Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G400090

An Old Irish poem on St. Patrick

Author: [unknown]

Background details and bibliographic information

File Description

Kuno Meyer

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber

Funded by University College, Cork, School of History

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 750 words

Publication

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt

(2014)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G400090

Availability

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

Notes

Sources

    Manuscript Source
  1. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Stowe, B. IV 2, fol. 143b.
    Internet availability of Meyer's annotated edition
  1. See http://www.ucc.ie/academic/smg/CDI/PDFs_textarchive/Meyer_Medley_Irish_Texts_ACL3.pdf
    Information on Kuno Meyer
  1. See http://mujweb.cz/enelen/km.htm
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Kuno Meyer, A Medley of Irish Texts: Poems I. An Old Irish poem on St. Patrick in Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie. Volume 3, Halle a. d. Saale, Max Niemeyer (1907) page 303–326: 303

Encoding

Project Description

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 p 303. 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. Footnotes contaning manuscript readings have been integrated as editorial corrections.

Quotation

There are no quotations.

Hyphenation

Hyphenation has been introduced in line with CELT practice.

Segmentation

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

Interpretation

Names, apart from a few place-names, are not tagged, nor are terms for cultural and social roles.

Profile Description

Created: By an unknown Irish poet Date range: Old Irish period..

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in Old Irish.
Language: [EN] The supplied title are in English.

Revision History