Bec innocht lúth mo dá lúa

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Cáilte cecinit.

Bec innocht lúth mo dá lúa,.i. mo dá choiss

ro fetar mo chorp is cúa:

ro po maith rith adám rend.i. mo dám choss

noco tóracht in Tálcend..i. Patric

Rop-sa chrib mo dá ulaig,.i. mo dá choiss

adám áed.i. adám shúil im chalb.i. im chind culaig,.i. cométsat

adám braicc.i. adám lám conbíatais baidb,

nirpsat [m'] airm[-si] can ulaig.This line is one syllable short in the original. I have tried to restore the metre.

Ra luidin[n]-se de marcaib,

ar argg.i. láech níad.i. trénfher ropsam fortail,

doberind culu.i. comét ar gart.i. ar einech Find,.i. proprium

ropsam grind grind ri harcaib..i. ri harccib

Missi Ossín mac Find,

ropsat comchuibde ar ceta,

ar ngníma ropsat mára,

ar mbága rapsat beca. b.

Small tonight the vigour of my heels,Literally ‘of my two heels’; but to translate so would be as wrong as to render the Welsh dwylaw by ‘two hands.’

I know that my body is flesh:cua .i. seóil, O'Clery.

Good was the running of my feet,

Until the Adze-headi.e. St. Patrick. came.

Swift I was on my feet,

In my head my eyes kept ward,

My arms were wont to feed the carrion crow,

My weapons were not without a shout of triumph.This line is one syllable short in the original. I have tried to restore the metre.

I used to rideA present luidim, ‘I go’, developed from lod, ‘I went’, als occurs in Aislinge Meic Conglinne, p. 89, 4 (7 conluidim secha); and the sing. imperative (luid dó, ‘go to!’) is found ib., p. 53, 13. A future lodfamar is in LL. 109b 1. on steeds,

Over any champion I prevailed,fartail instead of fortail, for the sake of assonance with marcaib and harcaib.

I used to guard the honour of Finn,

Fierce, fierce I was in straits.

I and Oisin the son of Finn,

Our blows were dealt in unison,

Our deeds were great,

Our boasts were small.

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Meyer, Kuno, “Cáilte cecinit”, Ériu 1 (1904)

Meyer, Kuno, “Cáilte cecinit”, Ériu 1 (1904): 72–73.

For the catalogue entry, see Bec innocht lúth mo dá lúa.

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