]> Int én bec The Blackbird by Belfast Loch An electronic edition Electronic edition compiled by Donnchadh Ó Corráin University College, Cork Professor Marianne McDonald via the CURIA Project. Second draft, revised and corrected. 683 CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
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 Manuscript sources Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Book of Ballymote, 295.5 (B). Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Book of Uí Maine 136v, col. 2 l, 45 (M). Editions Rudolf Thurneysen, Mittelirische Verslehren (Text III, § 167), Irische Texte 3rd series, vol. 1 (Leipzig 1891) 99. The edition used in the digital edition Gerard Murphy The Blackbird by Belfast Loch Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century Gerard Murphy Oxford Clarendon Press 1956 6

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 By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.800–900 The text is in Old Irish. The subtitle is in English. poetry medieval nature 2010-11-15 Beatrix Färber ed. File updated; new wordcount made; conversion script run. 2008-09-03 Beatrix Färber ed. File validated. 2008-07-30 Ruth Murphy ed. Keywords added. 2005-08-25 Julianne Nyhan ed. Normalised language codes and edited langUsage for XML conversion 2005-08-04T16:02:22+0100 Peter Flynn ed. Converted to XML 1997-09-05 Margaret Lantry ed. Header created; text parsed using SGMLS. 1996-02-05 Donnchadh Ó Corráin ed. Creation and insertion of TEI Header for the anthology; revision of structural mark-up. 1996-02-05 Mavis Cournane ed. Revised text parsed and mark-up verified using SGMLS. 1995-08 Tiarnán Ó Corráin ed. Checking and proofing text. 1995-02 Mavis Cournane ed. Checking and proofing text. 1994 Aideen O'Leary ed. Checking and proofing text. 1994 Patricia Kelly ed. Proofing and correction of edition. 1993 Donnchadh Ó Corráin ed. Data capture completed. Int én bec The blackbird by Belfast Loch Int én bec ro léic feit do rinn guip glanbuidi: fo-ceird faíd ós Loch Laíg, lon do chraíb charnbuidi.