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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: Unknown)
poem 75
Loch Dechet
- Adfethet laech, línib slúag,
diarb ainm Dechet daiger-múad:
ba fer tromm, techtaide treb,
in sond slechtaide sliged.
- 5] Glass mac Caiss, ba coimsech cuir
for Dechet ndúr mac nDerguir:
lais rotócbad cach thrátha
ós cach rót-blad ríg-rátha.
- Túargaib ós cach búaid in bress
10] suide Rúaid ósin ríg-ess:
fer co ramuirn na túath tair,
Áed Rúad mac Baduirn bladmair.
- Is é lúag dorat in rí
Rúad úa Mane Mil-scothi
15] do Dechet, dál fri dessa,
torad rán in rúaid-essa.
- La claind n-Ailella sech cách,
co tí in lathe bas lúan-bráth,
torad Essa Rúaid, ní rom,
20] mar fhúair Dechet, ní dáer-chor.
- Hi crích Ailella na n-ech
rotócbad tor, ba tiug-breth,
ná beth ria chlaind, comul nglé,
cosnam nó raind doríse.
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- 25] Rochaith a mír béssa búain,
iar scur in gréssa glan-úair,
ar lár Maige Loingthe, in let
dál dia fúair doirthe Dechet?
- Romesc, romeraig 'masech,
30] rodedail a chruth coimsech
ba toirm troch riana thrágud:
luid 'sin loch dia lán-bádud.
- Desin, fo thrumma toirthe,
fail Mag Lunga in láech-loingthe:
35] don láech co demin rodet
a ainm fedil, adfethet. Ad.
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