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883. Fada dhomh an laighese $
Length: short 6qq
Certainty: 3
Period:
  1. 15th ult
  2. 16th early
Areas:
  1. Scotland
Classes:
  1. personal
Manuscripts:
  1. NLS Adv 72/1/37 Bk Dean Lismore 16c
Prints:
  1. transl. Watson, SV no. xxv p. 194
Motifs:
  1. envoi to ‘other patron’
  2. historical allusions
  3. allusions to Ruaraiocht
  4. allusions to Fiannaiocht
  5. illness
Poet Christian Names:
  1. Eoghan (an Barun) Bk Dean
Poet Surnames:
  1. MacComaidh
Patron Christian Names:
  1. Alasdair
Patron Surnames:
  1. Mac an Toisigh
Meter Vars:
  1. Ae freislighe
Poem:

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Fada dhomh an laigh-se


[Watson, W. J. Scottish Verse from the Book of the Dean of Lismore (Scottish Gaelic Texts Society, Volume 1, Edinburgh 1937), poem 25, p. 194]


A ughdar so An Barún Eóghan Mac Combaigh


1 Fada dhomh an laigh-se,

allmhurach liom mo shláinte;

bheirinn do luach leaghais bhuaim

dá mbudh liom na táinte.


2 Táin bó Cuailnge, ceathra throm

táin bó Darta is bó Fliodhais

do-bheirinn is an tarbh trom,

dá mbudh liom, i luach leaghais.


3 Greagh is eachraidh Mhanannáin,

claidheamh is corn mhic Cumhaill,

dúdach Mhanannáin bheirinn,

’s ga bolga Chon Chulainn.


4 Ór Éibhir is Éireamhóin,

’s é bheith agam im chomhra,

cruit Chuircheoil do cheileadh brón,

agus sgiath ríogh na [....................].


5 Long Laoimein nár luime lí,

’s í bheith agam ar cladach,

do-bheirinn-se a h-uile chí

sul bhiam mar so ré fada.


6 Fada liom gan Alasdair

Mac an Tóisigh a theachta;

dh’fhuadaicheadh sé am galar-sa,

nach beinn mar so ré fada.