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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: Unknown)
poem 13
Áth Cliath Cúalann
- Ath Clíath fégaid lib colléic:
a thuir imthéit Góedel gnáth,
cía lóech cía lóiches rodmbrat,
dorat a ainm forsin n-áth?
- 5] Cin mná Adaim dorat forn
am-míl cen chond cluiche-drenn:
cían ó dorairngert in drúi
in béist robúi for Licc Benn.
- In béist robúi for Licc Benn,
10] secht fichit coss, ceithri chend:
rosiacht a colpa, a dóït:
roslíg Bóind corbo glend.
- In béist dia roás in sceól,
diamsat eól i míli bóc,
15] am-míl n-ingnad, rogab tass,
roslass for bruig maic ind Óc.
- Cíä sóer rofích in cléith?
inna méit dosfuc 'sin n-áth:
cade in chlíath, is ingnad linn:
20] méraid hi lind co tí bráth.
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- Curach a chléib rolá cor
im hÉrind, or finnad cách,
conusforlúaid in muir mer:
iarum doscer isin n-áth.
- 25] Rí na ndúile, forum n-án,
coimsid rúine do cach óen,
flaith na folad, mac mo Dé
is é adchomad cach cóel.
- Innis dam, a Mongáin maiss,
30] úair at eólach cech ernmaiss,
cíä lín dorochair, is glé,
hi tulaig na segainne.
- A búaid hÉrenn dar dá ler,
a mind gel rofitir cách,
35] memor latt, a breó dond Í,
aní dosfuc isin n-áth.
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