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Edited by Kuno Meyer
Irish Quatrains
- p.327
- Cid becc—méd frighed—do locht,
airighe for nech do chéin:
cid médither slíab do locht,
nocha n-airighe fort féin. - A rí rind!
Cidh dubh mo thech nó cidh finn,
nocha n-iadhfaither fri nech,
nár' iadha Críst a thech frim. - Though a fault be small—the size of a fleshworm —
Thou perceivest it on any one from afar:
Though a fault be as big as a mountain,
Thou dost not perceive it on thyself. - O king of stars!
Whether my house be dark or bright,
It shall not be closed against any one,
Lest Christ close His house against me.
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Title statement
Title (uniform): Irish Quatrains
Title (firstline): Cid becc—méd frighed—do locht
Title (firstline): A rí rind
Editor: Kuno Meyer
Responsibility statement
Electronic edition compiled by: Beatrix Färber
Funded by: University College, Cork and Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project
Edition statement
1. First draft, revised and corrected.
Extent: 545 words
Publication statement
Publisher: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
Address: College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt
Date: 2004
Date: 2011
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G103001
Availability: Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.
Source description
Manuscript Source
- Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 5100–4.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Irish Quatrains’ (1897). In: Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 1. Ed. by Kuno Meyer, p. 327.
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title = {Irish Quatrains},
journal = {Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie},
number = {1},
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publisher = {Max Niemeyer},
date = {1897},
pages = {327}
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Project description: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
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Correction: Text has been proof-read twice.
Normalization: The electronic text represents the edited text. The English translation is included.
Quotation: There is no direct speech.
Hyphenation: There are no hyphens.
Segmentation: div0=the group of quatrains; div1=the individual Irish/English translation. Lines of verse are marked l. Page-breaks are marked pb n="".
Interpretation: Names are not tagged, nor are terms for cultural and social roles.
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Profile description
Creation: 900–1200
Date: 1897 (translation)
Language usage
- The text is in Middle Irish. (ga)
- The translation is in English. (en)
Keywords: religious; poetry; medieval
Revision description
(Most recent first)
- Pre-1997: Text scanned in. (text capture Staff of the CURIA Project)
- 2011-02-11: Header updated, new wordcount made. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-09-29: Keywords added; file validated. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-08-01: File converted to XML; value of div0 "type" attribute modified, title elements streamlined, creation date inserted, content of 'langUsage' revised; header modified; new wordcount. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2004-09-20: Header constructed; file proofed (2) and marked up; file parsed, HTML file created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 1998: File proofed (1); some structural markup added. (ed. Staff of the CELT Project)