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About Google Book Search Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through I lie lull lexl of 1 1 us book on I lie web al |_-.:. :.-.-:: / / books . qooqle . com/| >*°i"v V*J*^ >*°i , *v RELIQUIAE CELTICS TEXTS, PAPERS, AND STUDIES IN Gaelic literature anfc pbUoloa^ LKFT HY THK LATR Rev. ALEXANDER CAMERON, LL.D. RDITED BY ALEXANDER MACBAIN, M.A., AND Rev. JOHN KENNEDY. VOL. II. POETRY, HISTORY, AND PHILOLOGY " Reannj Dhe mi leouhir.' Fernaig MS. /. 6. inberne** : THK NORTHERN COUNTIES NEWSPAPER ANB PRINTING AN» PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED 1894. (1 , ,53- '^"J . -£•>* « lie lit I* IP 1 " PRINTED AT THE "NORTHERN CHRONICLE'' OFFICE, INVERNESS CONTENTS. Preface Fkrnaig MS Book of Clanranald Turner MS Dbirdrb and thb Sons op Uisneach Gaelic Proverbs and Phrases. Translations of Hymns and Pobms LeCTURBB AND ÀDDRBSSE8 . 1) Oldest Printed Gaelic Books [2) Gaelic — Its History and Literature [3) Place-Name8 of Dumbarton . [4) Arran Place-Names [5) Gaelic Orthography [6) Auslaut N in Gaelic Thb Legend of Deer Gaelic Irregular Verbs . Glossary of Unpublished jvtymologies Index to Etymologies in the "Gael," «kc Addenda to Vol. II. Corrigenda to Vol. II. . Additional Corrigenda to Vol. 1. . Paok. v. 1 138 310 421 475 508 524 524 533 547 561 577 590 602 610 615 649 659 660 C61 Illustrations : Facsimile page of Fernaig MS. Facsimile page of Black Book Facing title-page Facing p. 172 PREFACE. Ths second and final volume of Dr Cameron's Reliquiae Celticte appears exactly two years after its predecessor ; and, though the interval is not excessive in view of the character of the work, it has been longer than we expected, mainly because of the extra material which came to the Editors' hands in the Red Book of Clanranald. Dr Cameron had transcribed about the half of the purely Macdonald History in the Black Book of Clanranald, and it was our first intention merely to complete this transcript. The kindness of Admiral Sir Reginald Macdonald of Clanranald in not merely lending the Black Book, but in offering the Red Book as well, changed our plans, with the gratifying result that now the Red Book of Clanranald appears for the first time in print. A dozen pages have thus developed into over one hundred and seventy. Of the Fernaig MS., which begins our volume, appearing for the first time in print, Dr Cameron had at his death transcribed about two-thirds. Dr Skene, among whose numerous MSS. it once again got lost for a little while, not merely granted the MS. for comparison and complete transcription, but kindly presented it to Mr Kennedy. Next to the Dean of Lismore's Book, it is our most important document for older Gaelic, a good part of its value, as of its weakness, consisting in its phonetic spelling. Its poetry, which is mostly religious and political, is of an unusually high order ; and it is hoped that a modernised and transliterated version of it, wholly or in part, will be undertaken by some patriotic Gael. The Book of Clanranald, from the two MSS. the Black and the Red Books, appears next. Its importance as a history of the Macdonalds, and more especially as a Highland account of the Montrose wars, has long been recognised : a MS. Yl. PREFACE. translation of it by the Rev. I). Mackintosh was accessible to our historians, and to Sir Walter Scott in particular. The Red Hook figures in the " Ossianie" controversy ; it was supposed to contain the originals of much of Macpherson's famous work ; but, on the book coming into the hands of the enthusiastic Gaels of the closing years of last century, and on its contents being examined and found wanting, the MS. was abused both in a physical and literary manner, and its identity stoutly denied. The Turner MS. comes as our third hitherto unpublished work. By a natural oversight it is stated at page 310 that it does not appear in Dr Skene's catalogue of the Gaelic MSS. in the Edin- burgh Advocates' Library ; it does appear as No. XIV. of his supple- mentary catalogue. It is a valuable collection of last century, made evidently in Kin tyre ; it contains poetry of all kinds, mostly ballad poetry, some of it belonging to the Cuchulinn and Ossianie heroic cycles. The tragic tale of Deirdre comes fourth ; there are two texts of it, one from the Gleumasain MS. of the 15th century, the other from a last century Irish MS. (Edinburgh MS. No. 56), which the indefatigable Patrick Turner had some- where lighted upon. Dr Stokes has already printed a complete text from these two MSS. ; it is, however, published in Windisch's Irisciie Texte, and not easily accessible to Gaelic students, to whom Dr Cameron's carefully executed edition ought to be welcome. There follows, at page 47£, a collection of Proverbs, supple- mentary to those in the late Sheriff Nicolson's work on Gaelic Proverb* and Familiar Phrases. Tin n come translations of hymns and poems into Gaelic, all too few considering how felicitous and scholarly the renderings are. Six lectures, bearing mostly on philology, follow these poems. One of them in racy Gaelic traces the history and the literature of the language ; two deal with topography — the place-names of Dumbarton and of Arran — and both are a model of caution. Tho last two lectures are simply chapters in Gaelic historical grammar — orthography and eclipsis, and they contain some of Dr Cameron's best ideas on the subject. The Legend of Deer, with philological analysis, and an article on the Gaelic Irregular Verbs, revised editorially, are followed by a Glossary of all the unpublished etymologies that PREFACE VU. Dr Cameron left among his papers. This again is followed by an Index to the etymologies given by Dr Cameron in the Gael (1872- 1874) and in his own Scottish Celtic Review. As both these works are either in the possession or within easy reach of Gaelic scholars and students, we thought it best to lighten our volume by not reproducing them ; in fact, we were compelled to do so. In any case, all Dr Cameron's work in the way of an etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language is here brought together actually or by reference. Much of the work in the Glossary, like all that of the Gael, is twenty years old, and within these years philology has travelled fast and far. When Dr Cameron commenced his Gael articles, Celtic scholars were still disputing as to the existence of initial or intervocalic p in Celtic, and the revolution of Brug- mann and the New School is ten years later. Indeed, Dr Cameron did little philological work during the last three or four years of his life, and he keenly disputed some of the views of the younger men. We have endeavoured to bring the etymologies, where necessary, up to date both in the Glossary and the Index. It remains for us, at the end of our task, to thank those kind friends who have helped us either by word or deed. To the Press of the country — daily, weekly, and periodical — we owe our best thanks for their unanimous praise of our first volume ; and as this is, in our opinion, by far the best volume of the two, especially in the importance of the hitherto unpublished texts it now presents, we venture to hope for it a no less kindly treatment. By the death of Sir William Mackinnon, we have lost the encouragement of the best friend of our undertaking, and the appearance of these volumes at all must be added as another " stone to his cairn." Mr John Whyte, Edinburgh, and Mr Alexander Macdonald, Railway Audit Office, Inverness, have given valuable assistance in the proof-reading of the Fernaig and Turner MSS. Invkbnkss, 2nd April, 1894. 1 THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. Dr Cameron transcribed about two-thirds of the Fernaig Manu- script, and was engaged on this work at the time of his death. This MS., which was written by Duncan Macrae in 1688 and the subsequent five years, consists of two small volumes of paper in a brown pasteboard cover, seven inches long by three broad. The first volume contains 36 leaves, the first two and the last one of which are blank. There are thus 33 leaves written upon, but the side of one leaf is blank, which makes in all 65 pages. The second volume contains 28 leaves, the first three and last five of which are blank. The other 20 are fully written upon save the last, which contains only one verse. One of these leaves is double, and folded in, and there are two loose pieces — half-leaves, written upon. Six leaves were cut out of the second volume, amounting probably to some six hundred lines ot poetry. At present the collection contains about 4200 lines of poetry. The handwriting, which is that characteristic of the period for writing English, is neat and clear, though small, obscurities being caused mostly by the fading of the ink or by frayed edges. A facsimile page is given herewith, to show the character of the writing and size of the page. The history of the Manuscript from the time of its author till the beginning of this century is unknown. In 1807, it was in the possession of Mr Matheson of Fernaig, father of the late Sir Alex- ander Matheson of Ardross. This we know from the catalogue of ' Gaelic MSS. made by the Rev. Donald Mackintosh, and included in Vol. III. of the great edition of "Ossian," published in 1807. There our MS. (at p. 572) is described as follows : — " Mr Mathison of Feernaig, Ross-shire, has a paper MS. written in the Roman character. The orthography is very bad, like the Dean of Lismore's poetry; it is dated 1688, and consists of songs and* hymns by different persons, some by Bishop Carswell, Bishop of the Isles." We hear no more of the Fernaig MS. till 1862, when Dr Skene, in the introduction to the Dean of Lismore's Book then published, reports it as amissing. As a matter of fact, the MS. was in the possession of Dr Skene's friend and tutor, the celebrated ' 1 2 tub feknaig hak Gaelio scholar, Dr Mackintosh Mackay, who was in Australia when Dr Skene wrote. After his death, in 1873, his trustees handeil the Ferniiig MS. over to Dr Skene, whose property it then became. In 1885, Professor Mackinnon wrote a full and interesting account of the MS., its vicissitudes, authorship, and contents, for the Gaelic Society of Inverness, in whose Tmntactiont (Vol. XI.) it appears. To this paper we are beholden Tor information about Duncan Macrae, the compiler, and about his family and friends. Through the kindness of Dr Skene, the MS. now appears for the first time in print. Professor Mackinnon proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the writer of our MS. was Duncan Macrae of Iuveriuate, chief of his name. He is remembered in the local tradition of Kiutail M Dtmnachadh nun Fini, Duncan of the (Silver) Plato, an epithet iirismi.' from i In ■ ma^iiifici.-iicc of hi-, (iiblu M-rvii-c. !('■ w;i» L;rund- 8ou of the Rev. Fanjuhar Macrae, minister of (iairloch, and after- wards of Kintail, a man of mark and of meaus in his day. Duncan Macrae's two brothers, John and Donald, were ministers respect- ively of Dingwall and Kintail, and Professor Mnrkinnon thinks that the latter is the author of the poem iu the MS. attributed to "Perse Eglisb, anno 1692," beginning - Uill-duieli inn thi'unli, utia liii^'lic dhnrtdi seinili, .v f some verses, may buve been Macrae's father-in- law, for be was married to the heireas of Raaaay. Kev. Donald TBE KERNAKì MANUSCRIPT. 3 Macrae, his brother, is possibly the I'ei-se Kglish who is respon- sible for 120 lines. Ossiau " McE'hyn'' is given as the author of 36 lines, and these may also be found in Leabhar na Feinne, p. 106. Bishop Carswdl is credited with two poems, but one of them only properly belongs to him, for the poem on the " Seven Sins " appears in the Dean of Lisiiiore's Book half a century baton Carawell's day, and is there attributed to Duncha Ogga (see our Vol. I. p. 104). The "Ten Commandments" in metre is the same piece as appears prefixed to Calvin's Catechism in 1631, and is reprinted, with all the similar Gaelic pieces, in Rcid's " Bibliotheca" (p. 177). Sir John Stewart of Appin, who flourished towards the end of the sixteenth century, and whose (Gaelic "Confession" is prefixed to Calvin's Catechism in 1S31, is accredited in our MS. with 84 lines. Alexander Muuro, teacher ill Strathnaver, is the author of 108 lines. He died before 22nd December, 1653 (Fasti Eccl. Scot. V., p. 346). Murchig Maighk Viek Ourchi is supposed by Professor Mackinnon to have been Murchadh Mor Mae Mhie Mhurcliaidh, of Achilty, who was factor for Scaforth in Lewis, and who composed two poems published in Ranald Macdonald's Collection (Ed. 1776, pp. 23, and 185). He is reputed in our MS. as the author of 6 short poems, in all, 184 lines. The authors given for the oilier poems are unknown, and were mostly local to Kiutail, we may be sure. The orthography is on the wholu plume tic, though acquaintance is shown with the orthodox system of Gaelic writing. Macrae's spelling of the same word varies considerably even on the same page, in this inconsistency resembling unfortunately the Dean of Ugmore's work. But Macrae's phonetics arc much easier to under- stand than the Dean's, both because he does his work better and because his Gaelic is practically the modern dialect still spoken in Kintail. The contents of the Collection are mainly Political and Keligious, with a few poems which Professor Mackinuon calls " Didactic." There is no love song and no drinking song. The religious poetry forms about one-half of the contents, and is on the whole of considerable merit. In State Polities, the authors are .lacobite, and in Church Politics, Episcopalian. Unlike so many  , Ni coir dhuinn leoin le neart. Ni fòghainn le duine leoir, Ni foghainn ni 's mo 'g a mheud ; IM THE VMIXAIG MA5U8CBIPT. Mojn 4 leo krofiinichig hi naimb Hhijr dmr no chain 4 di vihin carl A a ml rid lea j>ockeg l>ais Kvir dilighchiu dhomb fein tJigh mlighohÌH hoid mj ohoirp Loa hailiH vo hijmb go tijmb Karlr ny fa xhijn si loighk lUir i\j koill mairg di ni Vo in nil hi I dill lea broig Noniiv is mo sis fain* I kor Uo oiihir Ion t»»il gi doid I so lanio* \ tlo\j tihnihimb oh yo dhos da mj fhijn \h ohollin ohur to smA^hk Uin doll) hijghk orn* no dhjlo Twin naiph lam di rhein* T;*\or>hor lv«* ohoilc i a;iui Mir !oon a or i bj clutt THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 19 Mùrr shjn bihinibs I kais tain d Oir choy er chain d I tloij Vo ni najdiph ta ga mj rhj Tesrig is no mha mj ghoij Toirighk orimb di vihis ead Er hj mj vailhi gigh la Gj furrijr is koir dhom bhi Lea karris is urnj gna Vruj, is arhi I tloij Chaiskis dùis I coggj moir Lea ghuih Ise gigh noùire Kisigher gi loiih I toir Tohir mahonis dhom smj daile Go di chahir haile sraijn d leùimb dull Lea di spjrrit dajn dohm eiil Kuirrijn reuh kiiil er gigh korr Smj tannimb I ta f o ghlaish Annagle mj nish, o Rj, Vo nj naiphdj ta ga ml rhj Smj er krhi freggir mj Egle mj naiphdi gi leir Ta ormbs fein di gna Ahir nhi smfijnimb sdu chj Voist fisrigh shiwe mir I ta Ta coggig etCife Loijh di reinig lea Allister Monro ieher teij^jisk va aind Stranaphir () zhe neiph  o dhealbhaidh brèig 'nach islèadh Dhim* san àmhuinn bha gu gràineil Triuir's n aireamh t' fhirinn [J/ackinn»it \ THE PERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 1\ Tug Manasses a laiwc assyr Go taiwe j taighjwe Iserael Di loighk arhi vo vriiid vabell Jlugvs a lay we Hynis Dhyn raur sho mj o Rj gloirvoir Vrj di hrokre oimbig Snagh boijl trahig er ri voiiin grais Ach sdoiiile * days lynig * seofnle O zhe mj teiggisk le foir chreiddj Brj taing I kyntighe Faids I tra tryd * di vaighk ghraij * trijd I Strad dehe di gbrais no mointjn * * mointyn ? ri dhyn mi vo ghrjwc breig Ski teihin treiwe ni foirrin Ni tus Ise le toil chait Ni kuirp chywe I hoirrig Dain le spijfiig trein di Spirrit Zhe mj phjllig is meilphoig * * [meiìpoi^ !] Ahnoiìighe is ùrighe mi chrj ghùli * * ghuls Ski feibjn sulj soir zhcihj (Ja taimb loighti o ri hoghrj Lea bhrj toghkle dhyn mj Lea troir Ise verr mj ghrijw* Gloir da truis is oin Dhe. Zhe neiph etc«fe Oin ell di reinig leish ì nuiclhir ì chynd Oinig oibrichig I Cheymbhi Di reinig leish I toissigh tymb letter ead j leiph gigh dhoon (/flight yhe si chruin d skryph Kea nj phillj fa byn breyhir Foyrish foighkle lanighe * ea * laniirhc ? Meid brhi I rj si hiiigs Mir uj tijre is vskigh ead Smor i phairt ga begg I neolis Lea oighkle di chrùighe shea Bhj, kais* di hywe toirr is tiiijnd * kois Gin nj as nj viinig eaid 22 THE FERXAIG MANUSCRIPT. Gin ehuirrig leish si vroat I baihird Ghrjjn, Ghalligh is oimbig reijle Ma hoiiiibchjle firmament lahisli Oimbig aind di vahis skrijph Zehe gigh tywe dj nj vroat oifrig Dhnin reyn d I ri si tra Agas na oipha foist di chriiighe Skyle i gloir si chriiin d gna Ach moillj nj tijrc fo nailhi Chruhider er gigh la Ach rair uadorighk zhoon pcghgigh Navid ea hywe reaghkt ghaij Fa zhwoj gigh naigh chaihi tall ù No chlijhig I fairke reflh La duiskir ead fad shail Lea tnippaid ark angle zhe Hyg lea brihi noiph is talvijn d Di nairt anglj oimb keid Armaild I ri uillj hollish Ghaird is dyvild da liono r * ead Ach dluhjr i treijd heiht haijnt Go gloir rein d Ise I kaind Nj gin chrijghe neyhrighk honnish Bihi cad gi braigh fììirrigh aind Hig gig draijng nach drein* arhi No oinnish I mijn d nj h * bea * ni r ? Ghloih ead er nj knoik da falligh Dhjre daj toilk I cliainnighe eaid Bihi tallù foih si nargk Si tahirr no hjnn * tain d * kinn 1 Myst ì kais nj pein I deid eaid Feist I Wis nj r feyh ead ain d Ach laino r clivwe, di vainhi Treid lioir channighe shy we Dhyn mish ghraij vo di ziinibi Krigh i la ro oinig leijn Oinig oibrichig etc*t THE FERNAI6 MANUSCRIPT. 2H L^ijgh cli reinig lea Sir loin Stewart nj happin Daillj saijnt slough I dohjn Neihj zhe skj* diukhir ghoiwe *sbi Kaillidir I keyle ma nj vreig vellish Treyl naigh deid go nijnish lhqj No creid mijd dull eig fa yerrig Smfiinmijd shid mo bi mijd daile Chuir mijd quid b voir h deheir nuillj Sa teih fa zhoj is bunnj haile Moir i merrhan da nj dhoone Breig fails da kiir fa choijh Snach creid hiigbd nj sheyd lea soil...* * [soller?] Dull eig gin i konnagh leoyh Ga kroih SÌ8S teinnall taigh Shevrvid ea vi kur no chain d Shj nouih zhairvis I noorrijn Tuig naich sheilwe zhilish I tain d Draing el zheiwig* gi konnagh * zheirvig, zheirrig? Djndighk is ailmsighk is oijle Zheow g ead sho chjn d I feil Neoh vo rj ghrein nj ghloir (ra zooinbig naigh ansin teih shjn Zheoph gigh feher zii oinvj rj Mel ead I neyhrighk gin chonnis Seywris, is sonnis, is shijh 1 E^jjn diiiph dull er slij Hjoin Pehijn loin ni legfihir lijwe Mairg eg I dais I buire breig (rhagis gi troiiyh treigfi shywe Da heU-vish ha fa ir cow hi r Shaillj voywc ko yhii is smijn Taigh ra pijunig gi doir dobbroini Taigh klerhi noird oil voir chijwe 1 Kigin diiibh dol air slighe Shioin, Pcighiun loin leigfear leibh. 