Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: T201010

On the Life of St. Brigit

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Whitley Stokes

translated by Whitley Stokes

Electronic edition compiled by Ruth Murphy

Funded by University College, Cork and
Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project

1. First draft, revised and corrected.

Extent of text: 9425 words

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(2001) (2008)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: T201010

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Sources

    Editions, Translations and Secondary Literature
  1. Whitley Stokes, A Parallel. RC III (1878) 443f. [The story of Brigit and Breccán from Lebar Brecc (63b), with translation.]
  2. Whitley Stokes, Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore. Ed. with a transl. and notes, 1890 (Brigit).
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    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Three Middle-Irish Homilies on the Lives of Saints Patrick, Brigit and Columba. Whitley Stokes First edition [36 pp.] [One hundred copies privately printed.]Calcutta (1877)

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The present text represents pages 51–87 of the volume. All editorial introduction, translation, notes and indexes have been omitted. Editorial corrections and additions on pp. 138–140 of the printed edition are integrated in the electronic edition and tagged corr sic="" resp="WS".

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Profile Description

Created: Translation by Whitley Stokes. (1876)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The translation is in English.
Language: [LA] Some words and phrases are in Latin.

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