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Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber Funded by University College, Cork and Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project Second draft. Extent of text: 2000 words Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland. Text ID Number: G303003 Availability Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only. CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts The electronic text represents pp. 462465 of Kuno Meyer's article, including introduction, and annotated edition of the two fragments. The English translation is available in a separate file. Text has been proof-read twice. The electronic text represents the edited text. Word segmentation is in line with CELT practice. Expansions are tagged ex; footnotes are marked note type="auth" n="". Text supplied by the editor is tagged sup resp="KM". The f carrying a punctum delens becomes f. Direct speech is marked q. CELT practice. div0=the group of texts. div1=the fragment. The editor's introduction is in an unnumbered div outside div0. Names are not tagged, nor are terms for cultural and social roles. This text uses the DIV1 element to represent the Fragment. Created: By one or more unknown author(s). Beatrix Färber (ed.) Beatrix Färber (ed.) Beatrix Färber (ed.) Julianne Nyhan (ed.) Peter Flynn (ed.) Benjamin Hazard (ed.) Beatrix Färber (ed.) Beatrix Färber (ed.) Students at the CELT Project (ed.) Students at the CELT/CURIA Project (text capture) The usual account of the death of Finn is that he was slain in battle against the Lúagni Temrach at Áth Brea on the Boyne by Aiclech mac Dubdrenn, who cut off his head. This is the account given by the tenth-century poet Cinaed húa Hartacáin in the poem beginning Fianna bátar i n-Emain,1 by Tigernach2 and the Four Masters,3 and, with greater detail, in the tale entitled Aided Finn or The Violent Death of Finn.4 In this tale it is stated with some emphasis that the account there given is the true one: is í sin iarum Aided Finn iar fírinne in senchasa amail adfiadat na heólaig Aided Finn, ed. in Cath Finntrága, 7276; translated in Silva Gadelica II, 96-99.that then is the Death of Finn p.463according to the truth of history, as the learned relate. So there were other versions. One of these we can piece together from two scanty fragments, in which, I believe, we have the beginning and end of an Aided Finn story, while the connecting piece is lost. The first of these fragments I have already published on p. 76 of my edition of Cath Finntrága, though not quite correctly and without translation. It is found in the well-known Bodleian codex Laud 610, fo. 122b, 2, where it follows immediately upon the above-mentioned version of Aided Finn. It breaks off with the end of that page. With fo. 123a a new layer of vellum and a different hand begin. The second fragment is preserved in the British Museum MS Egerton 92, fo. 6a, 1. It is much defaced and partly illegible. The two fragments together make a fairly intelligible story. According to this, Finn in his old age, being forsaken by one after another of his fiann, who prefer service with the king of Tara, determines to put his remaining strength to the test by an attempt to leap across the Boyne at a spot which bore the name of Léim Finn or Finn's Leap. He accordingly sets out from where he is in the west of Ireland,5 passes along the high road of Gowran in Kilkenny, till at Mullaghmast he meets a woman making curds. Here the first fragment ends. He probably asks this woman for a drink, and thereby in some way violates one of the gessa laid upon him.6 The opening of the second fragment I think we can understand with the help of a passage in the other Aided Finn. It had been prophesied to Finn by his wife Smirgat7 that if he drank out of horns, his death would be nigh. It was therefore his custom alwways