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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown])

poem 11

Fid nGabli

1. Dear to me is bright Gabul
   who set moving the bright-stemmed wood,
   not for the sake of a reward that should decay,
   he prayed that from him it should be named.
2. 5] Ainge gathered a bright faggot
   against dripping unless it was ebb-tide:
   every kind of tree without exception is to be sought
   in the soft fresh-leaved faggot.
3. A tub was made for his daughter
   10] above the breast-work of the high river mouth;
   it would not leak unless the tide were full:
   she loved (?) the lot of virginity.
4. He it was who stole it (burden of a tale)
   even Gaible the pale, son of Ethedeon;
   15] he cast it without payment for labour
   from the cold Pass of the Thicket.
5. It found rest in the confines of Fland;
   he claims of right his copse and his own wood,
   the man who thieved and stole in the east;
   20] to women he was at all times dear.

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