24 THE FBRXAIG MANU8CRIPT. Taigh I bj tei8 gin dhyn tuile Is nighehin neaph da deoilc Taigh el vo is end is sfrilph Da bi nj keid quylph keoile Faid I daile nj deish vo cheilc Saile is sheyrph is fijn so vlas Mairg fouire aimb er I tehig Oi dugig daile j reyh as Mir hreoir herbhir vo choorriwe Maighktoor is ea faid I fey hie Nouire I verhijr kairt nj nainnyn Glaickhi nj daiphnj nj daijle Ach achonighe reinnish oin v c inuir Nach di luilt dhoon fo di rosk niajjl Nouire skarris shyn vo nj cholljn Gin ir nafiimb zhull daile Daillj Saiint etc*t Oin eil di reinig leish Creid fa dajrlirair tirtrsse 8nj haind fo huilsh bla breig Gin I sivill ach no skaile vaillj Mir nailhj ghallj no ghrein Mir j daijlt rj la qfrijnc No snaighk is dluhi vijs ghail Torhi nj duil er I chrain d Nj inaijr dhoon sheuind ach shail Koise is kuirh no lijllj Plù mis no shjrrj dearg Gir ghair I vijs ead fo voyh Shuid niejhir I tloy gi derph Saiphrig ga moir I lies* Feihphir heid as gi louh Krijnhi gigh liise I meyh ghorm glas Mir shjn heid solas f tloijh Ach is evijne leish gigh naigh I daile Ejhjn go aillis i kuirp Lheir zhiiyn, mar I daile Nagh ell dujl er krajn nach tuitt THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. '2~* Nj dais er i tallfi sofris Di zhoon no chrain no voirh Di zoin uhi nach krijn fa zoijh Mj skeil broijn vj ga loyh Kwir tiiirsh is ewhir broijn (Jin tuigks vihi di ghloir zhe (Jin srniiyntjn vi er ir krij rj nj rj coilphir mj Di vi truir da racùisi * gi taijnd * nicrftsi I Sivill, si savnt, si neoil Zhe dhyn si mlsh vo trùir Si rj nj duil no legg leoh Zhe dhyns niish vo truir Di vi er vijn' 1 faijl is breig Agas koùhir mj di gna, Xairtich mj ghraij is mj chreid Creid fa dairlirnir. Loijh  eacaidh, »v THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 27 Absoloni i vaigbk I baijld Breh aijt voyh, beaghkoile Ach aiphrik chùise fa zherrig Nehrig ghasay vi faijle Ga bj voir leish aijld ghruyg Chrogh I ea rj ouire si cheijle Nach faijck shywe sho kor i tivill Maigk gaphel biwhile er abir Ga di zhaint chuise lea si vig Tuig nacb soirrid ea la vrehe Zhoon bibi no ir naibr Feher er feher gbeirrhi bi * phijl * vi Ì Acb mairg naigh nj aijrrisb Vo is moir j karrigbe i sivill Hjvill is dboimoin Pairt di choijrle Vijck Eaghia vyck earchir di Vaighk Intosich I ghaylt Oirr da baijl koirle voiiymb Hophir laijt foynib gi rnjnn Feagb nach di sig er di veihel Gloir I zainiig ghuit fein kjnn Absolom, a mhac a b' aillde, Breith ait bhuaith, beachdail ? Ach amhairc 'chuis fo dheireadh, Nearachd dha-san bhi foill ; Ge bu mhòir leis àild' a ghruag, Chroch i e ri uair sa' clioill'. Nach faic sibh 'n so cor au t-saoghail, Mac 'gabhail baoghal air athair ; Ge do dheant* chuis le saobhadh, Tuig nach sacrald!^ e la bhreith Dhuinn bidh na ar n-athV, Fear air fear 'g iarraidli baoghal ; Ach mairg neach ni aighear ris, Bho is mor an caraiche 'n saoghal. THE FKRXA1G MANUSCRIPT. Biig tosnigli ri rahit I rùitt Ma hairlis cluit vj teih i noile (iir meennig hanih vo dooph (Jloir I bair I steih gi moir Naimb koyrlo bi gi moone Na do])hir I ach gi maijlc For I bi ft bj gi beaghk No bi aighk vois is haijlc No bi mir hrais di vaijne No leann tajljsh fein T roin Na knir or I nanphinn nayrt Chynd tairph lea kayrt chlijnn Bi feihidigh trhi i nairgg No kah kailg cr yhfiin I boiyhk Feher konnish no biig di reair No daijn tehimb da fey hire loighk Bi gi mohor bi gi mah Ma ghaiphild rah no bi gin reimh Biodh toiseach ri mite ruit, Ma tharlas dhnit hhi 'n tigh an oil ; (iur minic thainig bho dhibh (Jloir a b' fhearr a stigh gu mòr. 'N am comhairle bi gu niin, Na tabhair i ach gu mull ; Far am bi thu bi gu beachd, Na bi aca bhos is thall. Na bi mar thrasd 'do mhein, Na lean t' àilgheas fein air aon, Na cuir air an anmhuinn neart Chionn tnirbh lea ceart ehlaon. Bi foidhidneach ris an aire, Xa caith cealg air duiue bochd, Fear eonais na bi   a* mlmir an din Xa 'n eeud la chaidh sruth sa' chuan. •VJ THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. Acli hug mijd beiichidis do rj Choirright? ghììjn ni na sloir Vo ta chùightis skrijph Shoyller aind I krijghu dohoin Is dainmyd arhj gi tainn Agas gaiphmyd I taimb no leain Nach tishichir lyn shyn daile Naeh haind er bail hig I teig Ghujhmijd eish gigh oin trail Lea spirritt graij da ir shoile For I shyn shine da gi leir Moillig zhuitts zhe is gloir (Jloir is inoillig otc«t Oin foijst dj reinig leisli Hj nj cruinne ta gin chrijghe Dain mj quvnigh ort gigh trah Na leig er haighran mj Er slijh ta boihi ba Shoile mish si tlihi chairt Uj nj phairt ta fos ir kijn d A lehe oin Ise dj vaighk Mali gigh j>eaghk reinnig leoùim Mah ghom gigh peaghk gi leir Di reinig leoùimb fein gna Aon fos do rinneadh leis. High na cruinne ta gun chrioch, Dèan mi cuimhneach ort gach truth Na leig air sheachran mi Air sligh' ta baobhaidh bath. Scol mi san t-slighe cheirt, High nam feart ta os ar cionn, A leith aoin Iosa, do Mhic, Maith gach j>eacadh rinneadh leam. Maith dhomh gach peacadh gu h*ir Do rinneadh learn fein (do) ghnatl:. THE FBRNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 35 A gas soirs mj vo loghk Yo is fìosrigh ù noghk mir ta im Ta imb8 noghk gi troùh la imbs trouylj mj chorp Ta mj chriJ8 fo leoiu Ta peaghk bais er mj loatt Aeh oor zullin bais rj krain d Lea pijutj taiju d is caimb wrehe Dhyns i mish vick mj zhe Kiiirs gj trciu as mj lehe Krùhighe uunjmbs krj nouh Oor chaj sj noiiy gin loghk Vo is fijsrigh ù mir i ta Krij knawe na mj chorp Deonj ghom arhi gj trah No legs lahjr mj zhj Vo is Diis tobbhir gigh grais Foiiinnig* as gigh kais mj rj * Foltiunig Rj nj krayn* 1 etc& Agus saor-sa mi bho lochd, Bh  is fiosrach thu nochd mar taim. Taim-s ? a nochd gu truagh, Tahn-s' truaillidh a' m' chorp; Ta mo chridhe-sa fo leòn, Ta peacadh bais air mo lot. Ach fhir dh' fhuiling bas ri crann Le pianta teann is cam bhreith, Dion-sa mis', a Mhic mo Dhè, Cuir-sa gu trèin as mo leith. Cruthaieh annam-s' cridhe nuadh, Fhir a chaidh sail uaigh gun loehd, Bho is fiosrach thu mar a tà (•rid lie cnàmha ami mo chorp. 1 eonaich dliomli aithrighe gu tràth, Na leig-sa lathair mo dhith, Bho is Tus' tobar gach grais Tuamtig as gach cas, mo rfgh. Righ na cruinne, «fcc. 34 THB FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. Oin eil dj reinig leish fo vulloid I pheaghkj Ochadoin Ri nj grais Aiphrig ormbs smj kais kroyh Mj pheaghki ta er mj chraijh Mir haghk I bais orm b chon oiihj Meid I taijck hairlig orm b (ihaig shayd mj gin cholg gin vrhi Ach vo is dus rj nj phaijrt Iiddrimighc mj haighk I rijst lidrimighe mj haighk gj loiih No leg mj aind royhar daile Oir is trijk aid shuid da mj leoin Taversher, neoil, si saijnt Ni peaghkj di reinis leoih Evhir broin domb aid gin chrijghc Ach ghiiijm er rj nj gloir Furtigh is foir a lehe Ise Aon eile do rinneadh leis fo mhulad a' pheacaidb Ochadoin ! a High nan gras, Anihairc orms' 's mi *n cas cruaidh ; Mo pheacaidh tà air mo chradh Mar shac a' bhais orm chun uaigh. Mend an t-saic a tharla orm, Dh' fhàg siad mi gun cholg gun bhrigh ; Ach bho is Tusa righ na feart Kutromaich mo shac a risd. Kutromaieh mo shac gu luath, Na leig mi ami ruathar dail ; Our is trie iad sud 'ga mo leon An t-aibhearsoir, an fheòl, 's an t-sauut. Na peacaidh do rinneas led Adhbhar broin domb iad gun chrioch ; Ach ghuidhinn air High na gloir, Furtaich is foir a leith Ios'. THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 35 Smaighkich i taversher trein Kaisk dhijmb fein i toills I meoil Saijnt bregigh oimaiu gigh tiùph Qurrijn ruih kuil ra mj veo Mj chovrtigh gin dull eig Aindsiu phein daig ead mj Mairlaid vihi gigh nouire Sj ghaillig voùyn shin hug Ise Ghaillj shjn di hug mj rj Ghoijrt ùile gi foijr er I chrain Cha chuirrjr ea leish i zhj Er gigh tihi chreiddish aind Creiddimbs aind I maighk mj zhe Slanio r nj leiph snj faind Ni ta zessj er mj chreid Meidighe fein is kiiirr no chain d Meidighe mj chreddj I gna Meidighe grasjn aind mj chrj Meidighe marhri gigh oin la Meid mj graijh fois keijnd gigh nj Meidighe zhe mj graijh Rj nj Phahj graijghe mj Tesrigs mj as gigh kais Wri vais dj ghuilljn Ise Ise vo is dus niaghk mj zhe Qùiddighe mj, no leg mj zhj Di chuiddichig hormb mir eamb Chaijn nj treiph no treigs mj Smachdaich an t-aibhearsoir trèin, Oaisg dhiom fein an toils' a' m' fheoil, Sannt breugach iomain gach taobh, Cuireann riu cul ri mo bheo. Mo chomhfhurtach gun dol eug, Anns an phèin (san) d' fhàg iad mi; M' eàrlaid bhi gach uair Sa' ghealladh bhuan sin thug Iosa. 36 THS FBBNAIG MANU8CBIPT. Doirt orims vo ueoph I nouis Lea Qilli louise taillj grais Ghagis marhri gi bouyn (Jo mj houisglig as gigh kais Lea dj Spirrit dain domb eiile Go kahir chuire nj keoil Gi quirrjn shjn er chuil Meiphir tuirse is moghadoin Ochadoin rj etc«fc Nj -x* Phàtij aind ì meetterrighk dain Creid dirigh I dhe nj Duile Kuir cr chuil oille dj ghailph Na dohir aiumb rj nl rj Ma gaiphir \i si grijwe I ghail Douigli rj neiph nj noil No dj chri qiteyvad soor Dj Vahir is Tahir gigh noùire Hovir hò r daj vouytt faroin Marphig no mairl no tijwe Eyldris no smiiijn dj charr Na troig fyni8h ach gi fihir Shin T raid go krighe ghlain The following is the version given of the foregoing poem in I void's " Bibliothcca," quoting from Calvin's Catechism of 1631 : Na Dech Aitlieanta. 1 1. Creid direach do Dhia n'dul. 2. Agus cuir ar chul vmhaladh do d heal hi. 3. Na tabhair ainm High na rioghadh, Ma gebhthar dhiot sa ghniomh geall. 4. Domhnach Ri neiinh na neiil, Deun led chroidhe choimheud sior. 5. Do Mliathar «fc Tathar gaeh uair, Fa onoir uaide biod a raon. 6. Marbhadh «k meirle na taobh. 7. Adhaltrus na aom adghar. tf. Na tog fiadh liaise, ach go nor, Se sin an rod far aon glap. THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 37 No dain saijnt er voir no er vcg Fraywe I nùilk dj choir no leg •Shin deich Phain dj zhe zuitt Tuig gir fihir ead agas creid Creid dirigh etc tfuI Da falligh ro chruhs ro edin Zhe hug gaijphs I taijt Khunidir shail no zehe sho Guh zhe i geiwighk si gharden Eashin ri gaiphel skeil Kea yea taijt Tel tu Ahu Di reggir eash gi dijblj Gaiph mj rohid fijwe is naijr La huig inj vhj gin nejdjg Chell mish mj hyn gi hairloiih Ko yijnish duitsin j skeil Gi roih ù chin eidhi noighkt No ni chah ù toos nj kreiwe Ma dugis fein I naijn orts Yean shin hug ù ghuis Doj leuinbs gin run j fein da, Ohuir ish pairt yehe mi ghoinis Challighe mi go" leoin na dhej ea, THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 41 Di laiphir ea shin ri Ewe Gj dehe beids di rein vs Di reghir ish gi shciwe Vaijle j nahir neaph mish Di laiphir ea rish i n ah in- Curst ii fahist I misk chreto r Er di hairh nj tu glehig Louirigh mirr vheih chon teigvall Ach sijghchi mish gaiphlis Edder slijghk nj nirayh sdj lijghks Bruhir les di chains Cha tairrin hail voyh tyghks Di laiphir shea rijst ri Ewe Veids gin zheil ù gheher nj fyle Dobroin, I krayh si noombnj Bihi goo*vijn, is breh di chleyn * glo, gho ? Bihj dus voyh sho pi j noil e Is dj vynd go feher di heih Ryildich ea fois dj chynds Veids gin dijghk ù ni veas 1 Di laiphir ea sin ri Ahfi Guh di vra la va tù iiild Gin vristig leat8in er main Sgin chahig leat pairt dehe mile Maillighe mj er dj skas Tallfi, bihi ais duit lehigh Dobroin kaillichir gigh tra leat Tarran fad laj di veah Drisshin mir oin kynd is glofiran Di ghaisis * souis duit fa roin * (?) Agas kallichir gi trouh leat Di hiijhj 8ouirigh nj roone Mnr shjn j faillis di ghroyh Di voiiychir leat di veah 1 Do labhair e an sin ri Adhamh ; (Do) ghuth do nihnà la bha tu umli'l, Gun bhristeadh leat-san air m' àitlm', 'S gun chaitheadh leat pairt de 'n ubh'l, 42 THE FERNAIO MANUSCRIPT. Ach gi pijle u zùisj talvyn Vo n zaliph diì tuis di la Foiihdichir ead a Eden Dourih leo eiwnis is aijttis Àch gaiph shea trouis ruh lea cheil Dj reind daij edigh dj chraknj Karidhir I shin Cherub Eddir ead fein is I naihir Ma bijg eads mir ea fein dehe Lea feighin er chre nj beah Ach shin i skeil mir huit Ahu Lea hugs Ewe is oilighk, arrigh La va ead duyn d no sissijr Ha poaghks, ir nointyne I falligh Ach* ewijne diìinjn i ghaiwlis Chaiwlig eddir I da lighks Christ vj aggin mir chainard Gin chaijssighv ea feher gin oighk ghùin Gloir is moillig dj zhe Tahir Chiimb rijn fahist gigh nj gheiil Cho fads' is beo ini si veas Sijiiimb ghuit lea aijrh fofiind Fonind lea mollig c& Blireishligh Ghonochi Voihr Dhe di chrùhighe green bruh neiph Nir lia glain is gloirvoir Nir lia angle dehj deinhn Brearigh breaigh beoil vellish Nir lia bijn, nir lia green Nir lia khiih is keoilvoir Nir lia shoils grein greenyall Is leig shoilsach 1 longvolr Teih i Tijhorn teih gin dhj err Teih gin oigh er oistaphie Teih nj Nesple I teih seskir Teih gin essie ordiihj 1 " leik londrach" changed in MS. into " leig shoilsach/ THE FERNAIO MANUSCRIPT. 43 Teih nj noonyijn nmirth imiirnigh Sugigh suilpher sophlatigh Teih nj * Moid in glackzall ghreinigh * mj ? in MS. Maissigh, meihrigh, moir ailtigh Cùyrt vick Mùvrr cùijrt gin chjnt Cujjrt nj keirrhie hohijn Cuyrt nj phaijlt cuirt nj slaijnt Cuirt gin chail er chokerrj Cuyrt gin oitta cuirt gin chojnt Aind T miihir shjyall sroilailtigh Ciiy(r)t nj mackaj nj bann noiph Aind I muhr beannight gloir huhyn Dùhn nj dùhlj duhn gin dijph Duhn is moid moirvahis Duhn gin airmjd duhn gin dorchis Duhn gin cheilg rj koverson 1 2 Duhn gin vaislijg duhn gin vaiggig Duhn gho taigh I troikre Duhn gin choiggig duhn gin ghoirt Duhn gin chros er choir verthi Kahir noiph kahjr haijnt Hesrigh, Horragh, kolrahigh* * kohrakigh ? Kahir voiiyhigh, kahir oil isle Dahigh doùylligh, do-chahigh Kahir chaiixligh hrehigh, yailvigh Aijltigh aimbligh organigh Kahir chuiligh zailrigh heyslrigh Lasrigh, laindrcgh lochrandigh Rj nj rj dj zailph dhoon Dj zailph toor is teorijn Dj zailph qùairrhu ghaj chon beah Phahj flfertigh foir oiiihinigh Di zailph Ififrin di lùighk diiimbh Oin vyck mùirn moir Vuoyrh Di zailph speirt di zailph rylh Dj zailph ess * is Eoliis * esk ? Di zailph ghaiphrig grouimbigh raisigh Rynlaigh, lainluigh, roh hijntigh Dj zailph feihphir * bruhvoir, broinigh * foihphir ? Kluhyoir, krohvoir knuassigh 44 THK FERSAIG MANU8CRIPT. Dj zailph saiiphrig gheigglan eiwnigh Naijlligh nciph notih ghuilligh Di zailph carrigh shoikchran sheik igh Fliiighvoir, frassigh, fchranigh Oir is ea dj rein' 1 eah nj kniijn Iisk is, ttisk, is oijnvijn Liihj, talvij is gigh krainvhca Maighk Dhe I kayrd da korighig Oir I shaa dj skijle la is eijghe Har nj krijghl ko chaittnig Oir is ea toin rj dj skyl learl * * t Feijh gigh oin toor foid hroihigh * * ? kroihi^h Di ver dool vaiht zhoone Er ni krijghj moir horrijn Di verr toihrnj ghyh gloirvoir Di verr roiht is rohessin Kaijrd nj nClillj dj verr tfiihl Err gigh raoin moir horrig Dijllighk chlessrigh di nj maighk shin Nyr vijst korr j voir heijstn Ga bijn tùyppan, ga byn organ Is gigh korah keoil chrùitt Gil bijn hiitt ga byn mììisick Gigh Instrument ko raijt Keoil nj krQyn sj qflyd bijnnis Si kùiri- Qillj kohynd  oterrighk Is mj Mairligh aimsigh eijhighe Saijntigh stroonigh stroin-olkagh Is mj 8hoinigh skeiligh skeggigh Breggigh brjjnigh beil-olklaurigh THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 45 Brissimb soohr brissimb aintu 1 Oimbrim moin har orduhj Minnig I hoùisklis koir nj druijs Er bih ghoih khlh I kloijvijne Gua do m kailg is peaghkj mairph Fairmid ffearg da m voir loisgig Lea lain oiiyhr bj m er ouirhj Muihig meoylsh is meoillish Di nj m leisk bj m err vijsk Gim,* roh cheilt er chosherhj Bim gj sayntigh gaiphigh kaijntigh Laiìigh lairrigh beil-easkj Oir I ta ir peighkj er tj ir kaiwhell Giiih 011 I Tahir troikerigh Si spirrit noiph da ir soorrig Si maighk fiijsrigh foir nairtvoir Fail dj zestijph fuile dj zaill treyk Fuil dj ghlaighk moin meorrindigh Trijd dj chesl saind I hoirrig Dhoon doir gheir loijtt Vj da di hijph gheirbj erig Is dii fein er veo varrtyn O zbe gbraighe bhell moir-ailtish No eijrh dail si deonichig Ach mir di hoor ù assin phrison Joseph foore fiillj foihinigh Mir di riagh layt as nj pijntj Joab keylvoir ko huigsigh I^azarus da veoighe mir dj zonj Kj sj chruhider chuaghtighe Mirr di hoor Susan noiph Vo choir breig, braad vriher Mir dj skoil ù vo lfiing Ise Keihir ghijh is koyhgheyle Beher gi claighkjr sliin vo peaghkj (Mn vyck eaghktighe oig Viihirr Oir T saind* di lafiphs ta nj grasin * [sanid in MS. ] Snagh deijd traijh er hroikre 1 u i* doubtful. - Oin [or Bim rather]. 46 THE FEBNAIG MANUSCRIPT. Beher er manim leat to zaiphnj Eddir angli oig ghlann Dehe dj chruhighe etc& Uin dj reinig leish ì skrjpher er la vrehonish Smuymnir I la fa yeoyh Koir ghùin di ghull eig Smuynimir peackj nj hoig Smfiynmir foijst nj hjg no zheihj Smiiynimir nj hig no yheihj Gir ea la nj moir vrehe Gig nj reynig lyn d sj neoil ( 'ha ncydir nj smo I chleih Oha ncydir na smo I chleih Mah no sah di rejnig lyn d Xoure chi shin brihi nj sloy Tijghk oirn snj neoyle, tnimpt da sheirmb Noure heirmir I truimpayt voir Krijnchidir nj sloij ma saigh [Modern Version, by Professor Mackinnon\. Aon a Kinneadh leis an Sgriobhair air Latha 11 Bhreitheanais. Smaoineamar an là fa dhcoidh, (Is) còir dhuiim a dhol cug ; Sinaoineaniar }>cacaidh na h-òig' ; Smaoineamar fos na thig u a dhèigh. Smaoineamar na thig 'n a dhèigh, Gur e là na mòr bhreith ; Gach ni rinneadh lcinn 's an fheoil Cha'n fliaodar na's mò a chleith. Cha'n fhaodar na's mò a chleith, Maith no sath a rinneadh lcinn ; 'N uair chi sinn Breitheamh nan slogh Teachd oirnn 's ua neoil, tromp 'g a seirm. N uair sheirmear an trompaid mhòr, ('ruinnicheadar na sloigh ma seach ; THE FERNAIG MANU8CRIPT. 41 Gigh naigh hairlis duih beo Kyghlj ead doij si baighk Kijghlj Mùirr agas toor Kyghlj gigh nhi as noiiyh Loiphrj I tallù soùys Gigh naigh choyh ainsin nurh Gigh naigh I choyh ainsin nuirh Erigh eadsin na noiih chorp Is gaiphj gigh àniru sbeilph Ains cholljn cheilg I roh chlost Nj ir choist i shin da nj chouyn Glouyshidir ea fo leah Nj vahig vo hossigh tijmb Liphrj shea er chyn d nj breah Breah ver bouyh er gigh breah Cha Vrighj leavreach T rj Hijhis I kahir nj breah Si ver kairt vreah er gigh tj Gach neach a th àrlas diubh beò, Caochlaidh iad (an) dòigh 's am beat* lid. Caochlaidh muir agus tir ; Caochlaidh gach ni as nuadh ; Liobhraidh an talamh suas, Gach neach chaidh anns an uir. Gach neach a chaidh anns an ùir. Eiridh iadsan 'n an nuadh chorp ; Is gabhaidh gach anam seilbh, \S a choluinn chei'g an robh chlos(d). Nior chlos(d) l an sin do na chuan, (vluaiseadar e fa leth ; Na bhàthadh bho thoiseach tim, Liobhraidh se air chionn na breith. Breith bheir buaidh air gach breith, Cha Bhreitheamh leth-bhreitheàch an Itiirli ; Shuidheas air cathair na breith, 'S a bheir ceart bhreith air gach t\. 