Es hat uns gebrochen (Meyer) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation by Kuno Meyer (1858 - 1919)

Ro 'n‑bris, ro 'n‑brúi, ro 'n‑báid

Language: Irish (Gaelic)

Ro 'n-bris, ro 'n-brúi, ro 'n-báid
A Rí ríchid rindglaine
Ro 'n-geilt in gáeth feib geiles
Nem-áed forderg fidnaige

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Irisleabhar Ceilteach, Volumes 1 - 2. Toronto: Tir Teanga Ceol, circa 1952. Page 145. Manuscript source: Trinity College, Dublin: MS 1318 (H. 2. 16)

Authorship

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 8^th-9^th century ) , no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in English, a translation sometimes misattributed to Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (1909 - 1991) and by Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin, né John Francis Whelan (1900 - 1991) , "The wind", appears in The Silver Branch, copyright © ; composed by Samuel Barber.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Kuno Meyer) , no title

Researcher for this text: Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2019-12-10
Line count: 4
Word count: 19

Es hat uns gebrochen

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Irish (Gaelic)

Es hat uns gebrochen 
Es hat uns zermalmt 
Es hat uns ertränkt 
O König des sternerglänzenden Himmelreichs. 
Der Sturm hat uns verzehrt 
Wie tiefrotes Himmelsfeuer Holzwerk verzehrt.

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Confirmed with Bruchstücke der älteren Lyrik Irlands. Aus den Abhandlungen der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philologisch - Historisch Klasse, nr. 7. Erster Teil., Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1919, page 67.

Authorship

by Kuno Meyer (1858 - 1919), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on

a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, no title

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

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Also set in English, a translation by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (1909 - 1991) , "The wind", appears in A Celtic Miscellany, first published 1951, copyright © FRE GER ; composed by Samuel Barber.

Researcher for this text: Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2016-01-28
Line count: 6
Word count: 27