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Gebet um Thränen

Author: [unknown]

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Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber

Funded by University College, Cork, School of History

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 634 words

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Text ID Number: G400078

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Sources

Manuscript Source
1. London, British Library, Additional 30,512 fo 30b1.

Internet availability of Meyer's annotated edition
1. See http://www.ucc.ie/academic/smg/CDI/PDFs_textarchive/Meyer_Neue_Mitteilungen_ACL3.pdf

Information on Kuno Meyer
1. See http://mujweb.cz/enelen/km.htm

The edition used in the digital edition
1. Kuno Meyer, Neue Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften: Gebet um Thränen [Tucc dam, a Dé móir] in Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie. Volume 3, Halle a. d. Saale, Max Niemeyer (1907) page 215–246: 232

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The electronic text represents the edited text on on p. 232. 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.

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Profile Description

Created: By an unknown Irish author Date range: c.600–900.

Use of language

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

Language: [DE] The supplied title is in German.

Revision History

• (2014-09-09)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• File updated.
• (2014-07-03)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• Header created, file proofed (2); markup completed, file parsed; SGML and HTML files created.
• (2014-07-03)

  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.

Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G400078

Gebet um Thränen: Author: [unknown]

p.232

Gebet um Thränen

1. Tucc dam, a Dé móir,
   for bith cé, ní cél,
   ar píanu na plág
   tonna díana dér
2. Dom-roiched for rith
   soithech ná rop saich,
   co roich m'óenar moch
   ar gach mbægol mbraith.
3. Uchán, a Chríst cáid,
   gan sruthán dom grúaid,
   feib tucais in linn
   don bandscáil timm trúaig.
4. Uchán ar gach n-alt
   gan sruthán darm ucht,
   cu rob nige a-nocht
   dom chride is dom churp.
5. Ar gach senóir sruith
   forfágaib a thoich,
   ar do rígi réil,
   ar do chéimm ar croich.
6. Ar cach óin ro-chí
   a chin ar bith ché,
   mo chlóine, a Dé bí,
   co ro-c[h]óine mé.
7. Ar do maith co mór,
   ar do flaith cen lén,
   co hopunn, co húain
   tuc dam topur dér.
8. A mo dile, a Dé,
   am chridi do c[h]rú
   déra dam, a Dé,
   cé ro-béra ach[t] tu?

   Tuc.