1 MS., choirt for chloist : see liue alx>ve. 48 THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. Gigh tj va kur ra oilk Terbhir noighkt er I laiuph chlj Karijr er j laiùph yeish Gigh tj vj is deish er I chind l 1 "chiiid" written over " laiuph" deleted. Gigh tj is deish er j chyn d Laiihrj Brjhj ruih gi kairt Vo is beilhyn d veannight sywe Mahims ghiiis nir peagbk Mahinis ghuis nir peaghk Gaiphis sheilph chair t sT rjighkt Choirrighc mahir vo hois Guishin aind I gloir gin chrijghc Oir ir bhi ghoisiu fo hairtt Fo ouyghk, fo ark is, chon bais Prison gin troir gin nairt Hoii8kle sywe kairt er mj chais (or er) * * 3k la MS. Er bhj go m mj choigrighc kein Smj hreveller ains gigh bail Gach t\ a bha cur ri olc, Tearbar a nochd air an laimh chli ; Càirear air a laimh dheis, Gach t\ bhios deas air a chionn. Gach t\ (bh)ios deas air a chionn, Labhraidh ('ra) Breitheamh riu gu court Bho('n) is buidheanu bheannaicht' aihh, Maitheara-sa dhuibhs' 'n 'ur peac'. M aitheam sa dhuibhs 'n 'ur peae', Gabhaibh-s' seilhh c heart 's an rio'chd Chomharraich m' Athair bho thòa, Dhuibhse aim an glòir tfim chrich. Oir air bhi dhoinhsa fo thart, Ft) fhuachd, fo acras, chum bais, ('M) priosun guu treoir gun neart, Dh'fhuasguil sibh ccart air mo chiu». Air bhi dhomh a'm choigreach win, 'S a'm thru vf Her anus gach bail', THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 40 Restle sjwe ghois no meimb Oha roiih ir teibphis go m gain' 1 Ach freggrj eadsin i brihijwe Qiijn chùnikimir sywe fo hairt Fo oiiijgbk fo arkis, chon bais # Si houiskle shijnd di cbais kairt Berrims dcirph ghuiph Houiskle sgir aind dui.i nach oik Vcids gin dreinig lyphs dhyle Ra pijntj mj vrahrj boighka * * boighk ? Shin laiiphri brihywe fois naird Ruih fouire aijt er j laiph chlih Oimbichie voymbsin gi braigh Zuisi kais ist kraijh gin chrijghc For i bj Taversher I pein Anglj si chleir er faid Veids nach dreinig rijws dhyle Rj pijntj mj vrahrj laiga Fhreasdail sibh dhomhsa 'u am fheum, Cha robh ar deagh-bheus (?) dhomh gann. Ach frea^raidh iadsan am Breitheamh, Cuin chunnaiceamar sibh fo thart, Fo fhuachd, fo acras, chum bais, 'S a dh'fhuasgail sinn do chas ceart ? Bheirim-sa dearbhadh dhuibh, Dh'flmasgail 's gur ann duibh nach olc, Mhcud's gu'n d'rinneadh leibhse dhiol, Hi piantaibh mo bhràithre bochd-s\ Sin labhraidh ('m) breitheamh os n-àird l Riu fhuair àit' air a laiuih chli, Imichibh uam&a gu bràth, Dh'ionnsuidh càis is cràidh gun chrich Far am bi ('n) t-Abharsair am pèin, Aingle 's a chlèir air fad, Mhcud's nach d'rinneadh leibhse 2 dhiol Ri piantaibh mo bh rait tire lag-s\ 1 We still use " oi iosal." * MS. " ruibhse," but Bee prcTiou* verse. 50 THE FERNAIO MANUSCRIPT. Oòmichj ead sho gj trouyh Ziffrjn ouire bj fouighk is tesh Ghaiphs ga dùillighe i kais Ni ir feih ead bais aind i fest Ach oorabj beuhjnd I graij Dj fotìire aijt er I laiph yeish Lahonis nj flah feile ewijn doisin I treish eivyn doisin I treish Ewijn doisiu gigh nj chj Ewijn vj kahir nj grais Ewyn vj lahir I Vrihiwe Ewijn vj lahir I Vrihjwe Ewijn i hichaih si vouyh Cha nedir I chur I keil Mead ewnish * I nayt votlyn * ewniH t Ewnis ea nach faighk stifle Kwni8 ea nach koùle klouvse Imichidh iad so gu truagh, Dh'Ifrinn fhuair am bi fuachd is teas, Dhoibh-san ge duilich an cas, Nior faigh iad bas ann am feasd. Ach imichidh buidheann a ghràidh A fhuair àit' air an laimh dheis, (Do) fhlaitheanas nam flath fèile, ! eibhinn doibh-san an treis. O ! eibhinn doibh-san an treis Eibhinn doibh-san gach ni chi ; Eibhinn bhi ('n) cathair nan gras ; Eibhinn bhi lathair a' Bhreitheimh Eibhinn bhi lathair a' Bhreitheimh ; Eibhinn a shiochai' 's a bhuaidh ; Cha'n fhaodar a chur an ceil], Mend eibhneis an àite bhuain. Kiblineas e nach faca suit ; Eibhnea8 e nach cuala cluas ; THE FERN JUG MANU80RIPT. 51 £wni8 ea naoh dehid er chuil Ghoysin da dorir mir ghoysh Doysh is mo no gigh doysh Ta foQis er neoph eg mj rj Ewijn da gigh naigh I ghloysh Er chor sgi boQyhicher I Er choir 8gi boQyhihmir I Smuynimir er krijgh I skoil Smuijnimir ir peakj bah Smùynmir I la fa yeoyh Smunmir I la etc Q THE FERNAIG MANU8CRIPT. Chad chighill quyd zè" veis Ni mo hreig mj toilk Oire aind j meahan mois Cha lonchrjs mj chorp Cha lonchroos mj chorp £g ghjnnighs eg saynt Fairmid ri quijd chaighe Tairgid gir ea bauis Tairgid j bains Lcumbs no gigh shejd Gad hairljn ea gin choir Mj ghoyh cha bj leir Cha bi leir ro b choir Ach mj ghoghis fein Mj heole rein d mj leoin Och ochoin o zhe 1 Och ochoin o zhe Trouh mj skeil o rj Cha di hreig mi toilk Ach ni hreig i toilk mj Chad hreig i toilk mi Ach nj hreig mj nairtt Err oilk i char i grijwe Smoid i mijwe a b pheaghk Smoid j mijwe a b pheaghk Nach di chaighjn mj lonchrooee l Och, ochoin, a Dhè, Truagh mo sgeul, Righ ! Cha do threig mi *n t-olc Ach na thrèig an t-olc mi. Cha d' threig an t-olc mi, Ach na threig mo neart Air ole a chur an gnioiuh, 'S moid am miadh am peac'. 'S moid am miadh am peac', Nach do chaitheann mo lon-chraoU ; THE FERXAIG MANUSCRIPT. 6? Tùigks vi a°rgim zho Lo veahan moos Lo veahan moose Nj mj moossjd kairtt Ruitts o rj dj gloir Vo is dù mi hrwire smj naijrtt Vo is du mj hroir smj nayrtt Tesrig mj vo" vais Gleisis gigh naigh \ i is peaghkigh fois keùind chaiighe Ha imb peckigh fois keuind chayghe Cha nacheh mj mj gbijph Hovir ahir ni grais Baij ghom a lehe Chrijst Baij a lehe Chrijst Hairub ghrjsid oirtt Veids gin drein d ea dijle A lehe ghywe is loighk A lehe ghywe is loighk Gigh peghkigh airrigh hejn  h' èisdeachd tuille teagaihg Ann an eaglais do chill sgirc. Anns a' ghabhail rathaid duit Na labhair ach an fhiriun ; *M> THB FEESAIG MASTOGBIFT. Bi deirph gi fey h ft aind Di reyhirg lough di hoorh Ach na bisi dichoynnigh Ma chitijr leat nj boighktj Er nhj hoTÌrd noosid daij Mir ghordighe Cbrjst is Ostle Nouire heid ù steagh i negiish Er feherj heiggisk bj quijnigh Na bijg tijntjne merranigh Hoir * airh er gigb nhj chlùjn ù. Darr hìg ù maigh dhehj sho Marr I reih leat bi tonir Teihs chommin leihoile No teihle luighk nj poijt Bi furranigh kairdigh Rish nj brahrj kaijrt Na gaiph f ywe no naijr (iad zain ù kaigh haighnu Bidh dearbh gu'm faigh thu ann Do rireadh luach do shaoth'r. Ach na bi-sa di-chuimhneach Ma chitear leat na bochda, Air ni thabhairt 'n iaaad daibh Mar dh' orduich Crioed is Abstoil. 'Niiair theid thu steach do 'n eaglais. Air 'n fhear-theagaisg bi cuimhneach Na biodh t' inntinn mearanacb, Thoir aire air gach ni chluinn thu. Dar thig thu mach an deighidh so. Mar a rogha leat bhi t' ònar ; Tagh-sa 'n comunn laghail, Na tadhail luchd na pòite. Bi furanach, cairdeach, Kin na braithre ceart ; Na gabh fiamh no nair*, (led dhean thu each sheachnadh. • u . »» j)" or " v" dekted a^parcnUj io " h«ipir." THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. .67 Shùihill riJ8t gin saighcharan Gaighj zùÌ8J d heihlighe Gigh nhj choùlis leats Aijrhis daij is meihrighe Cho : DQskig aind mj leibbj dom Si kaidle er mj voyrrig Shin I skeil mir haighir Gaihrrish mj mir ohoùle Choùylis ghùh etc& Krossanigh di rejnig lea, Murchig maighk vjck ciirchj si naimb nj reackig Rj Tairligh anno : 1648 Oik I teiphir ouhphjr Ghlaighk I sivill aùphir Ni veil sea ach nophir Mirr zùill gheig si daphir Mirr zùill ni gheig No koip tuijn er farkh Mirr vhùn bla, breig Mirr vheimb struh rj kairk 1 Mirr zaijlt ro noihn No snaighk naimb grein Sminig shojh fo ghoih fo ghorjn Is Dhij gin voran pein. Siubhail r\s gun seacharan Dhachaidh dh' ionnsuidh d' theaghlaich ; Gach ni chualas leatsa, AithrU daibh is meòraich. Dusgadh ann mo leabaidh dhomb, \S an cadal air mo bhuaireadh, Sin an sgeul mar thachair, Dh' aithris mi mar chuala. 1 Mar dhealt roimh nòin, No sneachd an àm grèin ; S minig saoi fo dhòrainn Is daoi gun mhorau pein* 68 THK FBRNAIG KANUBCRIP?] MQr 8hjn korr i tivill Kailgigh ea ga loihor Hig ea er naigh sipboill Naigh ga hijr ryh aùphir. Qflirrimb Druimb rj chombjn Qùirmb oimbloùh nacb fannig Evirr beid da nannimb Grajjh da nj vreigs oholljn Graijh j noire si naillj Heg nj sloij ga Dùillj f Vo chardis gin channigh Go ardans go gijnnigh Krjs j bcah maillj Heg j deophjn wllj Chon j tloij j vaillig Don I noijb gin torrig Kead aighk I tastle breig Kois chemù ni fairkh Lab nj foorrjn forijn Vi brab I rj chyn d argjd Is dail gigb naigb nach koiile Beagbk I skoil mir harlig Vo gblaigk I troigh oirn oiighkir Gi foibjn kroighe da zijllig Gj bea Tudas fails T Sudir da nj gbrijws Voyl ea phloghk si noylsb Doij gir oik zbjls Mur sbjn is trouh I chluip (jbais gi boiiin na korp Goale j Rj lea gluitt Mil ill chrj gbaij oik Oik I teipbir et a moin a loan vi cahj rj aloft h ni baijrk Mirr ghrijvo phlah Ui feihj shea voili gray tìrai gigh phjn deas is tonh Aligan si loiiy eg kaigh Bafthghor astalligh I veis No lahj go toirnib I vaise Oha vais sho gha tanimb (5a daigjh loat kiinall fo gh roily mb Ha tlamo** srin vailliix Rj |*ayig di charronis bofthno Mj ghniijs mir zhaillig Nainl vrngh nj nanglo go loyn Soad krahit or talhi Uarj gin >karrj dft voilyh Yoyhn gin skarri^ on»ftn j iie-ftlc tKirv chruin foiihi:id:> nj kloihir Uui tux** koa voa \or!i: luihr* l\i * disriv-h uii or k«a:r nn'ih Reuh N*a d: ohloki^ \\> ir oho id I.i vi ft:*.* shin -i* bhnirp » « * Fo is: ig he i \j ka i t k i::i :s :*\l:wi!» ra :r.iv*:g : ehol'c Foil i-ighk Ivrtish » % » ■» » • • » lìleeiÀ gin v^sl^; Sketch f* sau^h or j ehùle * fraighk f * Tlaino* t *b*ihnf ♦Eat t«dm THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 87 Er chtile ga dj chahj voyhnd Oììrh I vijs dj luth(1) eg kaigh Sgùirrj I nish gi trouh Di zhfioys fo oiumb gna Gna lea tùil dj righe Ma skribs vj neig chrùh broin Ghaig sead kischraùh Bi phrjsoil na* leiyhjt oire *ha¥ fleighj ? Zheig rihj gin dhjbird er zhùin i koire Bea veis foorrin Gin vi ghraind he . . no zhoig* *zhnig ? Hig j duih ga ta dj hrijgh Smoir I zhjvell sea mijsk ghail Kaigh gin naihir er I chuile Ha sayhid zeha eiile er chaile Ha kailis gha kaitkind Naimb hi-jghk ghaghj go vuirh Maùlaùh gin ghaissig I krain d I bairh frestle* da chleùh *fresttle 1 Taind* chaij taittjmb *daind? Vo chainord I naghkjn loan ùirh Dainsyghk teidd altriim Bj haynt vj leats bea ruine Di ruins no feithi chleah Smairg bj treju mah er chaigh Sma rejnd dhujn ghais I krehe Vi fiillj no reir gi bea, Shea va eoligh Moir-chuise nighk si baihj Krain d fa-rjn Ma bronigh I nish kaigh Ta lughk fogir Gin chnodigh fo hijghkt dj vaise Vo ta storose Sin chophir fo lijck I taiih Taùh no ajhir * no di zhewe * oihir? Cha neih I noise tejd gi braigh Ski bu teih-idis si feimb Fo laùhù vijck dhe nj graise 88 THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. Di ghraisin i hrjjnoild Varkig gi miroildigh trehi Ma via I chriwe ion-oild Cha-rig fois nijsle I dheh Gais daij gi loino r * leino 1 " No gharden gin ghjwe fo nj ghrein Ski dairn-shaid fynish Gi dalich gigh f raj we vo nj zheig Zheig bj tairhich * gha gigh naigh * fairhioh f Bi dailwich draigh no leijg Foor Albc zhegjn gj foaighk * * aoaighk t herr-8heold * ma shaigh nagh bj vreig *-sheild t Cha breigigli mj vein-mijnd I feighin di vairphrijn di cbaigh Gi skeiltigh or targid Nebrjn cha tainmbs fos-naird Va gehrj rùit shailvan is teilo da ghairvig j gna Kea zhedish dj lain-vyn Er ehdin I tal-vijn j ta Ta shead gin najhir fo chaise Nj ma-hi sdu klair er loiiysc Chjns nach fejhir naigh vo nj vaise Maighk rah no taijt bofiyh Bouigh gin ne-righe Di ghoiilligh nj krews j baijhr Groum-igh nj koidhj Snach gloiiyshir le evigh j graijh Ghoyshvoire nj feile Gin lough er son teimb di chaigh Trouh mir zherich Louh si rjjh skeile dj vaise Di vaise ghaig mj fo chloist Och-adoin i skeile i doiire Gigh slij gha gloùysh gi braigh Mi chrj fo chraid gi bouin Mj chri-is I ta etc«fe THE FBRNAIO MANUSCRIPT 8> 5 Rijn di reinig lea Gillicallum Gairph ; m c illichallum Hivill is dijmbhoin di vuirn Smairg i zhilhir lea droigh quirmb i truire bj phailt ra mj reah Nj er vairrjn dhuh ach i nah skeile Ta Ingis I kroighk nj naingle Laùh nach di chein in I sivill Va ahjd er nj laubu bj phailt Da faighkis i chlannù ghajhall LaQph eill ver Gillespig Maiphk Chellen Earle ghuinigh Shea shin dairle lauh bi phailt Da faigckis di chlannQ ghaihall Lauph Eachin oig vijck Eachjn Mj chraighs bj * er j kljig * vj t Bea shin oin lauh bj phailt Da faighkis I chlannu gaihall Nish vo chaij truir shin saighid Skin vi aind naigh ga tivig Ach ead mir zhimbigh I faijhe is ro-veg mart ort I hivill Hivill is doimhoin etCik Rijn di reinig lea Oishen m c Phyn Seisher shjn soir ir slijghk Seisher shin nach smijn oik Feher deh ir seishir fo lijck Mi chraigh meid ir kliskgi noghk Qùeig-err shjn dilll er sheid Shinidir I teig ra ir tijwc Dai-nig taighkir gin trouisc Vùn ea voyn d queigi kijwe Kair-err shjn shailg shaill Chaihirn airmoil nach ghirr Er chrouise da quirrimir kah Vùnhi voyn d fehir zeh ir fihir 90 THE FEBXAM3 XAXUSCRIFT. Treirr shin dull i kein Shùid dir * hugid Rj Greig * [dir (!) blotted. Cha* dairmid xhuyn vi er chouyrt Yùnj Toyn I trese deh ir treir Shijh-mjid no ir doose i steih Skilidir i rijst ir genn Tuikshj teig mir is dluih Vùn shea vovn i dairle feher Mish no monhir no deihj . Goisjn (?) cha viphill ach baise Cha naise er i tallù soùise Da chonjse * nach tairlir si chaise * choayaef Smj noin chrain si ehroighk Smj stoighk ra buy It yrr toujnd Cha veah ghoui ach I baise Sniairg da faigrr * I laùh loùim * [faigir t Smi noin chru si roigle Sgin chroju eìll uo inaskin Is beg ì b.'ìg j lea tuittimh Gijh dull f hiin gi f.irsinn * * [farsim in MS. Kihild is Goule is Gohrj Agas Oiskìr tan kri hu>l » maiuiub* da teiaher *inainnbt Sheisher >;n etc** A prophesie uuuie before the situatoune of Invemes. Srxeid v-aLvT. sallich I shùiu 1 Wohirrv * r*:>. a d-irrieh .louvn 4 * Bleire ! i l\iine t 'kti:: 1 wò.iog ghaii Drvùle er : %*ih%>ì ^ùyu 1 IuTemish tai'.l chlaisk I^tItv kih.i tùirhglash i di^ M Pehaig i uvwh Lea laji: agas lea lunhch Tuitti xi: Gbavie nia Kti^h Ma TvHTÌùmb :oini uj hurich THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 91 I Eijn di reinig lesh ì Skripher naimb I dorig Rj Shemis 7 a Sassjn anno 1688 Gir faijlt carroile I sivill Gi maile ea baiToile nl sijhijn Siljmbs gir fojr I skeil Wo nj zherich dj Rj Brettjn 2 Ga b voir I heywris si viiirn Steyle fois si zho chruin Lohrj till si hreish Doigri leo ea gj mj-yeish 3 Ga b voir I hovird si ghoyse Da choivirle agas da louh Dj ghijghk ead eil lea taish Eidighe I skeil ra ahrish 4 Maghk j phehir pha I neighk 2 ( Vchavill rish er gha gleis 1 Chlewhin oile agus otill Yimbich da yoin go hrtiinei ghuinn 5 Ga d haimbs curr I keil Di zhtimb zhùn voir skeil Xi veil fois er bhj kea yea Ehvir zhe, no pha i zhinnj 6 Ach ghlesih Rj er veid I hresh Vhj n vrihi corhiim co-yeish Gin rtiihn lejrgell fa skoole No zhjn, vaillih lea deo-gloir 7 Loyhri ull chumbell kairt Deo-chreiddj fo lain smaglik Rairs mir heiggisk ( hrist iri beaghk Agas ta reis hest oistle 1 The second volume of the MS. commence* here. Dr Cameron tran* ibed of this volume only the first five verse* of the first poem, the first t of the second, sod the first nineteen of the fourth poem ( u Sorhrie * The three lines here given sre on the margin. The original lines deleted mn thus : — Prinse Orrsnge xeh gherri gead Marie I nijn ga douir Gharw sea gi bouir i klainniw 92 THE FERNAIG MANU8CKIPT. 8 ShaO-keid bleind ta reish eig Va vreihri zhdn d nil reah Loin-vi-mir nj kembnj keind Sno eigni-chi-mir i foighkle As shin tiìigfìr mir I dailc Gir oin slj choistnis hailc Cha dehlimb ead reilh I skoile Hoile hohird da gigh oin nehr Ach gogh ir brihi mj si chnise Heddir Ri Breittin 8f Priiinse Derph, ha ir peckj cho ciiirHt Skiiirsir shyn a leah nj kcirh Nj oinjh shjn hjlghkt oim Ourh lijn gigh shain, ghall gigh noh Di vreignich shyn nil I test Verh shyn gin chcist nj ha-vijnjn Kighla shyn, mir chighlas struh Shemis I deh Priiinse I diiih Derph leùhm, vo skcil duììjrh Bairh-I ti hi doùile, no hainig Ach ghuihmijd as I leah gi taijnd Ead vhj fa roin er oin raiod Go gloir Zhe, is Ise i kain d Chon sgi daijnt i toile gin deylh Dain-ni-mir broin agns tniisk Ma loinfir nhyi\ na nioir reaglik Lea lilljh di zhe sgigh caisc Err ir glunj, gna gi soyller Treigmijd fainnjd is onhphir cuirp Treiginijd mj-niin is moir ghlnit Treigniijd fonrh chreddj gin via Treiginijd gi braigh vj feylloile Eairraijd shichawo, eairmijd ijghk Eairmijd fijiih zhe, tnis vi ghljck Eairniijd creiddi, treiginijd saijnt Vo is faijlt earroile I sivill Gir faijlt caiToile etc«k THE FKRNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 93 Chrea orhan di re j nig leish i Skripher si naimb chijnd anno — 88 Ta 8ivil8 carroile Ha ea didain da ir maillig gi gheir Leuhid kighla herr tallu is Dhoon er I dallig lea vreig Chrek Pairt dais I nanim Sdi chighle ead barroile chijn sheid Oir chaj an 1 si chrànoig Ghoirt tuill da ir kanigh O oin Rj voire beannj nir creid O ahir nj graise No failig shjjn nir crouise Ach aQphrig oirn tra Lea tlaise o* lahis I noùise Mirr hug ù lea* Wiruild Clain d Iseraell Gin dhi foirr si choùyn Dhjne teglish di rirj Ga ghoyh lea luighk I mironne Yo skribe ta tijghk ma kouyrt Skoir rijs vi ouild Ga ta I fo ghuh ains i naimb Gir ead I peakjn I duhire Harrjne oirn puhire is kaile Ach dainmir traisk agas kuh Rish i nerr * * chale (f) deleted. Gha gin deùhir si chrain Chons gi kaisich * ea weùhjn d * kaisick t Chlesik I negoire is duih Mir ha bregin is luhin is faile Zhe churrind laidhir Ghalich muir agas teere Ha ù faikshine I draist Mir ghaljg I prabirre j Ri Ach rairs mir haghir di Gaij Xouire gaiph absolon Pha er go zhi Berr ghaghi ma ghaile laitt Ghainoin I parti Nir Rj chon ait, lea shih 1 uq ? A deleted form of the verse clearly given an. 94 THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 5 . Kerr eill sma I shoile do m Ha gheist ouire cr foighir No phairt Loighk ni cùrrìjn i shoilt Di hogrig snach obigg I spairn Ga tàmil leen vvn d ù Nj dorimir foììh zhùit Gi bmgh Saiid da ir shoirs bi doiilc shin Kddir Vhej agas oùylsl Wi er di zheislaiph I croudall Si caisc 6 Troilh nach faickin u tijghk Mirr baitt lea mj chrj Si uaimb Far ri Shemis lea beuhind Xach gheil I zeuhir Ni ghaile Ha draist ro weftich Voids gin hijighe ead faile I^ea sholig slea ueiihimb Ains uj modii is duih Chuirr fa zha* shiwe er sluijlc *sAat Di Rajnk 7 Acli ha maijr snj dùhj Gi kighile i couiree sho foist Gi faijk mj lea™ hiilj Vi skùirsi gigh tnih, va an i moijd Sgigh Barron beg cùbigh Vaile lea caml is liibiu Prmcc oire Glieuli M c Kellen er huise duih Ghainoin I chùirt . Gallirc bi dùighisicli * gho S Bea ghùghis vo haiuo* Vi didaiu ra maillig gigh tij • [Teajk, Uaekd (?) u deleted in MS. THE FERNAIO MANUSCRIPT. 95 Cha baire ea hi we Ahir Ga b vuire j wahis VoRj Ma sea sho I treis gahcll Hugg eùk * voùh vaihall * [rusk ? uisk T Go proo8 1 Lea meidin scorriach skahoile Chad chaiusichig eaise 2 Ga d hùitt ù* cha naihish *ea deleted Dùit* I *dftit t 9 Ouimbig Tijhoni is poist Nach oyle dois I noish chur 1 dhain Ha draist gi mojttoile Le phrabir gi boistoile i d phaijrt Saind duih shjn Cullodhir Graintich, is Rwsich i chaile NoCiire hajntas I roihj Chon ainsighk vo hossigh Gir taijut ghaij chroighe Mitfk chayghe 10 Ach earru nj hailb Ga dailligh lj draist nir coiiirt Ga d lepht sitr vo ir lainbighk Svo la gheils sijwc Ghergus J err huit*c Hiiitt gigh foinn lea tairmisk Di hreig snach rouh earbsighe Di n chrouin Ach shoh tailijrh I ghairris Gi harj I sainchi* Gi neirrigbe mj hail voire Da kleuh. 11 Nj kan mj nj sleir rom Kj ir mahi, ri ir cleir ri r poire 1 Prof- Markmnoo traulitermtes theae tvo Ixxm* than : — "8 gtd thmt € dfct'n tthftil «ih* i * f i— . — , m * u cfjmcUà and ofcatve. 