CELT document G400002

Dom-fharcai fidbaide fál

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    Dom-fharcai fidbaide fál

    The scribe in the woods

  1. Dom-̇farcai fidbaide fál
    fom-chain loíd luin, lúad nād cél;
    h-ūas mo lebrán, ind línech,
    fom-chain trírech inna n-én.
  2. Fomm-chain coí menn, medair mass,
    hi m-brot glass de dingnaib doss.
    Debrath! nom-Choimmdiu-coíma:
    caín-scríbaimm fo roída ross.

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Title statement

Title (uniform): Dom-fharcai fidbaide fál

Title (translation): The Scribe in the Woods

Responsibility statement

Electronic edition compiled by: Donnchadh Ó Corráin

Funded by: University College, Cork and Professor Marianne McDonald via the CURIA Project.

Edition statement

2. Second draft, revised and corrected.

Extent: 635 words

Publication statement

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: G400002

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

  • St Gall MS 904.

The edition used in the digital edition

‘The Scribe in the Woods’ (1956). In: Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century‍. Ed. by Gerard Murphy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 4.

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  editor 	 = {Gerard Murphy},
  title 	 = {The Scribe in the Woods},
  booktitle 	 = {Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century},
  editor 	 = {Gerard Murphy},
  address 	 = {Oxford},
  publisher 	 = {Clarendon Press},
  date 	 = {1956},
  pages 	 = {4}
}

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Profile description

Creation: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.800–850

Language usage

  • The text is in Old Irish. (ga)

Keywords: poetry; medieval; nature

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(Most recent first)

  1. 2010-11-15: File updated; new wordcount made; conversion script run. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
  2. 2008-11-07: Keywords added. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
  3. 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
  4. 2005-08-04T16:02:16+0100: Converted to XML (ed. Peter Flynn)
  5. 1997-09-05: Header created; text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
  6. 1996-02-05: Creation and insertion of TEI Header for the anthology; revision of structural mark-up. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)
  7. 1996-02-05: Revised text parsed and mark-up verified using SGMLS. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
  8. 1995-08: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Tiarnán Ó Corráin)
  9. 1995-02: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
  10. 1994: Checking and proofing text. (ed. Aideen O'Leary)
  11. 1994: Proofing and correction of edition. (ed. Patricia Kelly)
  12. 1993: Data capture completed. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)

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