Táin Bó Cúalnge

Online sources

Manuscript sources and printed editions
See táin bó cúailnge in MsOmit 2010
See táin bó cúailnge I, táin bó cúailnge II, táin bó cúailnge III in CODECS
See Background details and bibliographic information at CELT

Digital Image of manuscript
A version of this saga (known as Recension II) appears in the manuscript MS 1339 (Book of Leinster) in Trinity College Dublin, starting on p. 53, column b, beginning Fec[h]t n-óen do Ailill ocus do Meidb. A digital image of this manuscript is available at: Irish Script on Screen.

An earlier version of this saga, known as Recension I, appears in the manuscript MS 23 E 25 (Lebor na hUidre) in the Royal Irish Academy, starting in p. 55, column a, line 1, beginning Tarcomhlád slóiged mór la Connachtu .i. la Hailill 7 la Meidb 7 hetha húaidib cossna tri chóiced aili. A digital image of this manuscript is available at: Irish Script on Screen.

Recension I also appears in MS 1318 (Yellow Book of Lecan) in Trinity College Dublin, starting in col. 573, line 1, beginning imperfect, with Conroisc obair, fer fene. A digital image of this manuscript is available at: Irish Script on Screen.

Medieval Irish text and English translation (Recension II)
Cecile O’Rahilly (ed. & tr.), Táin Bó Cúalnge from the Book of Leinster, (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1967; repr. 2004), pp. 1-272.
Irish text at CELT; English translation at CELT

English translation (Recension II: Extracts)
Standish H. O’Grady (tr.), The Táin bó Cuailgne, in: Eleanor Hull (ed.) The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature, (London: David Nutt, 1898), pp. 109-227.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 109-227 (200-318))

Medieval Irish text and German translation (Recension II)
Ernst Windisch (ed. & tr.), Die altirische Heldensage Táin Bó Cúalnge nach dem Buch von Leinster, (Leipzig: Hirzel, 1905).
Digital edition at Archive.org; Irish text at Vassar.edu

English translation (Recension II)
J. Dunn (tr.), The Ancient Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge, (London: David Nutt, 1914).
Digital Edition at Archive.org; English translation at Sacred-Texts; English translation at Vassar.edu

Modern Irish version (Recension II)
Darach Ó Scolaí, Táin Bó Cuailnge, (Indreabhán: Leabhar Breac, 2017)
Digital Edition at LeabharBreac.com (pp. 1-35) (PDF)

English translation (Recension I)
L. Winifred Faraday (tr.), The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge, (London: David Nutt, 1904).
Digital Edition at Archive.org; English translation at Sacred-Texts.com; English translation at Yorku.ca (PDF)

Medieval Irish text (Recension I: Extracts)
John Strachan (ed.), Stories from the Táin, (Dublin: School of Irish Learning, 1908; third edition revised by Osborn Bergin (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1993)
Digital Edition at Archive.org

Medieval Irish text (Recension I)
John Strachan & J. G. O’Keeffe (eds.), The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan: with variant readings from the Lebor na Huidre, (Dublin and London: Royal Irish Academy, 1912).
Digital Edition at Archive.org; Irish text at Wikisource

Medieval Irish text (Recension I)
Ernst Windisch (ed.), Táin bó Cúailnge nach der Handschrift Egerton 1782, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 9, 1913, pp. 121–158.
Digital Edition at Archive.org

Medieval Irish text (Recension I)
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. 142-206.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 142-206); Digital Edition at NLS.uk (pp. 142-206 (198-262)); Irish text at CELT

Medieval Irish text and English translation (Recension I)
Cecile O’Rahilly (ed. & tr.), Táin Bó Cúalnge Recension I, (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976; repr. 2006).
Irish text at CELT; English translation at CELT

Medieval Irish text (Recension III)
Max Nettlau (ed.), The fragment of the Táin Bó Cúailnge in MS. Egerton 93, Revue Celtique, 14, 1893, pp. 254–266; 15, 1894, pp. 62–78; 198–208.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 254-266); (pp. 62-78); (pp. 198-208)

Medieval Irish text (Recension III)
Rudolf Thurneysen (ed.), Táin Bó Cúailghni nach H.2.17, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 8, 1912, pp. 525–554.
Digital Edition at Archive.org (pp. 525-554)