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- p.38
- Is mebul dom imrádud
a méit élas úaimm:
ad-águr a imgábud
i l-ló brátha búain. p.40 - Tresna salmu sétaigid
for conair nád cóir:
reithid, búaidrid, bétaigid
fíad roscaib Dé móir, - Tre airechtu athlama,
tre buidne ban m-bóeth,
tre choillte, tre chathracha —
is lúaithiu ná in góeth, - Tresna séta sochraide
ind ala fecht dó,
tre {⬌} dochraide
fecht aile (ní gó). - Cen ethar 'na chlóenchéimmim
cingid tar cech ler;
lúath linges 'na óenléimmim
ó thalmain co nem. - Reithid (ní rith rogaíse)
i n-ocus, i céin;
íar réimmennaib robaíse
taidlid día thig féin. - Ce thríalltar a chuimrech-som
nó geimel 'na chois,
ní cunnail, ní cuimnech-som
co n-gabad feidm fois. - Fóebur ná fúaimm flescbuille
ní-tráethat co tailc;
sleimnithir eirr n-escuinge
oc dul as mo glaicc. - Glas, nó charcar chromdaingen,
nó chuimrech for bith,
dún, nó ler, nó lomdaingen
nín-astat día rith. p.42 - Táet, a Chríst choím chertgenmnaid
díanid réil cech rosc,
rath in Spirta sechtdelbaig
día choimét, día chosc. - Follamnaig mo chride-sea,
a Dé dúilig déin,
corop tú mo dile-sea,
co n-dernar do réir. - Rís, a Chríst, do chétchummaid:
ro bem imnma-llé;
níta anbsaid éccunnail,
ní inonn is mé.
Is mebul dom imrádud
On the flightiness of thought
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Title (uniform): Is mebul dom imrádud
Title (translation, English Translation): On the flightiness of thought
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Electronic edition compiled by: Donnchadh Ó Corráin
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2. Second draft, revised and corrected.
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Date: 1996
Date: 2010
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G400017
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, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1230, p. 262 (olim Leabhar Breac olim 23 P 16, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy fasc. 27, 3379). (L).
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1080, f. 1451 (olim B iv 2, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy fasc. 24, 3021). (B).
Editions
- Kuno Meyer, On the Flightiness of Thought, Ériu 3 (1907) 13-15.
Translations
- Kuno Meyer, On the Flightiness of Thought, Ériu 3 (1907) 15.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘On the Flightiness of Thought’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 38–42.
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Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.900–1000
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