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- Forud na Fíann fás in-nocht
gus 'ticed Finn fáebarnocht;
do bás na flatha gan brón
is fás Alma úasalmór. - Ní marat in muinter maith;
ní marann Finn in fír-̇flaith;
ní ̇fuil in cuire gan chleith
ná ruire 'mon ríg-̇féinnid. - Is marb uile Fíanna Finn,
gé do-chúatar glinn do glinn;
olc a-tú i n-díaid na ríg rán,
tar éis Díarmata is Conán, - D' éis Guill meic Morna don maig
ocus Ailella cétaig,
íar n-díth Éogain in gaí glais
ocus Conall don chét-̇frais. - A-deirimse rib reime;
is fír ina ráideim-ne:
is mór ar n-esbada ann
gan Dub díbraicthech Drumann. - Ar n-díth na cuire is na cét
is trúag nách ann ̇fúarus éc,
íarna n-dul a h-or i n-or
gérbo forlán in Forud.
Forud na Fíann fás in-nocht
The passing of the Fíana
& at-bert Caīlte
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Title (uniform): Forud na Fíann fás in-nocht
Title (translation, English Translation): The Passing of the Fíana
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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.
Extent: 838 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: G400050
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
Date: 1996
Date: 2010
- Chatsworth, Book of Lismore, 222c (B).
- Oxford Bodleian Library Rawlinson B 487, 34r (R).
- Killiney, Co Dublin, Francisan Library Dún Mhuire, 44 col. 2 (F).
- Oxford Bodleian Library, Laud Misc 610, 129r (L).
Editions
Date: 1996
Date: 2010
- S. H. O'Grady, Silva Gadelica (London 1892). 2 vols., p. 168 sq.
- Whitley Stokes, Acallamh na Senórach, Irische Texte, 4th series, vol. 1 (Leipzig 1900) p. 95.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘The Passing of the Fíana’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 152.
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Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.1150–1200
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- The text is in Middle and Early Modern Irish. (ga)
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Keywords: poetry; medieval; lament; Fíana; Caílte
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- 2010-11-16: New wordcount made; conversion script run. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
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