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Sgían mo charad ar mo chliú

Author: Unknown

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Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber

Funded by School of History, University College Cork

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 748 words

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

(2012)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: G402251

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Sources

    Manuscript sources
  1. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 743 (olim A iv 3), 17th century.
  2. Dublin, National Library of Ireland, G 334b, written by Seamus Ó Dubhgain, 1730.
  3. Dublin, National Library of Ireland, G 148, written by Seamus Ó Dubhgain and others, 1722–28.
  4. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 985 (olim 23 H 39), written by P. Ó Conaill and others, 18th–19th century.
  5. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 258 (olim 23 G 25), written by M. Ó Longáin, 1810–31.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Osborn Bergin, Sgían mo charad ar mo chliú in Irish Bardic Poetry, Ed. Osborn Bergin. , Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (1970) page 192–193

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Profile Description

Created: By an Irish bardic poet; according to the Irish Bardic Poetry Database Muiris mac Daibhi Duibh MacGearailt Date range: c.1200–1225.

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in Classical Modern Irish.

Revision History

Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G402251

Sgían mo charad ar mo chliú: Author: Unknown

p.192

  1. 1] Sgían mo charad ar mo chliú,
    2] nírsum ralag mían na mná,
    3] ní racha ar ngrádh dhí gach día,
    4] go ría slán an tí gá ttá.
  2. 5] Ní holc í, ní dáor a dealbh,
    6] gé cáomh a lí, ní lí gharbh:
    7] an tí do sgeach an sgían ghorm,
    8] fíal um chorn um each 's um arm.
  3. 9] Atá a sáith uirre don ór,
    10] agus buinni bláith ré a bél:
    11] tug an ghég dhonnmhailghioch dhúnn
    12] an séd úr gormfhaighnioch gér.
  4. 13] Áith agus leabhar a los,
    14] bláith agus sleamhan a slios:
    15] do-rad úaidh an cíabhfhann cas
    16] íarann glas crúaidh ar mo chrios.

    5. p.193

  5. 17] Faighin dúalach agá díon,
    18] go húallach agus go húr,
    19] órchluidhe trom ina táobh,
    20] cráobh lom chróchbhuidhi 'na cúl.
  6. 21] Bean do mhnáibh an tíre theas,
    22] go gcnáimh sídhe mar an snas,
    23] banMhuimhnioch cháomh ar mo chrios,
    24] go slios cháomh ghlandruimnioch ghlas.
  7. 25] Donnchadh Cairbrioch na gcon gcáomh,
    26] ní hairgthioch ar chrodh na gclíar,
    27] trilis roimhín fhionn mar ór,
    28] lór liom fám sgloimhín a sgían.
  8. 29] Máol Rúanaidh, rannaire an ríogh,
    30] go ndúalaigh cambuidhi a chíabh,
    31] gnúis cháidh mar fhuil nó mar fhíon,
    32] go díol cáigh ní sguir, a sgían.