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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown])

poem 43

Currech Life

1. Currech of Life, with his splendour,
   few kings there are to whom he submitted:
   his head was taken from him afar to
   the mountain above Bodamair.
2. 5] Currech of Life, with numbers of hosts,
   whom the grief for a fair enemy gathered:
   a single hero to cut off the doomed man
   in early morning — it was full wondrous!
3. "I am Find, I am a withe well-proved,
   10] with a powerful battalion of dripping edges:
   I cut off and brought to proud Bodamair
   the head of shaven Currech with his hair."
4. The effort
   [...]
   on Fothad;
   to him it was the sound of a dishonouring blow
   15] it was the same womb that bore
   Fothad and slender Currech.
5. The daughter of Mac Niad the mighty,
   Teite, whom chieftains used to guard,
   wife of the son of Regamain, spear-armed,
   20] by the hand of Finn her blood was spilt.
6. By this encounter fell Teite,
   who excelled every slant-smiting stay of battle,
   and the son of violent Regamain
   and slender Currech fell.

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