Ní fetar cía lasa fífea Etan acht ro-fetar Etan bán nícon fífea a óenarán.
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This text comes from anonymous manuscript MS 1318, part 16, located at Trinity College, Dublin, from the epic Fled Bricrenn, ocus Loinges mac n-Duíl Dermait; confirmed with a German translation by Ernst Windisch, shown in parallel with the original Irish/Gaelic, from the scholarly journal Irische Texte mit Übersetzungen und Wörterbuch. Zweite Serie, erster Heft, Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1884, Page 180.
Authorship
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 9th century ) , no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (1909 - 1991) , "Promiscuity", appears in A Celtic Miscellany, first published 1951 FRE GER ; composed by Samuel Barber.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Melanie Trumbull)
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Ich weiss nicht, mit wem Etan schlafen wird, aber ich weiss, Etan die Weisse nicht wird sie allein schlafen.
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Confirmed with Irische Texte mit Übersetzungen und Wörterbuch. Zweite Serie, erster Heft, Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1884, from the translation of the epic Fled Bricrenn, ocus Loinges mac n-Duíl Dermait, or in German, Das Fest des Bricriu und die Verbannung der MacDuil Dermait, page 200.
Authorship
- by Ernst Wilhelm Oskar Windisch (1844 - 1919) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- 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)
- [ None yet in the database ]
This text was added to the website: 2017-08-27
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Word count: 19