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TÁIN BÓ CÚAILNGE

Ca chan dait a fuireach?
naiscsiu corbad buideach
ar des rīg is ruirech
doradsad frit lāim.
Fil sund nāchadfuirfe,
dāig rofes co muirf(e)^[1]
in fer ticfa id dāil.

[36^a] Nī gēb cen sē curu,
nība ní bus lugu,
sīu donear mo mudu
i fīadhnaisi^[2] int slūaig.^[3]
Danamtora m’ardarc^[4]
cen cop cēin co comnart,
rachad isin chomrac
co Coinculaind crūaid.

^[5]A Medb co mēd buafaid,^[6]
nīt cerb cāime nūachair,
dearb leam is tū is būachail
ar Crūachain na clad.
Art glōr is art gairgnert^[7]
tuc dam th’ōr is t’airced,
mēd rofairced^[8] dam.

^[5][9]Geb brugaid, geib oirgni
ocus ōes na bairdne
rodfīaso cen acht.
Fonaisc lat ar Morand
mad āil dait a chomall,
geib Cairbri Nia Manand
is naisc ar dā mac.^[10]

1. The e is imperfect
2. The mark of aspiration is later
3. s added later below
4. Between d and c there is a blur; over it there is a mark of reference to ar which has been added later above
5. Such is the order of the two verses in the ms.; but they should be in the reverse order as in LL.
6. A t has been added (possibly later) beneath between a and f
7. A line is wanting in this verse; after this LL. has: domroiched sról santbrecc
8. Beneath o and f a t has been added later
9. A line is wanting
10. ardamc̄ on an erasure

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