Acallam Bec
Acallam Bec or Agallamh Bheag is the title of a medieval Irish compilation of fianaigecht tales, preserved in the fifteenth-century Book of Lismore and the Reeves manuscript. It is closely related to the Acallam na Senórach, of which it is sometimes considered to be a later recension. It differs from it in making Oisín rather than Caílte the principal character. Douglas Hyde has suggested that the text may preserve the lost beginning of Acallam na Senórach.
Editions and translations
- Kuehns, Julia Sophie. An edition and translation of the Agallamh Bheag from the Book of Lismore.. Unpublished MPhil thesis, University of Glasgow. .
- An Craoibhín . "An Agallamh Bheag." Lia Fáil 1 : 79-107. Partial edition with translation into Modern Irish.
- Pennington, Walter. "The Little Colloquy." Philological Quarterly 9.2 : 97-110. Translation of Hyde's edition, together with which it is
Secondary sources
- Hyde, Douglas. "The Reeves Manuscript of the Agallamh na Senorach." Revue Celtique 38 : 289-95.
- Murphy, Gerard. The Ossianic Lore and Romantic Tales of Medieval Ireland. Dublin, 1955.