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- p.66
- Robad mellach, a meic mo Dé,
(dingnaib réimenn)
ascnam tar tuinn topur n-dílenn
dochum n-Éirenn; - Go Mag n-Éolairg, sech Beinn Foibne,
tar Loch Febail,
airm i cluinfinn cuibdius cubaid
ac na elaib. - Slúag na faílenn robtis faíltig
rér séol súntach
día rísed Port na Ferg fáiltech
in Derg Drúchtach. - Rom-lín múich i n-ingnais Éirenn
díam-sa coimsech,
'san tír ainéoil conam-tharla
taideóir toirsech. - Trúag in turus do-breth form-sa,
a Rí rúine:
ach! ní ma-ndechad bu-déine
do chath Chúile! - Ba ma-ngénar do mac Dímma
'na chill chredlaig,
airm i g-cluinfinn tíar i n-Durmaig
mían dom menmain; p.68 - Fúaim na gaíthe frisin leman
ardon-peite,
golgaire in luin léith co n-aite
iar m-béim eite; - Éistecht co moch i r-Ros Grencha
frisin damraid,
coicetal na cúach don ̇fidbaid
ar brúach samraid. - Ro grádaiges íatha Éirenn
(deilm cen ellach):
feis ac Comgall, cúairt co Caindech,
robad mellach.
Robad mellach, a meic mo Dé
An exile's dream
Colum Cille cecinit:
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Title (uniform): Robad mellach, a meic mo Dé
Title (translation, English Translation): An Exile's Dream
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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: 957 words
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Date: 1996
Date: 2010
Distributor: CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
CELT document ID: G400030
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 967, p. 91 (olim 23 N 10, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. 22, 2769). (N).
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1080, f. 141a (olim B iv 2, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. 24, 3021). (B).
- Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, 5100–4, p. 41. (R).
Editions
- Kuno Meyer, Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften. Aus B. IV. 2 fo. 141a und 23 N. 10, S. 91, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 7 (1910) 309–310.
- Eugene O'Curry in W. Reeves (ed) The Life of S. Columba by Adamnan (Dublin 1857) 274–275.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘An Exile’s Dream’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 66–68.
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Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.975–1025
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