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867. Fada an chabhair a Cruachain $
Length: middling 18qq
Certainty: 2
Period:
  1. 13th early
Areas:
  1. Elsewhere Mediterranean
Classes:
  1. Other mp
Manuscripts:
  1. BL Add. MS 19,995 15th cent.
  2. RIA 2 (23/F/16) O’Gara MS 1655-9 index
Prints:
  1. transl. Eigse vii, 74
Motifs:
  1. poet absent from patron’s court
  2. qualities of patron’s character
  3. condolence for another’s death
  4. poet a palmer
  5. mythical allusion
  6. house and/or furnishing
  7. Sea-voyage
Poet Christian Names:
  1. Muireadhach (Albanach) ?BL 19,995
Poet Surnames:
  1. cname only
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Cathal Croibhdhearg
Patron Surnames:
  1. O Conchobhair d. 1224
Meter Vars:
  1. deibhidhe
Poem:

Poem in printable PDF format

Fada an chabhair a Cruachain


[Murphy, G.: ‘Two Irish poems written from the Mediterranean in the thirteenth century (II)’, Éigse 7, 71-9]


Gilla Bride Albanach cc


1 Fada in chabair a Cruacain

tar muir Torr[i]an tonnbruachaig;

imtheacht an earraid uaine

gusna gleannaib géguaine.


2 Do Dia buidi b[. . . . . . . .

. . . . .] suas ri sliabh nGarghán;

itir sliab nGarghán ní gar

7 iadh cladbán Cruachan.


3 Do bu fochraic nime a-nocht

béin ri hAlbain na n-ardport

d’faicsin cuain r[. . . . . . . . .]

[buain] re hanáil na hÉreann.


4 Sáimh do coideólaind mo cuairt

ac síl Muireadhaidh mínsuairc,

a Cruachain, ’cun cuaine seang,

ar luachair uaine Éreann.


5 Ér[i] [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

inis na corn ’s na copán,

inis chaemh na coilér ndonn:

saer in t-oilén ro hácsom.


6 Dá madh lind uili uile

Ére, inis Laeghaire,

do ba saidhbhir cuid Cathail

don [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]


7 Dá mbeirind lá l[ái]m re Fál

ar mac Ibhdán, ar Abhdán,

do biadh ar slis Cathail cais

a cris athaigh ’na écmais.


8 Do beanfaind a dubaidh de

d’ó Concobhair c[. . . . . . . . .]

[. . . . . . . . . . .] na mbróg ndonn

umá damhna óg édrom.


9 Cuirnd rígh dímsacha an domuin

tiar a tigh Hí Concubuir;

foirind lastana beand mbán,

nírb f[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]


10 Do bámur ceath[r]ar; crád li[n]d,

te[a]sta leath locht ar cuibhrind;

do roindeadh - is nír ced gar -

in coindeam bec do bhámar.


11 In dias beac do bhí ’nar ndiaigh

d’fácsamur iad [f][. . . . . . . . . .]

[. . . . . . . . . . .] ar coindme

co tech ar cind comairle.


12 Du faicim gnúis caem Caithil,

i tigh Í Chuind Cédcachaig,

ri slis talaimh mín Meadbha,

raghaidh dín ar n[doim][eanma].


13 Dealb as eneach a athar

do gabsatar glanCathal;

tuc [m]ire a athar ’s a fhearg

sighe co Cathal Crobdearg.


14 Tigfaidh chucaind a Cruachain

maighri g[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[. . . . . . .]an cois [ar] compán.


15 Ní an[fam] a mea[s]c ar mban

co faiceam Cathal Cruachan;

tabhram d’ó Tuathail Techtmair,

a Cruachain, an céds[eacht][main].


16 Cuirfidh dín meirg an mara

pill is clúim is corrtara;

[tig]faidh claechló datha damh

[ar] maethsról catha Cru[a][chan].


17 [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

a[g][a] f[éin] [gu] fagba [s][i]nn

ag béin [a] harba d’[Érinn.


18 Falmaire maith re moladh

7 a lám lua[ch]fho[d][al]

[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]

[Fada in chabhair] a Cruachain.