CELT document G400024

A Choimdiu, nom-choimét

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     p.54

    A Choimdiu, nom-choimét

    Lord, Guard me

  1. A Choimdiu, nom-choimét,
    etir chorp is anmain,
    etir iris n-imglain
    co n-digius fon talmain.
  2. Coimét dam mo shúile,
    a Ísu meic Maire,
    nácham-derna santach
    aicsin cruid neich aile.
  3. Coimét dam mo chlúasa,
    nár chloistet fri écnach,
    nár éistet co rognáth
    fri baís for bith bétach.
  4.  p.56
  5. Coimét dam mo thenga,
    nár écnaiger duine,
    nár cháiner ar-aile,
    nár báiger tré luige.
  6. Coimét dam mo chride,
    a Chríst, ar do baíde,
    nár scrútar co trúaige
    dúthracht nacha claíne.
  7. Ní raib miscais foa,
    ná format, ná dallad,
    ná dímmus, ná dímes,
    ná éilned, ná annach.
  8. Coimét mo broinn m-builid,
    nár líntar cen mesair;
    co rop déiniu a tosaig,
    a bith isin tesaig!
  9. Coimét dam mo láma,
    ná rigter fri debaid,
    nár chlechtat íar sodain
    athchuingid fo mebail.
  10. Coimét dam mo chossa
    for bith builid Banba,
    ná digset a fosta
    fri tosca cen tarba.
  11. Nírbam utmall anbsaid,
    a Meic mo Dé deithnig,
    co ná farcbar m' ined
    co rop dliged deithbir.
  12. Coimét mo ball ferda
    im genus co n-glaine:
    étrad ní rom-báide,
    ním-tháirle, ním-thaire.
  13. Ním-reilce i cair cennda
    dond ochtar ard airdirc:
    a Chríst, tair dom dochum,
    día tofunn, día tairbirt.
  14.  p.58
  15. Nom-erbainn duit uile
    dom dítin cen doidnge;
    ar do rath co roimét
    nom-choimét, a Choimdiu.

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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

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: 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

  1. London, British Library, Add. 350512, f. 44v. (A)
  2. London, British Library, Egerton 175, p. 15. (E)
  3. 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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  title 	 = {Lord, Guard me},
  booktitle 	 = {Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century},
  editor 	 = {Gerard Murphy},
  address 	 = {Oxford},
  publisher 	 = {Clarendon Press},
  date 	 = {1956},
  pages 	 = {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)
  • Subtitle is in English. (en)

Keywords: religious; poetry; medieval

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  7. 1996-02-05: Creation and insertion of TEI Header for the anthology; revision of structural mark-up. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)
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  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)

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