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1909. Tugadh easgar d’Inis Fail $
Length: short 1 1/2qq (frag.)
Certainty: 4
Period:
  1. 14th early
Areas:
  1. Connacht
Classes:
  1. elegy mp
Manuscripts:
  1. Magauran MS 14th cent.
Prints:
  1. transl. McKenna, BM no. xii
Motifs:
  1. patron’s death signals end to peace
  2. poet’s own mourning
Meter Vars:
  1. RannMhor
Poem:

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Tugadh easgar d’Inis Fháil


[McKenna, L.: The book of Magauran, Dublin, 1947, poem 12]


1 [T]ugadh easgar d’Inis Fháil

is measgadh don inis úir

do-chuadar raighne a ríogh uainn

’s do-chuaidh gníomh fa dainmhe dhúinn.

2 Fuair leagadh i [ndún] na ndol

do-fheadar is úr an chneadh

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