Int én bec
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Ninth century Irish poem, found in Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Book of Ballymote, 295.5, and Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Book of Uí Maine 136v, col. 2 l, 45.
Text
[From Early Irish Lyrics, Eighth to Twelfth Century, ed. Gerald Murphy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956), 6.]
Int én bec
ro léic feit
do rinn guip
- glanbuidi:
fo-ceird faíd
ós Loch Laíg,
lon do chraíb
- charnbuidi.
Murphy Translation
The little bird which has whistled from the end of a bright-yellow bill: it utters a note above Belfast Lough – a blackbird from a yellow-heaped branch. [Murphy, 7]
Seamus Heaney Translation
The small bird
chirp-chirruped:
yellow neb,
- a note-spurt.
Blackbird over
Lagan water.
Clumps of yellow
- whin-burst!
[from http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SeamusHeaneyCentreforPoetry/]
