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402. Ceannas Ghaoidheal do chlainn Colla $
Length: short 9qq
Certainty: 1
Period:
  1. 15th ult
Areas:
  1. Scotland
Classes:
  1. eulogy mp
Manuscripts:
  1. Black Book of Clanranald 17th -18th c.
Prints:
  1. transl. Rel. Celt. ii, 208-10
Motifs:
  1. nobility of ancestry
  2. reim rioghraidh, regnal list
Poet Christian Names:
  1. sname only (Black Book of Clanranald)
Poet Surnames:
  1. O hEanna
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Eoin mac Alasdair
Patron Surnames:
  1. MacDomhnaill (fl. c. 1435-1493)
Meter Vars:
  1. Sneadhbhairdne
Poem:

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Ceannas Ghaoidheal do chlann Cholla


[A. Macbain and Rev. J. Kennedy (eds), Reliquiae Celticae II (Inverness, 1894), pp. 208-10]


O hEnna do rinne so d’Eoin a hÍle


1 Cennus Ghaoidheal do chlann Cholla,

coir a fhógra

síad a-rís ’na gcathibh cétna,

flatha Fodla.


2 Cennus Eirenn 7 Albu(i)n

an fhuinn ghríanaigh

a-ta ag an dréim fhulidh fhaobhraigh

cuiridh cliaruidh.


3 Fuair cennus na haicme uile,

Eoin a hÍle

fuair Alasdair flath na feile,

rath na ríghe.


4 Domnall Eoin 7 da Aongus

’man fhial fháoilidh

cethrar do bhen riar do righibh,

’sdar ghiall Gaoidhil.


5 Domnall is Ragnall don ríoghradh

riamh nar tughadh

Somuirle nar mheall a moladh

cenn na ccuradh.


6 Cethrar ó Shomairle shúl ghorm,

suas go Suibhne

ceathrar sin nach foill n-inbhe,

coir a gcumhne.


7 Seisior o Suimne riomh rathmar,

go rígh Colla

fion aca fa bhruach Banna,

a cuachuibh corra.


8 Da n-airfinn an ttainig uime,

d’úaslibh Ghaoidheal

beim ar enghluin úadh go hAdhaimh

ni fuair aoinfher.


9 Ag so tres do ginealach Gháoidheal

mar do ghellus

an drem-sa ris nar chóir coimes,

’sdar choir cennus.