1M THE FERNAIO MANUSCRIPT. Deish ir mjnin I Heirlis Gi seisl shiwe pean ea nehij dobjn Si teyhrj dlygh no gheia Hùitt nish go Shemis ra veo Àch ghainoin ir leira Ga moir ir qflyd leiph Herr leoùmbs gin reib siwe I choire 12 l Oin loùh er coir zhirich La maslig no zhibir di phairt Va oùyr I staijt oosle Si ha err torrjg lea ooghk ma i drai«f f Shain achkle sgir foore ea Ya reuh eddir Christinj graj Girr mish no anspirrit Dùin mi hainboile (-koile Gaiph na slir rùis naimb er no chay* 13 Kais eill nach fass Zheirhh mir asson si royug . . Chlain fein vi no taiikt Da gigh naich ha cur as da ma couy . . . Di hreig eid scha naijtt daj Qùeùgù fain va ch... ga tloùyh Noinado r wairt sho D\ naich gaiph baistjg And I namb nj trj persin ba soùis 1 4 Acb oirr zuibbrich gigb miroild Va misk * chlain Israeli vo huise * niisle t Nach shoyller j gijwe sho Zoin naich gaipb Christighk mir groiìut Vo lijh ghcilt agas foiph raoir Err gigh Marquos gigh Earl sgigh Diùchk Kaisk fein najryilds Mas toil leuts I Zhe ea, Ma tnit shjn fo eyrist di grùise 1 "ì Smoir eyris rultt I Wreittin Snach dedig di heiggisk no aim Cha leir rùitt fa tegle 1 [Verne* 12, 13, 14, and 15 are on a loose slip of paper ; the ink i* fatal, ami the writing difficult to decipher]. THE FERNAIO MANUSCRIPT. 97 (*iii harrjn an ere id di ort cail Vo la vuirt ljiwe Sheirlis Ha uilsin ghewighk gi tain d Gaiph ahri i tegoir Uoir ghachi Ri Shemis Noih higg skuirsc vo Zhe ort i nail 16 Ghajallu gaist No lavhi fo waisle Si chuise Ach feyhir siwe t&ppie Si Hi Shemis no haick er ir cuil Ga ta Vlliam I Sassin Xo gheljwe i feast da cliroun I^eumb is kijnttigh mir haghris Hijwe oinlighk I wearrtjne Gi pijltir ea gaghj, gin chleu 1 7 Xoh m oin hy we pein sho Sgin ghlaighk eash i negore err chaind Ya vanefesto ro ejdighe Nach faijk* sywe gir bregigh (* faijl, faijh ? i chaijnt Sjrigh gaillig di reyii d shea Di Hassjn di hreig shea gi taijn* Hit ead nish neyhi cheile Xoùire hùig shead I reson Ach nj ha Phresbiterianich — aind lfc 1 Xa" lehid nir mLrtnighk Gi n*u ead »ho bristuigh ua oouirse F«* ftkriiltr relifjion Be* iiatjst si ghlighkis Vo huise Co zuL uiligh I i*i»h Xach  ijw fo c\*>si De ghij da rvnsg mir txhin I waijt 1 1 No bainh jrhom ij* ki Wirrandis skriph Ha mcirriskoll mt ù*»r ha d ti^li lain C'haninhk is dinli^iik it* fairris leo dirigg Snoj vainiirht hjr vnv'. ^h t dijbhir ma Ltir Ha ahir i ti»yllish K 1-r Kill d t t-\vrrigg Va k';K" ti a koùir- : ' ••• .^ t«. in is brihoire No gigh tijh zeù shid hùlli Kaiak fein lea d vihruild i trihft gi hùillì Kairttich robberrin Heuiis Bah rebelldin Ylliani. 25 Ach ourr j heuli* er cbovn vovne • • • Zeusie eovlshi nj bono* Va"* Li roine royrie Gocb ir oouhre j le«* corhjni Gir ajtt leum mir voyle eads j Roiibitr oid orb Xo keill vs mir cboùle Li berr vouhnis Ceid Sorrie. 1 Grain  a skjhnir i naighk . ghaig syhni fo vaslig I^ea soohir err leppinin claire   r sdoj z o fajck sive dmch vile orb And i torrig i grjve vi nair e Sna vaillj mj medigh mvr i bait leiim vi j^eistnighk Gigb i tj yeu :revigrhk nir baj ZHE earltich uj jjrein fo re i naighs chaj negju Is gresse dagbj Rj Shemi s ùto ajt Na feihin mj ruine daj cha vi ig eat! qùjrt Ni mo yainmir oule di chai gh Sgi tcnttag i squirse* er dgh «ton naiirh gi dabild Va ami nj lubin gi fanlse THE FBRNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 109» Ach leggims i chuise go do le nj tj i ehniine Naigh is urrjne da housl ig a caise Svo cha mjnttin i trumid ma ni shin i chunis Skeile kjnttigh sho chuir nij fos-naird Finis Oran rejnnig er foigre Ri Shemis ì 7 ano 1692. Ta mulloid qùijntigh troùmb er mjntin Chuir go oolsh mj vahran Ly snih gi dubild . er mj hùlj Glaick buhre mj chlaistniprhk Cha chodle sugrich, ghom gin deùstigg* *deultigg Evir tuirse mj ghaire Ach gi neistir leùm skeile Ri Sherois hijghk chon ajjt Trouh j narsijghk ha mj c/aj... Tijghk er p&ijrt g/eyall Gin soap ni cardjn vo no pha}..m Sgin vahig yeu ceiddin Ha m ghuile gi laidir  irph pjne is er ir daigli-?n Gin vi gin rhvrieh and vo rvalds Tihi veasus nj kerrin Cha nase i Ijves, i nah-srrjhs lligg i reest hjve sesse oirph 1 truighker? 112 THE FERKAIG MANUSCRIPT. Smir vi gealt nj Narmin si droh n ad or Slea sairigk (?) nj Cleire Cha vi-mir saijst, fo nj chaisi Na bailish leo ehri Agh smairg di ghordich i chuid stoiroish Da toirse mir rein Shemis Hreig i choire si hentta cloijgk Lesh i Nolain d egrogh Ta mulloid etc  eamj ea neida» aj bsghk pains i rejt Lacaiead* ead fctn j coaindoirt Hig W* ga bias Hacafein «r aisà\ Ratmtt «nr gx teatf* Yierài go I§ Shtaaìft ao «babHtd Kxxra* Kaa reatt bi f«ar* cfcair cuk   * & ttrtà*- Wat I%vf *>ac IVtfcvx £3t Mcnat rn: 3»ròfa** Sfe *àna£ xr. mtirnit ia 1 Wat Taant «*n ifeas * Tsrrir susaxi&f a* £ pr art sic T* T^jtna imuftf kipxffii.it Wih iarm, an vbafi * * unHninai rr a*Àr JW THE FKRXAIG MANU8CRIPT. 117 Gigh tj hesBÌe j chore, bihi ead sessrigh na sloir Ga d douhrie leo leoin si chuise oid Lea honno* is couirt,* har lughk j mj-ruine * oonirt f Slear ruine gir feù i cleù shin Smairg i gfaorig gi tain 41 si dorjne j vajnd Mar eihir leo tajiick na deuvell Vihig ferrin lughk fajle, da rejn orh i bajnd No feihin8 rajne mir ghurighk Bihi Cammond er hoile nach* chufiis leo foist Cha phaj ead nj snio a smudie Bihj mish mj ghoj curr zilljn er stoile Sda grjnichig i choire nj pupajt Lea D zooish lag oig na sjh fo m choir Sea brjhine mj ehoile smj hùgrig Killdùich mj haiwe lyhir leiime saij Snj bihimir and ra tuirehe Couh Joan Vreittin or Jock Breittans complent Irished to the toon q B the King corns home in peace againe — Julie 1693. Tuirsh mi veanmjne tuirsh is ainm ghom Tursigh armoile i ghaise mj grount Dairkig an-mejne nj Halbin d Si cleaghkig barbre ba no coujrt Curr eaghigh orn mir yewe Go ahish er ir Cleire Turks Hemish chur er chuile Ach j ghainoine lughk j hrjh Bihi nj meennins gin vrih Nouhre hig mj Ris j rjst go chroune 2 Smj Jook Brettin sboghk fa" vrett ie (?) Slughk gha m hessQ dull go baij Hreig j Negglish va ga™ heiggisk Rears mir heiggisk Crjst is Ahij Achs dalle leum j spirritt Va ga ir njmbir Gin cheùme girrj ro vjnnin l^aixh n* Gir ahrie chuise vjlt Sho gheù* agas dhijtt Noùhre fajg mj Rj lea shj chon *jt 3 Faid i leums j skeile gin chleuntjn Tihighk j Yeùtrijgh onn er sajle Chon sgi tentaig rah nj quyle Err lughk eupre Tjnnin grajne Cha zainnigh leo nir nj Gin ir nanmin char i rih Chora 8gi ditih shjne la Trah Ni sho eurressie no di Cheurrir er mj hire Ach i dig mj Rj lea shj chon ajt 4 Ha touhre zull as orms gi kairt-vreigh Ma ghonis sesse agas argid chajn Beart nach fas gaise mir asson Mjnnin tarshine da curr j bajne Ver sho orn i faisk Franckich ghaist Go ir maslig lea neaghù shajng Shea ir sljis go shaghnu Fa roon si vi berttigh Mi RÌ8 hoird daghj si chairt ajm 5 Ro veg i hjle mj ra mj hivill Nolajnd oone vi skjle orm koih Cha leh mj smjntjue as mj zoon Vi cho moole sgin leg shead leo Mj chroùin mur sho chùmmig Di Mahrie sdi Ghùilliam Snagh bead nj hurrin da mj coire Cho faids si vi Rj Shemis beo* si Vaghk femoile * I^ch> T Ti hig er gleise go ejrighk orn 6 Nagh more j dairmid di vahi Albe Nono r Eairse chur er chuile Coirs kejd Rirj er j noon tlj Er tijghk vah dirigh magh go clen Skeile sho ta kjntigh Gir and deùs j doose oid Rears mir skrjve lughk-shainchis dujnc Gigh tjh vajle j djlsighk Orh8 agaa foorine Heid go djh nouhre is shj da m chrouinc THE FBBNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 1W 7 * Oha leh i vaslig di Vahj Hassin Ead vi curr as daj pein da dojne Chajle ead berttish rish gi farssig Is lflingis varsand na sloire Agh sea vajle ead gi heullj Gajle veg ferr Lundjn Er bhj chummond hijghk no lorg Ha ead majlt fo chuiidart Skrisse vi ghaj Qllj Nouhre hig mj Ris er mùir go choire 6 Nagh fajlt i dois rein j Nolajn d Lea ir gorighe go ir cajle Dar i foise eads lea moir-chuise Oirph Preii8e Orienge mir ir kain d Cha nain d er ghile hor ro* Reinj leo i toistis Agh eggill foist vi orh ro ajle Sma8 i dhoon i beo shj chi shj vi ga oigre Nouhre hig mj Rj go choire j naùle $ Smairg i hale* j vert cho gorigh * hoile 1 Si rein Preuse Orienge ansin najm Dar i chaile ea coire i heisrie Mir huitt i neole vo n cheon si damb Sgigh oon gift is feile Zeut vo Ahir keile Sgir ea maghk i pheahir fein j vand Ha dhe mir err deve er Dull chaile chuise lea egor Alar hi mj Rj lea reit i uaule 10 Agh Eith dilish bihive kjntigh Nagh dejd i vj stirighk ma lair Sgi tuitt i scribs orh da oolt (Thleuh nj deestjns er mj chlair Sla squirsie sho ta cummond Zeuh gi oon deù beull Ha fooltigh furranigh j draist l Cha lugha mhasladh do mhaithibh Shasuinn Tad bhi cur as daibh fein le 'n deòin ; Chaill iad beairteas ris gu frasach Is luingean mharsanda na 's leòir. [Mackinnon]. 120 THE FKRNAIO MANUSCRIPT. Si nouhre is laig i Dftin Ha mj Zhe cho oilhllie Go mj Ris i churr no oonid slain 11 Quirrj cuille rj mjnnin gin noon-ghirrig Treigi njmbird si grjve naire Leg lughk oonnjd hive spjnnj Go vi mjUig orne snir gnaise Agh dainimir ir munnjn Si Tis ta vrrid ' Vo is sea is vrr ghuine no ir cais Sver eash orne gin chuiiord Er aish (cha nea Vlliam) Kj cha chumntig ghom lea graise 12 ZHE di ghordich ghpm vi beofie Chi ù deo-vert orm mir chais Cleaghk di hoilig go mj chonig Sno leggs ghoj mj chlij gi braigh Aoh tessrig mi gin vejd Vo naskine is vo nejgh Sgi feilimir vo 41 chreid i gna Gin ir nanim chur go dih Lea naineùle er son nhj Agus grese mj Rj lea shi chon ajt An other Irished by the same outhor called the. true Protestants complent ano 1693 Nach fajck sjve j zoone Gir moir i cighlas ha Brett in Mir huird Fjllie mah orajne Ha choire and da straghkig Gaid jaint and i negoire Cha leir ferr i caisk Vo la vurtig Rj Sherlis Cha drogh vesin i clajckig Ach na pajt leo erig Ni tijs is trein va aghk Vuintt i kajn de gigh rebell Di seha ma nj vert oid Sla nach drejn i vaghk Sherlis Teighks er hj-ighk ghaghj THE F£RSA1G MANUSCRIPT. 1 21 Ha Vrahir Rj Shemis Er eignig lea praskan Smairg di yerb as i toirse * * toirsk I Gha mj noise vi bristnigh Reack i Tahir chjn storoise Rr bhj gho dull no njghks Ach na bùintt reù shojlt Mir bi coire yen* glickish Cha vihig Sheinis er oigkir Gi hanordoile lea sljghks Ghaig spirrit nj shichaj Nir cWghin (?) gin nooeh dQine Cha nell foorin no Intjghki Ach tairk ri I toon i nish and Cha najckir j nigisk Eg nj doon oid gi righkoile Chuir ferr voyrig i tivill Gigh oon deii fo visk Ha pleurisies campre Si najms er i glaickig Gaise 8heillen no cains Chuir gi tain ead j breaghlim Sgad ha imbird nj fraukigh Lea laù8Ìn j cask sho Cha 8quirr ead ye j naintlaghk Agh gi kainsichir as ead Va mj ouhre nacht di hoole leimb Tijghk a jgisk i teiggisk Ach gi couhlj mj riri Murt Rj agas Espick Sma yihis Wlliani da tivig Cha njjd ea vi tesrickt Bihj clajj gha jvir Achk djden da frestle 1 Chaj kearttis er chuile dhuine Leish ni cmtrsinins haghks 1 Chaidh ceartas air chul duinn, Leis na cursanan th' ac-sa ; Hi*:* 3ft Tapre nz»ir ■ t i*«ig Ma gfa£xc£r oira £■££& Bert eH sir cfcaitt ccra Gbaiae i Turle gi Far rj fpàlj ttj rcdx Gejd Vo aga* ehazppfj Sgad deihtt far ecore reà Yainn akoGe do* chin 4 tankeh Xj nj Hooghtaren toire err Cbo chain* is beo ea no ehraghkm Sgad chair Ylliain naule aim Gjfnander i ehaisk sho Levth nj hpchig starihy And* si ooahna ha corr as deù Cha nurrjn ea chaisaiehig Aintlaghk Lochairkegg Snj mairt i gheìddir leo staÌTrig Shead* loine gsuvrie gha cheaptjn Gradh, creideamh, is duil mhath, Chaidh an triuir sin air seachran. Ni 7 bhàrr tha 'g ar ciòrradh, Airgiod smùid agus sesse ; Cha liijrha ar curam Ma dhiiblar oirnn feachda. Beairt eile mar chas oirnn \)\i fhas a' mheirle cho fasant' ; Fear ri spuilleadh nan ròide, if oid bhò agus chapull ; "S gcd gheibht' fear corr dhiubh Dheanadh ggeoil dhomh chionn taisgeil, Si na h-iiachdarain tòir air ( *ho cheart '« is beo e 'na chraioeann. 'S ired chuir Uilleam a nail orr* Omianndair a chasg so ;   the " tinkler." THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 129 NoHjr gaihrich ead ea failigig Cha tavig ead da doine Va gejlt is groym da sarichig Vo groyh go sajle i broig Ord Gouh nj cairdigh Gad harlig ea no doirn Cha sparrig ead j trahid leish Natigin go cro Ach fajrr fajrr lastolighk Va shin ga bea ouyre Vo Chaptinin go majorin Ha draist er dull a foymb Hjlt leo gi bjig skeyhin Er da hrjn snj va stiv touh 8Gi sheulig ead mir ryllig ead Nj heyrmaildiu er louse Ach ha qùyle nortùne avirdigh Dar hig i straghk ma coùhrt Vail j rears mir charrj lea No barroile mjltive sloùyh Sno dùgt geir i najrh yi Ha trejn dea carrighk croy Cha no f,me strj no ardani daj Go lave hoird er i boyh Sleir j via ra eackshin Er nj Captinins va noùh Zindrig gi trein achkinnigh Glei hattarigh j foyme Ga bi voir j tarnanigh Nouyhre hair ead ajt er slouh Chuir clagh ghon nardorrish Bùyn si salj voyh Va na duile i nùrri Dar i squirrig ead nj gleise Gi gelig gigh eullj naigh Go vrrim hoird daj pein Dùhird Vaiun gin chunnolis Cha shain aghkles i feimb Na boùgg go quir ù vuiiim ea Gad veynnin ii di leimb 130 THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. Ach noùhre hig Ki Shemis Si yevir ea na choire Cajt i bi nj hegorich Hreig ea da cajrtt dojne Si va gi seyvir fedoligh Geri er i stoirc Nouhre hair ead sais is egin er Ead fein hovird i loine Ha tjh vo duyre eod barrondis Ra carrig mjltive slouyh Ni di viis laine vaillight Hair lajnnan da hire Jouyh Ga lnoir i chljck. si chailgarighk Sea shailgarigk ma coùyrtt Smairg da cullie hairmjde ea Najmb anmin hovird souhsc Nach more i coih si breaghlims Haghir si chajrt ouyhre Da n choumin chaillgigh vaskiligh Voyle bas er vair nj hoylsh Rejni i teennis adda Gi noi-aghkire go fouhgk Ga trick i squirsc cha va ead ea Gin spairn mir cha ea souhse Hugg ead straighk cho maillicht Sgir ainni ea ri loùyh Graj hoird di Ri ainnossigh Si kainnose i churr voùh Sga bi hajst i daillis shjn Go earrose nagh mairr bouyn Bihi lain deu tcih nj hairrichis Nouhre haillis ead ma couyrtt Darr i hig i Ri lea statolighk Go ajt mir is cojre Is cundort nagh bi Davj doùyn Gairri raive fo hoine Aghki bramman feile gha Sbi vesin da vouh hoise Donis boidd yeris err No ye shid is ea beo Ach bihis ea na chuisc ghairc Da ni Gaj-allu is glan beise THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 131 Zindrig gi trein croyddalligh Lea Noughtarain si neimb Sga dugg ejsi conie orh Tor-leimb hoird no gleise Nouhre yeyuh ead mjne i njntine Snoi-chjnttigh gaise reit Ach Vaiister Cellin sdù fair Barroile er i treids Shin i tjjh nagh uiaillig ead Chaj nahlls gba kein Hesse ea niuih gi tavighkigh Dar i livir caigh i geil Sg&d ghaig gigh naigh no jnir ea, Va ea gleaghk lea oin toill fein Ha mi gheuh nagh airrigh shin Smah i varrondis Maghk Dhe Naigh shin hug gaillig gha Gi shaillig ea er ejmb Tijh vo n glaghk i chumpajst Gin deùmboyh as i yeive Si hessis feimb nj foorrindigh Nouhre vinichir i trejpe Sgir Dheoile Dùinoile eolligh ea Gin doivairt duine is leire Foyhtt ri ruoir-Riolighk Nagh djbhir ea go eig Ga more i dùh ha nairrichis Di ni harrjne ead go rejtt Cha neyhtt i teih nj faimbichis Saire lainan i noose-heid Sgir ro-vah lave nj hiskin ea Lea kjnttichi8 gin vreig Squirri ea mir yindrig ea Cha njmbirlich ea ceambs Is bouhigh doyse nj dorine Hig solaa as i deve Sma ha bri mi harkirrigh Bihi fairmid rj yea-cheile Sminkigh rah er feihidine No glehig naigh i chore Ha marriskell ni ciiises Na vdir er na sloire l-'ì- THE FEUNAIG MANUSCRIPT. Ga bea oùhre henttas ea Tive da cùir ea toire Ni ea Ri cairtt cùpaistigh * * tupaistigh ? Ma tentta dù di ghoirn Shejd ni bùylg *k Gillimichells ansr to the ford lyns Shejd ni bùylg shin oolli ghoiu Ri neen-noin fair i toird Sgi tairgjn tcdin eggidigh Da ners ha goombird oirn Ga dùhird ca rish nj kairdinin Girnb grah leo vi ri oile Cha scandjle er lughk caird sh d Leùhid tavern ha d i foilvc Gir haind ha Hi ni brahrin oid Draist er tjighk fa ir coire Gin daise ea fooljgh * fùrranigh * footigh t Sgir furris da vi pojt Foùyre ea Eenoin oiìlli Kr yeoh chumTTiig lea M c Leoid ('ha vojllir lesh trj buillin oih Nach bùynin ea er groat Sgad va Katrjne vrrossigh Is M c Currich va na loirg Mj Vaghks ga yea is oùllj Er nj chunitfiig lea chùid ord Vo n hurig Gillimichell rexvn Qùeim i nooslich mj mj gloir Donnis groat j veùnin ead Nach 1 churrie leo si stoip Ach kjd sho da ni Veestre Vi ga churr i neere gojse Va rew ri oaile a pjninin Gin di-cheùin vo oose oig Bi vijne i Vain chinnj oid Villig leash lea hojle Ach nj vrist ea noorrish Veg i njnnid i va foihj Achs ro-vah chullj hùgre Ferr i zùisligin si goih Gad di chuir ea cùlù Ri vreyh fùjst gaig ea breoitt THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 133 Nach ahri nish er sqùirsig ea Na bihig G in st in in fa choir Is ea shire claickig suirsich Vo b jsh is oure kcoile Ach vo nach mah is leir rais /foinn j beise si doj Strick j ver ea lein yi Is ea geidigh ri M c hoirse Dar heid i go eistnighk er Lea eiskollighk j beoile Noghkj ea chrain gleist yi Sgi fajsk ea veire na foi Ach no fajckins Rj Vlliam Si Chleirs hugg mjnnin do Chuirrine j steih rumbeld Er i hrùilli beart gi shojlt Ach vo ha Tis i Lundine Lain vulloid i vri skoile Quirrim yeusi Tjrreffe ea Go vinnichig er moid A leah sgi dùhird i berihder Rish i neyre shin hjle-faig Ghaig i claj gin negindis Da neine va ga ghra No fajckt leish Ri Shemis Tijght lea yearlainnii er saile Donnis moone i yerigg er Zainu feime gha go la i vaisc Narich ea lea ajndtlaghk Ni Còmanderins ha noh Nach dejd da doine di Lariak Zeussi Ranckighu go leojne Dar i chuir ea njnnish daj Trahid chile gin chro No berrig foove na cighla orh Nach fjte curr na tojne Achs ajnn gojse naitigin iirahre caird mas i beo Kddir sho s ru Ghairligh Leash nach naire vj rj oaile No tairlig ea si lahir oid Mir ajligig i ghoirn 1-H THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. Chùirrig ea toine pajrt deG j Gi dasinigh lea oird Sgad ta vert oid edich Chùir eashin i keile, do — Tirreffe nouhs yerich oirn Ni egoir yeh ni choire Mar fanjd * leumbs i skeillighk * fayd T Si vreiggin er mj hoirse Na ga di vuintt as perish Lesh i resur va na phojek Beart eill ghaig i deislajve mj Si chuir go eish mi choile Ferr i ta Dònine Edin Vi fo vejne di lughk chloighk Cha neyhtt foonish vreig era Chjne fedolligh na ojre Ach Davj beg mi-chetigh [s ni yerich leash do phoire Gad va pention vo Ri She mis Da nj vreigider ra veo Xoùyre hair ea saise is eigin er Saind yerich ea go leoine Vaghk 8afiile shùid di hreigis ea Ri treins hainig oirn Sga dugg ea mjnnin edich gha Gi reib ea ead da yeoine Is trouh i chejle veg Rj Vlliam Heine mùnnin and si toirse Hreig i vi ri dùinoilis Is Icish i biirris vi ri boist No fajckig cads cuudoirt ea Snach burrjne ea si toire Seads loùyh chuirrig mull oid er No Tih nach* vùn da n void Saind deù shin Captein Huistion Va curimigh na sloire Na (iovenier gle fisoile And8 si tuire shin Chinl-teh-leoid Si Royhine and i Baidinigh Ga b hair-aghkligh i gloire Cha chuirt noiind ea Laùrisk Zeùsie Ranckachu da yeoine THE FBRNAIO MANU8CRIPT 135 Ach na vaillj mi boilg shedi Is ni helms ha fo choi Mir i baitt levlmbs Ri Shemis Hijght lea reit naule go choire No mi skeile kjntigh sho Vihig lùighk nj mjne fo vroin Ohighlag ead i njntjne Da ijlt mir bi noise Sgir eumbig beart vi-chunoligh Chtrnnj mj vo moig Lea oombird zhoone fùilligh Zhair i muinell eg Montrose Ga yea sho is ciiudortdigh Si Ri Vlliam j ciirr leo Tuitti gigh oin dùin yeu Mir yùillag de roijtt Andsin taing va voire cheùnni Rein i Curri ri lughk pairt Gir ea ceid nj loynnjg leo Si vjnnich ead gi haird Nach bi chlaj i duile ghaj Snach squirrig ead gi braigli Gin i Fanckigh churr go dohrin Slain cboir bohird da ni Phaipe Ach kea mir ver sho frestle Err profession zjne bha Sgin zajle ea gais i sessii Neihi deskinin i Phaipe Sgad vibig Shemis feist achk Cha bi cheddi vert oid da Ski ro-vah tivir leiskell ea Go gressies chon baise Sgir arih mir ha gerj geuh Vi negin is i caise Si muirtt edich shin Ri Sherlis Gevighk oirh gi nair Bi protestanigh dirigh ea Nach* yibir go la vaise Cha choùhlÌ8 evir diti Ach i yislighks no phairt Svo la ghori ljse i heyligh Sgigh oin neyr hug Dhe gha 136 THE FKRNAIO MANU8CBIFT. Ha Breittin fo vi-loyn de — Agas feymoile * hir i gna * feynioile t Cba shjne eulli nerig sho Deish-lave voir lea ir bahi Is cairt vrehigh ga d yeri gheu Slijghk Nero hijghk no najt Mas i heih lj creiddi Hemish Cba nedir livs j grah Nach diniben sjve go egiu ea Is ea feiii no leannu ba Err chor sgi berr giu leirshin ea Mir zelig ea no chaise Di ghelimb Hesuetigh Va geir-chuisigh no guaise Ach na bi doone keli sive Mir i beimoile di lughk stajt Cha chùirtt i Maghk oid Hemish l^ea ir bregin as ir pairke Ach verri sive deo-levin da A egisk Cleir i Phaipe Is beaghti leùin gi neve shid orn Ga zevjne livs ea draist Sga moir chuir ead go egle sive Ma ir creiddi ghull vo hoile \ r err mj Zhes freistle Kr gigh naigh vi is dlessigh gho Choùhlis reve foore Espikin No heihs vih vo hoise Ha mj ghuile gi sessie ead Ta-reish da teisse i foilve Sgigh oin naigh va ri lubin Si cha i coùir8Ì8 oirn Cùndordigh nach squirsir ead Lea dursinin i Phoipe Chrjst feigh fein di ghùhrìghk ghùiu Ma quirir shjne mar leo Ach vo sea di hoi Is is curimmich Gi roh mir ouhild gho Si weùnttir ver i neusi oid Gir dubild lia d i coih Ga moir i beaghk nurninin A neQttosc is a stoirc THE FERNAIG MANUSCRIPT. 