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Title: The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge

Author: Unknown

Translator: Joseph Dunn

Release Date: August 7, 2005 [EBook #16464]

Language: English

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THE ANCIENT IRISH EPIC TALE

TAIN BO CUALNGE

"THE CUALNGE CATTLE-RAID"

Now for the first time done entire into English
out of the Irish of the Book of Leinster
and Allied Manuscripts

By

JOSEPH DUNN
Professor at the Catholic University
Washington

WITH TWO PAGES IN FACSIMILE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS

[Illustration: "Daig concechlabat fin hErend & Alban inn ainm sin, & bat
lana beoil fer n-hErend & Alban din anmun sin."]
Book of Leinster, fo. 64a.

"For the men of Erin and Alba shall hear that
name (Cuchulain) and the mouths of the men of Erin
and Alba shall be full of that name."

LONDON
DAVID NUTT
17 GRAPE STREET, NEW OXFORD STREET, W.C
1914

To the Memory of

MY MOTHER

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[Illustration: FACSIMILE, PAGE 55--_from the Book of Leinster_.]

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CONTENTS

Preface, xi.
I The Pillow-talk, 1.
II The Occasion of the Tain, 5.
III The Rising-out of the Men of Connacht at Cruachan Ai, 10.
IV The Foretelling, 13.
V The Route of the Tain, 19.
VI The March of the Host, 21.
VII The Youthful Exploits of Cuchulain, 46.
VIIa