CELT document G400036

It é saigte gona súain

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     p.86

    It é saigte gona súain

    The lament of Créide, daughter of Gúaire of Aidne, for Dínertach, son of Gúaire of the Uí Fidgente

    Créda ingen Gúairiu ru chan na runnu-sa de Dínertach mac Gúairi maic Nechtain do Uib Fidgenti. Di-connuirc-si isin treus Aidne ro geghin secht n-goine deac for seglach a léniod. Ro-carostoir-sie ierum. Is ann is-pert-sie:

  1. It é saigte gona súain,
    cech thrátha i n-aidchi adúair,
    serccoí, lia gnása, íar n-dé,
    fir a tóeb thíre Roigne.
  2. Rográd fir ala thíre
    ro-síacht sech a chomdíne
    ruc mo lí (ní lór do dath);
    ním-léci do thindabrad.
  3. 1
  4. Sirechtach nad faco-sa
    Dinertach rom i Lecoin
    imbi nibad infechtoin
    im mac Guairi mec Nechtoin.
  5. Binniu laídib a labrad
    acht Ríg nime nóebadrad:
    án bréo cen bréthir m-braise,
    céle tana tóebthaise.
  6. Imsa naídiu robsa náir:
    ní bínn fri dúla dodáil;
    ó do-lod i n-inderb n-aís
    rom-gab mo théte togaís.
  7. Táthum cech maith la Gúaire,
    la ríg n-Aidni adúaire;
    tocair mo menma óm thúathaib
    isin íath i n-Irlúachair.
  8. Canair a i n-íath Aidni áin,
    im thóebu Cille Colmáin,
    án bréo des Luimnech lechtach
    díanid comainm Dínertach.
  9.  p.88
  10. Cráidid mo chride cainech,
    a Chríst cáid, a ̇foraided:
    it é saigte gona súain
    cech thrátha i n-aidchi adúair.

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Title (uniform): It é saigte gona súain

Title (translation, English Translation): The Lament of Créide, Daughter of Gúaire of Aidne, for Dínertach, Son of Gúaire of the Ui Fhidgente

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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: 935 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: G400036

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, Harleian 5280, f. 15b.

Editions

  • Kuno Meyer, The Song of Créde daughter of Guaire, Ériu 2 (1905), 15-17.

Translations

  • Kuno Meyer, The Song of Créde daughter of Guaire, Ériu 2 (1905), 15-17.

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‘The Lament of Créide, Daughter of Gúaire of Aidne, for Dínertach, Son of Gúaire of the Ui Fhidgente’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century‍. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 86–88.

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  title 	 = {The Lament of Créide, Daughter of Gúaire of Aidne, for Dínertach, Son of Gúaire of the Ui Fhidgente},
  booktitle 	 = {Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century},
  editor 	 = {Gerard Murphy},
  address 	 = {Oxford},
  publisher 	 = {Clarendon Press},
  date 	 = {1956},
  pages 	 = {86–88}
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Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.775–825

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  • The text is in Old Irish. (ga)
  • The subtitle is in English. (en)

Keywords: poetry; medieval; lament; Créide and Dínertach

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  12. 1994: Proofing and correction of edition. (ed. Patricia Kelly)
  13. 1993: Data capture completed. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)

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