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Fothairt for clannaib Concorb - st. 6–11
st. 7–11.
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Ed. and tr. Kuno Meyer, ‘An Old-Irish parallel to the motive of the Bleeding Lance’, Ériu 6 (1912).
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Hécin frisndechaid immach / Echaid ria cath, clú rochleth, / leis dobreth fri selba sreth / cleth cháirthind hi Temra tech
It was by force Echaid went abroad, (fleeing) before a battle; / by him a lance of the rowan tree had been brought into the house of Tara.
Dobreth cenn fir forsin cleith / ar scáth in scéith, ba bil braith / demin leis ba hed in sin / mescfad in fleid immon flaith
The head of a man had been put upon the lance behind the shield; / he knew well that that was what would mar the feast for the prince.
Iar sin asbert fris in druí / mac Tachair nad chanad gói; / ‘dobreth cleth cháirthind co crú / tre thnú issin tech hi tói.
Thereupon the druid said to him, Tachar’s son who never spoke false: / ‘A rowan lance with gore has been brought mischievously into the house by stealth.
Frisin drúid adféded chert / asbert arddrí Érenn Art: / ‘cia don tslúaig rochoirp in tech? / Cia hairm itá in chleth? Cluinem lat.’
To the druid who was revealing truth Art, the high-king of Ireland, said: / ‘Which of the host has polluted the house? where is the lance? Let us hear it from thee.
Lassais leis in chleth co crú / anacht in tech, nír on dó, / in druí diarbui demin clí / adsúi tenid co fí fó. F.
The gory lance flared up, the house was saved, – no disgrace to him; / The druid to whom protection was assured (?) kindles a fire with benign venom.’
While Rawl. B 502 reads mac Tachair (cf. Garb mac Tachair in Cath Finntrága), the druid’s name in LL (p. 35a29) is Mac Da Chur (or Chúr); likewise, Mac Da Churr in the Lecan version of the prose tract on the Fothairt, ed. Margaret E. Dobbs, ‘On the settlement of the Fotharta and the Laigsi’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 16 (1927): 396.
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Eochaid Finn Fúath n-Airt No associated entry available from the subject index
Art mac Cuinn <strong>Art mac Cuinn</strong> <br>(<i>time-frame ass. with</i> Irish legendary history) <br>legendary Irish king, father of Cormac mac Airt
Mac Da Chúr ... druid No associated entry available from the subject index
Art mac Cuinn <strong>Art mac Cuinn</strong> <br>(<i>time-frame ass. with</i> Irish legendary history) <br>legendary Irish king, father of Cormac mac Airt
Mac Da Chúr ... druid No associated entry available from the subject index
