The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living: An Old Irish Saga (Classic Reprint)

The old-I rish tale which is here edited and fully translated for the first time, has come down to us in seven Mss. of different age and varying value. It is unfortunate that the oldest copy (U), that contained on p. 121a of theL eabhar na hU idhre, a MS. written about iioo A.D., is a mere fragment, containing but the very end of the story from HI in chertle dia dernaind (62 of my edition) to the conclusion. The other six mss. all belong to a much later age, the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries respectively. Here follow a list and description of these MSS.: By RI denote a copy contained in the well-known Bodleian vellum quarto, marked Rawlinson B. 512, fo. 11912, I X2ob, 2. For a detailed description of this codex, see the Rolls edition of the Tripartite Life, vol. i. pp. xiv.-xlv. As the folios containing the copy of our text belong to that portion of the ms. which begins with theB aile inS cdil (fo. Joia), it is very probable that, like this tale, they were copied from the lost book of Dubdalethe, bishop of An abstract and partial translation of the Voyage of Bran was given by Professor Zimmer in the Zeitschrift fiir deuisches A lterthtcm, vol. xxxiii. pp. 257-261.
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