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810. Dual freasdal air bfeirg flatha $/al. Tuar...
Length: middling 22qq
Certainty: 3
Period:
  1. 17th ult
Areas:
  1. Scotland
Classes:
  1. warning mp
Manuscripts:
  1. NLS Adv 72/1/39 17th cent.
Motifs:
  1. weapons (guns, swords, shot)
  2. nobility of ancestry
  3. poet not to carry weapons
  4. liberality to poets
  5. poet-patron relationship (bed-sharing)
  6. poet attacked ?
  7. legal terminology (coir, breath)
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Eoin
Patron Surnames:
  1. MacLeoid (chief) fl. c. 1690
Meter Vars:
  1. deibhidhe
Poem:

Poem in printable PDF format

Dual freasdal ar feirg bhflatha

[NLS Adv 72/1/39, 31r]

[Deibhidhe, Dán Díreach]

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1 Dual freasdal ar bferg flatha

d’eagal neirt is neimhratha

coir a seargadh ’sa snoighe

doigh ar chealgadh corruidhe.

2 Ar eagal fadoid[h] feirge

ar fla[i]th do dhrui[m] dibhfheirge

biadh soisdine ch mur chairt roib (?)

gan loisnighe la[................].

3 Labhair go foill go fidir

tar linn as i an f[h]oighidin

togbhuinn (?) do sheilg ar a s[h]eirc

do ceird no d’foghluim ordhuirc.

4 Faghail a shithe a[s] sí sin

gebe re mbi doir[r] deigfhir

re foighid labhair gan locht

goirid go bhfoghar furtacht.

5 Umhla da uaisle deine

d’edrain uait gac a[imhreidhe?]

ni na taga[i]r nac tarbha

bi go habaidh (a) n-urlabra.

6 Comhuirle dhuine dho féin

a ndubhras dia do deigceill

leigim ’na tra[th] soin secham

an fath bha fuil foillsecham

7 Cenn feine na fola Leoid

ad-cuala gur eir aimhreoi[d?]

edur an flath is [an] file

brath gan eagal n-oirbhiri.

8 Ca cuis far eiridh an f[h]earg

fionnuim don gnuis geal gruaidderg

mithidh dhuinn riar[a]chad[h] ris

súil re fiadhachad[h] (?) failtis.

9 As e ar mbaramhail on brath

go bfuil Eoin orm gan arach

an coillbhil[e] os chlar Monaid[h]

gradh oirbhire um ealadhuin.

10 No ma thogras o n-olbhuir [corrupt?]

mo chogadh mur chomhuirle

cio[dh] ’ma n-obuinn luighe leis

mas oibuir dhuine dilis.

11 [D?]o-ninn fei[dh]m le loinn leabhair [31v]

arm um glaic ni[or] ghabamair

ni abruim olc no [a] dhamhna

bagruim a hucht m’ealadhna.

12 Ge ta[id] leisean leoga[i]n Sgí[th]

laoich chalma choisges eissith

le a nac baoghal an buighen

sinnr aonar do ionsoidhedh.

13 T’aire ruit a ri Leoghais

mas i mo throid thoigeorus

ge calma na buail buille

gan tarbha a n-uair n-iorguile.

14 San chomhrag do-ninn re nech

ni iarrfuinn loinn no luirer [leg. lúireach?]

ni iomchram sa ngliadh gunna

’s biam gan urchar n-iomrolla.

15 Ca haite a n-iarrann oiris

orm ’sa[n] milidh mighiris (?)

no [a]n aill mo choingleic ge chuin

bhus dail orrderc mur obair.

16 An ail(l) leis fuirech a fad

a-muidh sa[n] mach on comhrag

no tocht do chur mo chatha

’na bhrugh re hucht ardflath[a].

17 Ar tegbhail dhuinn re[a] dreich nduinn

ni leam nac lór do leatruim

nos a shen a n-úair fherge

do luaigh re fer finnEilge.

18 An raibh roimhe da fhreimh riogh

ger[bh] iad(h) narb umhal d’eissiodh

nior shoirbh a cor[..] chenoibh

s[...............] na foirne fileduibh.

19 Siol Leod ni leo nac rachadh

gac cath cruaidh do cennsachadh

’sa ccrech gan lorg gan labhra

le nech don ord ealadhna.

20 Ruaighri budh deine deabaidh

en goile ag Gaoidhealaibh

do féd an duine re dán

a thréd uile do eladh.

21 Tormod (?) do choiseonadh creach [32r]

ar mhile lann is lairech

is ollamh ag buain a ba [leg. bó?]

uaidh go hullamh gan aonghath [leg. -ghó?].

22 Iadsan ger choinnle cosguir

Uiliam 7 Alasdair

file le duain dána tuig

ag buain chána don charaid.