The Táin Bó Regamon is an Irish story written c. A.D.800–c. A.D. 900. A version of it exists in the
Yellow Book of Lecan
The Yellow Book of Lecan (YBL; Irish: ''Leabhar Buidhe Leacáin''), or TCD MS 1318 (''olim'' H 2.16), is a late medieval Irish manuscript.
It contains much of the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, besides other material. It is held in the Librar ...
.
One of the
Táin Bó
The ''Táin Bó'', or cattle raid (literally "driving-off of cows"), is one of the genres of early Irish literature. The medieval Irish literati organised their work into genres such as the Cattle Raid (''Táin Bó''), adventure ('' Echtra''), the ...
tales of early Irish literature, the Táin Bó Regamon was by one of more authors during the 9th century and linguisticly belongs to the
Old Irish
Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic ( sga, Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; ga, Sean-Ghaeilge; gd, Seann-Ghàidhlig; gv, Shenn Yernish or ), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive writt ...
era. It is found in
Egerton 1782.
It tells the story of the Connachtman Regamon - apparently a misspelling of Regamain - who is described as "a famous warrior and hospitaller". He is described as living at a
dún
A dun is an ancient or medieval fort. In Ireland and Britain it is mainly a kind of hillfort and also a kind of Atlantic roundhouse.
Etymology
The term comes from Irish ''dún'' or Scottish Gaelic ''dùn'' (meaning "fort"), and is cognate ...
('fort') "in the south of Connacht near to the boundary of the Corcmodruad (
Corcomroe (barony)) in Nindus (see
Eóganacht Ninussa).
His seven daughters contest the seven sons of Queen
Medb and King
Ailill over "a gift from his herd ... because of this difficulty which is upon us in maintaining the men of Ireland in driving off the cattle of
Cúailnge."
In 2016, Danielle Malek donated her edition to the Corpus of Electronic Texts, a repository of documents pertaining to Irish history and culture.
Select bibliography
* "Táin Bó Regamon", Danielle Malek (ed), First edition
ne volume. vi + 89 pp.University of Sydney, 2002
External links
* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G301004/index.html
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