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Irish Quatrains [Cid becc—méd frighed—do locht; A rí rind]

Author: [unknown]

File Description

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber

Funded by University College, Cork and
Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project

1. First draft, revised and corrected.

Extent of text: 449 words

Publication

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G103001

Availability [RESTRICTED]

Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.

Sources

Manuscript Source
1. Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, MS 5100-4.

The edition used in the digital edition
1. Kuno Meyer, Irish Quatrains (Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften) in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie. Volume 1, Halle/Saale, Max Niemeyer (1897) page 327

Encoding

Project Description

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Text has been proof-read twice.

Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text. The English translation is included.

Quotation

There is no direct speech.

Hyphenation

There are no hyphens.

Segmentation

div0=the textgroup; div1=the individual Irish text/English translation. Page-breaks are marked pb n="".

Interpretation

Names are not tagged, nor are terms for cultural and social roles.

Profile Description

Use of language

Language: GA

Text is in Middle Irish.

Language: EN

The translation is in English.

Revision History

• (2004-09-20)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• Header constructed; file proofed (2) and marked up; file parsed, HTML file created.
• (1998)

  Staff of the CELT Project (ed.)

• File proofed (1); some structural markup added.
• (Pre-1997)

  Staff of the CURIA Project (text capture)

• Text scanned in.

Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G103001

Irish Quatrains [Cid becc—méd frighed—do locht; A rí rind]: Author: [unknown]

p.327

1. Cid becc—méd frighed—do locht,
   airighe for nech do chéin:
   cid médither slíab do locht,
   nocha n-airighe fort féin.

1. A rí rind!
   Cidh dubh mo thech nó cidh finn,
   nocha n-iadhfaither fri nech,
   nár' iadha Críst a thech frim.

1. Though a fault be small — the size of a fleshworm —
   Thou perceivest it on any one from afar:
   Though a fault be as big as a mountain,
   Thou dost not perceive it on thyself.

1. O king of stars!
   Whether my house be dark or bright,
   It shall not be closed against any one,
   Lest Christ close His house against me.