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459. Cia so agras coir um Chruachain $
Length: long 34qq
Certainty: 1
Period:
  1. 14th early
Areas:
  1. Ulster
Classes:
  1. eulogy mp
Manuscripts:
  1. RIA 1134 (23/E/29) BookFermoy 15th c
  2. NLI G45 Transcr. from Bk Fermoy 1803
Motifs:
  1. eulogy of personal appearance
  2. nobility of ancestry
  3. liberality to poets
  4. poet inciting to war
  5. hosting
  6. War with English
  7. legal terminology
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Muircheartach mac Seaain & mac Una
Patron Surnames:
  1. O Neill
Apologue Subclasses:
  1. Cathal Croibhdhearg’s charter from King
Meter Vars:
  1. seadhna
Poem:

Poem in printable PDF format

Cia so agras cóir um Chruachain?

[RIA 1134 (23/E/29) Book of Fermoy, 21]

[Séadna, Dán Díreach]


1 [C]ia so agras coir um Cruach[ain]

ar cloinn Meadhbha mor [in ...]

mor nac dluith do bhaidh na [m...]

cuith ler ail sathad[h] san [sel..].

2 Borb nach fiafraigh ga fer agras

istad [.................] mur ar sloigh

cia is tualuing o a-tam [’ga le]anmhuin

lamh fan luaguill meanmnuigh mo[ir].

3 Mur inghine Eachaid[h] Fedlig[h]

fe[i]dm a agra amlaid [súd?]

budh sen aidh budh adbal (?) sluaghad[h]

adrad don dail uabar (?) ud.

4 Bud sen colg do claeclog data

bud deargadh rann rigda in slicht

bud seolad nel nderg os duintibh

bud sen cealg im cuirtibh cnicht.

5 Bud sen giall a ngemlib[h] soillsi

budh sen treas do tairrnger drai

budh sén creach is fhagla is irghal

in breath tarrla im fhinnMagh nAi.

6 Ma a-ta laech ac lenmain dligid[h]

ar dún Cruachan caruit baird

gabhudh la suil tí da tagra

ma a-ta ri ’ga hagra os aird.

7 Nach tu a Muirceartuigh meic hSeaain

hsiris coir im Cruachain Sainbh

da lena in coir a cleth Cime

is breath on doigh sinne a snaidm.

8 Tair tairis mar ta do du[th]chus

um dun Meadba a mic I Ne[i]ll

do ceart ar toigh Tuathail toguibh

’s ar Cruachain gl[oin?] roduigh ré[i]dh.

9 Nach é do scel a sgath Railinn

cu rait Cruachan na colg mbrec

na scela mar is dú a ndenam

do-geba tu a leghadh let.

10 Catal Croibderg or chin tusa

tarraid[h] Cruachain cat[h]air Airt

lughaiti is cair hí gan fhachuin

do bi a laim Cat[h]ail in cairt.

11 Felimidh ainn-sein d’e[i]s Cathail

a Cruachain moir Muighi hAi

dob i bladh dob f[h]err a nErinn

gac eng dar gabh Felim fai.

12 D’eis Felimidh moir meic Cathail

cairt Cruachan do cosain Aedh

bas ’gár togbadh is ’gar toirrneadh

in glas fodglan coillgeal cláen.

13 Mac ag Aedh in uair nac raibi

a raith Cruachan ’nar coir speis

ruccadh do bre[i]th hi don ingin

do bi a ccle[i]th Innbir da eis.

14 Trit sin cuinghi a cuilein Boindi [22]

bhreth mun ndail-sin a-der siat

tu ad mac ag inghin in fhir-sin

a slat Innbir lisgil Liag.

15 Ac sin do ceart a craeb Durrlus

ar dhun Cruachan na colg n-aith

ni fhaicim bre[i]th impi at t’aghaid[h]

acht be[i]th innti a ccabair caich.

(16 Dlighi a Mhuirceartuigh meic Una

egh[reacht] Chruachan na coig raen

[...] a-tú deit cu deimhin

a meic is tu [...] Aedh.)

16 Dlighi a Mhuirceartuigh meic Una

egreacht Cruachan na coig raen

is uime a-tu de[i]t gu demhin

a me[i]c is tu is eigir d’Aed.

17 Niall Glunndubh ge do gabh Cruachain

a craebh rath nac racha sis

lughuiti ar recht fe[i]n fa fuigle

nac tre nert Neill cuingi cis.

18 Do cograis tre cert do mathar

a meic righ Eamna in fuilt ma[o]ith

limhadh do frangcarm nger ngormaith

bel ar ardCarn fonnblaith Fra[o]ich.

19 Do cocradh let san lo ceadna

a Cind Muaige mor in rian

aghaidh do sluaigh uaibrigh eangoigh

ar Muaidh ruaidhmhir sreabhgloin siar.

20 An treas cuairt do cocuir tusa

techt gu Gaillim is gorm slis

lamh a-niar re gealclar nGaillme

is fiadh clethban aidne d’fis.

21 Gu bfinna uga fhear Cruachan

na can impu fhorbonn ngloir

fearr gac ní ar ais ina ar egin

a ri Naiss cedsir in coir.

22 Na dentar let lennan uirri

d’feruibh Cruacna a cneas mar tuind

fegh a fuil don gurt ag Gallaib[h]

na cuir ucht ar clannuibh Cuind.

23 Ma fuil aca d’urrlar Connacht.

ar cloind Credhi cuinigh breith

a fuil a laimh Gall do-geba

mad ail a barr Lena at leith.

24 Ticfat let curaid[h] clann Eogain

d’agra Cruachan na corr slim

budh cumhung di mínmhagh Meadbha

da ti rigradh Emhna ind.

25 Ticfait uaisli aicme Colmáin

is clann Eogain nar ob gleo

ticfa in Brianclann fat barr ndruimneach

is cland chiabcham Luighdeac leo.

26 Mor sochur tuillim[h] (?) tuc duit-si

ón doigh credimh dot cebh truim

fes dot t’athair a fir Luachra

le lachain gil Cruachna Cuind.

27 O duthchus Una is ead[h] fuaruis

in folt maeth-so a meic I Neill

suairc nochtmaisi clann (?) do chebhi

foltchaisi cland Credhi at ce[i]bh.

28 Fuaruis grisad do gruadh corcra

o cloind Briain a bharr na lub

caelach minredh moingi h’abra

d’firmhein clainni Sadba sud.

29 A-ta commain o cruth Eogain

at t’agaidh corcra a ciabh nocht

a-ta do [leg. san?] c[h]e[i]bh drongshair deathaig[h]

commain Ne[i]ll is Eachaid[h] ort.

30 Mairg do cliaruibh a craebh Taillten

do tuillfeadh guth dod gruaidh buig

druim re cleir ni headh do fedfa

re[i]r do hsean is denta duid.

31 Beag a n-eoch duid dan do cenndac

ar crodh nGall do-geba clu

dail cruidh in gilli ar do gualuinn

a thuir Cimi is tualaing tu.

32 Commaith lind uaid-si is e a bunad

buar an tiri-si a-ta ad laimh

’san buar a ngoiri do glaislinn

a sduadh Moighi fairsing Fáil (?).

33 Ni fearr lind on lo is ga comroind

do crodh fene fada in ruaig

ana buar buailead do namad

a sduadh nuaigheal Fhanad uaidh.

34 Tusa a Mhuirceartuigh meic hSeaain

hsaerus na tuatha im Traigh Li

mar ta do coir ac Leth Luachra

ar teach sloigh Cruachna do-chi. Cia..