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.
One of the
Táin Bó 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 era. It is found in
Egerton 1782
Egerton MS 1782 is the index title of an early sixteenth-century Irish vellum manuscript housed in the Egerton Collection of the British Library, London.
Overview
The compilation dates from ''c''. 1517 and is the work of several scribes of the Ó ...
.
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 ('fort') "in the south of Connacht near to the boundary of the Corcmodruad (
Corcomroe (barony)) in Nindus (see
Eóganacht Ninussa
The Eóganacht Ninussa were a branch of the Eóganacht dynasty. According to Francis John Byrne,
"were settled in Northwest Clare 1 and Aran presumably since the conquest of that are in the 5th century, and were important enough to be grouped as ...
).
His seven daughters contest the seven sons of Queen
Medb
Medb (), later spelled Meadhbh (), Méibh () and Méabh (), and often anglicised as Maeve ( ), is queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Her husband in the core stories of the cycle is Ailill mac Máta, although she had seve ...
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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