Edited from RIA MS D iv 2, with English translation and commentary. Includes a discussion of the relationship of this text with Togail Troí and Togail na Tebe.
Argues Statius’ description of Pavor’s action in Thebaid 7.114ff provided the literary model for the use of the ‘alternatives device’ in the Táin's account of Mac Roth’s vision (Rec. II, ll.4168ff).
Miles (Brent): Heroic saga and classical epic in Medieval Ireland.
SCH, 30. Woodbridge: Brewer, 2011. x + 272 pp. (Studies in Celtic history, 30).
Rev. by
Caoimhín Breatnach, in Celtica 27 (2013), pp. 197-206.
Paul Byrne, in Peritia 27 (2016), pp. 282-285.
Joanne Findon, in JML 23 (2014), pp. 370-374.
Ralph O’Connor, in CMCS 65 (Summer, 2013), pp. 91-94.
Erich Poppe, in Classics Ireland 18 (2011), pp. 94-101.
Studies the reutilization of earlier materials (particularly the Collectio canonum Hibernensis) for the composition of this bilingual homily on the duties of kings.
Miles (Brent) (ed.): Don tres Troí. The Middle Irish history of the Third Troy / edited by Brent Miles.
ITS, 68. London: Irish Texts Society, 2020. viii + 175 pp.
Edition based on King’s Inns 12, complemented by RIA D iv 2 where this is extant, with English translation and textual notes. Includes a full discussion of classical sources and models, relation of the two manuscripts, and language.
In Appendices: A. The fragment of Don tres Troí from RIA D iv 2 [full transcription of an acephalous fragment containing the older version from which K is derived]; B. The deaths of Polyxena and Astyanax in Togail Troí.