137 Noùhre i sleh duils RÌ8h i chuirsis hyghk go leoin Saind cheurrir ead a cumpajst Far ri courtterrin nj Roj Ach djnni Chrjst no ochir Gigh oin nagh i ghoih gha fein Lean ryald ni Nostle Agas oghkles gin vreig Nach drein vrnih achoine Di naigh gaise fo ni greine Is chi ead pairt de naittish Higg i najcher er i hreids Errù mah na sminichie Gir bÌ8kirrichk mi gloir Ha skelis cho kjnttichs Si yisig j vo hoise Lea oudhir j mah dehj Va ryildigh ra x veo Scha dejd mi hive mi chjne gheu Gin i churr gi fjne j flo Vo js ahri va ea geyrri orn Sbi cheylie ghuine j tuirne Toin DHe more i reyrichig Is ejrish churr er chuil 2 Ach herr leùm gir oik j ryild Di Zearle no di Pruise Clesh Vic Cell en eyr hulich Vi geyrri chon j Chruine Mi qùirrinis keile teùlli ghaj Ha ead cundordigh na sloir Gi shoilj DHe Ri Vlliam Si heulli naigh si choir Ha m fein j gavell mulloid deu Is ha toung dull vo hoile Shejd nj boùjlg shin oolli ghom Sgi grjnnichin j toird Sheid ni bouilg etc*k 1 na sloir blotted be/ore veo. 2 Ach ar leam gur olc an riaghailt Do dh* Iarla no do Phruinnse, Cleas Mhic Cailein shiar-shuilich, Bhi *g iarraidh chun a' Chrun. End of Fbrnaig MS. THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. ho« rned •din The Book of Olanranald is found in two manuscripts, at pi known respectively as the Red and the Black Books. Dr Cat was engaged in transcribing from the Blink Book of Clnnranald when his last illness came upon him ; and he had copied out only about a third of what is here extracted from that Book and placed before the public. He had got the MS. from Dr Skene, whose property it then was; and, on Dr Cameron's death, it was retun to Dr Skene, who, in his turn, restored it to the family of 01 ranald. The Black Book is a thick little paper MS., strongly bound black leather boards : it could not be better described as to appearance and chief contents than in the words in which Ewan Madphenton, the coadjutor of "Ossian" Macpherson, describes its sinter volume, the "lied Book" of Olanrauiild, viz., "A book of the size of a New Testament and of the nature of a common-place- book, whieh contained some aeeounts of the families of the Mac- donalds, and the exploits of the great Montrose, together with some of the poems of Ossian." The exact dimensions of the Black Book, a specimen page of which is herewith given in its full size, are as follows: — Length, 5J inches; breadth, 3J inches; and tlurkiioss slightly over an inch ; all exclusive of the thick leather boards. It contains 232 leaves, or 464 pages, of which 3tt are blank, The rest of its pages arc in various hands, Irish and English, of the 17th and 18th century. Indeed, the Book appear* to have been made up of some three or more separate MSS., written at different times by different persons, and ultimately bound together in one volume some time last century. The cut- ting of the edges in the process of binding proves tins ; for in the Macdonald History, the first few leaves have letter* half and even almost wlmllv clip(ie ■ 'i ' itiL.>>. A full •eeonnt of tin.- contents of the Black Book will be given further The history of the Book itself is very obscure. Upwards of thirty years ago, Dr Skene disclosed his discovery of the Black Book to the present 1'lanr 1 1 ■ 1 (Admiral Sir KeginaM Mucdouald). | 1 1 im that he liad picked it up among some old Irish MSS. at a book-stall in Dublin, when he at once bought it. Dr Skene, ••aid, restored the errant volume to the representative of its aueicnt possessors after Dr Cameron's death, and the MS. is now safe in Clanrauald's possession. By the kindness of Clan- mnald, who lent both the Bed and the Black Book to the Bank of Scotland, Inverness, to be consulted and transcribed by Mr Mac- Itiiii. at are enabled to complete Dr Cameron's transcription of Mir M.n donald History, with the addition of one or two heroic i-ocms. The rest of the Gaelic, or rather, Irish material, us will he seen from our detailed account of the contents of the Book, is nut of interest to Scotch readers, and abundance of similar poetry exists in manuscript and print on Irish soil already. No jmrtion of the English materials is reproduced here. TIm famous Book of Clanranald is, of course, the " Bed Book," ■iivs prominently in the Ossianic controversy. The rcla- iir.-tween the Red Book and the Black Bix.k is exceedingly el use ; they are but)] " common- pi ace-books." ns Kwau Maepbeiaotl ■:iul, and tlic Iliads 1 1- ..-.k. as regards tlie MardmiaM and Montrose histories, is but a curtailed form of the similar histories in the lied li"k Indeed, the former omits some of the best episodes recorded in the latter, and wherever a condensation seemed necessary or possible, it takes placo in the Black Hook narratives. The writers of these books were the Mae Vurichs, the hereditary Inrda and historians of the family of Clanranald. They traced ilieir descent to Mutreaeh Albanach, circ. 1200, who was famous a- u poet both in Ireland and in Scotland. They had as per- onwitee of their office till about the middle of last century the (ana of Stailgarry, and the " four pennies" of Drimsdalc in South I 1.-1, dose to one of the seats of their patron, Clanranald. The llac Vurichs were learned in all the lore of the Gael, and it is even said that they studied in the colleges of Ireland. In any case, (Ten to the hist of the direct line, Donald of Stall parry (floruit 1732), they were scholars of no mean repute, capable in Irish, Kui'li-li. and Latin. The early history of the Macdonalds down tii about the year 1G0O was probably composed by different and members of the family, hut the history of the Montrose HO THE IÌOOK OF CLASH*NAL11. wars and of the events thereafter is clearly the work of Niall Mao Vurich, who lived till a great age, his Voutliful recoil eel ions beiug, as he himself says, of the reign of Charles I., while his latest efforts were elegies on the death of the brave Allan of ClannDfttf, who fell at Sheriffmuir in 1715. The Montrose history Mama to have been written before the. year 1700, and the avowed object of its author is to vindicate the part which the Gael played in the brilliant escapades of Montrose's campaigns. The hero in Mae Vurich s page is Alaster Macdonald, not Montrose, and, undoubtedly, Master did contribute, to an extent much und- r- estimated, to Montrose's success. The Red liook, as already said, figures larircly in the Ossiauic controversy. JameM Maephersim, accompanied by Ins clansman Ewan Macpherson, visited Clanraiiald in 1700, and, at Clan- ranald's direction, received the Red Book from Neil Mac Vurich, nephew of the last great bard, and himself described aa not a "man of any note," though capable of rending and irrittDg Gaelic in the Irish character. But here our authorities begiu to dis- agree. Rev. Mr Gallie in 1799 had given a graphic description 'if Macpherson on his return from the Isles to Badenoch wrestling with the difficult Gaelic of beautifully written and embellished MSS. on vellum, received, as he understood, from Clatiranald, and written by I'aul Mac Vurich, the 14th century Clanranald bind. Now, Ewan Macphersor said, in a declaration made a year after Mr Gallic's statement, that Macpherson got from Clanranald only the " common -pi ace-book" detailim: the history of the Macdonald* and Montrose (which is now extant, and known u the lted Book), but that he did not get the Red Book or Ltal'har Dturg from him : Macpherson only got an order for it on a Lieutenant Donald Macdonald at Edinburgh, who then possessed it. This Lcabhur Deug contained, so I'lanrunald told them, some of the poem of Ossian ; but Ewan Macpherson never saw it nor did lie EDO* whether .lames Macpherson over got it. In the same year (1800) Lachlau Mac Vurich, sou of the Neil that gave Mueplierson the l""'l;. .kvliiivl (liit iii- fiir her " Lid a i 1, which was i ailed tho Red Bo-it, made of paper, which he had from his predecessors, and which, as his father informed him, contained a good deal of the history of the Highland clans, together with part of the works of Ossian that it was as thick as a Bible, but that it was longer and broader, though not so thick in the cover." Hia father, he said, gave this Red Book to James Mncpherwiu, and he further denied having an ancestor named Paul. Gallie, Kwau Macphersun, and Mac Vurich m in considerable ditagrtWMBt, as we see, as to what book or books Macpherson received from Clan- ranald, and, what is very singular, the only MS. which wu mi; B or i 141 recovered after Maepherson's death was the Clamaimld MS- got from Neil Mac Vurieh, bo it the Red Bonk or not. Malcolm Laing in his famous dissertation mi the Ussianic question says (1800): — " It is in vain to deny the identity of the Red Bonk, when it was restored as such to the Clanranald family by Macphersou himself." The present Clanranald believes that, be has the veritable Red Book in his possession, and, considering the amount of " hard that took place over the Ossiauie Reports and DuBeite- tMii~. nn.l, h»ring regard to the further fact that the Book bu been denuded ct its eovers, whether purposely or not, we thiuk tliut he is right in so believing. The late Dr Skene, who in 1840, it would appear, 1 was inclined to believe that the Lrabhar Deary ww a different MS. from the extant Red Hook, calls the latter work, in the last Volume of Celtic Scotland, the Red Book of Clanranald. The Red Book, as we will call it, after passing from the paawaion of James Macplursuii, was much consulted, not only by the Ossianic disputants, but also by the historians of the country. The llev. Donald Mackintosh, of (Jaelic Proverb fame, made a transcript and translation of, at least, its historical portions ; and this ma the translation used by the various writers who quoted the book until Dr Skene's latest work on Scotland. Sir Walter Scott quoted largely from the early portion of the history of the Mucdonalds in the uotes to his " Lord of the Isles," and Mark Napier made use of it in his Montrose to throw light upon the obscurer points of Highland conduct in the Montrose wars. Mae kiutiisb's translation does not appear to have been very accurate, and he certainly misled both Laiug and Napier in making it appear that the writer of the MS. (Niall Mac Vurieh) was present at the battle of Auldearn. The translation, which with some obvious corrections we here reproduce with the Gaelic text, iras made for Dr Skene by an Irish scholar (  ! Noill of Tyrone and the Macdonalds of Antrim. There is also given the descent of Mile fmm Adam downwards. The whole extends to 14 pages. After scraps of chronology and a blank page, we light upon IS p . Ufi The fourth poem is a lament for a young lady's deatli, in eighteen rerses, beginning— Buhii an leunsa air Leilh Chuinn. 'i'hr fiftli poem is ascribed to Deirdre, and we print it further oil Then follows a j-tsein of t ii the same sheet, ore the three pages of Macdonald History il. -tailing, with geinsilugies, the Maedonald Chiefs eol [temporary nitb the writer's tilii", written in Allan of Clan ran aid's ehiefship (1886-1715). This will be found printed further on, practically where the Red Book places it. Five blank pages, when we ent*r  heet of paper, anil we have the History of tbe Mac- :>■ hereafter printed. It extends to 63 consecutive pages. But abruptly, un the GJril page, and in the same handwriting, _;:.-. with the last two lines of the page, a treatise on i-."-Iil' -i.i iii lour and prosody, thus r — Miidh aill tiiis dfhugiiail eiunnils is coir GuoidheiL' ■!■ i sgriohh- idh 7 do leighedh ui fular dhuit hos na guidhuidhibh ■} na consouuibh do bio agad. Tbe latter portion discusses prosody with examples, closing with the two heroic poems of the Ages of the Feinne and Cnoo an Air, which we print. There are only four pages of this grammatical material, exclusive of the poems. Then follows the genealogies of the clans Maclean, Mackenzie, Macbeth, and Campbell, which are, with equal abruptness and in a different hand, followed, on the reverse of the page, by the genealogies of the Antrim Muedonalds, extending to six pages. All these genealogies and histories will be found hi our text. ' in page 187 begins a poem of forty verses on " Siol Colli" - the Descendants of CoIIa, which details their glory and privileges -these same being detailed with more definiteaeea and less obscurity in an Irish 61 tnwt in Skene's Celtic Sad/and, Vol. III., pp. l'i'_'--liit>. Un pages I'.U and li)fl is a poem of seven verses, eonihiling with a Bean, or Wife, at a Grave, and conjuring all the Fenian heroic wives to her assistance. After some blank pages come seven pages, in a large coarse hand, of Gaelic proverbial ilosophy, founded on Solomon's Proverbs and the Wisdom of The following is the first page and a half: — se ncithe as beàg ar dhia, et an xeoe/ttraarih ui as ro è . cadlion suile toileamhla - teanga ccalguch, et laniha fuil, 7 cosa liuith chum uilc do dheauamh, 7 croidhe droch ghuiomha no dhroch bhearta, agua tiadlmaisi 11) 14G THE BOOK OF CLAMUKAT.U bhreagach, j mi ti eitireas iimvuitiin cidir iidln.'^rlihraitliruachiubb. Ataid tri neithe naeh eidir shasadh et an ceathranih ill niich abair ataim sitthach eadbou bean dhruiseaiuhail, 7 talainh tiriui, 7 nl s&star iffriofl 7 ni fughaii an tine asuith coil;ii  buih ;:rra * ro heisioth Gabhab Collua* uj* K^vhrui dv.:V*h!cu rirfie neiren mm bttacaùi daoi* ch«-*.*d $£* 7 do bh: «x::hro b'.iaghna m rigk otth ar u.i :;r-. Cr.-c-lIu:V-h £»-.- :\\r.~ „r: hilbu.n iai, e> foair feruis NKDti: ai . oir dv :*h: ^V.t*:i: I'^r.in nc^b alhaa atthnthv^ . &£*:yfecr Caver.;'.:: :■ :"h:ù i; >c-ei:fc oa ri*k ar alfain ^>i IV .rj^:h^:;- ^ .:** ««s:r jll-jlI: ;:• ^> »iaipìe da ««.ra THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 151 race of Cobach Cael m-breg iu the case of Angus Turmech of Tara, son of Eochaid Broad- joint, son of Olill Bent-teeth, son of Connla Hard-wiled, son of Iron Bright-wise, son of Melge Praise-worthy, son of Cobach Cael m-breg. Angus Turmech had two sons, viz., Enna Aignech and Fiacha Sea-man. Of the race of Enna Aigneach are the descendants of Conn the Hundred-battled ; of the race of Fiacha Sea-man are the kings of Scotland. Conn the Hundred- battled was the sou of Felim Law-some, son of Tuathal the Legitimate, son of Fiacha Finnola, son of (Feradach Fionnfectnaigh or F. Fair-righteous, son of) Crimthan Nianair, son of Lugaid of the Red Stripes, son of the Three Finns (Fair-ones) of Emania, sons of Eochaid Feidlech, son of (Finn, son of Finnlogha, son of) Roignen the Red, son of Esamin of Emania, son of Blathact, son of Labrad Lore, son of Enna Aignech. Conn had a son, to wit, Art ; Art had a son Cormac ; Cormac had a son Cairbre. The two sons of Cairbre LifFeachuir (of the Litfey) were Fiacha Fire-shower and Eochaid Dublen. The race of Fiacha Fire-shower were Muredach Tirech and Eochaid Muig- niedon (Slave-middled). Eochaid Muig-medon had five sons, who had descendants, viz.: — Niall of the Nine Hostages, Brian, and Fiachra. Of Niall Nine-hostaged are descended the Clan Neill (O'Neills) of Ireland ; from Brian, son of Eochaid Muig- medon, are many of the men of Connaught ; from Fiacha, father of Dathi mac Fiachra, are sprung many tribes in Connaught and Ulster. The children of Eochaid Dublen, son of Cairbre Liffeachuir, son of Cormac, were three sons, who were called the three Collas — Colla Uais, Colla Da crioeh, and Colla Meann ; l their baptismal names were Caireall, Aodh, and Muredach, as says the poet — Caireall, the first name of Colla Uais ; Aodh, of Colla Meann of great vigour ; Muredach, of Colla Da chrioch ; They were imposed on them from rebelling. Colla Uais, son of Eochaid Dublein, assumed the sovereignty of Ireland in the year of the age of Christ 322 ; and he was four years in the sovereignty of Ireland when Muredach Tirech opposed him with a powerful army, and gave battle to the three Collas, and expelled them to Scotland, where they obtained extensive lands, for Oilech, daughter of the king of Scotland, was their mother. In the time when Cormac Finn was in the sovereignty over Scotland, 362 (326), they spent some time in Scotland, until a war broke out between Muredach Tirech, king of Ireland, and the Ultonians, viz., the Clanna Rughruidhe ; and he invited the 1 That is Colla the Noble, C. of the Two Bounds, and C. the Famous. 152 THE BOOK OF CLAN RANALD. heirin do cogbnarob leis anaghuidh cloine rugmù/Ae 7 choicrioch i. ar na tri colluibh . Do fregadar tigh eiren 7 do rifiedar cogadh neimhnich re clannuibh rughraùMe, gur thuite Ferghia afoga .i. ri u\\ad 7 atriutr mac leo 7 do ghlachadar fefn orlambumus cbuig ulad 7 oilltrian choigidh coùocht 7 moran do shochruibh oile do lean re na sMochd na ndiaighe 6 noghuibh eirenn. Iomtbos Colla uais ar chriocbnuagbadb an coguidb sin do iompoigb ar ais dalbuin 7 do fhàguibb na socuir sin uile aga bhrathribh . 