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Extent: 1398 words

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Manuscript sources

1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502, folio 47a2 (this MS contains only quatrains 1, 4-7, 12).
2. Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1318, 127b (alias H 2 16 alias Yellow Book of Lecan (see T. K. Abbott and E. J. Gwynn, Catalogue of Irish MSS in Trinity College Dublin (Dublin 1921), 94-110)).

Translations and further reading

1. Translation (into German): Kuno Meyer, in Ernst Windisch (ed), Festschrift Whitley Stokes zum siebzigsten Geburtstage (Leipzig: Harrassowitz 1900) 3–5.
2. Translation (into English): Kuno Meyer, Gaelic Journal 10 (1900) 578–80.
3. Prose version from Rawlinson B 502: Kuno Meyer, Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts, V: Orgain Néill Noígiallaig, Otia Merseiana 2, 1900-01, 84–92 (available online at CELT in file G302003).

The edition used in the digital edition

‘Totenklage um König Niall Nóigiallach: ein altirisches Gedicht’ (1900). In: Festschrift Whitley Stokes zum siebzigsten Geburtstage‍. Ed. by Ernst Windisch. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, pp. 1–6.

You can add this reference to your bibliographic database by copying or downloading the following:

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  editor 	 = {Kuno Meyer},
  title 	 = {Totenklage um König Niall Nóigiallach: ein altirisches Gedicht},
  booktitle 	 = {Festschrift Whitley Stokes zum siebzigsten Geburtstage},
  editor 	 = {Ernst Windisch},
  address 	 = {Leipzig},
  publisher 	 = {Otto Harrassowitz},
  date 	 = {1900},
  pages 	 = {1–6}
}
 G100053.bib

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Project description: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

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This document represents pp 3–5 of the published edition. All editorial preface, introduction, translation and notes have been omitted.

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Normalization: The electronic text largely represents the printed text. In the case of editorial macrons, the macron has been repositioned over the historically long vowels in the case of boi (1.3), Gaidil (9.3); the macron has been omitted in the case of the case of siān which is written siän (4.1) and Mane (10.4); a macron is supplied in the case of ceitemon (4.4) and Enna (10.3).Word-divisions are normalised in accordance with modern practice. All variants cited by the editor are rendered in the parallel segmented apparatus criticus, but the editor's marking of expansions in the apparatus criticus is not retained.

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Creation: By unknown monastic writer(s). c.800–850

Language usage

• The text is in Old Irish. (ga)

Keywords: histor; poetry; medieval; Niall Nóigiallach; lament

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(Most recent first)

1. 2008-09-29: Keywords added; file validated; new wordcount made. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
2. 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
3. 2005-08-04T15:29:46+0100: Converted to XML (ed. Peter Flynn)
4. 1997-09-15: Header modified; file parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
5. 1997-08-28: Header re-structured; text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
6. 1996-09-19: Text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
7. 1995-07-02: Thorough re-collation of electronic text with the printed. Entire text made fully conformant with TEI.2 in regard to mark-up. TEI.2 Header created and additional bibliographical material placed therein. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)
8. 1995-07-01: Collation of electronic text and addition of mark-up of names, terms, and numbers. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)
9. 1995-07-01: Text capture and first proofing. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)