verse beg. Mairg thochrus fri cléirchib cell
- Early Irish
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Early Irish poem attributed to Díarmait mac Cerbaill. In recensions of his death-tale, he is made to utter this poem after two saints, Ciarán and Rúadán, had cursed him for having acted against the rights and authority of the church.
- Mairg thochrus fri cléirchib cell
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Embedded in Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill, recensions I and II :
Extent unknown. O'Grady’s edition of the tale from Egerton 1782 offers the first quatrain only.
- Early Irish
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Text of the poem as it stands in the second recension of Aided Díarmata from the Book of Lismore. There is no English translation in vol. 2, except for the opening line (p. 74, “Woe to him that with the clergy of the churches battle joins ...”).
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