7 ar caitbemh cbùig bliaghna deg dho iftte do cbuaidb ar saorcbuai'rt deirin go bfuat'r bas an temhruigli na iiogh ano domini 335 Ceitbre m 1 * mhaithe ag colla uais .i. Eocbuidh 7 Fiachra Tort 7 Feradhacb 7 Maine . ar sMochd cochadha ata clan Domhnuill analbuifi 7 a neiriil uile . ar sMochd Yiachrach Tort atait Turtruighe 7 fir luirg . ar &\iochd Feragbuid ataid fir If 7 f*r lacba . ni heol dbuiil sMochd ar Maine . Do fbas siiorhd maith aneirin ar Cliolla dhn cbriocb .i. maguigir na chen ar cuindaoi Fb^rmanacb . mag matbgamhna na cen ar cuintaoi muinecban. hanluain 7 o ccWech 7 morau oile . ni fhaca me abheag scriobba do shliocfid Colla Mean &chd an decbuidh sa negluis diobb do dbaoinibb naomtha . Do bbi iomad do dhaonamh naomtba na halban 7 na beirift ar sliochd na tri colla . ag so an line dirrcÀ an ùas 6 cholla uais do gbinedb EoebaiVA 6 colla uas, do ginedb Carran eochaiVM, do gined Earc 6 cbarran do gined Maine 6 Earc, do ginead Ftrgbiu 6 Maine, do gbineadb Gotbfruigb 6 FtrgbiM, do ginedb Xiallghu* Gotfruigb. Geinealacb m* Dowhnuill c\oinni cbeal1ai o ionsuigh iar sin iad 7 brisder orrtha le Somhuirle 7 le na muintir, ioùus nar phill on niaig gur ehuir atuath tar abhan tsheile iad 7 an chuid fuair airtlrigh dhiobh dona hoilenuibh, Nior sgiu'r do nobu/r sin no i*nr glan se an taobh siar dalban o IxtclannarAuibh, arA/ oilein Fioii Lodann, re uabarthar I Asi Gall 7 biiaig ar nai/nAdibh sg'fA aoulathai'r aig. Do chaith aimsir seal re co&ulh 7 seal oile re siochtain gi> udechuidh se re sluagh abfoghn* do Ghlaschii, gur mhurt apheidsi fein è, tug chen cinnsuinh an rioirh alio d"fniui ll^U. adeir adhàoui fèin nocA do gheinea/nA coguidh anairhuidh an ri do chuaidh se ar an siobAa/ sin arAf dfha   da n-iiiriliii' u tempail nua an tansa, nior fliagbbadh duine do 1 Etc km l'vipolì, H. B. Ijvì : ft chorp Im uiwl B»n Uobh * ileiiilo lheui|»il THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 163 Columba, and he himself took the brotherhood of the ordor, having left a lawful and suitable heir in the government of the Isles and of Ross, viz., Alexander, son of Donald. He afterwards died in Isla, and his full noble body was interred on the south side of the church of Oran. Alexander, his son, succeeded his father in the earldom of Ross and lordship of the Isles. He married Margaret Livingston, daughter of the Karl of Linlithgow ; she was mother of John, who was called John of Isla, son of Alexander of Isla, son of Donald of Isla. Angus Og, son of John, who was called the heir of Jolr.i, married the daughter of the Earl of Argyll, and a disagreement arose between him and his father about the division of histerritoi v and land, in consequence of which a war broke out between the chiefs of the Isles and the tribe of Macdonald, the tribe hav:i:g joined Angus, and the chiefs having joined John. And the afV'.ir having l>een thus carried on, John went to Argyll and gave him all that lay between the river Add and Altna Sionnach at Braijji Chinntire (that is, the lands of Knapdale), for going with him before the king to complain of his son. Shortly afterwards th-s Angus Og had a large entertainment with the men of the Novt h at Inverness, when he was murdered by Mac ICaibre, his own harper, who cut his throat with a long knife. His father lived a year after him, and all the territories sub- mitted to him, but, however, he restored many of them to the kin;. The daughter of Argyll, the wife of Angus, was pregnant at the time he was killed ; and she was kept in custody until she was confined, and she bore a son, and Donald was given as a name to him, and he was kept in custody until he arrived at the age of thirty years, when the men of Glencoe brought him out by a Fenian exploit. On his coming out of custody he came to the Isles, and the nobles of the Isles rallied round him. During the time that Donald Dubh had been in custody there was a great struggle among the Gael for power, so that Mac Ceaain of Ardnamurchau almost destroyed the race of John Mor, son of John of Isla, and of Kintyre. John Cathanach, son of John, son of Donald Balloch, son of John Mor, son of John, son of Angus Og, Lord of the race of John Mor, and John Mor, son of John Cathanach, and John Og, son of John Cathanach, and Donald Balloch, son of John Cathanach, were treacherously taken prison ers by Mac Ceaain on the island of F ion n lagan in Isla ; and he con- veyed them to Edinburgh, and a gallows was erected for them at that place which is called Boroughmuir, and they were executed, and their bodies buried in the church of Saint Francis, which is called New Church at the time. There were none left 164 THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. cioinn Eoin C&thaiiaigh ackd Alasdatr mac Eoin Cathanai k lia- tttm m v ; then, Domiwi//. THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 169 died at his manor in Re i spoil ; and his body was brought to Iona, and was buried along with his brothers in Relig Oran ; a.d. 1460 ; iu this year died a powerful, bold-warlike lord of the Clanranald, viz., Alexander, son of Donald, son of Ranald, on the island of Abas ; and his body was brought to Iona, and was buried in the same bed with his father in Relig Oran. In the same year the King of Scotland died by the shot of a big gun which broke his leg, while he was directing it ou the Castle of Roxburgh — that is, James the Second. In the same year died Alexander, son of Alexander, son of Godfrey, son of Ranald, son of John, laird of the northern end of Uist. In the same year Orkney was plundered by Hugh, grandson of Donald. In the same year John, son of Lachlau Maclean, was killed by the Clan Chattan in Ardgour. Rory had a good son named Allan, son of Rory, and the daughter of Macdonald of the South Oirir was his mother, namely* Margaret, daughter of Donald Ballach, son of John Mor. Rory had other sons, namely, Duncan Garbh, and the daughter of the Laird of Coll whs his mother ; he had other illegitimate children* viz., Farquhar and John. Allan assumed lordship, and well worthy of a property waa that Allan, for he put his terror and fear over enemies and over many of this part of Scotland. He enjoyed a long life, and left a good progeuy after him, Ranald Ban, the heir, and Alexander, who were the two sons of the daughter of M c Ian of Ardnamurchau. Another family, namely, Allan Riach, son of Allan, John Beag, son of Allan, John Bronnach, son of Allan, John Molach, son of Donald, son of Allan ; James, son of Allan ; and Ranald Gallda, sou of Allan, son of Rory, the youngest son that Allan had, and the daughter of Fraser of Lovat was his mother. This Allan, after having been before the King, and having received a settle- ment of his estate from Kiug James the Fourth, a.d. 1509, died at Blair-Athole, and his body was interred in the monaster}' of that town : A thousand vears and nine added to it Five hundred years to be related From the time of Him who redeemed every country' To the death of Allan, son of Rorv. Ranald Ban, son of Allan, assumed the lordship after his father, and he was good in it ; for exalted was his position and great was his sway, and good were the laws and regulations of his country during the short time he lived. But having gone before the King to settle finally the affairs which his father was not able to effect, he died in the town of Perth, a.d. 1514, the year that King James 170 THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. domtni . 1514 . an bliTiaAna do marbhacfÀ rf SemiM an cethramh accath, do fhaguibh l R&gnatl amhac an tigernus .i. Dubhghall mac Raghnuill. Aeht leigfed achuimhne ar fereigin eile ciuiutua do chaith 7 do criochnauih abheatba. [Follows elegy on Allan and Ranald. See Elegies]. Do gabh Ala«dutr mac ail in tigmia* an deòigh bais Dubhghoil nitc Rognaill, do chaith a sheal fein fuatr se baa san cai8lcn tirim, clan mhaith ag alosdair .i. eòin mdideordacÀ 7 Aongw* 7 Ruaìgruidhe ruagh 7 Domnalt an lochàin a* chea*l Mann do bhi edrr è 7 Derbhfàil eoin atrd 7 ailin oghar 7 Ruaig- ruuM? Person clann inghinc Thormoid mtc Giolla Ph&druig. Ferrhar mac alojdiur inghen Ferchuir thòisigh do mhathatr àige. Gabhai8 Eòin mùidcordacA mac Ala«duir tighema*, duine fortunarA re cogadh 7 re sith iontw gur chut'r orith ar na crioch«t6À da eagal go minic ar Ghalluibh 7 ar Gaoidh?a/uibh 7 do bhrisd so blar ar mac Simigh ag con Locha LochaùM da ngoirthwir Blar Lèine tuai'rim na bliw/Àua dàois chrt'osd 1545. Fuair an teoin muideordachsa saogh'i/ fada 7 do bhi aimsir bhuaigherrtha re na lift oir do bhi rioghac/** na halban raft t a abfacsonuibh catarrtha feiw 7 is urusda leis na sgribhneoiribh labhart go trom ar g* duine n c hi ar òu fhacsoin leo fciu 7 do chlunim go fuilid ag labhairf ar Eoiw mùideord'ich 7 go hairig liòca/iitabi ixcht fiathfroigh do shior Seorus ciuftMS i* inian leis lahha* r air anbhainphriunnsa dar choir deòiu mhuideordaih abluith diles a*7«f go W chaines an ceft ni gnath lois na buill do mhol^'A ar/t/ d«> thaobh coin uihùidèordaraA do chaith deiredh abhctha ^» diairha tn^-aiVcaclu do thogaibh tcmtm'.l a ccillmaoilriVMc auàrasaig 7 tcinpall a ccill Donain aneige 7 do faguihh niaoin do v\u\m caibcil d«» thogiuhail an hoguior anuibhisd bhala ar cuiredh aclu»rj» >aji hhli'f'7Ànasa daois chriosd l."»74.* Gahhuis ailin nwct..»in nmidet>rd«M'M ti^nw*. duine fial fairsuiug tiu'iHtach 7 r oarranaeh cialhniir fnfttnMr ar clu do chiir 7 do iMsuamh. aM* tug abriartha \V ireallf'i'M se ar meisge ni nach coimhgell'i'M ar O' Moniruidh. ui##i*' >iw fa iinath leis an diaigh oil no |*»ite miofta do coftinhail rcahhu.ichalluihh 7 ro \orht friotolniha, ar chn./iAaiu loo in a-- hi«»ih d>» ght-all >c uaidhe iur eoiwAlion St* . ag m> an claft oilc do bhi air vin muideonl'ich .i. Eoin og 7 Dmn- »111 iron* 7 Ki.aii*riu' *h »c cI-ijm injliìnc tiirrrna chuùirdeoird. RuaighnnVM dnbh 7 RagnV 7 oin dubh 7 aong us claft ingheine Neill iiih*° iOr r l»n>À a»»i> an tii:* na m tan - t^i*i«i Ailin m*ic Eoin : IV.KÌt R»-k :i%-» t.whui'-h t«-r tin^uiML * Here l»r i'^i^erou"-* tran^'ri]* eu«l«s. THE BOOK OF CLANRAKALD. 171 the Fourth was killed in battle. Ranald left his son in the lord- ship, namely, Dugall, son of Ranald. But I shall leave it to Another certain man to relate how he spent and ended his life. [Follows in Red Book an elegy on Allan and Ranald]. Alexander, son of Allan, assumed the lordship after the death of Dugald, sou of Ranald. He spent his own turn ; he died at Castle Tirim. Alexander had a good family, viz., John Moydart- ach (of Moydart), Angus, Rory Roy, and Donald of Lochan, the first children he had by Dorothy : John Ard and Allan Oyar and R-vry Parson were the children he had by the daughter of Norman Mac Gil lipat rick : Farquhar, the son of Alexander, had for his mother the daughter of Farquhar Mackintosh. John Moydartach, son of Alexander, assumed the lordship. He was a fortunate man in war aud in peace, in so much that he often spread terror over the territories through fear of him upon Lowlanders and upon Gaels. He gained a battle over Fraser of Lovat at Loch Lochy Head, which is called Blar Lenie (Battle of the Shirts), about the year of the age of Christ 1545. This John Moydartach enjoyed a loug life, and there was a troubled time in his period, for the kingdom of Scot laud was divided into factions amongst themselves, and the writers find it easy to speak heavily of even' person who was not of the same faction with themselves ; and I hear that they are so treating of John Moy- dartach, and particularly Buchanan ; but ask Sir George how he likes to speak of the Princess to whom John Moydartach should be loyal ; but whoever dispraises the head, it is not usual for him to praise the members. But concerning John Moydartach, he 8}>ent the end of hi:; life godly and mercifully. He erected a church at Kilniarie in Arasaig, and a church at Kildonan in Eig ; and he left funds to erect a chapel at Howmore in Uist, where his body was buried in the year of th? age of Christ 1574. Allan, son of John Moydartach, assumed the lordship. He was a generous, ojien-hearted, hospitable man, and was affable, sensible, and desirous to establish and niaiutaiu a good name. It is he that pledged his word that he would not promise anything in his inebriety which he would not also promise in his sobriety ; there- fore it was customary with him after a drinking or potation, in order to keep his word of promise with his servant men and attendant?, to ask them if they remembered he had promised to give anything that he did not fulfil. These are the other sons that John Movdartach had, namely, John Og, Donald Gorm, and Rory 0«:, the children of the daughter of the laird of Knoydart. Rory Dubh, Ranald, John Dubh, and Angus, the children of the daughter of Xiall, son of Charles. Age of the Lord the year that Allan, son of John Moydartach, 172 THE BOOK OF CLASRÀNALD. muideordaiy/t ■ 1590 do chuireadh a choqj M noilen fhionain . Clan mhaith ag ail in .i. ailin tig 7 ingben m ,e Le6id na heitradh do matliaiV litgi.', use arlt'f inline > ; . tug se na diiiigh sin inglu'ii ut''" Giolla eoin dubhiird 7 fnaiV bIobm nihnith rio .i. Eoia an tsroim do ■BliUtadb è le toiraieHg le na blmachall feiii le oloicb 7 iad ag liiinliiicli macnuia as chrantittuiill sail sròin cliumfuicli, oir Ì* a» do bhi do oilemhnin ag tigrrna a;i tsroim 7 glint? garctdli. Aoughus mac ailin do ghabh tighmvrs an diaigh nais athar, nior uihair nr/i( athghoirid, do mortadii [•■ I iiuluis \w  ohlom ! da èg MM I'li.r.'/niinsm. Qtbbru Kiiin iiiuidmrdacli in" lWdninill ni ic ailin li-la-nias :i diaigh bais utlmr. Mtiire inglteii Aoughuis ia' semnis di> mhatliar aige .i. urdfliUth 'Be ; Cbifttire Dhiùraigh i;hi . - do mil- '.run,- ii 1.. ,i. UtuduiV 7 ru&grwtfA ; pa's 7* 4U 'n»2^ iJfrz? -prsiin -TeyjtitfS ir^\c / / - — r — / *J % / ^J i t : j -Xrii-'.Ms - •»!.!». 't > . • ' ■ ' ' .... .-'-- - ■ ■•!"*"■• " ' ■ . ■ *• : '. " " " ' " , ■ " -• . *  t ■• • •. - -- "... - •■ i » # ^ ■ « ■ - » ■■V- - J « - •.•«..- .. , /. -.'"«"^ -75= V . ' • -• *   ailin. not in R. B 3 R. H. ha« not mic NeilL THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 175 bore three sons for him, namely, Alexauder, Rory, and Farquhar. He put away Fionnsgoth, and married Margaret, the daughter of Norman Macleod of Harris, the wife whom Norman Og Macleod of Lewis had. She bore a family to the son of Allan, namely, Allan Og, son of Ranald. That good wife died from him. After her he took Mary, the daughter of Gillespie of Medhe Connaill, and she bore a son to him, namely, Donald Gorm, son of Ranald, and he put her away. After all these he married Margaret, the daughter of Angus, son of James, and her issue were made heirs of Benbecula and of Arduish. She bore him a good family, namely, Ranald Og, the heir, and John Og, Angus, Ranald, and Rory. Donald, son of Angus, son of Allan, had a family ; Donald, who was killed at Philiphaugh in the army of the Marquis of Montrose, and Alexander, whose mother was Janet, the daughter of Donald, son of Allan. He himself, his wife, and household were drowned while coming from Coll to Muck. Donald, son of Angus, had another natural family. John, son of Allan, had a good family by Julia, the daughter of Norman Og Macleod of Lewis, namely, Donald, who was drowned on the coast of Uist the year after his father's death. Alexander assumed the heirship after him ; John Dubh and Rory and other natural children. Rory, son of Allan, had a family, nniuely, John Og, who succeeded him, and other children. I treat of certain affairs which have happened during my own time. Charles I., son of James VI. of the Stuart family, was King at inv earliest recollection. Here are some of the Chiefs who were over the Gael, under the King at that time, viz., Ranald Og, son of Itanald of Arran, Marquis of Autrim, over the Route, and over the Glinns, in Ireland ; and Archibald Caoch, son of Archibald Gruamach, son of Archibald Dun, viz., Marquis of Argyll. Sir Lachlan Maclean, laird of Duart. John Moydartach, son of Donald, son of Allan, Captain of the Clanranald, and laird of Moydart and Tist. John, son of Rory Mor Mac Leod of Harris. Sir Donald Gorm, son of Gillespie Macdonald, lord of Sleat and Troterness, a great courtier with King Charles ; and Niall of the Castle, Mac Neill of Barra. Lachlan, son of John Balbh Mackinnon of the Strath. John Garbh, son of Gilliecalum of Raasay ; John Garbh, son of John Abrach, laird of Coll ; Murdoch Maclean of Lochbuy, Donald of Strome, son of Angus, son of Alaster, laird of Glengarry and Knoydart, who was an old hero at the time of my earliest recollection, and his grandson a young man in confinement at Edinburgh, and after that was Lord Macdonald, namely, Angus, son of Alaster, son of Donald. And Allan, son of Donald Dubh, was Chief over Clan Cameron, and his grandson was a young man, namely, Ewan, son of John, son of Allan, who lives yet. And 176 THE BOOK ( seorus dofi m' ■ 'hoifiidli òig hirAn sitlijjhui't uaeA/iirail chloiuc coinidh . 7 Domhuiil] dtìabhail mac »• h!1i» ua inaulmuis J. uiorbh- m> megliratl) ua chefl ar niliorganadniiHi 7 nuintu do dsonibn maithe oile do b!ii na muicAfiiruiiHiM na noimsir sin bpA( n" sgr/otihthar afi 90 iwAf na Uaoinc do OOflaio me fein 7 fes coda da ngiriomhthaniib ar cuimne agum. Giodhodh is furusda dhtiit as an teugiiidh choitchin ina bfuiler ag sgiobli'd'/i aan riogliarAf lios ar t)u*ioljl id im h:ti ru-sh-i.- ilf;ii_'K;ii] , :i ./(/ so amhàin gtirab cninihncch lioxi gur ab i;ul na hulhuiiuidli is taosga do thionagain cogadh tJi na tri Rioghac/ifuibh 7 tiar bhiad sagsamiigli no eireailaigh ; oir tair eis coibhincnt no coniArUiriig.i/ do ghenani/' aii!ijjhrt/ffA an riogh 7 Shngsiuiach 11m na hoasiiag nihil do char ar ciil 7 Presbetri do chur na uionad gur chuiredar ftos ar an rabh doifigechnibh albanach aare rioghneA/uibli .iik' tii'ibii tliiill datrge ; go iidciiadn/- tin! clioni'iiandaiV dalasdiur Leisli .i. sensoigdeir do bhi fadii aceogadh ar clioigcricb, do ghli'tas an tarmsin ar anagh ài>taigh airm a heir id le hordtigbdrfA an Hogh go halbain 7 diiohie ùasle do chinedh It-., .i. Uatàat mac colla m ,d Giolla asbnig 7 t-oiliin-i I Beam DU S.iiiiiiiilu Hi' 1 ' S.'iiims naliaiia 7 dnomc rinialt- oile, do UUailar 11» lotogM a inbailo hae ami full' -16 J 4* nor gabhadrcr cala no tir go rangadar caol niiiile 7 do cuircdar UNgoir 111a eaisl-'ii choafi Loch .tlriwn 7 ilu gabliadar 6 7 do fagsad bài'dagha air, do ghluaiscdar asa sin go caislen inhioghari, do gal.liadur t U iiiiir ■WthwV, do Ul'U -"Hi dai.nii' Mr* -in mliiihitir, do galoNI Ali«doi> mac colla 7 im jdiartaigli  *pa aw soin, do fhogradar do inhuintir 11a tire sin tcc/tt astcch auar/n an riogh no go loisgfedii 7 go creachfadh an tir, do taisbenadh an tordughao*A dhoibh 7 do thogbhadar leis aiiordughac/A claim inhuirigh Bhàideineach 7 caijKlin 7 ceiìfedhna rnaitli da fuil fein ro/npa .i. eogain 6g m c andra m ic eoghain tug tri chrt fer da fbuil fein leis unarm an ri 7 do hhadar ro shesin"ch san nana an fedh do mhair an cogadb do eiridb clann Fhioillaig Bhraighe mharr leo 7 cen fedbna da fuil fein rompa .i. Doiuhnall 6g in Dowhuaill m ic Fioiilaigh do gluaisadar asa sin dafall 7 tarrla larrla muntròas doibh amblar anafafalla acernth ccaiiuidhe clàraige 7 mail in fa na bhraghuid ar ttecht o Sagsan 7 ordughadA an riogh leis um ginleirecAJ na harrnaraile do bheth aige 7 Alasdair mac colla na mhàidseoir Shi'iel aige 7 do ghlacadar go toilemhail chuca e, do gabh urmhor fer afall leo claii DonchatV/A 7 Sdiubharduigh afall do bhi to&ach an fhoghmhuir aea mmawsin, 7 do ghluais do chn/n an mhachtitr ghallda, Tug arm ail inor dona coibhinenta/rsi c a sin inhic chailin air iarradas iu u cailin oir fa dòigh le mac cailin go ueirghedh Koin niuideordach 7 cl'wn rairwll leis na arm fèin anaghat  i^iluais an slmagk a tao^ta afall 7 do chuadar gv> hapuiaa an meìneinìgh 7 do loisgft/tir i 7 *** *»a dhoibh gv> cen Kvh tat ha 7 do loisg siad ar g* taobh dhe THE BOOK OK CLANKASALD. 