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Extent: 2050 words

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Manuscript sources for the Irish text

1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 610, folio 9vb–10ra18 (the text is preserved only in this manuscript. For a description of the manuscript see R. I Best, Bodleian MS. Laud 610, Celtica 3 (1956) 339; Myles Dillon, Laud Misc. 610, Celtica 5 (1960) 64–76; 6 (1963) 135–55)).
2. Extract from the metrical tracts.
3. Extracts from the metrical tracts.

Editions

1. George Petrie, Essay on the round towers of Ireland (Dublin 1845) 353–54 (prose only).
2. Heinrich Zimmer, Keltische Beiträge III, Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum 35 (1891) 100 (prose only; and inaccurate).
3. Kuno Meyer, Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts, IV (Song of the sea, ascribed to Ruman mac Colmáin), Otia Merseiana 2 (1900–01) 76–83 (first edition of poem; only reliable edition of the prose).
4. David Greene, Frank O'Connor, A golden treasury of Irish poetry A.D. 600 to 1200 (London 1967; repr. Dingle 1990) section 29, 126–29 (poem only, under the title The Tempest; with silent, radical, even creative, emendation).

Translations

1. George Petrie (cited above) 354–55 (prose only).
2. Heinrich Zimmer, Keltische Beiträge III, Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum 35 (1891) 100 (prose only).
3. Meyer (cited above) 78–83 (prose and verse).
4. Alexander Bugge, Nordisk sprog og nordisk nationalitet i Irland, Aarboger Nord Oldkyndighed Hist 15 (1905) 294–95 (part translation, part paraphrase in Norwegian, based on Zimmer's German translation, and not accurate).
5. Greene and O'Connor (cited above) 128–29 (a literary translation of a highly emended text).

Sources, comment on the text, and secondary literature

• Alexander Bugge, Nordisk sprog og nordisk natonalitet i Irland, Aarboger Nord Oldkyndighed Hist 15 (1905) 294–97.

The edition used in the digital edition

‘Song of the sea, ascribed to Ruman mac Colmáin: Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts 4’. In: Otia Merseiana‍ 2. Ed. by John Sampson, pp. 76–83.

You can add this reference to your bibliographic database by copying or downloading the following:

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  editor 	 = {Kuno Meyer},
  title 	 = {Song of the sea, ascribed to Ruman mac Colmáin: Stories and songs from Irish manuscripts 4},
  journal 	 = {Otia Merseiana},
  editor 	 = {John Sampson},
  volume 	 = {2},
  address 	 = {London},
  publisher 	 = {Th. Wohlleben},
  date 	 = {1900–01},
  pages 	 = {76–83}
}
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Project description: CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Sampling declarations

The text is based on Meyer's edition and all the editorial text with the corrections of the editor has been retained. The manuscript has been collated again by Donnchadh Ó Corráin and the results of this collation are reported in the apparatus. In addition, readings of David Greene and his emendations are reported in the apparatus. Kuno Meyer's English translation with introduction and footnotes is available in a separate file, T400071.

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Correction: Text has been checked, proof-read and parsed using NSGMLS.

Normalization: The electronic text represents the edited text. Compound words have, however, been hyphenated after CELT practice.

Quotation: There are no quotations.

Hyphenation: CELT practice.

Segmentation: div0=the poem. Metrical lines and quatrains are marked and numbered.

Interpretation: Names of persons (given names), and places are tagged. Terms for cultural and social roles are tagged.

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The n attribute of each text in this corpus carries a unique identifying number for the whole text.

The title of the text is held as the first head element within each text.

div0 is reserved for the text (whether in one volume or many).

The numbered quatrains provide a canonical reference.

Profile description

Creation: By an unknown Irish monastic scholar. The ascription to the famous poet Rumann mac Colmáin (ob. 747) is impossible on historical and linguistic grounds. 1000–1100

Language usage

• The text is in Middle Irish. (ga)
• The witness list is in English. (en)

Keywords: poetry; medieval; nature

Revision description

(Most recent first)

1. 2019-06-05: Changes made to div0 type. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
2. 2014-07-29: Minor changes to header and file (structure), arising from comparison with English translation; new wordcount made, new SGML and HTML files created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
3. 2010-11-17: New wordcount made; conversion script run. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
4. 2008-09-01: File validated. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
5. 2008-07-30: Keywords added. (ed. Ruth Murphy)
6. 2008-07-25: Value of div0 "type" attribute modified, content of 'langUsage' checked; minor modifications made to header. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
7. 2005-08-25: Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion (ed. Julianne Nyhan)
8. 2005-08-04T16:04:41+0100: Converted to XML (ed. Peter Flynn)
9. 1998-01-09: Header modified; file parsed using NSGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
10. 1997-09-16: Header modified; file parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
11. 1997-09-04: Header re-structured; text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Margaret Lantry)
12. 1996-09-05: Text parsed using SGMLS. (ed. Mavis Cournane)
13. 1996-09-05: Header constructed. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)
14. 1996-08-01: Structural and in-depth mark-up entered. Lineation checked and verified. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)
15. 1993: Text captured. Text collated with the original manuscript at Oxford. Lineation checked and verified. (ed. Donnchadh Ó Corráin)