In cath catharda, the civil war of the RomansErnst Windisch, Whitley Stokes Hirzel, 1884 - 886 pages |
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acas Achíl Achilles acht Agamemnon agus Ailill Alaxandir Alexander altir amal annsin Antenor araile batar battle betha biding cach cath Cathbad cathrach cech cét chatha city cona Conall Conchobar conid Connacht Cruachan Cuchulaind Cúchulainn Cuchulinn dano Deirdre díb dino dochvm dóib dorat dún Emain Emain Macha Eochaid Eocho etir fair Fergus fichit Flidais fria fris great Grécaib Greece Greeks Gréic Hector hosts iarom íarsin iarum íarvm immorro INtan irischen isin king leis lesen made maith Medb Mittelirischen mór muintir Naisi nGréc O'Curry ocus Orlam Priam Pyrrhus ríg robói sagte saith Saltair secht ships side Stokes Táin bó Tancatar tánic techt Telamon teora Text thee thou three trá Trói Troilus Trojans Troy uile unserer Usnech valour
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Page 152 - After them I will not be alive — Three that would go into every conflict, Three who liked to endure hardships, Three heroes who never refused combat. 0 man that diggest the tomb. And that puttest my darling from me, Make not the grave too narrow, 1 shall be beside the noble ones.
Page 137 - Beloved is Draigen over a strong beach: Dear its water in pure sand; I would not have come from it, from the east, Had not I come with my beloved.
Page 161 - And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman •will not be willing to follow me unto this land : must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou earnest ? And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou, that thou bring not my son thither again.
Page 149 - Usnech." 530. Cathbad believed those sayings of Conchobar, and he went to restrain the Children of Usnech, and he wrought wizardry upon them, for he put a great-waved sea along the field before the Children of Usnech. And the men of Ulster two feet behind them, and sad it was that the Children of Usnech were overwhelmed in the great sea, and Naisi uplifting Deirdre on his shoulder to save her from being drowned.
Page 91 - and he is called Naisi, son of Usnach, son of Conall Flatnailed, son of Rury the Great, of whose race came also Conchobar, as we said above.
Page 151 - Naoisi's love: Short my life after them: I will perform their funeral game. After them I will not be alive Three that would go into every conflict, Three who liked to endure hardships, Three heroes who refused not combats.
Page 92 - The text in the Yellow Book of Lecan, a ms. in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, marked H. 2. 16. The tale begins at col.
Page 142 - Emain, treachery and guile will be wrought be upon you." 1 lit. on me story of it. 321. Aud they went forward in that wise to the door of the house of Emain and asked that it should be opened for them. The doorward answered and asked who was there. He was told that it was three sons of Usnech who were there, and Fergus
Page 132 - For it is apparent that they are sons of a king of a border -district, and they would defend the province of Ulster against every other province in Ireland, even though no other Ulstermen should go along with them. Because they are heroes for bravery, and those three are lions for might and for courage.
Page 135 - Fergus hath come from our own native land with peace: for not sweeter is honey than a (false man's) message of peace; and the three sips of blood that have been taken from us, they are ye, who will go with him, and ye will be beguiled.