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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown])

poem 22

Mag Mugna

1. Mugna, my sister's son of the glorious wood,
   God fashioned it long ago,
   a tree blest with various virtues,
   with three choice fruits.
2. 5] The acorn, and the dark narrow nut,
   and the apple — it was a goodly wilding —
   the King sent by rule
   on it thrice a year.
3. The Tree of Mugna, great was the trunk,
   10] thirty cubits its girth,
   conspicuous in sight of all the place where it stood,
   three hundred cubits it is in height.
4. Then was the bright plant laid low,
   when a blast broke Tortu's Bole;
   15] He makes transient every combat,
   like the long-lived Tree of ancient Mugna.

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