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- p.104
- A Bé Find, in rega lim,
i tír n-ingnad hi fil rind?
Is barr sobairche folt and;
is dath snechtai corp co ind. p.106 - Is and nād bí muí ná taí;
gela dēt and; dubai braī;
is lí sūla lín ar slúag;
is dath sion and cech grúad. - Is corcur maige cach muin;
is lí sūa ugae luin;
cid caín déicsiu Maige Fāil
annam īar n-gnáis Maige Máir. - Cid mesc lib coirm Inse Fáil,
is mescu coirm Tíre Māir;
amra tíre tír as-biur;
ní tét oac and ré siun. - Srotha téithmilsi tar tīr,
rogu de mid ocus fhín,
doíni delgnaidi cen on,
combart cen peccad, cen chol. - Ad-chiam cách for cach leth,
ocus nīconn-acci nech:
teimel imorbais Ádaim
dodon-aircheil ar āraim. - A ben, día rīs mo thūaith tind,
is barr ōir bias fort chind;
muc úr, laith, lemnacht la lind
rot-bīa lim and, a Bé Find.
A Bé Find, in rega lim
Fair lady, will you go with me
In blīadain ría tuidecht do Midir co Echaid do imbirt na fidchille boí oc tochmarc Étaíne, ocus nīsn-étad leis. Is ed ainm do-bered Midir dī Bé Find; conid de as-bert:
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Title (uniform): A Bé Find, in rega lim
Title (translation, English Translation): Fair Lady, Will You Go with Me?
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Date: 1996
Date: 2010
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Manuscript sources
- Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 1229, 131b (olim Lebor na hUidre olim 23 E 25, see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. 27, 3367). (U).
- Dublin, National Library of Ireland, G 4, col. 994 (formerly Phillipps 8214). (Y).
- Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1337, p. 606, col. 2 (olim H. 3. 18). (H).
Editions
- O. J. Bergin, R. I. Best, Tochmarc Étaíne, Ériu 12 (1938) 137-196.
- Ed. Müller, Two Irish Tales. II. Scéla Ailill & Étaine, Revue celtique 3 (1878) 351-360.
- Alfred Nutt, Tochmarc Étáine, Revue celtique 27 (1906) 325-339.
- Rudolf Thurneysen, Tochmarc Étaíne, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 22 (1941) 3-23.
- Ernst Windisch, Tochmarc Étáine. "Das Freien um Etain", Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch (Leipzig 1880).
Translations
- Christian-J. Guyonvarc'h, La Courtise d'Étain, Celticum 15 (1966) 283-327.
- A. H. Leahy, Heroic Romances of Ireland, translated into English prose and verse (1905-06).
- Ed. Müller, Two Irish Tales. II. Scéla Ailill & Étaine, Revue celtique 3 (1878) 351-360.
- L. C. Stern, Das Märchen von Etain, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 5 (1905) 522-534; 6 (1907) 243.
- Rudolf Thurneysen, Sagen aus dem alten Irland, übersetzt, 1901.
Sources, comment on the text, and secondary literature
- Myles Dillon, Tochmarc Éaíne, Irish Sagas (Thomas Davis Lectures, 1955) (Dublin 1959) no. 1, 11-23.
- M. E. Dobbs, The silver basin of Étaín, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 24 (1954) 201-203.
- L. Gwynn, The two versions of Tochmarc Étaíne, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 9 (1913) 353-356.
- Françoise Le Roux, Commentaire du texte, Celticum 15 (1966) 328-375.
- Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Tochmarc Eacute;taíne, Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad (1962) 89-96.
- Heinrich Zimmer, Keltische studien. V. Ueber den compilatorischen charakter der irischen sagentexte im sogenannten Lebor na hUidri. 4 Tochmarc Étáine, Zeitschrift für Sprachforschung 28 (1887) 585-594.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Fair Lady, Will You Go with Me?’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 104–106.
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Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.875–900
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- The text is in Old Irish. (ga)
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Keywords: poetry; medieval; saga
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