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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown])
poem 33
Loch Dachaech
- Hither came
strangers from afar
with a mighty warrior-band,
Cicul son of Goll,
5] son of strong Tuathmar,
from Sliab Amor.
- This was the number
of the king's following
strewn in rout,
10] three hundred men
with spear shafts,
each on a single leg.
- With the king went
his gentle mother
15] an invader of strength,
the burden of song,
Loth Luamnach,
swift as a lion.
- He brought with him
20] his wife to the feast
on the right of the host,
Fuata Be Fail:
she advanced into the conflict
into the encounter of vengeance.
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- 25] Thus went she
over the sea-pregnant,
to the noble harbour
of famous Dachsech,
till her womb bore:
30] her only daughter.
- Blemished her offspring,
the blind misshapen daughter
feeble of health;
Dachaech was her name
35] at all times and places,
designation of suffering.
- As she reached the ground
this was the strife,
with peril, not of bloodshed,
40] she ran betimes,
she leapt into the lough
to drown herself quite.
- Hence is given,
from the woman's name,
45] this title
unto Loch Dachaech;
an ill occasion had
this noble nomenclature.
- This was her motive,
50] to conquer in battle
against the Cland Miled;
weary was the palm thereby,
the rod was measured
upon the flesh of royal men.
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- 55] Every man there was of them,
every woman of might,
they came not back:
by my conscience since then!
'twas a luckless journey
60] whereon they came.
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