The Táin Bó Regamon is an Irish story written c. A.D.800–c. A.D. 900. A version of it exists in the

Yellow Book of Lecan The Yellow Book of Lecan (YBL; Irish language, Irish: ''Leabhar Buidhe Leacáin''), or TCD MS 1318 (''olim'' H 2.16), is a History of Ireland (1169–1536), late medieval Irish manuscript. It contains much of the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology ...

. One of the Táin Bó tales of early Irish literature, the Táin Bó Regamon was by one of more authors during the 9th century and linguistically belongs to the

Old Irish Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic (, Ogham, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; ; ; or ), is the oldest form of the Goidelic languages, Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts. It was used from 600 to 900. The ...

era. It is found in Egerton 1782. It tells the story of the Connachtman Regamon - apparently a misspelling of Regamain - who is described as "a famous warrior and hospitaller". He is described as living at a

dún A dun is an ancient or medieval fort. In Great Britain and Ireland it is mainly a kind of hillfort and also a kind of Atlantic roundhouse. Etymology The term comes from Irish ''dún'' or Scottish Gaelic ''dùn'' (meaning "fort"), and is c ...

('fort') "in the south of Connacht near to the boundary of the Corcmodruad (

Corcomroe (barony) Corcomroe () is a Barony (Ireland), barony in County Clare, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is the southern half of the Gaelic ''tuath'' of ''Corco Modhruadh''. Legal context Baronies were created after the Norman invasion of Ireland as divis ...

) in Nindus (see Eóganacht Ninussa). His seven daughters contest the seven sons of Queen

Medb Medb (), later spelled Meadhbh (), Méabh(a) () and Méibh (), and often anglicised as Maeve ( ), is queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Her husband in the core stories of the cycle is Ailill mac Máta, although she had ...

and King

Ailill Ailill (Ailell, Oilioll) is a male name in Old Irish. It is a prominent name in Irish mythology, as for Ailill mac Máta, King of Connacht and husband of Queen Medb, on whom Shakespeare based the Fairy Queen Mab. Ailill was a popular given name in ...

over "a gift from his herd ... because of this difficulty which is upon us in maintaining the men of Ireland in driving off the cattle of Cúailnge."

Select bibliography

* "Táin Bó Regamon", Danielle Malek (ed), First edition ne volume. vi + 89 pp.University of Sydney, 2002

External links

* http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/G301004/index.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Táin Bó Regamon Medieval literature Irish literature Early Irish literature Irish-language literature Texts in Irish Ireland in fiction