An edition of Talland Étair

Abstract

The edition is based upon my own readings from the manuscript sources used. This ensures that any previous misreadings are not inherited into the present work and that I alone become responsible for any misreadings which may be found herein. These comments relate primarily to the text in the Book of Leinster (L), as no diplomatic edition of the text in Harleian 5280 (H) has heretofore existed, apart from the 100 or so variant readings cited by Stokes in his 1887 edition entitled 'The Siege of Howth'. This does not, of course, presuppose that the readings of Best and O'Brien's 1956 diplomatic edition of Lare inaccurate.