

#Ein altirisches Gedicht über das Ende der Welt


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Ein altirisches Gedicht über das Ende der Welt
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Author: Unknown
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Kuno MeyerElectronic edition compiled by Benjamin Hazard

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**Manuscript Source**2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 615, pp. 132–34. For full MS details see Brian Ó Cuív (ed.), Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Oxford College Libraries; 2 vols. (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2001–2003) 88–100.
**Secondary Literature (For literature about the Apocrypha, click on https://celt.ucc.ie/Apocrypha.pdf)**2. St. John D. Seymour, Notes on Apocrypha in Ireland, in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 26 (1926) Class C: 107–117.
3. David N. Dumville, Biblical Apocrypha and the Early Irish, in: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 (1973) C: 299–338.
4. Martin McNamara, The Apocrypha in the Irish Church (Dublin: DIAS 1975; corrected reprint 1984).
5. Martin McNamara, Early medieval Irish eschatology, in: Próinséas Ní Chatháin and Michael Richter (eds.), Ireland and Europe in the Early Middle Ages: learning and literature—Irland und Europa im früheren Mittelalter: Bildung und Literatur (Stuttgart 1996) 42–75.
6. Thomas O'Loughlin, The Celtic homily: Creeds and Eschatology, in Milltown Studies 41 (1998) 99–115.
7. Benjamin Hudson, Time is Short: The Eschatology of the Early Gaelic Church, in: Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman (eds.), Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia 2000) 101–123.
8. Martin McNamara, Apocalyptic and Eschatological Heritage (Dublin 2003).
**The edition used in the digital edition**2. **Kuno Meyer**, Ein altirisches Gedicht über das Ende der Welt [Dofil aimser laithe m-bratha] (Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften) in Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie. Volume 8, Halle/Saale, Max Niemeyer (1912) page 195–196

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Created: By (an) unknown Irish monastic author(s).
 Date range: 600–900.#### Use of language


##### Language: [GA] The text is in Old Irish.


##### Language: [DE] A few words are in German.


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### Ein altirisches Gedicht über das Ende der Welt: Author: Unknown




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p.195


*Ein altirisches Gedicht über das Ende der Welt*
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### *Aus Laud 615, SS. 132-134.*

1. Dofil aimser laithe m-bratha,
  
bríghach tornech,
  
rogab crith in domun druimnech
  
fon m-bith m-bairnech.
2. Báithfither fír, fotha n-aimser, 
  
trúagh ind airmairt,
  
crínfaith gach maith, mór tonn treabla*i*t,
  
mairg dodna*i*rnic!
3. Taircéba olc,
  
bidh mór in t-olc la cech n-duine,
  
raghaidh cech recht tar araile
  
fon m-bith m-buidhe.
4. Báithfithir cích *ocus* cothach,
  
rúagh ind álaigh,
  
ní bía clóemhclódh forsind áiremh
  
fri síl n-Ádhuimh.
5. Ní bía cáthus, ní bía cluche,
  
ní bía áenach,
  
forrír! tiucfa aimser dérach
  
fo ním nóemach.
6. Ní bía cert ná recht ná ríaghail
  
cen báis m-blo�r,
  
ní bíat ríg is ní bíat su�dh
  
for a co�r.
7. Ní bía crábud isna*ib* ceallaib,
  
airdiu sétaibh,
  
ní bía gaisced isna*ib* hógaibh
  
cith lir cétuib.
8. Ticfa tarrngoire na sruthe,
  
n-í bat cesa,
  
coin, foilc, fíanna, ílla glasa,
  
cit[1](javascript:footNote('G207006/note001.html')) ba*d* mesa?
9. Cách oc fochuidhhiud a chéle,
  
deabt*h*a búana,
  
cletha im*m*aicsi cen séna, 
  
cridhe huára.
10. Ili ceanna, úatte enech,
  
mend cech maghar,
  
cintach melede cen treab*adh*,
  
ilar n-galar.


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p.196

13. Bith bréc bealgach, aimser gente,
  
cella dáera,
  
ili áera, sína sáebha,
  
túatha cláena.
14. Bretha camma,
  
caingne cen chert fri lár lughach,
  
cech mesriut*h* íar n-díth a ainech,
  
aimser dubach.
15. Crith for dhúiliph, trácht cen toradh,
  
tuath cen érgna,
  
fóimath cinadh, aimser díghla,
  
ilar m-bérla.
16. Ré cen fhoghlaim,
  
cách oc rothces, int ord triamhain,
  
cert cen tinne,
  
coraith cech recht asa ríaghuil.
17. Nathir cach ben, gríb cach ingen,
  
serbha a *n*gnása,
  
faithchi lána, ili craosa,
  
cuile fása.
18. Fith cen blátha, cách in fíannas,
  
immed *n-*athles,
  
aimser lethglas, meic go frebnais,
  
tír co n-athmes.
19. Cách oc derc*h*óinedh tre bithu,
  
díghal fota,
  
daoine becca, étach n-ecca,
  
ilar coca.
20. Athcha lonna, lethra tromma, 
  
tochar ferga,
  
crecha meinci, immed burba,
  
reilge derga.
21. Cidh dognem de, a m*aicc* ~~mo~~ Dhé,
  
fri glunnu gnátha?
  
túargabsat, fogeir ar túatha,
  
idhain brátha.
22. Táncatar séd isan domhuin,
  
ba ferr foät,
  
farrír! ardubneat fo rith rout.
23. Tiucfa m*a*cu dochum domhuin
  
co feib l[macr ]thair,
  
fer trén túachail,
  
deirfiur dó-som bid sí a máthair.
24. Ingen dotng[macr ]ena fria hathair
  
amail nathruigh,
  
dia dobethr*aibh* an mac geinfeas
  
isin c*h*athraigh.
25. Óenchlár a dét, ~~dearb~~ doma sgélaibh,
  
scor íar múraibh,
  
sé meóir for a c*h*osaib cáelaibh
  
isna*ib* rúnaibh.
26. Fer serbh serigh, sraigleóir iffirn,
  
fír dom cédul,
  
braithemh dub dían,
  
*ocus* tom líath assa édun.
27. Dogní ór do máethlaibh muighe,
  
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