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1459. Na se rainnse don rioghain [al. Na deich roinn $
Length: short 6qq or 10qq
Certainty: 5
Period:
  1. 16th ult
Areas:
  1. Munster
Classes:
  1. religious
Manuscripts:
  1. TCD 1340 (H.3.19) 16th-17th c. [10qq]
  2. RIA 489 (23/N/14)M.OgOLongain 1786-
  3. RIA 492 (23/G/27) M.OgOLongain 1795-
  4. Mayn. M 96 Micheal Og O Longain 1817
  5. Mayn. M70 Tadhg O Conaill 1820
Prints:
  1. transl. McKenna, AOD, p. 13
Motifs:
  1. envoi to Michael archangel
  2. cain, cios, tribute
  3. Mary’s role in man’s salvation
  4. Mary’s kinship with humans
  5. Coibhche, dowry or bride-price
Poet Christian Names:
  1. sname only (RIA 489)
  2. Donnchadh Mor (RIA 492, 254, 252, 210)
Poet Surnames:
  1. O Dalaigh Fionn
  2. O Dalaigh
Patron Christian Names:
  1. BVM
Patron Surnames:
  1. saint
Meter Vars:
  1. RannBheag
Poem:

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Na sé rainn-se don ríoghain


[McKenna, L.: Dánta do chum Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh, Dublin 1919, poem 13]


Don Mhaighdin Mhuire


1 Na sé rainn-se don ríoghain

ag seo caibhche dar gcliamhain

an té do choill an gcánaigh

táraidh mé ar roinn dá riaghail.


2 Inghean nach tuillfe toibhéim

Finn-bhean na bhfuighleadh dtaidhiúir

lór linn d’aithne ar a hanáir

gabháil rinn d’aithle ar n-ain-iúil.


3 Bean do rinne a dál díchill

[is] sinne ar sgáth a sgiaith-tim

[do imdhigh ré] chás chlói-thinn

[tóichim] grás d’inghin Iaicim.


4 Gidh saor as truime toirbheart

a ghaol cuirfidh [i gcumhna]

bean do smuain Sé sa tsein-reacht

eighreacht Dé fhuair lé [humhla].


5 Muire máthair an eagnai[dh]

fine Ádhaimh do ionghaibh

a gruaidh ’s a gné mar dhearg-shuibh

a dealg-ghuin Dé ag buain biodhgaidh.


6 Déin[e] a Mhíochaoil [ás] m’anma

díomhaoin sa bhráth do bhiodhbha

saor mo locht lá na deaghla

meanma olc a-tá im thiomna. NA SÉ