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1443. Muircheartach Ruadh rogha an iarsma [ illeg. frag.]
Length: short c. 6 1/2 qq (frag.)
Certainty: 1
Period:
  1. 15th early
  2. 15th mid
Areas:
  1. Ulster
Classes:
  1. eulogy mp
Manuscripts:
  1. RIA 1269 (B/iv/1b) III A Vellum frag.
Motifs:
  1. envoi to saint (Colmcille?)
  2. comparison with own kin ?
  3. patrons’ generosity to poets
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Aodh Buidhe &
  2. Muircheartach Ruadh
Patron Surnames:
  1. O Neill (Buidhe) d. 1444 & fl. 1427-68
Meter Vars:
  1. seadhna
Poem:

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Muircheartach Ruadh rogha an iarsma

[RIA 1269/III/A (B/iv/1b)]


From catalogue: “... Vellum fragment, containing on recto an acephalous poem (4 qq., defective), one line of which runs: Muircertach Ruagh rogha an iarsma. On verso occur further lines, among them d’olcus na mbreath berid filid; only one complete quatrain remains here.”


1 Muircertach Ruagh rogha an iarsma

Aedh Buide le mbreathnaigh siad

cosmail meine an mogal curadh

tobur feili Ulad iad.

2 Ag Aedh Buidhe as ferr a n-onoir

ord filead na feadhna tall

se a-bhain [bud brathair?] deighfir

is mathair ail einigh ann.

3 Deiridh molta [...]

ata argus tos clan[n] Neill

masa maith do molad[h] [...]

[...].

4 Do fechad[h] cheana ar chloin[n] Eogain.

[t?/g?] + supr c [...]


[end of recto]


[verso]


D’olcus na mbreath berid filid

ferdi a meas ag macaib Briain

terc ag dol o dimdha an einigh

imdha modh doiligh 'na dhiaigh.

Tuc ainbreath an aesa dana

in daenacht do dhul a cruas

cedh nac feallfad Eire oirne

gere ar teangthadh toirbe ar nduas.

[.............................] d’aen-.

da ollam[h] fein fada ad-clas

gu tainig in naem d’fhis na he[...]

[.......................................] as.

An derna air[mhim?] [ar] Ulltaibh

erlam uasal aca fein

[.................................]

[................................].

Sealad .n. deis aruachta