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 Manuscript Source Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, MS no. 1225, The Book of Ui Maine, Stowe, D II 1, (c. 1394), fo. 66 (123)a (=Meyer's p.115b2). The manuscript is available online at ISOS (http://www.isos.dias.ie/english/index.html) (Dena mo teagosc, a Thrinóit). This poem is contained in the Bardic Poetry Database, no. 992, entitled 'Fuigheall beannacht bru Mhuire'; it is contained in other manuscripts; and in one of them, Book of Lismore, it is attributed to 'Tadhg Og'. Internet availability of Meyer's annotated edition See http://www.ucc.ie/academic/smg/CDI/PDFs_textarchive/Meyer_Neue_Mitteilungen_ACL3.pdf Edition/Translation Lambert McKenna (ed. and trans.), Aithdioghluim Dána, A Miscellany of Irish Bardic Poetry, Historical and Religious, including the Historical Poems of the Duanaire in the Yellow Book of Lecan. Vol I, Introduction and Text. (London: Irish Texts Society 1939), poem no. 49. Information on Kuno Meyer See http://mujweb.cz/enelen/km.htm The edition used in the digital edition Kuno Meyer Neue Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Die heilige Jungfrau [Fuigeall beandacht brú Muiri] Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie 3 1 Halle a. d. Saale Max Niemeyer 1907 215–246: 244–246

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 By an unknown Irish author c.1200–1225 The text is in Middle Irish. One word is in Latin. The supplied title and text in one footnote is in German. poetry medieval religious Virgin Mary 2014-09-11 Beatrix Färber ed. File updated. 2014-07-10 Beatrix Färber ed. File proofed (2); markup completed; File parsed; SGML and HTML files created. 2014-07-09 Beatrix Färber ed. Poem converted to XML. Header created. 1996 Vibeke Dijkman ed. First proofing; structural markup added. 1996 Students at the CURIA project text capture Text scanned in. Die heilige Jungfrau

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 Fuigeall beandacht brū Muiri, eochair ra fōir ⋅ochaidhi, glas gach duine da-bī a mbroit, is ī uile da oslaic. Nī thabair gilla ar a gart tūar mar thorad na mbennacht, nocho leagh in torad tig neam ocus talam tremit. Scēl lem al-lus na mbennacht fa&fdot;ūair Muiri mōrchendacht, nī cuir sind ar inn ēn ōir acht scēl bus bind don bhanōig. Lā da Iacim d'athair Muire le hāenboin da hāengaire, da-cī nāenmur go nēim ngloin 'sa mbrāenmagh rēid da rochtain. R[e]ic a bhō d'&fdot;is a echta da cuindig in cuidechta, lesc le fer a mallbō a-mach isin t⋅amlō geal grīanach. Gabas ūaithib gach feidm dō cennach da cind a āenbō, nocor cean[n]ach nār gab greim damhar in t-eallach d'Iacim. A nāe mbennachta ar in bhoin tucsat dō a n-ucht a ēdaig, bennacht in nāenmair ōgh find robo lōr d'āenboin Iacim. Ïadais a ucht umpu sin, tēid 's a ben leō 'sa leabaid, bentar ria 'sa leabaid leis mar da c[h]edaig Dīa in deig&fdot;eis. Tecmaid and sin, sūairc in greim, Muire mōr do mnāi Iacim, deaghachain hē rob ē in fear seanathair Dē fa deredh. Dīa tresin mbennachtain mbind grādaigis ingen Iacim, suirgi ris da-roinne