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Extent: 739 words

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Manuscript sources

1. Dublin Trinity College Library, H 2.12, section 8, p. 14, line 30 (H).
2. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy Book of Ballymote, 298b20 (Bi).
3. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Book of Ballymote, 303a44 (Bii).
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 610, 90v, col. 2, l. 14 (L).
5. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Book of Uí Maine, 138r, col. 2, l. 25 (M).

Sources, comment on the text, and secondary literature

• Rudolf Thurneysen, Mittelirische Verslehren (Text I, § 53), Irische Texte 3rd series, vol. 1 (Leipzig 1891).

The edition used in the digital edition

‘The Blackbird Calling from the Willow’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century‍. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 6.

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

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  editor 	 = {Gerard Murphy},
  title 	 = {The Blackbird Calling from the Willow},
  booktitle 	 = {Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century},
  editor 	 = {Gerard Murphy},
  address 	 = {Oxford},
  publisher 	 = {Clarendon Press},
  date 	 = {1956},
  pages 	 = {6}
}
 G400006.bib

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Project description: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

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All editorial introduction, translation, glossary, notes and indexes have been omitted. Editorial corrigenda are integrated into the electronic edition. Only the text of the Murphy's edition is retained, and for this electronic edition the variants cited by Murphy are not reproduced. A full citation of variants is likely in a future electronic edition.

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Profile description

Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.800–900

Language usage

• The text is in Old Irish. (ga)
• The subtitle is in English. (en)

Keywords: poetry; medieval; nature

Revision description

(Most recent first)

1. 2010-11-15: File updated; new wordcount made; conversion script run. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
2. 2008-09-03: File validated. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
3. 2008-07-30: Keywords added. (ed. Ruth Murphy)
4. 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
5. 2005-08-04T16:02:24+0100: Converted to XML (ed. Peter Flynn)
6. 1997-09-05: Header created; text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
7. 1996-02-05: Creation and insertion of TEI Header for the anthology; revision of structural mark-up. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)
8. 1996-02-05: Revised text parsed and mark-up verified using SGMLS. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
9. 1995-08: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Tiarnán Ó Corráin)
10. 1995-02: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
11. 1994: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Aideen O'Leary)
12. 1994: Proofing and correction of edition. (ed. Patricia Kelly)
13. 1993: Data capture completed. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)