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Ach und Weh

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: 672 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G400080

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Sources

Manuscript Source
1. London, British Library, Additional 30,512 fo 34b1.

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: Ach und Weh [Uch, a Dé!] in Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie. Volume 3part 1, Halle a. d. Saale, Max Niemeyer (1907) page 215–246: 233

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Correction

Text has been checked and proof-read twice.

Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text on on p. 233. 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.

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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: [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: G400080

Ach und Weh: Author: [unknown]

p.233

Ach und Weh

1. Uch, a Dé!
   uch aniú is uch ané!
   uch amárach, romlaghar crith
   ar omun dol don bith cé.
2. Uchán, a Dé, mo dí láim
   ce beith trell oc sírgabáil,
   ce rabat athach a ces,¹
   dorónsat mór domn aimles.
3. Uch in adaig dorcha dall,
   uch in laithi fromtha finn!
   uchacán, a Dé do nim,
   don gábad fil ar mo chinn!
4. Uchán, a Dé, mo dá tháeb
   is mo dá slíasait ar óin,
   mo dí cholpa ro-clái dath,
   a Rí co rath spirta nóib.
5. Uchán, a Dé, mo dí chois
   ce ro bái dia laimthenas,
   ní lécid² dam dul a-mach.
   co ná fétaim traigthechas.
6. Uchán, uch!
   am lúaithe ná crand fri sruth,
   nocha n-imthigim³ clachán ná cloch,
   nocha n-abraim⁴ ach[t] ach is uch.

   Uch.