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Prev | Next | Contents | Main Page [FN#137] A conjecture (Str.), main, treasure, is in the text: this does not rhyme, nor give good sense; note, however, that muin has no accent-the text gives one.
or is hue
though pleasant (is) seeing plains of Fal (isle of Destiny)
a wilderness[FN#138] after knowledge of the Great Plain.
Though intoxicating to you (is) ale of the island Fal,
is more intoxicating the ale of the country great,
a wonder of a land the land I mention,
not goes a young man there before an old man.
Streams warm (and) sweet through the land,
choice of mead and wine,
men ? handsome, without blemish,
conception without sin without crime.
We see all on every side,
and yet not sees us anyone
the cloud of the sin of Adam
encompasses us from reckoning
O woman, if thou wilt come to my people strong,
it is top of head of gold shall be on thy head,
pork unsalted, ale, new milk for drink
shall be to thee with me there, O woman fair-haired.
thou obtainest me from my master of the house I will go,
canst, not will I go. It is thereon came Mider to
Echaid, and yields his stake immediately that may be (cause) of reproach for him
to Echaid, it is therefore he paid the great stakes, and on that account it is (that)
under ignorance that he asked his wager. So that after that wager it was said when now
was Mider and his folk at paying the stake of the night, that is, the causeway, and
clearing stones off Meath, and rushes of Tethba and forest over Breg: it is he this
what used to say was with his folk as says Book of Drom-snechta:
Put on the field:
Put close on the field
very red oxen:
heavy the troop
Which hears ?really-manly
troops for strong heavy setting of trees
of very red ?oaks[FN#141] are led
past them on twisted wattles:
weary are hands,
the eye ?slants aside?
because of one woman
To you the revenge,
to you the heavy ?oxen Prev | Next | Contents | Main Page
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