Category: Poetry
In offering this collection of translations from early Irish poetry to a wider public I feel that I am expected to give a brief account of the literature from which they are taken--a literature so little known that its very existence has been doubted or denied by some, while o...
Thy bright point was a crimson point in the battle of Odba of the Foreigners, When thou leftest Aed Finnliath on his back in the battle of Odba of the noble routs.
3. Chapter 3Once as Moling was praying in his church he saw a man coming in to him. Purple raiment he wore and a distinguished form had he. 'Well met, cleric!' says he. 'Amen!' says Moling....
2. Chapter 2'Tis not I alone who in the fulness of desires has gone astray to meet a woman-- No reproach to thee, though it was for thy sake--wretched is our last meeting! Had we known it w...
1. Chapter 1In offering this collection of translations from early Irish poetry to a wider public I feel that I am expected to give a brief account of the literature from which they are tak...
5. Chapter 5'They are crabbed as constant companions, haughty when visited, lewd when neglected, silly counsellors, greedy of increase; they have tell-tale faces, they are quarrelsome in co...