Cath Maige Tuired

A Full English Translation

Morgan Daimler

74 Pages, ISBN 979 8551 167181     
Independently published, 2020     


A pivotal Irish myth which tells the story of the Tuatha Dé Danann fighting to overthrow the oppression of a stingy king, Eochaid Bres, and his paternal relatives, the Formorians. The Cath Maige Tuired is full of valuable information about the beings usally viewed as the Irish Gods and includes well-known figures like the Morrigan, the Dagda, Lugh, Oengus mac ind Og, and Ogma.

This text represents a full English translation from the original Irish manuscript, including the poetic sections normally not included in other published versions. The version offered here is a more literal translation in the spirit of the older text. It includes only the English language material.

Morgan Daimler is an amateur translator of Old and Middle Irish who has a great passion for Irish mythology. Morgan has written both fiction and nonfiction works, and has several small pocket books of translated older Irish material. This is the first full length translated text to be released.


(The text above comes from the back of the book)     

For comparison, you can compare this free online translation of this text with that of Morgan Daimler: Sacred-Texts.com - Cath Maige Tuired - Translated by Elizabeth A. Gray.

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