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- Dom-̇farcai fidbaide fál
fom-chain loíd luin, lúad nād cél;
h-ūas mo lebrán, ind línech,
fom-chain trírech inna n-én. - Fomm-chain coí menn, medair mass,
hi m-brot glass de dingnaib doss.
Debrath! nom-Choimmdiu-coíma:
caín-scríbaimm fo roída ross.
Dom-fharcai fidbaide fál
The scribe in the woods
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Title statement
Title (uniform): Dom-fharcai fidbaide fál
Title (translation): The Scribe in the Woods
Responsibility statement
Electronic edition compiled by: Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Funded by: University College, Cork and Professor Marianne McDonald via the CURIA Project.
Edition statement
2. Second draft, revised and corrected.
Extent: 635 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: 1996
Date: 2010
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G400002
Availability: The hard copy on which the present electronic edition is based is copyright by Oxford University Press, and is here used by kind permission of the publishers.
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Manuscript sources
- St Gall MS 904.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘The Scribe in the Woods’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 4.
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Profile description
Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.800–850
Language usage
- The text is in Old Irish. (ga)
Keywords: poetry; medieval; nature
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- 2010-11-15: File updated; new wordcount made; conversion script run. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2008-11-07: Keywords added. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
- 2005-08-04T16:02:16+0100: Converted to XML (ed. Peter Flynn)
- 1997-09-05: Header created; text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
- 1996-02-05: Creation and insertion of TEI Header for the anthology; revision of structural mark-up. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)
- 1996-02-05: Revised text parsed and mark-up verified using SGMLS. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
- 1995-08: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Tiarnán Ó Corráin)
- 1995-02: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
- 1994: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Aideen O'Leary)
- 1994: Proofing and correction of edition. (ed. Patricia Kelly)
- 1993: Data capture completed. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)