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Anonymous, "Dom-farcai Fidbaidæ Fál" (851; translated as "Writing Out of Doors" and "The Scribe in the Woods")

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Editorial Note

Máire MacNeill prefaces her translation of this medieval Irish poem as follows:

"This ninth-century lyric was found in the margin of Priscian's treatise on Latin grammer in the monastery of St. Gall, near Lake Constance, Switzerland, a monastery famous for its library of Irish manuscripts. The Irish St. Gall (d. 645) is the Swiss patron saint." (21)

Comments:

Irish Version

Anonymous, “Dom-farcai Fidbaidæ Fál”

 

Translation by James Carney

Anonymous, "Writing Out of Doors"

 

Translation by Máire MacNeill

Anonymous, "The Scribe in the Woods"

 

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Source

Original

- Anonymous, "Dom-farcai Fidbaidæ Fál." 851. Medieval Irish Lyrics. Ed. and trans. James Carney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. 22.

Translations

- Anonymous, "Writing Out of Doors." Medieval Irish Lyrics. Ed. and trans. James Carney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. 23.

- Anonymous, "The Scribe in the Woods." Medieval Irish Lyrics. Trans. Máire MacNeill. An Irish Literature Reader: Poetry, Prose, Drama. 1987. Eds. Maureen O'Rourke Murphy and James MacKillop. 2nd ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. 21.

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