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- A Choimdiu, nom-choimét,
etir chorp is anmain,
etir iris n-imglain
co n-digius fon talmain. - Coimét dam mo shúile,
a Ísu meic Maire,
nácham-derna santach
aicsin cruid neich aile. - Coimét dam mo chlúasa,
nár chloistet fri écnach,
nár éistet co rognáth
fri baís for bith bétach. p.56 - Coimét dam mo thenga,
nár écnaiger duine,
nár cháiner ar-aile,
nár báiger tré luige. - Coimét dam mo chride,
a Chríst, ar do baíde,
nár scrútar co trúaige
dúthracht nacha claíne. - Ní raib miscais foa,
ná format, ná dallad,
ná dímmus, ná dímes,
ná éilned, ná annach. - Coimét mo broinn m-builid,
nár líntar cen mesair;
co rop déiniu a tosaig,
a bith isin tesaig! - Coimét dam mo láma,
ná rigter fri debaid,
nár chlechtat íar sodain
athchuingid fo mebail. - Coimét dam mo chossa
for bith builid Banba,
ná digset a fosta
fri tosca cen tarba. - Nírbam utmall anbsaid,
a Meic mo Dé deithnig,
co ná farcbar m' ined
co rop dliged deithbir. - Coimét mo ball ferda
im genus co n-glaine:
étrad ní rom-báide,
ním-tháirle, ním-thaire. - Ním-reilce i cair cennda
dond ochtar ard airdirc:
a Chríst, tair dom dochum,
día tofunn, día tairbirt. p.58 - Nom-erbainn duit uile
dom dítin cen doidnge;
ar do rath co roimét
nom-choimét, a Choimdiu.
A Choimdiu, nom-choimét
Lord, Guard me
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Title (uniform): A Choimdiu, nom-choimét
Title (translation, English Translation): Lord, Guard me
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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: 937 words
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Publisher: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
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Date: 1996
Date: 2010
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G400024
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
- London, British Library, Add. 350512, f. 44v. (A)
- London, British Library, Egerton 175, p. 15. (E)
- Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1278, f. 154v (olim H. 1. 2, see Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (1900)). Author: Máel Isu Úa Brolchán, c. 1086.
Editions
- Kuno Meyer, Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 6 (1908) 259–60.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Lord, Guard me’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 54–58.
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Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.1075–1100 (1086?)
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- The text is in Middle Irish. (ga)
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Keywords: religious; poetry; medieval
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