181 Moydart, and Arasaig, and tlie first thing they did was the- spoiling of Suinart, leaving neither cow nor sheen in it that they did not • irtv away to the plains of Castle Tirim ; and he sent his son Uonald with a part of that prey to the garrison who were in Castle Mingarry. Meantime Alaster Mac Colla eatne down fr chuidh an IjocIi habar ui roibhe mac eailin diomhaoin oir do chuir se iarraùfh ar thigema achadh na mbreac oh Kirin chuige, oir do bin se aneirinn o thosach an choguidb 7 dnithfulh 'larrla aontrom aige 7 abailte mora ar aiaiinh 7 arm na sheasamA aige ioiita. Do chuaidh an marcos fein go Dun eidin da chasaoid re conibiiirle na halba/e nauh roibb inuntros no Alcrsd- atr m/ic colla ag fnirecb ris do chum eat ha do thabluurt doibh 7 do cbuiredar reisiinent cbuig cH leis do shoighdeiribh mar chung nam/* 7 uiar hadhain, Tainic tig/rna auhuidh na mbrcac as YAvinn chuca 7 do gbabb mir 7 dasacht v mar fuai'r se ar na losgadh 7 ar na creacbadb a dhutha i*lh ar a ehion, Do chruifiigh 8e v\«nn inheg Dhuimnc go lionmbur ler tbionoilte 7 do trialladar ar lorg anainn Hin mui/itros 7 Ahisdar m lc colla, ac/tt ar techt do mhu/ttroas go hinlwr Lochaidh, tainic Sir. Loch li 11 mac (Iiolla eoin chuca ail 7 aongh/zs in/«c iu* c Al"sdar tigmia (Iline garadh, ac/tt do bbi daoinc m lc in 11 ' Ab/sdar nun nar/// roimb si// do ghnath 7 ar ngluasar/tf as inbbir ÌAHshtiitfh don taobli tiiath ni fada do chiiadar anua/r tainic sgela chuca go ttainic inr/c ( 'ailin 7 an mho/- shluagh si/? go hinbhtv LoclwiV/// 7 £iir loisge'-ida/* braigb loch habar, do fhilladar a cill ehuiuiiu aiiobairtbairbb an Uvrm sin riogh stilus sa nuarsin 7 marcos inuutros na gcniler aca 7 Ab/sdair owe colla m lc (iiolla esbuig na maighcor ginirel 7 na huasle sb* chloino raghnuill 7 chloin Domhnaill .i. Koin rniiideordacb in' \)omh\\niU ui ic ailin 7 a mlwc Dorn/tvdl 7 aouglr//s nwc ni ic Ab/sdar tig*-rna (dine ga radii 7 a eeiiiedh 7 an daoinc inui/ttirc fein leo 7 na tri KeÌKÌmentc chvfiaeha do dhcrbh dhaoinc muiiitirc '\arr\a aoiitrnina, Do bbi an accinfedhna fein ro///|>tha .i. corned Sciih/n owe Soinhui/le m/e Suin?//s na bail a 111/c Shoinui/lc bhuighe 7 rag/e/11 og mac alasdar 111/c alh/sda/inic aoug///sI'ai///bbrigb,7 Maghiw/s in'' an (iiolladhuibh i ebatban dcrbh choinalt larrla aontrom. |)  tbaobb m ic (Iiolla coin Sir \s>v\\\>iutn ni roibbe do dhaoinihh na fboclia/r a/7*/ tua/rim da fber dhcg da muiiitir da choiinhide'7/f ; D(> bbi duinc maith afi dua>slibh alban .i. morbba/r Oglabi 7 anih' duinc gasda .i. sir TòmòM. Do trhh'iaisda/- o r-hill chui///in ta** lain* thurraid 7 astecb 1 l'»vhta .'  n 1 »t l tt 1 1. THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 183 sides of it. The Clans Uregor and Mac Nab came to them to assist the king's army. John Moydartaeh and his own party and the men of the Brae were sent in a separate direction from the other part of the army to make a preying throughout the country, so that Montrose did not meet him until they came to Killmartin in Glassary. From that single preying expedition they brought in a thousand cows to the camp of Moutrose. In short, all the territories of Mac Cailin were spoiled aud burnt on that occasion, and eight hundred four score and fifteen men were killed in these countries without battle or skirmish having taken place in them. The army marched from Argyle over Counel of Lorn, traversing every country until they came to Inverlochy in Lochaber. Mac Cailin was not idle, for he seut to the laird of Auchinbreck to come to him from Ireland, for that man had been in Ireland since the beginning of the war, on the Earl of Antrim's estate, and having its large towns in his possession, with a standing army in them. The Marquis [Mac Cailin] himself went to Edinburgh to complain to the Council of Scotland that Montrose or Alaster did not wait for him to give them battle, upon which they sent with him a regiment of five hundred soldiers as an assistance and force. The laird of Auchinbreck came from Ireland to them, and he wjis seized with fury and rage on finding his estate burnt and plundered before him. He gathered the Clan Campbell numerously and extensively mustered, and they went in the track of that tinny of Montrose and of Alister, son of Col la. When Montrose arrived at Inverlochy, Sir Lachlan Maclean came to them there, and An^us, son of the son of Alister, laird of Clengarry; but the men of Mac Alister's son were alwavs in that arm v. Having marched from Inverlochv, thev had not gone far when news came to them that Mac Cailin and his lar^e armv had ccme to Inverlochv, and that thev had burnt the Braes of Lochaber. The armv of Kimr Charles returned from Fort-Augustus in Abertartf, at that time commanded by the Marquis of Montrose, their general, and Alister, son of Colla, son of Cillcspie, major-general, and these nobles of Clan- ranald and Macdonalds, namely, John Moydartaeh, son of Donald, son of Allan, and his son Donald, and Angus, son of Alastei, son of Donald, sou of Angus, laird of (Jlengarry, along with their own kindred and friends, and the three Irish regiments of the true men of the people of the Karl of Antrim, led on by their own com- manders, namely, Colonel James, son of Somerled, son of James of the Bann, son of Somerled lluighc, and llanald Og, son of Alex- ander, son of Alexander, son of Angus the Proud, and Magnus, son of the Giolla Dubh Mac Cathan, foster brother to the Karl of Antrim. Maclean, Sir Lachlan, had only about twelve men of his people to attend him. There was a good man there of the nobles 184 THE HOOK op cUHNSAXa. go Glert ruaigh 7 taiVis an sbcthahi 7 taj-Hu piirtiiidli don iinmAuid dlioibh an soiii 7 do leansad iad 7 do marbtiW/t aiiurmlior 7 im droing do eliuaidh as diobh tugadar sgeula don rhampa 7 do bhi antuaeh dia sathrain ar teeAt orrtha an tra raugadar arcomhuir anambad . do chiiaidli an sh'iaigh in lc fail in ar accoimeid 7 do I'lii foratre gac ahMÌfflt dliìobh ag lamhach ar achèile ar fedh na haoiche, Docluiaidli mar (-ail in fein na Ining 7 d" f'ltagnibh tig-nia adiMi"  army lay at Auldearn, Lord Gordon with hi* good force of horse and foot being with him, Nathaniel Gordon came t  eurui/w ar in haresl ?/'!///* na nGònlon"rh wltt abheith ag trsairgin na eeoisigedh o nuile chniitabiiarf. Io/wt bus all'/sda/r Ta/rnges amnintir ani'/ch agarrdh" ina ttarrlad'fr 7 nior chonaihh aiue da irnath mhuiiitir fèin ar/// teachna/w/?ar 7 d" fhich'f da daoinibh uai*le 7 euiris cnig^r ar fhiclw diobh si?? saw v\vt ranga 7 oni^r ar ficlW saw ranga dhcighenarh dhiobh 7 d»> t.i/ /uìiil;' atlm vtf roisiirhidhe Gòrdònich na meairliiiin 7 do ghluais i'i-in ro/wptha 7 is iad daòino tarrla ar acconia/r ivisiment thig'rna Lahha/V daoino nvnailt donta 7 daoine iiaish- LoMghnis na a«ruidi"-/// '' elu'ilr do thioiisgaii toraii na trod'/ ainh?/// K gnath sannilr mhaelmir" 7 nior mhaith fullaww siw ag na enisighihh do hlii aw • listi'irli ali" mi-idedb alai/w// ar amlinintir misneeh mhaith 7 meirseil athla/w// do dhena/w/? 7 gaw dfbeidh/w ag a dhaoinibh uaisle da gln'nidh i\rht a eonmhail aenider/ site the enemy, and the right hand side was jrivou to the dread knight Gordon and to his lord, and the command of the body of the battalion to the active, arrogant Marquis Montrose. Sir Alaster, the red-armed horse- knight, i.«\, the brave and courageous son of Colla Ciotach, son of Gillespie, son of Col hi, son of Alaster, son of John Cathanach, took the left wing of the army to him agaiust the right of the eucmy, and while Ahuster was arranging his party, a gentlemau from Ix>rd Gordon came with a message to him, and spoke iu this manner : — 44 Mac Donald, we have heard that there was an agreement and friendship between our ancestors, and that they olid not strike a blow against one another, whatever strife might halve been between the other Scots and them ; neither was the fame of any other tribe for valour greater than theirs; therefore, by way of renewing the agreement, I would wish to receive a favour from you, and that is an exchange of foot on the first dav of niv service to my earthly King, viz., you taking my foot forces and you sending me your foot."' That, affair was quieklv performed bv Alaster, son of Colin. He sent ten and four score of the veteran soldiers, who were often tested in great dangers in many places ; and there came in their stead three hundred foot of the men of Hog of Gight, Strathbogy, and the Hraes, who were not accustomed to skirmishing, hard conflict, or the loud, harsh noise of battle. Although that was a bad exchange for Alaster, it was irood for his men, for thev were never in any battle or skirmish which was cheaper [safer] for them than it. It seemed to them that the cavalrv of the Gordons had no duty to perform but to defend the foot from every danger. Alaster drew up his men at the place where they had come to, and found that then* remained with him of his own men but ten and two score of his gentlemen ; he put five and twenty of these in the first rank, and tivo and twenty of them in the last rank, and drew up his three hundred foot of the Gordons in their midst, and marched before them. The men who opposed them were the regiment of the laird  f Lawers, well trained men, and the gentle men of Lewis along with them. The clamour of the fight began as is usual in every field of battle, which the foot who were behind Alaster, son of Colla. could not well endure, for some of them would not hear the sough of an arrow or the whistling of a ball without bowinir their heads or thing about. Abutter's defence then was to »o backward, beckoning to his party with his hand to be of good courage and inarch quickly, while his gentlemen were 188 the BOOK OT H-ASnaSAUi. gur shàruidh orrtlia do baitlmigh damh daoine HO line murbhm/A ar ua coisi^liihh Gordouacli da ccotaulmil o brisdcdh dr. ghabliài iii'ir iln chiiiiaic mi niii'iliuid :iu ni «i eibligliednr unioflsuigh 7 u* in.sidt do tlmbhairt. Tug iJfnrfnfr ordugh m garrdha iw ar ihri'ullad i'ijÌhi/k' f>i» do thabhart orrtha 7 taugu.s ontha faoi sin \e |>idbh 7 le noighdibh do baghan ag denamA marblia ortha ar BBOÌI taobfi dim garrd(h)a ma fuatr an chuidcAfa aatcch ail, do Miris idoidhuWi iilifsdur 7 fuuir ev iduidhimh oile Da laini/t 7 in nibl i-ui-wiArii iiivrc li'iu fin tug do t- aeA/ daoine ag tanhuirt baEMUUA -»-■ !"■ iicliliiitilintji owe càìdh a»Vd na croiai tug dbd ■ chloidhimh tVin. 7 do tlmit dm uàiclli M rawni 7 for direh ' mag aodha 7 din lino uasle mailhe oilo madlioras an gharrdhudo bill ag laiuunifl re halasdar do ohw MtOOb romp 7 ar udid dabisdar as tech win 1 do clmir glès trodn ar an roibh astigh mi do tbabtuwr iL'lih' :io mliuinl/r do htii aniiiigh, 7 fa diobli ragit'dl moo Doiunnill in"' A"itg«''s uilinii''/.//, mi' [.'i>:iiiaiii : ui ]'.'i.L.'iin tliiiriiiii riu biiegansa do ciir saw da ghrii™diarih«ibh do rala dho a bhcitli ar ■dubli"/ ameaag ua ngordouach 7 iii hionaji taobh duu gBBtrdha gi gbabll c 7 an cliiiid idle do dhaunibli 11 lisli: ulasdair do hhi ameasg tut iigordonai;h ar siublin/ no gur mhotliuidh se an teapar do chur ma 'ia sliiii-imiLli uigu do i m|>ài 'd :i ih"iatifd ill 1 iML'lniidl do lilnlail nun tl do ohuir dorn di ainach ar au bpeirceall oile aifisin do ■gaoll ragbnn// mi turoh 7 ui ar fer an blmglia l.eilgìs an gunna imh lii.iin a i'liloidhiml) do bhi a ggeithe abfad Uiiiicli da im dhideii ar pliitibh tug inrinid/i da cliloiiihimh -i thainic lcin oir do iii .Hi .111 urioa ■ timcheall leia 7 11 i thaiuic an dliiinli amach tug mi dam foeA/ lcagadh ar laimh na sgeithc f» »ail ur tniaill an cldoidhimb 7 tugndli amadi •' /i fa olcas an ìàmh tufh do bhadar da ghenammh do thahhatr relif dho fein as a nxonarih ina roibh eLcht do bhi so ag tnall go dorws an gharrdha ceim ar chèim 7 anuat'r do shaoil bhcith angar don dor«s tug leiin a?-d athla/wA fher na pice 7 tug a chul do 7 aghaidh ar a;/ dorws 7 do ehrom a chen, lenais frr na pice è gwr chrom a chean fein faoi an dorus, do bhi ahisda- sa/i liatrsm do bfeithimh 7 tug buillc dfior na pice, 7 ger bathlamh do chum iompoigh aris is edh tarrla cen anòglàigh da bhuaW/A fa iw heiisgadagh ar Rag/i"/ll on bhuille tug Alasdair dho, tuites achorp sa/i dorws 7 acheft san ghardh", ar ndirghedh adhroma do rag/fdl 7 ar namAarc na dliiaigh ar a/i dorws ag si?* mar cona/rc achow/paiwch ; Do gheradli an t-soiglW do bhi an Rag/t'fll 7 twjiftd/t as i 7 fuair as i 7 fuair a thenga go maith 7 eonws labhra ni na/- shaoil. Do burusd a nigh i\ v go tim-diomhaoin do bhadar an chuid oilo darw an ri sanua/rsiu .i. Marcos mcr mcniuuach misnech mhor niuntros 7 morhhu/r cròdha cura/iwta gasda galanta gasgemail Gordon gona auaislibh na fharrad. 7 an cuid oile don droing dhàna dhàr/tfuidh l Do//ihna 11 '//'//* 7 do/* reimh runbhuirbh ro chahna rear/t/aigcntaigh raghnallaigh . acht tugsrrd a nnghaidh ana/rthad go harrar/i/ urronta ga/i uamhan ga» imeagan buille na urchaire. Kt tarrla do niuntros a gionanil go nibha re na shl?/'*/;//* 7 e ar àrd chtioic, 7 do cofiairc an guasa/-//* 7 an gabh«  l th mainda and rhnttharh \* doubtful. * The wonl or in deleted. The text »h*»uld he : ulliuhiiglwM ar. THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 197 from Mull, and the Stewarts of Appin, and the Clan Gregor and others. When they reached Montrose's camp they were joyfully and gladly welcomed by Montrose aud all the rest. Each party of them were separately presented to the general, and the party of the son of John Moydartaoh, i.e., Donald, was brought forward. That man was a harmless, bashful, affable, unpresuming man in the presence of his friends, but ]>o\verful and undaunted before his enemies, and was in the twentieth year of his age at that time. A conversation happened that night in the general's tent betweeu the general and the major-general, namely, Alaster, son of Colla ; and Montrose said that it was not much help for the Captain of Clanranald without having brought in a large prey to the King's ■army, which should have been sent with his son to him ; Alaster answered that he had sent that with him. Alaster went out of the tent, and came to the lodging in which Donald was, and said unto him — " Donald, my son," said he, " make ready your men to bring a spoil to the camp, and have them prepared to proceed to- morrow morning, and none shall go with you but your own men And those to guide you to the country to which you will be ordered." They received their orders the following morning, and they brought great spoils to the camp in a short time, which pleased Montrose and all the army, and Donald and his men made more preys than any others in the entire army. Some of the reasons why those spoils fell to his lot more than other people were that many of the other Gael who were sent to collect spoils carried away the spoils they raised to their own country without the permission of the general. The son of John Moydartach would not do any such thing, nor would he allow indeed any of his men to go away from him with a prey or spoil ; another reason is that it was not easy for the men of Isles that belonged to his party to come with spoils to their own country from the Low Country. On these accounts it fell to his lot to send the great bulk of the spoils to the camp ■during the qnarter of that summer, for he carried away a great spoil from the estate of Lord Marischal, from Angus, and it is he that preyed the Mearas. When they were engaged on that spoil they met an honour- able old man who was telling them stories and historical affairs, and along with the other stories he told them, he said that the Mearns had not been spoiled since the time it was spoiled by Donald of Isla, the year he fought the battle of Garioch or Har- law against Duke Murdoch ; " and I suppose, young man, that you are descended of him, if you be the captain of Clanranald." About this time the Parliament of Scotland met together, and they observed that it was a shame and a scandal to them that a ©mall armed party of Gaels should harass the kingdom. They 198 THE BOOK OF CUSRASALD. chuiVcdai' criiiiiiii-ilnK/A m- sKisigbaiMi 1111 riogb Miiii»hl'(lll •■ 7 fligllliadll an sin. 7 111 liaildg M namAaid ni hu.it h ilana na sin nrrtba 1111 là dn na an la nn dbiaigli do bbadv ar ininliigli'iiW UN ■ (B dig DJ Scàtfail dèg do laoitbibli' ga» anaiiibnes ar biotb iwfit ruaig do gliuath orrtbu ' Muwtron ag denawA .liiliill riiot'iii^ dfix'btiin mi f^tadb In tam mat do bhf na dhiaigh do tplswadbadA ar bharawtoil go urocdhaifi i-uid dtofab uatlia m d'iigb go Mad blardfl t lull . limit doibb gidhadb do bhf na Ni'ig'ii-'iri' A" Hgitliiugh /\m 7 loiig- phort sa nionadli sin 1 mocli 11a maidni ar n.i mliaracb erir/ do chidis ;u.-/if aula/,.' ■ ft. nilimvsl «.( igbe , asi' 11Ì ilo bbi an gwr btinn darr» an rl an campn dflnigblmil gaa Cbeoil ga» it ran do rbaitbc-mh ma bbi so aoa 7 glei trota no tstoMdb d om/i au blw'Mai/i 1*>4 S . a-* a>i* doibh 1^ chaol muile ir«» e«»lbbaù^iiir 7 1:0 càol lie tarrla long uihor doibb aii 7 do i;habhad"r 1 fa na lucht do shiol tvrnA do ghlacad'ir long oile savi ehuan 111 fuarsad Mail ar bioth iiite do leigad"- uata 1 do sheols o ghluais go hachagh dacharad ait ina tarrla ireiresdo* oa/rdemh'ii/ doibh as si« doibb g«« ••unta-»i an ihabhaiu ait ina tarrla Filip oraibhill riu .i. tiir'rna na tire -in 7 c;ira dhoibhsion do ghluais as asin go iii tit leu eerr na mid hi 7 do frutguibh amhui««t:r ar eheth- ramh sax bhaile *;n 7 do ^hluaxs -e fein ^" eill -:hoiùigh bade ina raibhe eomhuirle ua heirin na Miighe. fua»r se ordnyA e iV:n 7 muintir di» dhul astech anar«« ua nW#ui*-lc fa chuznaiida Sinirel Prkwdou. ase si» Arm ina mibb Al"sduir in larrla aoutro/u 7 ar mhair dalbaiwehi/A 7 ileireiVrchMi^A d«» chuai«lh le h'dasiLi/r m 1 The vo\agv t  Irdkoii L« omitted in K B. THE BOOK OF CLAKRAXALD. 