Friday, February 5, 2021

"Let us adore the Lord, maker of wondrous works, great bright Heaven with its angels, the white-waved sea on earth."

Adram in Coimdid
     cusnaib aicdib amraib,
nem gelmár co n-ainglib,
     ler tonnbán for talmain.

     Anonymus (9th century), "Adram in Comdid."  In Early Irish lyrics eighth to twelfth century, ed. and trans. Gerard Murphy (Oxford:  The Clarendon Press, 1956), 4-5, 173-175.  "The ib ending in the dat. pl. adj. amraib suggests that the quatrain may be as early as the ninth century" (174).  CODECS.

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