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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: Unknown)

poem 16

Almu I

  1. Almu Lagen, les na Fían,
    port ragnathaig Find fir-fhial,
    dorala sund a slicht sain
    inní d'atá Almu ar Almain.
  2. 5] Almu ainm ind fhir rosgab
    re lind Nemid na nert-blad;
    marb thall sin tilaig úane,
    do thám opund oen-uaire.
  3. Almu rop alaind in ben
    10] ben Nuadat móir mic Aiched
    rachunig, ba fír in dál,
    a ainm ar in cnocc comlán.
  4. Nuada drúi ba duni garg;
    darónad leis dún dronard;
    15] racomled leis almu i n-aill
    don dún ule ar n-a thoraind.
  5. Oen-gel in dún, dremne drend,
    mar nogabad áel h-Erend;
    dond alamain tuc d'a thaig,
    20] is de atá Almu ar Almain.
  6. Tadc mac Nuadat, nertaid gail,
    drúi Cathair Moir cu mór-blaid,
    dó rafhacaib a athair
    Almuin cona h-ard-rathaib.
  7. 25] Ingen gnoach oc Tadg thrén,
    darab ainm Murni mun-cháem;
    rocunged o Chumull in ben;
    rosérastar Tadc taeb-gel.

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  9. Rasuc Cumull ar écin,
    30] ingin Taidc, cer gním étig;
    bliadain can chert is can chlód
    do Murni ic Cumull chath-mór.
  10. Cíís Tadc cu trén-athach
    re Cond calma cét-chathach,
    35] ronimderg, adbul in t-olc,
    ronglám, ba mór in mudocht.
  11. Focairther o Chund chalma
    do Chumull facbáil Banba;
    corchurset cath Cnucha thall,
    40] co torchair re Cond Cumall.
  12. Nói tráth re cur in chatha
    darónad fer in ratha
    re hingin Taidc in táeib-gil,
    darronad Find fír-fhennid.
  13. 45] Luid Murni ar marbad a fir,
    cu ránic Almain n-oen-gil;
    ba caintech cumthach rabáei;
    nirbo dethbir don deg-mnái.
  14. Alaind bái in rígan cu rath,
    50] ocus si tháeb-lán torrach;
    rafhocair Tadc, mór in mod,
    a marbad am-mudugod.
  15. Roraid Cond co nhgili glacc:
    "Ba ferr lim co m-béra macc,
    55] inund máthair cor-rathaib
    do Chumall is do m'athair."
  16. Diultaider ic Taidc co trén;
    do Murni ba domna dér;
    ar nírlam a labrad,
    60] am-milliud, am-moch-marbad.

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  18. Dolluid co Temair find Fail
    Murni muin-chaím cnis
    [gap: extent: 2 syllables]

    coroiarfaig do Chund can chol
    a h-imthús a h-ordugod.
  19. 65] "Imthig-siu," ar Cond, "is ced lind
    co Fiacail Fí mac Conchind
    der-fiur Cumaill tall istaig
    Bodmall B
    [gap: extent: 5 syllables]
    ".
  20. Dolluid co Temraig Margi
    70] Murni mun-chaim cu n-ardi;
    Conla gilla Chuind can chol
    ca
    [gap: extent: 2 syllables]
    d'a ordugod.
  21. Ba faelid ria in gilla grind
    in Fiacail Bi mac Conchind,
    75] ba fálid Bodmall cu becht,
    ba faelid uile in t-airecht.
  22. Arsain rucad Find febda
    rí na Fian, mór a menma;
    nói mhbliadna fichet mod tend,
    80] rop é rig-fhénnid h-Erend.
  23. Cungis Find ar Tadc na tor
    íc Cumull móir do marbod
    cath can chardi dó, can dáil,
    comrac oen-fhir d'fhagbáil.
  24. 85] Tadc uair nir thualaing catha
    i n-agaid ind fhir-fhlatha,
    rofhacaib leis, ba lór dó,
    mar robái uile Almó.
  25. A.


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