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Ein Gebet Fursas

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: 571 words

Publication

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G400079

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Notes

Sources

Manuscript Source
1. London, British Library, Additional 30,512 fo 35b2.

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: Ein Gebet Fursas [Robé mainrechta Dé forsind fhormna-sa] in Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie. Volume 3part 1, Halle a. d. Saale, Max Niemeyer (1907) page 215–246: 232

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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Text has been checked and proof-read twice.

Normalization

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.

Quotation

There are no quotations.

Hyphenation

Soft hyphens are silently removed. When a hyphenated word (hard or soft) crosses a page-break, this break is marked after completion of the hyphenated word.

Segmentation

div0=the group of poems; div1=the individual poem. Page-breaks are marked pb n=""; manuscript foliation is marked mls unit="ms folio" and numbered.

Interpretation

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

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: [LA] One line is in Latin.

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

Revision History

• (2014-09-10)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• File updated.
• (2014-07-04)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• Header created, file proofed (2); markup completed, file parsed; SGML and HTML files created.
• (2014-07-04)

  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: G400079

Ein Gebet Fursas: Author: [unknown]

p.232

Ein Gebet Fursas

1. 1] Robé mainrechta Dé forsind [f]ormna-sa,
   2] robé torruma in spirta naoimh for in cend-sa,
   3] robé airde Críst isin édan-sa,
   4] robé ésdecht in spirta náimh isna clúasaib-sea,
   5] robé bolltanugad in spirta nóib isna srónaib-sea,
   6] robé imfaiccsin fer nime isna súilib-sea,
   7] robé comlabra fer nime isna bélaib-sea,
   8] robé lubair eculsa Dé isna lámaib-sea,
   9] robé les Dé ocus a choimnesa isna cosaib-sea,
   10] roba locc do Día in cride-sea,
   11] rob la Día athair uile in duine-sea!

   Credo ocus pater.