Betha Colaim ChilleUniversity of Illinois under the auspices of the Graduate school, 1918 - 516 pages |
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acht Acus Adamnan adubairt Agus aige aimser ainm airidhe Alba amach amail andsin angel aniugh assedh adubairt Baithin batar beith bidh blessed brath cedna cend chur church cind Colaim Colam cilli Colman Colum Columb cille Comgall Conall Conall Gulban Cormac corub crich cuaidh cuice cuir Dallan Dallan Forgaill damh death denamh derna Derry Día Diarmaid docum doib Domnall dorinde Druim duine Erend Erenn Fechtus fein fuair Gartan hath holy íad iarsin indus Iona Irish King of Erin maith manach Manus O'Donnell Mochuda monk muindtir n-Erind naemtha orra Padraic prophecy quatrain raibe Reeves remhe righ saints saith Columcille san inadh spake sruth tabairt tainic techt thee thereof thou uadha uair uile
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Page 53 - Right noble is your father; tell me your names." „Virginity and Wisdom and Prophecy are our names," say they, "and we shall be three wives to cherish thee till thy death and we shall foster and keep love for thee without change for ever." And then Columcille said: "I give glory and great thanks to Almighty God that hath joined and received me in wedlock with His own three noble daughters, and I but a poor lowly bondslave77." Ein jeder, der das Wesen der Volksüberlieferung und der mittelalterlichen...
Page 51 - And when the angel had departed from Columcille, anon there appeared to him three maidens that were passing young and beautiful and right fair and shining, such as he had never looked on before, and each maiden of them clasped her hands about his neck and they gave him three kisses. The lover of chastity, to wit, Columcille, turned a wry face and an ill visage upon these maidens, and he put from him their kisses as kisses corrupt and unclean, for he thought it was for sin they came to him. Then the...
Page x - ... and virtuous Earl, my Lord William Earl of Arundel, which desired me to proceed and continue the said work, and promised me to take a reasonable quantity of them when they were achieved and accomplished, and sent to me a worshipful gentleman, a servant of his named John Stanney, which solicited me in my lord's name that I should in no wise leave it, but accomplish it, promising that my said lord should during...
Page 39 - ... find it floating on the bosom of the lake ", saith he. ' And Ethne found the flagstone on the morrow as it had been told her, and she let bring it from the foresaid place. And albeit it floated on the surface of the lake, and Ethne's folk brought it away with them without labour, yet certain it is that it were a task for thirty men to bring it from the lake to the place where it is to-day. . . . ' And it befell that the foresaid flagstone was under him at his birth, and the child rested him crosswise...
Page xxxiv - ... in fastness of ditches and castles, by which Irishmen do great hurt in preying the same: it is enacted that every inhabitant, earth-tiller, and occupier in said marches, ie in the county of Dublin, from the water of...
Page xxiii - Cille offered himself to the Lord of the Elements, and begged three boons of Him, to wit, chastity, and wisdom, and pilgrimage. The three were fully granted to him.
Page x - I had begun to translate it, and to have laid it apart, ne had it been at the instance and request of the puissant, noble and virtuous Earl, my Lord William Earl of Arundel, which desired me to proceed and continue the said work, and promised me to take a reasonable quantity of them when they were achieved and accomplished, and sent to me a worshipful gentleman...
Page xxxiv - Uriel, as said marches are made and limitted by an Act of Parliament, held by William Bishop of Meath, do build and make a double ditch of six feet high above ground, at one side, or part which...
Page x - Then at the contemplation and reverence of my said lord I have endeavoured me to make an end and finish this said translation and also have imprinted it in the most best wise that I have, could or might, and present this said book to his good and noble lordship, as chief causer of the achieving of it, praying him to take it in gree of me William Caxton, his poor servant, and that it like him to remember my fee...
Page xxxiv - ... meareth next unto Irishmen, betwixt this and next Lammas, the said ditches to be kept up and repaired as long as they shall occupy said land, under pain of forty shillings, the lord of said lands to allow the old rent of said lands to the builder for one year, under said penalty. The Archbishop of Dublin, and the Sheriff of the county of Dublin, the Bishop...