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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: Unknown)
poem/story 44
BENN CODAIL
- Senchas Codail cuimnig dam
sund ós ruibnib na rogal:
cid dia fail, fri dáil n-díthig,
ainm cáid Codail chorr-chíchig?
- Codal corr-chíchech roalt
Érinn ambrit, ilar marc;
sund forin chnuc cúar atchí
fo brufc búan ósa bruinni.
- Cach ás noásad in bein,
Ériu ágmar, ba h-arm-gein,
noásad amlaid co h-án
in cnoc ós talmain tonn-bán.
- Co n-érbairt ria h-aiti h-í
cen laici tria léitmigi:
Ronguin gáeth, rongoir grían grinn,
atraig in slíab ós Érinn.
- Mani rathaiged in ben
in cnoc for ás, for indeb,
nobiad ós Érind uile
glé-rind Codail chnes-buide.
p.186
- In lá doméla ní de
ard-rí Bréna ocus Bóinde,
comaid ar cach tress rothag
mess Codail do ríg Themrach.
- Is and roadnacht iar n-úair
Codal cairpthech claideb-chrúaid
hi tul-chnuc gurm na ngéc nglas:
is ed adfét in senchas. S.