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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: Unknown)

poem 24

Eó Rossa, Eó Mugna, etc.

  1. Cía dorochair Cróeb Da Thí?
    mór n-amsach cóem roscáth-í:
    unnius, crand na slúag solom,
    rop é in barr cen búan-torod.
  2. 5] Unnius i Tortain, tuirmid,
    unnius Uisnig il-buidnig:
    tuitset na cróeba, nár chlé,18
    i ré mac Aeda Sláne.
  3. Dair Mugna, ba sét sogor;
    10] nói cét míach a mór-thorod;
    dorochair in dairbre dess,
    dar Mag nAilbe na n-úar-thress.
  4. Eó Rossa, ibur adlaic,
    co n-ilur a mór-admait,
    15] in crand cen chúasach, cen chair,
    eó úasal, cía dorochair?19

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