http://animalwiki.imareal.sbg.ac.at/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Int_%C3%A9n_becInt én bec - Revision history2026-05-27T22:24:24ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.27.1http://animalwiki.imareal.sbg.ac.at/index.php?title=Int_%C3%A9n_bec&diff=3322&oldid=prevJargogle: Created page with "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 '..."2012-05-23T17:48:17Z<p>Created page with "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 '..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>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.<br />
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==Text==<br />
[From ''Early Irish Lyrics, Eighth to Twelfth Century'', ed. Gerald Murphy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956), 6.]<br />
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Int én bec <br />
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ro léic feit <br />
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do rinn guip <br />
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:glanbuidi: <br />
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fo-ceird faíd <br />
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ós Loch Laíg, <br />
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lon do chraíb <br />
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:charnbuidi.<br />
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==Murphy Translation==<br />
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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]<br />
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==Seamus Heaney Translation==<br />
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The small bird<br />
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chirp-chirruped:<br />
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yellow neb,<br />
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:a note-spurt.<br />
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Blackbird over<br />
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Lagan water.<br />
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Clumps of yellow<br />
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:whin-burst!<br />
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[from http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SeamusHeaneyCentreforPoetry/]</div>Jargogle