to drink out of cups. Now, in a place called Adarca Iuchba (the Horns of Iuchba) in Offaly he found a spring and drank out of it. An old woman reminds him of the prophecy, and Finn acknowledges its truth. For the rest of the tale I refer the reader to my translation of the second fragment. Ar toidhecht arrsaighechta do Finn h-ua Baíscne ro-airighset a muinnter fair & nír leig air. Cidh na h-anaidh-siumh ol siat i farradh rí Eirenn & ro thinolfamais-ne chugat? Maith lium, ol se, Anaidh nonbhur. Luidh fer dibh leisin feínn iar n-a bharach. Luid didiu araile, co nach bí acht enfer. Fír tra, ol se áes airighit na fir forum-sa. Ro fedar-sa im' rith & im' leím sin, ar is tair ata mo leím .i. for Boínn & ragh-sa dia bruach. Is ed do rala reimhe aníar for Belach n-Gabrain i Maistin. Is ann fuaír an mnaí ag tath an grotha a Maistin. Ní thairic tra [...] nuic so, or Finn [...] ar sisi [...] tairngaire do n-epelad cones neimh a h-adhairc. Fir, a chailleach, or se. Ac so mu dealg duit. Is ann luidhes lasin m-Boind sair co raínic a Leim. Ro gab iarum idir da charraig co tarrla a etan imon carraig, co m-bai a inchinn uimpe, co m-búi marbh etir an da charraig. Co-n-fuaradar iascaire na Boinde. Ceathrar doibh .i. tri maic Uircreann & Aicclech mac Duibhreann. Co-n-fuaradar sidhe. Co n-écmaing Aicleach a cheann de & co rubhradar maic Uircrend. Rucsat a chenn leo i fasteach & ro fuinsit a n-iasc & ro rannsat i n-de. A cheann h-i cind tenedh. Tabraidh dantmír dó, or fer dubh docluiche, o na mair(?) Aicleach. Ro rannadh p.465int iasc i n-de .i. fo tri & badar tri cuibhrind ann beos. Cidh so? or fer dibh. Is ann isbert an cend a cind tened: - Is ed fodera an tresraind libh-si cen sil n-apeli, ar n-a tabhar dam-sa oc proind uaib-si mo mhír ma ele. Tan [...] oic [...] h-í sunn co m-badar [...] a n-asbeir senchaid: Of the rest of the page I cannot make out anything that will give sense except the words: & a guba & a lia. - Robíth Find ba do gaibh gan niach guin doall Aicleach mac Duibhrenn a chenn do mac moctha Muin.
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Electronic edition compiled by Benjamin Hazard Funded by University College, Cork and The Higher Education Authority via the LDT Project Second draft. Extent of text: 1549 words Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland. Text ID Number: G302020 Availability [RESTRICTED] Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only. CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts Text has been checked and proof-read twice. The electronic text represents the edited text. In Meyer's edition, the acute accent and macron are used to mark long vowels. Both are retained here. The editor's corrections are marked corr sic resp="KM", or sic corr resp="KM". Expansions to the text are marked ex. Editorial notes are marked note type="auth" n="", and supplied text sup resp="". Names are capitalized in line with CELT practice. Direct speech is tagged q. CELT practice. div0=the saga; page breaks are marked pb n="", foliation is marked mls unit="folio" n="">. Names are not tagged, nor are terms for cultural and social roles. Such encoding is envisaged in a future edition. Created: By unknown Irish monastic author(s). Date range: c.9001200. Beatrix Färber (ed.) Beatrix Färber (ed.) Beatrix Färber (ed.) Beatrix Färber (ed.) Benjamin Hazard (ed.) Staff of the CELT Project (ed.) {folio 49b2}Do faillsiugud Tána Bó Cuailngni in remscél-sa sís, iarsinní dia raibi etarport isna dáinib móraib ro bátar i n-Érinn; ar nír'-mair don Tháin acht blogha dí namá ro bói ac cách co coitcenn. Is hé tra fotha dia raibe in scél-sa .i. Gúairi Aidhni mac Colmáin .i. ríg Connacht & Senchán Torpéist rob airdfili Érenn in tan sin. Is ann sin ro thotlaigh Gúairi for Senchán .i. Táin Bó Cúailngi do faisnéis. Is éiside dano forcaemnacair la Meidb & Ailill, fri h-Ultu im Concobar. Is becc nár'díbaidh uili a h-Érinn