]> Cétemain, cain cucht May-Day An electronic edition Electronic edition compiled by Donnchadh Ó Corráin University College, Cork Professor Marianne McDonald via the CURIA Project. Second draft. 1039 CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
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 Manuscript sources Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud 610, 120r. Editions Kuno Meyer, Revue celtique 5 (1881-83), § 20, 201-202. With corrigenda in Archiv für celtische Lexikographie 1 (1900) 482. Kuno Meyer, [Céttemain cáin ré], Four Old Irish Songs of Summer and Winter (London 1903) 4 sq. Translations K. Jackson, Studies in early Celtic nature poetry (Cambridge 1935) 23 sq., 41 sq. Kuno Meyer, [Céttemain cáin ré], Four Old Irish Songs of Summer and Winter (London 1903) 4 sq. Kuno Meyer, The Boyish Exploits of Finn, Ériu 1 (1904) 186-187. Kuno Meyer, Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry (London 1911) 54 sq. The edition used in the digital edition Gerard Murphy May-Day Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century Gerard Murphy Oxford Clarendon Press 1956 156–158

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 By anonymous authors in Irish monastic scriptoria c.700–800 The text is in Old Irish. The subtitle is in English. poetry medieval nature Fíana Finn 2010-11-17 Beatrix Färber ed. New wordcount made; conversion script run. 2008-09-01 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 2005-08-04T16:04:21+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. Cétemain, cain cucht May-day

Ro fogluim-sim in trēide nemthigius filid .i. teínm lāega & imus for-osna & dīchedul di chennaib. Is ann sin do-róine Finn in laīg-si oc fromad a éicsi:

 Cétemain, cain cucht, rée ro⋅aír rann; canait luin laíd láin día laí grían gaí n-gann. Gairid cuí chrúaid den; is fo-chen sam saír: suidid síne serb i m-bi cerb caill chraíb. Cerbaid sam súaill sruth; saigid graig lúath linn; lethaid fota fraích; for-beir folt fann finn. Fúapair sceith scell scíach; im-reith réid rían rith; cuirithir sál súan; tuigithir bláth bith. Berait beich (bec nert) bert bonn bochtai bláith; berid slabrai slíab: feraid saidbir sáith. Seinnid caille céol; con-greinn séol síd slán; síatair denn do dinn, dé do loch linn lán. Labraid tragna trén; canaid ess n-ard n-úag &fdot;áilti do thoinn té; táinic lúachra lúad. Lengait fainnle fúas; im-said crúas cíuil cróich for-beir mes máeth méth; innisid loth loíth. Leig lath fath feig; fert ar-cain cuí chrúaid; cuirithir brecc bedc; is balc gedc láith lúaith. Losaid foirbríg fer; óg a m-búaid m-breg m-bras; caín cach caille clár; caín cach mag már mas. Melldach rée rann; ro fáith gaíth garb gam; gel ros; toirthech tonn; oll síd; subach sam. Suidigthir íall én i n-íath i m-bí ben; búirithir gort glas i m-bí bras glas gel. Greit mer, imrim ech; im-sernar sreth slúaig; ro⋅áer rath geilestar: ór eilestar úaid. Ecal aird fer fann; fedil fochain ucht; uiss ima-cain Cetemain, cain cucht.