Irische Texte : mit ersetzungen und Wterbuch

The Destruction of Troy.
The following two fragments of one of the Mid die -Irish
versions of the Destruction of Troy are taken from a ms. marked
H. 2. 17, preserved in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, and
formerly in the possession of Edward Lhwyd. The manuscript
contains 491 pages, all on vellum save pp. 1 — 82, which are
on paper, and all in Irish save pp. 1— 28, which contain a Latin
tract on the Passion. It is of various dates and in various
handwritings, and its contents are more than usually miscella-
neous — the religious, gnomic, romantic, historical, genealogical,
grammatical and medical branches of Irish literature being
exemplified. Thus, besides our Destruction of Troy (which is
preceded by three fragments of another Irish version of the
same story), we have a Nennius (p. 172), the Instructions of
Cormac (p. 179), and Proverbs of Fithel (p. 181), Triads (p. 183),
the Dialogue of Two Sages (p. 185 and pp. 192— 194), the Táin
bó Cúalnge (p. 334) and Brüden da Derga (p. 477), the Wars
of the Irish with the Danes (p. 350), a pharmacological treatise
(p. 279), grammatical tracts (pp. 195 et seq., and 486) etc., etc.
The first of the fragments now printed begins at the top
of the first column of p. 127. It corresponds with Dares Phry-
gius, ed. Meister, from the end of c. II to c. XI inclusive and.
from c. XIV to the middle of c. XIX. But there is much matter,
e. g. the account of the labours of Hercules (pp. 127 b , 128 a
)
for which there is no warrant in Dares. The second of these
fragments begins with the end of Dares' c. XX and continues
to his chapter XLIV. But half the column corresponding with
chapters XLIII, XLIV has unfortunately been cut away. Both
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