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''Tochmarc Emire'' ("The Wooing of Emer") is one of the stories in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology and one of the longest when it received its form in the second recension (below). It concerns the efforts of the hero Cú Chulainn to marry Emer, who appears as his wife in other stories of the cycle, and his training in arms under the warrior-woman Scáthach. The ''tochmarc'' ("wooing" or "courtship") (along with cattle raids, voyages, feasts, births and deaths) is one of the 'genres' of early Irish literature recognised in the manuscript corpus. ==Recensions and manuscript sources== The early Irish tale ''Tochmarc Emire'' exists in two (main) recensions.〔Toner, "The transmission of ''Tochmarc Emire'', pp. 71–2.〕 The earliest and shortest version is extant only as a copy in a late manuscript, the 15th/16th-century Rawlinson B 512, where it lacks the first part, beginning instead with the last riddle exchanged between Cú Chulainn and Emer.〔 The text has been dated by Kuno Meyer to the tenth century.〔Meyer, "The oldest version of ''Tochmarc Emire''".〕 An Old Irish original, possibly dating back to the 8th century, but transcribed and slightly modernised in the Middle Irish period appears to lie behind this text.〔Toner, "the Transmission of ''Tochmarc Emire'', p. 87.〕 The longer recension (LU, Stowe D iv 2, Harleian 5280, 23 N 10 and two fragments) was written in the Middle Irish period and represents a greatly expanded version of the earlier version of the narrative.〔For a full discussion of the relationship between the two recensions and the various manuscripts, see Gregory Toner, "The Transmission of ''Tochmarc Emire''."〕 *Leabhar na hUidre (LU): p 121a-127b (Dublin, RIA). Second part missing. *Stowe D IV 2: f 74Ra-78Vb (Dublin, RIA). Complete. *Rawlinson B 512: f 117Ra-118Rb (Oxford, Bodleian Library). First part missing. *Book of Fermoy 23 E 29: p 207a-212b (Dublin, RIA). Fragment *Egerton 92: f 24Ra-25Vb (London, British Library). Fragment *Harley 5280: f 27R-35Rb (London, British Library). Complete. *23 N 10 (formerly Betham 145): p 21-24 & 113–124 & 11–12 & 25–26 & 125–128 (Dublin, RIA). Complete. *Book of Leinster (LL), f 20a46 ff (Trinity College Dublin). Variant of § 30 as found in ''Echtra Machae''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tochmarc Emire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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