Do gabsat ó gaírm in chet eóin 'cot chrochad a ghrúad mar géis nis chóir anad oc cói chaidche scarad lái is aidche da éis
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Confirmed with The Gaelic Journal, Dublin: the Gaelic Union, 1894. Included in Anecdota from Irish MSS., XII: Volume V, old no. 54, September 1894. Pages 93 - 94. At the Royal Irish Academy, in Dublin, the Leabhar Breac manuscript is number 1230, 23 P 16.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title, from The Speckled Book, 12th cent. [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Kuno Meyer (1858 - 1919) , no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 1 ; composed by David W. Guion.
- Also set in English, a translation by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980) , appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright © ; composed by Samuel Barber.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Kuno Meyer) , no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 1
- ENG English (Howard Mumford Jones) , appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright ©
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At the cry of the first bird They began to crucify Thee. O cheek like a swan! It [were]1 not right ever to cease lamenting. It was like the parting of day from night.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry, translated by Kuno Meyer, second edition, London: Constable & Co., 1913, page 99.
1 Guion: "was"Authorship:
- by Kuno Meyer (1858 - 1919), no title, appears in Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry,, in Crucifixion, no. 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title, from The Speckled Book, 12th cent.
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 (or a part of it) is used in a work
- by David W. Guion (1892 - 1981), "At the cry of the first bird", published 1924 [ voice and piano ], G. Schirmer
Researcher for this page: Melanie Trumbull
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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