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- A ben, bennacht fort — ná ráid!
Imráidem dáil m-brátha búain.
A-tá irchra for cach n-dúil:
ad-águr dul i n-úir n-úair. p.8 - Im-ráidi baís cen bríg m-baí:
is súaichnid ní gaís fris-ngní.
A n-as-bir-siu bid rád fás:
bid nessa ar m-bás 'síu 'ma-rrí. - A n-airchenn fil ar ar cinn
bad mebor linn (éirim n-gann):
sunn cía na-cráidem in Ríg,
bami aithrig is tír thall. - Ríched ní renaim ar chol;
dam ad-fíther cía do-gnem.
Ní nád faigbe síu íar sin
ní thaibre ar bin, a ben. - Léic úait a n-í condat-sil;
do chuit i n-nim náchas-ren;
for fóesam n-Dé eirg dot treib
bendacht úaim-se beir, a ben. - Messe tussu, tussu mé,
águr, áigthe Fíadait fó;
guid-siu, gigsea Coimdid cáid:
a ben, ná ráid ní bas mó. - Ná bí for seilg neich nád maith
dáig fot-cheird ind Flaith for cel;
áigthe, águr Críst cen chin
ná ro-lámur tríst, a ben.
A ben, bennacht fort-ná ráid!
Sell not heaven for sin
At-rubairt Daniél ua Líathaiti, airchinnech Lis Móir, ocá guide don mnaí. Esseom ropo anmchara disi. Baí-si immurgu ocá thothlugud-som. Is and as-bert-som:
'Bid fír ón,' or sisi. Ro slécht-si for a bith-denma-som in eret ro boí i m-bethaid.
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Title (uniform): A ben, bennacht fort-ná ráid!
Title (translation, English Translation): Sell not Heaven for Sin
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Electronic edition compiled by: Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Funded by: University College, Cork and Professor Marianne McDonald via the CURIA Project.
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2. Second draft, revised and corrected.
Extent: 939 words
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Date: 1996
Date: 2010
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G400007
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
- Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1339, 278a21 (olim Book of Leinster olim H. 2. 18) (L).
- Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1337, 731 (olim H. 3.18) (H).
Editions
- Ernst Windisch, Über das altirische Gedicht im Codex Boernerianus und über die altirischen Zauberformeln, Berichte der Königl. Sächs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften 42 (1890) 86–88.
- Kuno Meyer, Daniel húa Liathaide's advice to a woman, Ériu 1 (1904) 67–71.
Translations
- H. d'Arbois de Jubainville, Documents irlandais publiés par M. Windisch, Revue celtique 12 (1891) 158–160. French translation.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Sell not Heaven for Sin’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 6–8.
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Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.825-875
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Keywords: poetry; medieval; religious
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