A New Version of the Battle of Mag Rath

An electronic edition

Responsibility for document creation and encoding:

Creation of machine-readable text by: Linda Heidkamp
Proofed by: Gerald Manning & David Hughes
Header creation and mark-up by: Linda Heidkamp & David Hughes
Mark-up revised and corrected by: Niall Brady

Extent of text: 2028 words [11.79 kb]

Sources:

Printed source of this electronic edition

‘A New Version of the Battle of Mag Rath’, ed. Carl Marstrander, Ériu 5 (1911) 226-247

Manuscript source of printed text

Trinity College Dublin Ms H.2.16 (The Yellow Book of Lecan), cat. no. 1318, cols. 945-8

Language:

Early Irish.
The Latin word Dixit occurs once, and Finit also occurs once, at the end.

Published by:

Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae,
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
http://www.ucd.ie/tlh/

Project funder: Professor Marianne McDonald (University of California, San Diego) via the Ireland Funds.

Date: Final mark-up completed 2006-06-21

Text ID: cm.eriu.5.002

Availability:

Available only for academic teaching and research provided that this header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed. This edition may not be reproduced or used elsewhere without the explicit permission of the TLH project. For enquiries, please contact us.

Notes:

Due to current browser limitations, certain characters in printed editions may not always be similarly displayed in the electronic version. In such cases, the following representations have been chosen for display purposes:

characters with punctum delens or other marks indicating lenition (this applies to f, s, m and n) are displayed with following h and underlining: thus fh, sh, mh and nh
insular ampersand (‘Tironian et’) is displayed as &

Encoding principles:

Correction

Marstrander provides text from MS Harleian 5280 for five stanzas of verse (lines 14-34) in addition to the YBL text of the same poem. In the printed edition, both versions of this poem are printed side by side. The TLH electronic edition displays the two versions of the poem consecutively, the first with the heading “YBL” and the second with the heading “Harleian 5280”. The line-numbering of the printed edition has been retained.

Normalisation

This text has not been normalised.

Quotation

Quotation marks enclosing direct speech, whether single or double in the printed source, are encoded in TLH with the <q> tag. The same tag is also used in situations where direct speech has not been explicitly marked by the use of quotation marks.

Hyphenation

End-of-line hyphenation of the printed edition has not been retained, and wherever a page-break occurs in the midst of a hyphenated word, the break is marked after the end of the hyphenated word.

Tags declaration:

The <expan> tag is used to encode text printed in italics to indicate editorial expansions of manuscript abbreviations.
The <supplied> tag is used to encode additions to the text made by the print editor or the editor of the electronic text. The “resp” attribute indicates the source of the supplied text: “p” indicates print editor and “e” electronic editor.

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