Screen

This saga appears in the MS G 4 (originally part of the Yellow Book of Lecan), in the National Library of Ireland, starting on col. 959. A digital image of this manuscript is available at: Irish Script on Screen

This saga appears in the manuscript Gaelic XL (Adv. MS 72.1.40) in the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, on pp. 49-67. A description of the saga in these pages appears in the following catalogue:

Donald Mackinnon, A descriptive catalogue of Gaelic manuscripts in the Advocates’ Library Edinburgh, and elsewhere in Scotland, (Edinburgh: William Brown, 1912), pp. 155-157.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 155-157)

Medieval Irish text
J. Carmichael Watson (ed.), Mesca Ulad, Mediaeval and Modern Irish Series 13, (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1941; repr. 1983), pp. 1-40.
Digital Edition at CELT (pp. 1-40)

Medieval Irish text and English translation
William M. Hennessy (ed. & tr.), Mesca Ulad or The Intoxication of the Ultonians, Todd Lecture Series 1.1, (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1889), pp. 2-55 (25-78).
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 2-55 (25-78))

Medieval Irish text
Richard Irvine Best and Osborn Bergin (ed.), Lebor na hUidre: Book of the Dun Cow, (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1929; repr. Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1992), pp. 50-53.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 50-53); Digital Edition at NLS.uk (pp. 50-53 (106-9)); Irish text at CELT

Medieval Irish text
Uáitéar Mac Gearailt (ed.), The Edinburgh Text of Mesca Ulad, Ériu, 37, 1986, pp. 133-180 (pp. 158-74).
Digital Edition at JSTOR
(This version of the saga has at the end the title Baothrém Ulad co Teamair Lúachra (see p. 174))