Heroic Romances of Ireland Part 58

weary are hands,

ind rosc cloina:

the eye ?slants aside?

fobith oen mna

because of one woman

Duib in digail:

To you the revenge,

duib in trom-daim:[FN#142]

to you the heavy ?oxen

[FN#142] A conjecture. MS. gives trom-daim.

tairthim flatho fer ban:

splendour of sovereignty over white men:

fomnis, fomnis, in fer m-braine cerpae fomnis diad dergae

fer arfeid solaig

fri aiss esslind

fer bron for-ti

? sorrow shall, come on the man?

i. more ertechta inde

lamnado luachair

rushes

for di Thethbi

over?two Tethbas

di-chlochad[FN#143] Midi

clearing stones from Meath

[FN#143] A conjecture. MS. gives dilecad (Str.)

indracht

coich les, coich amles to whom the benefit, to whom the harm

thocur dar clochach? moin.[FN#144]

causeway over stony moor.