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- Is úar geimred; at-racht gáeth;
éirgid dam díscir dergbáeth;
nocha te in-nocht in slíab slán,
gé beith dam dían ac dordán. - Ní thabair a tháeb re lár
dam Sléibe Cairn na comdál;
ní luga at-chluin céol cúaine
dam Cinn Echtge innúaire. - Mise Caílte, is Díarmait donn,
ocus Oscar áith étrom,
ro choistmis re céol cúaine
deired aidche adúaire. - Is maith chotlas in dam donn
fuil is a chnes re Coronn
mar do beth fa Thuinn Túaige
deired aidche innúaire! - In-díu isam senóir sen;
ní aithnim acht becán fer;
ro chraithinn corrsleig co crúaid
i matain aigrid innúair. - A-tlochar do Ríg nime,
do Mac Maire ingine:
do-beirinn mór socht ar slúag
gé ber in-nocht co h-adúar.
Is úar geimred; at-racht gáeth
Description of winter and memory of the past
Is ann a-dubhairt Caīlte: “Inam”, ar sē, “do dhamhaib allaidi & d' eilltibh dul a n-innib cnoc & carrac an-osa; & inam ēignedh do dhul i cūasaib brūach”. & a-dubhairt an laīd:
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Title (uniform): Is úar geimred; at-racht gáeth
Title (translation, English Translation): Description of Winter and Memory of the Past
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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: 879 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: G400051
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
- Chatsworth, Book of Lismore, 3223c.
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud 610, 129v.
- Killiney, Co Dublin, Dún Mhuire Franciscan Library, MS of Acallam na Senórach, 46 col. 2.
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, B 487, 35v.
Editions
- S. H. O'Grady, Silva Gadelica (London 1892). 2 vols., p. 172.
- Whitley Stokes, Acallamh na Senórach, Irische Texte, 4th series, vol. 1 (Leipzig 1900) p. 100.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘Description of Winter and Memory of the Past’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 154.
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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)
- The subtitle is in English. (en)
Keywords: poetry; medieval; nature; Fíana; Caílte
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