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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