]> An Old Irish poem on St. Patrick Pátraic Macha mártai Gáidil An electronic edition Kuno Meyer Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber University College, Cork, School of History First draft. 815 CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
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 Manuscript Source Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Stowe, B. IV 2, fol. 143b. Internet availability of Meyer's annotated edition See http://www.ucc.ie/academic/smg/CDI/PDFs_textarchive/Meyer_Medley_Irish_Texts_ACL3.pdf Information on Kuno Meyer See http://mujweb.cz/enelen/km.htm The edition used in the digital edition Kuno Meyer A Medley of Irish Texts: Poems I. An Old Irish poem on St. Patrick Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie 3 1 Halle a. d. Saale Max Niemeyer 1907 303–326: 303

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The electronic text represents the edited text on p 303. In Meyer's edition, the acute accent and the macron are used to mark long vowels. Editorial corrections and expansions are marked. Hyphenation and word separation have been brought in line with CELT practice. Footnotes contaning manuscript readings have been integrated as editorial corrections.

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 By an unknown Irish poet Old Irish period. The text is in Old Irish. The supplied title are in English. poetry medieval religious St. Patrick 2014-09-12 Beatrix Färber ed. File updated. 2014-07-30 Beatrix Färber ed. TEI header created; file proofed (2), expansions, footnotes and supplied text encoded. File parsed; SGML and HTML files created. 2014-07-28 Beatrix Färber ed. Poem converted to XML. 1996 Vibeke Dijkman ed. First proofing; structural markup added. 1996 Students at the CURIA project text capture Text scanned in. An Old Irish poem on St. Patrick Pātraicc Macha mārtai Gāidil, glaine rīagla, pritchais doïb cen chleith coemna sē deich mblīadhna. Bathais Pātraic fodarōenaig, rīgda ind rīagail, dus-fuc Pātraic cen ail n-ūaboir a taig dīaboil. Doïb bas brithem dia brātha, bret[h] as doidngiu, nī fuil nōeb connī a airde co tī in Coimdiu. Coimdiu feisin dou doridnacht fonn ar feraind, is leis fīr gach Gōidil glanuill do hsīl Breguinn. Bratir dūn ardabstail Ērenn, ind nōib rōitir, rothecht seochu mac mec Fotaid cert cech cōicid. Co rooirdnestar slūag sacart, sruith in dīne, līn forsrolēg grād co nūibe, teora mīle. Mad in slūag n-ardepscop n-ūasal, ūaisliu dānaib, secht cōicait n-epscop n-ūag n-ōebin ūad fo grādaibh. Grīan gel Gōidel, glēre garta, rēle ar rechta, lē[i]r ralēg cen luithe lochtai suithe sechta. Secht cēt aipgitrech ra-scrībai, screptra scrībenn, secht cēt celd ba cāin dos-rorann do Māil īrenn. Ardchell dorrāighai dō feisin, fonn na flatha, adba n-arcc n-ōg īarthair betho Ard mōr Macha. Madh an ro-dūsaig do marbaib, is mó mīlib, nī &fdot;ail cenn connī a ārim, is drem dīrim. D'egnuib īarthair dūisig domuin is dō tārctait, do lou brāthai cech fis fīrtait is fris dāltait, is ē a flaith fīrda fōemtaitt prīmda Pātraic. Pa. Epscop Hērenn ocus sacart, sruithe sāmtait, d'egnoibh Ērenn is ed lēgdait, lēgenn Pātraic. Pat.