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- p.156
- Cétemain, cain cucht,
rée rosaír rann;
canait luin laíd láin
día laí grían gaí n-gann. - Gairid cuí chrúaid den;
is fo-chen sam saír:
suidid síne serb
i m-bi cerb caill chraíb. - Cerbaid sam súaill sruth;
saigid graig lúath linn;
lethaid fota fraích;
for-beir folt fann finn. - Fúapair sceith scell scíach;
im-reith réid rían rith;
cuirithir sál súan;
tuigithir bláth bith. - Berait beich (bec nert)
bert bonn bochtai bláith;
berid slabrai slíab:
feraid saidbir sáith. - Seinnid caille céol;
con-greinn séol síd slán;
síatair denn do dinn,
dé do loch linn lán. p.158 - Labraid tragna trén;
canaid ess n-ard n-úag
̇fáilti do thoinn té;
táinic lúachra lúad. - Lengait fainnle fúas;
im-said crúas cíuil cróich
for-beir mes máeth méth;
innisid loth loíth. - Leig lath fath feig;
fert ar-cain cuí chrúaid;
cuirithir brecc bedc;
is balc gedc láith lúaith. - Losaid foirbríg fer;
óg a m-búaid m-breg m-bras;
caín cach caille clár;
caín cach mag már mas. - Melldach rée rann;
ro fáith gaíth garb gam;
gel ros; toirthech tonn;
oll síd; subach sam. - Suidigthir íall én
i n-íath i m-bí ben;
búirithir gort glas
i m-bí bras glas gel. - Greit mer, imrim ech;
im-sernar sreth slúaig;
rosáer rath geilestar:
ór eilestar úaid. - Ecal aird fer fann;
fedil fochain ucht;
uiss ima-cain
“Cetemain, cain cucht”.
Cétemain, cain cucht
May-day
Ro fogluim-sim in trēide nemthigius filid .i. teínm lāega & imus for-osna & dīchedul di chennaib. Is ann sin do-róine Finn in laīg-si oc fromad a éicsi:
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Title (uniform): Cétemain, cain cucht
Title (translation, English Translation): May-Day
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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: 1039 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: G400052
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
- Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud 610, 120r.
Editions
- Kuno Meyer, Revue celtique 5 (1881-83), § 20, 201-202. With corrigenda in Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 1 (1900) 482.
- Kuno Meyer, [Céttemain cáin ré], Four Old Irish Songs of Summer and Winter (London 1903) 4 sq.
Translations
- K. Jackson, Studies in early Celtic nature poetry (Cambridge 1935) 23 sq., 41 sq.
- Kuno Meyer, [Céttemain cáin ré], Four Old Irish Songs of Summer and Winter (London 1903) 4 sq.
- Kuno Meyer, The Boyish Exploits of Finn, Ériu 1 (1904) 186-187.
- Kuno Meyer, Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry (London 1911) 54 sq.
The edition used in the digital edition
‘May-Day’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 156–158.
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Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.700–800
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- The text is in Old Irish. (ga)
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Keywords: poetry; medieval; nature; Fianna; Finn cycle
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- 2010-11-17: New wordcount made; conversion script run. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
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