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829. Easbaidh hUa Calmain ‘na chill•
Length: short 5qq
Certainty: 1
Period:
  1. 13th early
Areas:
  1. Ulster (Drumachose co Derry)
Classes:
  1. elegy cp
Manuscripts:
  1. TCD 1282 (H.1.8) Annals of Ulster 15th c.
  2. Bodl. Rawl. B 489 Annals of Ulster 16th c.
Prints:
  1. transl. AU ii, 244-7
Motifs:
  1. intellectual attainments
  2. comparison with all others
  3. single exception to general condemnation
  4. general grief
  5. monk
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Maol Peadair
Patron Surnames:
  1. O Colmain (Comharba Cainnigh d. 1207)
Meter Vars:
  1. deibhidhe
Poem:

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Easbaidh hUa Calmain ’na chill


[B. Mac Carthy, Annals of Ulster, 1893 (reprinted 1998), vol. ii, 244-6]


1 Easbaidh hUa Calma[i]n ’n-a cill,

Olc ’n-a agaidh ní airmim:

Ita samhudh d ’an socht sin,

’Nocht gan crabadh ’n-a cathraigh.


2 Areis Cainnigh in chuirp oigh

No co r’eirigh uas altóir,

Ni ciall danusfáca in flaith,

Ni riadh cába fa chomaith.


3 Robo shai sribinn sciamglain,

Maith rocongbadh coemhriaghail,

Rofhrecaibh tarbha i n-gach tan,

Rob’ eacnaidh amra, uasal.


4 Gen co saeradh nech fo nim

In dubhreicles ar demhnaibh,

Gia naemthar cen locht ar lar,

Doshaerfadh corp hUi Calma[i]n.


5 Comarba Cainnigh na cell,

Is dith do cach i coitchenn,

Is bron do gach bocht dobhir,

Is mór in t-olc a easbaidh.


Easbaidh h. C.-