Promiscuity | I do not know with whom Edan will sleep

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (1909 - 1991)

Ní fetar

Language: Irish (Gaelic)

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.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 9^th 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 ; composed by Samuel Barber.

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Ernst Wilhelm Oskar Windisch)

Researcher for this page: Melanie Trumbull

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Promiscuity

Language: English after the Irish (Gaelic)

Our translations: FRE

I do not know with whom Edan will sleep,
but I do know that fair Edan will not sleep alone.

Text Authorship:

by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (1909 - 1991), "Promiscuity", appears in A Celtic Miscellany, first published 1951 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title
- Go to the text page.

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

by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Promiscuity", op. 29 no. 7 (1953), published 1954 [voice and piano], from Hermit songs, no. 7. [
text verified 1 time
]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this page: René Slot

This text was added to the website: 2004-01-18
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Word count: 20