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Messe ocus Pangur bán

Author: [unknown]

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Electronic edition compiled by Donnchadh Ó Corráin

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

2. Second draft, revised and corrected.

Extent of text: 1005 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G400001

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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.

Sources

Manuscript sources
1. Unterdrauberg Carinthia, MS Codex Sancti Pauli.

Editions
1. David Greene, Frank O'Connor, Meisse ocus Pangur Bán, A Golden Treasury of Irish Poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200 (London 1967) 81–83.
2. Joseph Manning, Pangur Bán, Academy 24 (1883) 419–20.
3. Whitley Stokes, John Strachan, Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. 2 (1903) 293–4.
4. Ernst Windisch, Irische Texte mit Wörterbuch (Leipzig 1880) 316.
5. Heinrich Zimmer, Glossae Hibernicae (Berlin 1881) 267–268.

Translations
1. David Greene, Frank O'Connor, Meisse ocus Pangur Bán, A Golden Treasury of Irish Poetry, A.D. 600 to 1200 (London 1967) 81–83. Into English.
2. Tadhg O'Donoghue, Pangur Bán, Ériu 1 (1904) 66. Modern Irish rendering.
3. Whitley Stokes, John Strachan, Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. 2 (1903) 293–4.

Sources, comment on the text, and secondary literature
1. W. J. Gruffydd, Pangur, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 7 (1933) 4.
2. Rudolf Thurneysen, Zum Gedicht von St. Paul II, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 4 (1903) 206.
3. Rudolf Thurneysen, Zur irischen Grammatik und Literatur, 2. Zum Gedicht von St. Paul, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 11 (1917) 308–309.
4. Victor Tourneur, Pangur Ban, Revue celtique 24 (1903) 412–413.

The edition used in the digital edition
1. Gerard Murphy, The Scholar and his Cat in Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century, Ed. Gerard Murphy. , Oxford, Clarendon Press (1956) page 2

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Profile Description

Created: By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria Date range: c.800–850.

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in Old Irish.

Language: [EN] The subtitle is in English.

Revision History

• (2010-11-15)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• File updated; new wordcount made; conversion script run.
• (2008-09-03)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• File validated.
• (2008-07-30)

  Ruth Murphy (ed.)

• Keywords added.
• (2005-08-25)

  Julianne Nyhan (ed.)

• Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion
• (2005-08-04T16:02:14+0100)

  Peter Flynn (ed.)

• Converted to XML
• (1997-09-05)

  Margaret Lantry (ed.)

• Header created; text parsed using SGMLS.
• (1996-02-05)

  Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.)

• Creation and insertion of TEI header for the anthology; revision of structural mark-up.
• (1996-02-05)

  Mavis Cournane (ed.)

• Revised text parsed and mark-up verfied using SGMLS.
• (1995-08)

  Tiarnán Ó Corráin (ed.)

• Checking and proofing text.
• (1995-02)

  Mavis Cournane (ed.)

• Checking and proofing text.
• (1994)

  Aideen O'Leary (ed.)

• Checking and proofing text.
• (1994)

  Patricia Kelly (ed.)

• Proofing and correction of edition.
• (1993)

  Donnchadh Ó Corráin (ed.)

• Data capture completed.

Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G400001

Messe ocus Pangur bán: Author: [unknown]

p.2

The scholar and his cat

1. Messe ocus Pangur Bán,
   cechtar nathar fri saindán:
   bíth a menma-sam fri seilgg,
   mu menma céin im saincheirdd
2. Caraim-se fos, ferr cach clú,
   oc mu lebrán, léir ingnu;
   ní foirmtech frimm Pangur Bán:
   caraid cesin a maccdán.
3. Ó ru biam, scél cen scís,
   innar tegdais, ar n-óendís,
   táithiunn, díchríchide clius,
   ní fris tarddam ar n-áthius.
4. Gnáth, h-úaraib, ar gressaib gal
   glenaid luch inna línsam;
   os mé, du-fuit im lín chéin
   dliged n-doraid cu n-dronchéill.
5. Fúaichaid-sem fri frega fál
   a rosc, a n-glése comlán;
   fúachimm chéin fri fégi fis
   mu rosc réil, cesu imdis.
6. Fáelid-sem cu n-déne dul
   hi n-glen luch inna gérchrub;
   hi tucu cheist n-doraid n-dil
   os mé chene am fáelid.
7. Cia beimmi a-min nach ré
   ní derban cách a chéle:
   maith la cechtar nár a dán;
   subaigthius a óenurán.
8. h-É fesin as choimsid dáu
   in muid du-ngní cach óenláu;
   du thabairt doraid du glé
   for mo mud céin am messe.