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Ein altirisches Gedicht über das Ende der Welt
- p.195
- Dofil aimser laithe m-bratha,
brīghach tornech,
rogab crith in domun druimnech
fon m-bith m-bairnech. - Bāithfither fír, fotha n-aimser,
trūagh ind airmairt,
crínfaith gach maith, mór tonn treablait,
mairg dodnairnic! - Taircēba olc,
bidh mōr in t-olc la cech n-duine,
raghaidh cech recht tar araile
fon m-bith m-buidhe. - Bāithfithir cīch ocus cothach,
rūagh ind ālaigh,
nī bía clōemhclōdh forsind āiremh
fri sīl n-Ādhuimh. - Nī bīa cāthus, nī bīa cluche,
nī bīa āenach,
forrír! tiucfa aimser dērach
fo ním nōemach. - Nī bīa cert nā recht nā rīaghail
cen bāis m-bloïr,
ní bīat rīg is nī bīat suïdh
for a coïr. - Nī bīa crābud isnaib ceallaib,
airdiu sétaibh,
nī bīa gaisced isnaib hógaibh
cith lir cétuib. - Ticfa tarrngoire na sruthe,
n-ī bat cesa,
coin, foilc, fīanna, īlla glasa,
cit 1 bad mesa? - Cāch oc fochuidhhiud a chēle,
deabtha būana,
cletha immaicsi cen sēna,
cridhe huāra. - Ili ceanna, ūatte enech,
mend cech maghar,
cintach melede cen treabadh,
ilar n-galar. p.196 - Bith brēc bealgach, aimser gente,
cella dāera,
ili áera, sīna sāebha,
tūatha clāena. - Bretha camma,
caingne cen chert fri lār lughach,
cech mesriuth īar n-dīth a ainech,
aimser dubach. - Crith for dhūiliph, trācht cen toradh,
tuath cen ērgna,
fōimath cinadh, aimser díghla,
ilar m-bērla. - Ré cen fhoghlaim,
cāch oc rothces, int ord triamhain,
cert cen tinne,
coraith cech recht asa rīaghuil. - Nathir cach ben, grīb cach ingen,
serbha a ngnāsa,
faithchi lāna, ili craosa,
cuile fása. - Fith cen blātha, cāch in fīannas,
immed n-athles,
aimser lethglas, meic go frebnais,
tīr co n-athmes. - Cāch oc derchōinedh tre bithu,
dīghal fota,
daoine becca, étach n-ecca,
ilar coca. - Athcha lonna, lethra tromma,
tochar ferga,
crecha meinci, immed burba,
reilge derga. - Cidh dognem de, a maicc mo Dhē,
fri glunnu gnātha?
tūargabsat, fogeir ar tūatha,
idhain brātha. - Tāncatar sēd isan domhuin,
ba ferr foät,
farrír! ardubneat fo rith rout. - Tiucfa macu dochum domhuin
co feib l¯thair,
fer trēn tūachail,
deirfiur dō-som bid sí a māthair. - Ingen dotng¯ena fria hathair
amail nathruigh,
dia dobethraibh an mac geinfeas
isin chathraigh. - Ōenchlār a dét, dearb doma sgēlaibh,
scor īar mūraibh,
sé meóir for a chosaib cāelaibh
isnaib rūnaibh. - Fer serbh serigh, sraigleōir iffirn,
fīr dom cēdul,
braithemh dub dīan,
ocus tom līath assa ēdun. - Dogní ór do māethlaibh muighe,
cia nī is toghra? 2
Ein altirisches Gedicht über das Ende der Welt
Aus Laud 615, SS. 132-134.
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Title (uniform): Ein altirisches Gedicht über das Ende der Welt
Title (firstline): Dofil aimser laithe m-bratha
Author: unknown
Editor: Kuno Meyer
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Date: 2005
Date: 2008
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- Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 615, pp. 132–34. For full MS details see Brian Ó Cuív (ed.), Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries; 2 vols. (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2001–2003) 88–100.
Secondary Literature (For literature about the Apocrypha, click on http://celt.ucc.ie/Apocrypha.pdf)
- St. John D. Seymour, Notes on Apocrypha in Ireland, in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26 (1926) Class C: 107–117.
- David N. Dumville, Biblical Apocrypha and the Early Irish, in: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 (1973) C: 299–338.
- Martin McNamara, The Apocrypha in the Irish Church (Dublin: DIAS 1975; corrected reprint 1984).
- Martin McNamara, Early medieval Irish eschatology, in: Próinséas Ní Chatháin and Michael Richter (eds.), Ireland and Europe in the Early Middle Ages: learning and literature—Irland und Europa im früheren Mittelalter: Bildung und Literatur (Stuttgart 1996) 42–75.
- Thomas O'Loughlin, The Celtic homily: Creeds and Eschatology, in Milltown Studies 41 (1998) 99–115.
- Benjamin Hudson, Time is Short: The Eschatology of the Early Gaelic Church, in: Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman (eds.), Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia 2000) 101–123.
- Martin McNamara, Apocalyptic and Eschatological Heritage (Dublin 2003).
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Ein altirisches Gedicht über das Ende der Welt [Dofil aimser laithe m-bratha] (Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften)’ (1912). In: Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 8. Ed. by Kuno Meyer, pp. 195–196.
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Creation: By (an) unknown Irish monastic author(s). 600–900
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- The text is in Old Irish. (ga)
- A few words are in German. (de)
Keywords: religious; poetry; medieval; eschatology
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