sī, as nīr bris a hōigi in t-Ardrī. Gabais Gabriēl 'ga guidi ōn athair co hōgh-Muiri, tic sanais da Muiri mhōir, gabais 'na craidi a cēdōir. Cor torrach Muire mātha[i]r co hidan don urrlātha[i]r, Gabrial re bruindi nīr ben nirb anliadh uirri in t-aingel. Trī rāithi a medōn Mhuiri gein ⋅ochair na sochaidi, in t-āengein da bī fa broind 'na trī hæiblib ra ursaing. Rug in uaisg mhīngel Muiri ūan corcra a crū asaine, inad ūar dotla nīr dligh 's a hūan corcra 'man cæirigh. Rucad isin Bethil buig Ardrī nime fa notlaig, thuc rith a grēin mar do gein, cor tēigh in bith da bruithin. Oslaigid re hucht in sgeōil fuindeōga ēsca as æōir, cor lāi in grīan a doirsi di dlæi ar a soillsi rīam ro[i]me. In t-ëur lān da loisi, rob urusa a urmaisi, ōs cind nāem-Muiri co neam 'na āendhoiri findaingel. Na fāidi, faillsigther dōib Airdrī in betha 'gun banōig, coindel ōs cind a hochta, loinder find na hōghdachta. Tūis dō ar a dīadacht, dāil glan, ōr ar a rīg[d]acht rugad, a lind, nocho trāig re tart, mirr 'na dail ar a dāenacht. Indistir d'Irūath and sin co rug ben isa Bethil, in t-eō sēnta cas corcra dar' las rēllta rīgdachta. Cuiris a t[h]eglach da thūr tre formad is tre imthnūth, d'īarraid Dē, gin gur' dotla, sē a ndīamhair na dīadachta. Marbt[h]ar gach mac, mōr in gnīm, da raibi a n-æis in Airdrīgh; da marbad Dē, gin cor' dlig, rob ē adbar in o[i]rligh. Da bātar lā a lurg Muiri muinter Irūaith iulaidhi, tarla a nglind a grūad corcra le hūan find ar folachta. Tarrla Grigair ar in nglend, dalta Irūa[i]th na n-ōrbend, adcī in stūag ceandglan corcra ūad delrad na dīadachta. Tuc Grigair grād a anma don nāeidin ōig oscurda, cro Grigair gan rath na r[e]abh da minaigh cath 'ga chosnamh. Cēt-Grigair dacūaid 'se Rōimh, is ē, mas fīr don c[h]anōin, Grigair 'sa Rōim re seal sin, fer inaid Pōil is Peadair. 'Ga īarraid ar muin Muiri darindi in mac mirbuili, a tāeb fīrtbhān fa ferta 'na mīngrān cāemh cruithnechta. In[n]isid, is ē 'ga ar, fer a faicsin tre adh[ ], in lā sin tre lorg a mbond fāsaig a colg 's a colond. Tic in ūair sin tresin n-ar muinter Irūa[i]th na n-adrad, ger prap sain da bās 'ga būain ar fās in air re hāenūair. Tāinic lā a-muigh da Muiri mīan meassa in chraind chumraidi, a barr cor' lomair da lāim, cromaid in crand 'na comdāil. In ūair da c[h]aith Īsa caill a lōr da meas in mōrchraind, mar da cham don mīngil mhōir, dīrgid in crand a cēdōir. Dīrgead misi māthair Dē, inand ar fuil 's ar feōilchrē, in cræib find, in ēitni ōir, lēigt[h]i sind sāer 'na honōir. Grāin lium do loscud m'anma, m'aeibli loma lasamhna, mē ocus teine ar mo thengaid, sele Dē re dreithleandaib. Sēidead na dreithleanna dīnd in bēl ro-bīath in t-Airdrīgh, in druim ara ndechaid muin dom-buing ō dethaig dīabuil! In cīch da cuired 'na bēl [e]adrum is iffearnd armgēr, da geb connailbe Dē de mē ar comairge na cīche! [E]adrum as allt na crōnecrón f., eine Bezeichnung des Höllengrundes; vgl. 216 Anm. 4. co mbē mac na mōrōighe! cnū beō mogail ar muini, eō tobair na trōcairi. Dabach glanta gach gilli, fothrugud na fīrindi, geal asa dabaig gach dream na samail flead re fuigeall. Fuigell.