in scél sin, co ná raibi acht mádh foraithmed bec & mod cuimne dí i n-Érinn in tan sin. {folio 50a1}At-bert Senchán fri Gúairi .i. eadh & cairde do lécud dó fri h-iaraidh in scéoil sin. Rodbia-su ón, ar Gúairi. Is ed tra forúair dó-sum cuingid d'iarraidh in scéoil sin, dáig ní búi aici-sim féin in scél sin .i. do ceist & do ances for Senchán in scél sin & dia aimsiugud. & bo geis dono don fhilidh isin aimsir sin anfis do beith fair. Is ann sin tra ro forcongradh ó Shenchán for filedaibh Érenn torachtain chuige, gur ra fhiarfaigh dóib inar' meabor léo Táin Bó Cúilngi ina h-óige imlán. Ad-rubradar uile na filid nárbo mebhor acht mádh tirúarsi & blogha beca dhí. Is ann sin didu do rónadh tech la Gúairi do Senchán ótá Durlus n-Gúaire co Clúain Ferta Brénaind & Senchán i medón in tighi sin, co ná rísadh gemlóichet hé ná gaeth ná fleochud. In uair tra no benadh bainne don gemlóichet dar a aighid, no thócbadh builcc chorcra fair. Ro soich Senchán iar sin co Clúain Ferta & fúabrais troscud fa chétóir for Brénaind .i. glámadh digcenn & aera do dhénum dó, co túarcaibh Brénaind cenn in oidhchi sin dí araile céili Dé bói isin baile (ar nír'mhair Brénaind in inbhuidh sin) & at-bert Brénaind: Abair fri Senchán, ar sé, coisced a ghlámadh & a aerad, & in eitchi connaigh, ní sunn atá dhó, acht a Clúain mic Nois & la Cíarán mac in t-sáir & tabrad hé budhéin & a clann & a cinél co bráth & do Chiarán. At-bert in céle Dé fri Sencán inní sin.1 Do-thaet Senchán roime co Clúain mic Nois & fúabrais iar sin ic troscadh for Ciarán fon samla cétna. Is ann sin tra ro faillsighed Cíarán di araile anmcharait bói isin baile & it-bert fris: Éirgidh Senchán co fert Fergusa mic Róigh fil ic Findloch i Connachta & geibedh láidh dó amail nobeith béo ar a chind, co rafhaisneide do scélaib na Tána dhó amail do rónadh ó thús co deredh. Ar ro bói Fergus féin isin gliaid sin & atát a scéla do léir aigi & abradh fris co ná tardad gráin na h-irfhúath leis ina dochum, acht amail no thísadh do dháil nó aenach. At-bert in t-anmchara fri Senchán feib at-bert Cíarán fris, conadh ann sin ro idbair Senchán é fein do Chiarán & a shíl & a shéimedh dia éis. Conid de sin it-bert Senchán Ciaráin fris. Rocheilebair Senchán do muintir Chlúana & do luidh iar sin a cóiced Connacht co riacht fert Fergusa for brúl Fhindlocha & at-gládhastar Fergus amail bíd béo no-beith ann & gabaidh in láidh si dó: Mainib do lucc lúaidtech mál geal mac Róigh rofesin fechtaibh co n-égnibh imman imanachta lúaithiu bruidin Bó Cúailngi hi cech follus, a Fergais. La sodhain imruba céo mór um Sencán a aenur co cend trí lá & teora n-aidche. Is ann sin do-luid Fergus ina dhochum {folio 50a2} fo comgraim cháin étrocht álaind .i. brat álaind úainidhe uime & léine gheal uime co n-dergindliud óir & claedeab órduirn ina láim. Dá mháelassa findbhruine uime co foraib óir forru. Folt cráebach órbuidi fair. Conidh ann sin at-fét Fergus do scélaib na Tána do Senchán ó thús co deired & comad amlaidh sin ro faillsigthea do Senchán scéla na Tána. At-berat araile dono comadh iat a daltadha do-berta ar amus Sencháin dús cia dhíb no-raghadh ar bennachtain a tírib Leatha do foglaim na Tána rucc in sái rómánach á h-Ardmacha dar cend in cuilmin. Is ann sin ro aem Muirghein mac Sencháin do thecht tairis dar cend bennachtan Sencháin. Is ann sin tra do lotar gerbh áil gin corb áil léo, co riachtatar co fert Fergusa & secha in licc ic Findloch & luidh a muinter arcena coléig do iaraidh tighi áighedh. Gabais iar sin Muirghen láidh oc in leicc amail no-beith Fergus béo ann. Do luidh Ferghus chuigi iar tain & ro ghab for faisnéis na Tána dó ó tús co a dered. Do-taet p.6iarum do ridisi co Senchán & ba buidhech sidein díb & at-fiadhatar a scéla & a n-imtechta dó co ro fhaisneidar in Táin ó tús co deredh & is é sin atá Faillsiugud Tána Bó Cúilgni. Conid ann sin ro chan Senchán in láid .i. do mhéid Fergusa iarna fhaicsin .i. 'húarescla' & rl.