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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown])

poem 14

Moin Gai Glais

1. Culdub, son of Dian, at Samain tide,
   went afar, the famous fighter,
   to demand duel man to man
   with joyous generous Fidrad.
2. 5] Thereby fell Fidrad
   by encounter with doughty foes:
   the death of keen Fidrad in his fury, came
   by the hand of the red-knived son of Dian.
3. Gai Glas, grandson of Lug of the graves,
   10] was a mass, a bulwark against enmity:
   he bore a riveted spear against shields,
   which Aith, the noble smith, forged.
4. 'Tis he was champion of generous Fiachu,
   the grandson of Lug Liamna, bold and keen:
   15] he was the warrior who prayed to go without hire;
   by his hand fell Culdub.

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