205 Angus Uaibhreach, was takeu prisoner, and was put to death at Inverarav some time after that. Alaster, son of Colla, went to Ireland, and he was killed at Cnoc-na-n-Dos, with many other gentlemen of the Clan Mac- donnell, in the battle which Murchadh O'Brien gave them in the year 1647. This great army of David Leslie, and Mac Cailin along with them, came to Islay and to Mull, and all submitted to them except John Moydartach alone and those who joined him. [Follows Eulogy on Donald of Moydart. See Elegies, (feci With regard to John Moydartach, son of Donald, son of Allan, laird of Clanrauald, being forsaken by all after Montrose and the Marquis of Huntly had been put to death, and such as lived of the gently who were on the King's side had been banished to strange foreign countries, he alone stood out from the (Kulers of the) Kingdom ; and the few that lived of the party on the King's side were gathering round him. Messages were constantly sent to him from the Rulers of the Kingdom requesting him to make peace with them, but he did not accept them. However, he sent his son Donald to Ireland, and all those who remained with him of the men of Ireland, and some of his Scottish gentlemen along with them, and he himself and the rest of his men remained to defend his inheritance. As to Donald, he set off from Uist in a rigged low-country frigate which he had, and in a long Gaelic ship, with about 300 soldiers, composed of veterans, in the year 1648. From thence they went to the Sound of Mull, to Colonsay, and to the Sound of Islay, where they fell in with a large ship, which they captured with her full cargo of barley com ; they took another ship on the sea, found nothing in her, and they let her away. They sailed for Ireland, thev were overtaken bv a storm on the coast, so that their ships were separated. Some of them reached the harbour of Killybegs in Donegal. Donald and those who wero along with him landed on the point of Magilligan in County Derry, and they sent back the ships to Scotland. He went, to Achagh Dacharad, where there was a garrison favourable to them. From thence thev went to the County of Cavan, where they met Philip O'Reilly, chief of that country, and a friend of theirs. They went from thence to Mullingar, and he left his men quartered in that town, and he himself went to Kilkenny, whore the Council of Ireland were sitting. He reoeived orders for him* self and his men to join the Councils army under the command of General Preston. That is the army in which was Alexander, the Earl of Antrim's son, and those who lived of the Scots and Irish of the Mac Donnells and their friends, who went over with Alaster^ 206 THE BOOR OF CLANRAXALD. colla go heirin, do chloin Domhnui/l 7 da ndaoinibh muinntirdha. Ni roibho an reidsimeintsi gau chuig cet-deg do thogha daoine uaiale iAte. Dommrll mac coin nihuiderdw/yA na hftenant coilineil into, 7 aongws m° AhisdatV tighrma na Lergan ceiiitiridh na chet chaipdin iftte ; seal sa nai »1 siw fa chlu 7 fa onòir ag tabhairt bhailto mora amach ona» nai/uhdibh no gur bhris siad amach 1 a harm an Priustunidh go rugadh orrtha san chnftdfcM riabhuigh. IX) bin buigen mhòr deircnachutM do chaomhauachtuòÀ maille riii, 7 lad fa \\\cMt colnis doibh 7 anuatr rangadnr sin eolvs accrioch feiu 7 fragharc eoilledh do bhi a foisge dhoibh do theieh«/  alasduir nr Koin m ic ailin na bhuaiHoc Do.v*hnail gorm ni* ailm i\>**huall ma^h in IVuumtll meic I vhlu:** ni*-* niui i oile doua daoinifA a*- >::gh:dh eile dfibh :V;u ar zevàt d»- Dh-xiL* •;! oti turiBS sùi dv> chair h atha ■••- 7 «■ frir. anaim^ir ag $eas&.*t t ** duthcha ik> gv* bthtui! sia.t *:orha:u •.•€! h-^ha.*.ir G:.itvt\ih .: rr: ai'abhfhiacha a£iK>c:u-'\iibh .1^ fas orrtha fcdh ^a ha::u>trv >:r. ^1-- tbckcuibh £* Wtnxn «.k» ^hiiAth :.v.l rcii: 7 an >ìx»-À*' na u»I:a^:cl Afto *V*4ini lf>7«.* a^ IvMa-ih'-a ,: ■ :.t"'A.i« Kolu ~*«i- ■-- : '.-i aueirt^augh aan:bh:*i ' : > :: x»:l: .wh-.r a.-* Tfc«.cu u_«. r i- £agU*i. aoti ui x " .:. l^ «**■«■•!* ' Tv:r :::^i.*:u. M««r ; ii:i ::^*--t^i :b;La» Ca:rxHia c^iii?:^*-."-* L , «h.ur-.i:^'\ - A:*:i : ..i:::T:^---tLi R?e--ci"*^-i:jL IV^ju*«LI u* F*.ai m. .X'i- •:*■• vi   i::?ar 7 a bfiuks do vòuiita ■; -» re «r^».t»ii_";ii *;«;rh- vfauufc* s*?oI a^: :Vi:h^u. ..**» ^ :■ •:'?*'-. * ì o.ir trt ^-1^^^ K. K ìm*> 2*r« *a-* ■. ■ " • 1; ». » -v.r- ••■«:•.•*> k-^ m.::^; .a ?. ?. >» THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 207 *on of Colla, to Ireland. This regiment had not less than fifteen hundred chosen gentlemen in it, Donald, son of John Moydartach, •being lieutenant-colonel of it, and Angus, son of Alexander, laird of Largie in Kintyre, being first captain. For some time this army were esteemed and honoured for their taking of great towns from the enemy, until they broke away from the army of Preston, but were overtaken in the county Riabhach. They had a large number of Irishmen with them of the Cavenaghs, who acted as their guides, and when these came to the places they were acquainted with in their own country, and on a border of a wood which was near them, they fled and left all there, so that the enemy rushed in among them and dispersed them. Donald, laird of Clanranakl, and Angus, laird of Glengarry, were taken and sent prisoners to Kilkenny ; they remained there for some time in prison until the Marquis of Antrim found means to release them. The grandson of Alaster came out sooner than the son of John Moydartach, and he went over sea to the king, and left Donald in prison, where he remained for some time until more money was ,giveu for his ransom by the Duchess of Buckingham, namely, the married wife of the Marquis of Antrim. He then went to Wex- ford ; a ship was sent for him by the Marniis of Antrim to convey him to land at Caolas Sdàlaigh in Uist, and Angus, the grandson of Alaster, laird of I^argie, came : long with him, and his friends were joyful at his return to them. His gentlemen soon came after him in a ship which they took on the Irish coast, namely, Murcha, son of Mac Xeill of Rami, a great, handsome man, accomplished and well educated; Alexander, son John, son of Allan of Buaill og ; Donald Gorm, son of Allan ; Donald Roy, son of Donald, son of Lachlan Mac Vurich ; John, son of Donald of Benbecula ; Angus, son of Alexander, son of Godfrey. John, son of Brian Mac Vurich, and another part of the men, came another way for themselves. After Donald returned from that expedition he and his father spent their time in defending their country until they obtained peace frdm the rulers of the kingdom ; their enemies, however, held them in debt which increased upon them during that time ; this left themselves always in distress, and also their posterity. Anno Domini 1670, the vear in which John Movdartach died at Eriskav, in Fist, and his bodv was interred in Howmore, leaving one son, viz., Donald, and three daughters, Mor, Lady of Coll, Kutherine, Lady of Barra, and Anna, Lady of Benbecula. Donald, son of John Moydartach, — -sixteen years intervened between the death of his father and his death. He spent these sixteen years in affairs of peace, sometimes attending at Court, full of respect and honour through the excellence of his disposition 208 THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. abes 7 adegh iomchuir 7 seal oilc ag baile re diol aiubhfiach do èg se accanaigh ano domiui l 1686, an bUculhu'm chetna teasda an dara rf Serlus do chuiredh corp an Do7/ihnuillsi an Togh niòr anaonleabuigh re a atha/r, ar fàgbhail dias m c 7 triur inghen na dhiaigh . i. ailin an tigherna 7 Ragnr/ll mor 7 seonoid 7 maire na hinghena, Mòr inghen Eoin w ic Leoid aniathar, 7 Mòr ingen Ruaigrigh mhotV m ic Leoid mathatV anathaiV .i. Domhnall. Fa mor an truime 7 an turrdbubbadh do cbuir bàs andeigfhirsi ar ifksi gall amhuil thaisbenfar na marblmuidh. [Follows elegy on Donald, son of John of Moydart ; thereafter one on his son Allan, who fell in 1715]. O hena do rine so deoin a hile 2 Ceftus (ihaoidhra/ do ch\ r/u ata san cheii tuath duibhisd. Slioc/if Doinhntull a hile cet ìuÌì' Mairghrèide Sdiubhord alfsdar a hile iarrla rois 7 inorbhar na noilcn, do phos an talasdutrsa mairgra/ Livisdou ingen la/ via 1 Here begins Nidi Mt Vurich'i* handwriting again. THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 211 Such as no other man has attained. This is a sketch of the genealogies of the Gael, As I have promised ; This tribe with whom no comparison should be made, And to whom sovereignty was due. Age of our Lord 1473, the year that Gillespie, son of Alexander •of Isla, died, and his body was interred at Rosmarkie, viz., the brother of John of Isla, son of Alexander, and the father of Alexander, son of Gillespie, who was killed by Mac Ceaain in Oran- say of (\>lonsay ; and the daughter of Mac Phee of Lochaber was the mother of this Gillespie, son of Alexander of Isla. Age of the Lord 1437. In this year the King of Scotland, -viz., King James the First, was treacherously killed in the town of Perth by his father's brother, viz., the Earl of A thole. At the same time died Angus, bishop of the Hebrides, son of Donald of Isla, son of John, son of Angus Og. His full noble body was buried, with his crozier and his episcopal habit, in the transept on the south side of the great choir, which he selected for himself while alive. Donald of Isla had another sou, a monk, and it was in his time that Baile-an-Mhauuidh in Uist was given to the church, anno Domini 1440. In this year died Mary Leslie, Countess of Ross and Lady of the Hebrides, viz., the wife of Donald of Isla. I have given you an account of everything you require to know of the descendants of the Clanns of the Collas and Clann Donald to the death of Donald Dubh at Drogheda, viz., the direct line who possessed the Hebrides, Ross, and the Rough Bounds of Scotland. This Donald was the son of Angus (that was killed by his own harper Mac IChairbre), son of John of Isla, son of Alex- ander, son of Donald of Isla, son of John of Isla, son of Angus Og, and I know not which of his kindred or friends is his lawful heir. Except these five sons of John, son of Angus Og, whom I set down to you, viz., Ranald and Godfrey, the two sons of the •daughter of Mac Dugall of Lorn, and Donald, and John Mor, and Alexander Carrach, the three sons of Margaret Stuart, daughter of the Earl of Fife, and governor or King of Scotland. The race of Ranald, Lord of Olanranald, viz., the House of Oilen Tiriin, and the laird of Glengarry. Godfrey left no offspring, except a few poor people who are in north end of Uist. The offspring of Donald of Isla, the eldest son of Margaret Stuart, was Alexander of Isla, Earl of Ross and Lord of the Islands. This Alexander married Margaret Livingston, daughter 212 THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. litcu 7 do rug dho Eoiu an tiarrla. Claii oile ag alasdatr .u Huisdiun, inghen Ghillepadraig ruaigh m ic ruaighri rci te anaba uaine- m ic Iarrla rois dona rosacheuM a shloifieadh 7 trian Leoghioa abhetha 7 fearuinn oile ar tir mòr 7 is è do marbhadh sna rannuibh gallolach an gcuidccht m lc Domnuill .i. Domhnall ahile* oir cethrar do chuadar amach as anàrm roirah chuidecAta no phàrtuigh do tsluagh do chùaidh leò .i. Tormòd m c Leoid 7 Torcuill a bhrathair * Lochluinn mac Giolla mhaoil Giolla Pàdruig mac ruaighri do m&rbhadh Giolla Padruig mac ruaighri 7 Lochluin m c Giolla muoil 7 tainic Tonnod 7 Torcuill as an ruaig slàn • Aflo * D * Ase an tuisdiunsa m c alasduir do c reach arc u w 7 uilliam mac Leoid na hearadh 7 ogmhuigh Insi gall na fochuir ar au siubhal sin do rifle huisdiuin Domhnall gallach m c huisdiuin re hingin chruineir ghall 7 do ghuinnechiM a sloifleadh clan mhaith oile ag huisdiuin .i. Domhnall hearach m c huisdiuin 7 iughen m ic Leoid na hearadh do mhathair aige 7 Eoin mac huistiuin 7 ingen m ic cea ain aird na murchan do mhathair aige 7 ni roib sliocnt ar a neoin sin 7 dobi seal na tighema Giolla asbuig m c huisdiuin 7 m lc oile nach atrfighter an so Domhnall gruamach mac Domhnuill ghalluidh 7 Domhnall gor/w m c Domnuill gruamich 7 catriana inghen alasdai'r m ic ailin tig^rna Chlotnnt raghnaill do mhathatr- aige 7 is ar asliocnl ata an tigmws fòs. Giolla easbuig m c alasdai'r a hile inghen ni ,c Duibhshithe a lochabar a mhatha/r 7 alasdair mac Giollacasbuig do chuaidh an sealbhadn iarrlacnJ rois 7 Domhnall amhac sin fuair se bas gan sWockt. Eoin mor m c eoin m ic aonghuis òig . i . tanaisde m ic Domnuill do phòs se Mai re Bisèd 7 is le tainic na searAf tuaithe gl in each go cloift Domhnuill. Alasduir carnich an treas mac • Do phos se inghen mhorbhair Leamhna 7 ni rug si clafl dho aonghus m c alusdatr is i fa mathatr dho inghen mh   namely, .John the Laird, Rory, Norman, William, and Donald, Isabel, the daughter of Donald, son of Angus, being their mother, daughter of the Laird of Strome and of Glengarry. ELEGIES AND EULOGIES OF THE RED BOOK. The Elegy of Allan and Ranald, M c Vurich composed it. * Alba is without protection after Allan, The heir of Ranald of the blue eyes ; My disposition since the death of these two men is such That the greatest wealth is not coveted by me. 1 See pp. 170, 171, above. 21 H THE BOOK OF CI.AXRAXALII. Laoch ler cothuidha/M clàr monuidh mac mairgrèide ca mo tnki ni haghur le dioth budh doilghe giodh è cnoch gach oighrc eg Ailin ler coisna  every quarter, Brought cures into all places along in his track ; Unto us it wan not so, without deception, To covet the art of tierce wounding hand. The banes of tin.' Clans of Conn have departed, With severe grief we lament them iu our breasts, After them we cannot he long-lived, It is dangerous for us to he separated from the party. Their garments were not refused to the oleigf, Their steeds or chains of gold ; Having abandoned their feathers they are under earth, To be after them is lasting sorrow. They were lightly covered in the earth, Without an expectation of produce by the peopl : In like manner the w is are unproductive at t. p, The fruit does not bend the united branches. By their death the strand is not productive, The storni moans with grating tones ; There is little pleasure while drinking at ìhe feast of sorrow which has happened in our  ry weather is not kmnvii in 0U( i'inmtry. The grief is depriving me of my senses ; The lamentation of the schools lias gone beyond concealment Since the clergy have assumed their iiintirniiig gnnin.'nis. Our rivers are without profitable liabing, We are without hunting in the winding glens, There is little produce in till the land, The wave has stripped it bare to the bases of the bflus. The waves never cease roaring on the shore, Every sea is without driving its pmduee on its strtiu 1 ; When taking wine at the time of drinking, The warriors grieve more than the women. 240 THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. Fxmcht na ninbher lor dar lot gan nain inghealta ag eon mbrioc is àth g c abhan Ian leac ni lamb ann breac snàmh ag sioc Doimemrca abfuighlibb le fiocb ni cbluiitnter ceileabhrat/A cuach nert gan cbeill do ghabb an ghàoth sreabh os fhraocb ag bein * a bruacb * bein t Tro chloifì raghnuill dhimthecA* uaiii dfhoghluim ni hinleanta dhuinn trath do nollam dul nan diaig biaidb bronadh ga chur accuil Crioch ar ccomhraidh uain fa fhòd ar norghàin is ar nuaill Hag drong gan chàs do chàochludh sèd trèd do fhàs a haonphòr iad Uain ge dheachaù/A go dia ar nuaithne gaisgidh angleo na deghfir gach tràth fa ttu mairidh acclu go bràch beò Oràfi anathar on tigh thall dom thabhairt ar nimh amul nech is doilgbe cor na cheaiY ferr toil an coimhdhe rom cum curna cethrair do measg Cathal M c Muiredhuigh • 0117- Coir failte re fer do sgèil a fbir ttangus on tràigh sgela liom os iseal uaibh da ttiosadh muaill os cion chàigh Bine na ceol crot do sgèl aghilli gan lot gan Icon a taoi mar orghdin os fhiuu mas comhragh fior do bhi ad bhcol liom feirde ancisdecA/ rem bbeo an sgelsin le attanag tu do mheaduigh cert lem gach la ten o ta mo nert a mi THE BOOK OF CLAN RANALD. 241 The cold of the Invers is enough to wound us, The gray birds have no opportunity of feeding ; Every river is fordable being full of ice-flags, The trout does not attempt to swim on account of the frost. The wolves are truly ill-disposed, The notes of the cuckoo are not heard, The wind has assumed a maddened force, The rivers run over the heath carrying away the banks. On account of the Clann Ranald having departed from us We cannot pursue our studies ; It is time for the Ollamh (doctor) to go after them, Making presents will be discontinued. The end of our converse is away from us under the sod, Our organs and our echoing sounds ; A party who freely bestowed jewels, They were a flock that sprang from one seed. From us departed unto God Our pillars of valour in the fight, They were always good men as you know, Their fame liveth for ever. May the grace of the father from the abode beyond Convey me over to heaven, He is a personage difficult of access, The will of the Lord is best to guide me. The grief for four, tfec. Cathal M c Vurich cecinit (sang) : 1 It is right to welcome a man of thy news, man with whom it has come from the shore ; 1 have news privately from him Over which my pride should excell all. Sweeter than music of harps thy tale, Young man without wound, without blemish ; Thou art like organs when we are over wine, If true be the statement of thy lips. It is most agreeable to me during my life to hear That news with which you have come ; Justice has more abounded every day with me, Powerful is my strength to-day. 1 For the place of the Eulogy in R.B., sae a'>ove f ]>y. 201, 20"i. 16 2 4 '2 THE BOOR OF CLAN RANALD. Mo gheuar do riacA/ amriocAf deisdecAl red bhriathruibh go becJit od sgèl sfdh ni thagruim thort tribh a nocht caidlim go cert Frith leat do nuaighidhecAl naoi a buachuill is gasda gnè* sela ler cengladh mo chli sgela on tf ler meadhradh mè Domhnall m u coin cul na ccladh run do sgeoil a gasda ghloin techt tar chuan ionilàn do nfhior cion da iomragh is dual damh A theckt slan go hàrua 7 - ewlj a B(Ci THE BOOK OK CLANRANALD. 'Ml Clan Mac Ian, together with the faithful, highly hospitable tribes around their lord to instruct the powerful prince, and amines] the hero, namely, the active champion of the Red Branch ; and lively, vigorous troops with purple garments; and vast, loud shouting, fierce, high spirited parties ; and beautifully coloured, l.n>ld, keenly encountering, stout hearted, austere troops of a good army. And they were in we 11 -arranged battalions, namely, the proud, luminous countenanced, finely lined, bold, right judging, goodly gifting Clan Donald : the ready, prosperous, routing, very bold, right judging Clamanald ; the attacking, gnld shielded Clan Abater; the protecting, linn, hardy, well enduring Maephees ; the fierce, strong men. the Miiclachhins ; the lively, vigorous, liln-r:dh bestowing, courageous, austere, brown shielded Mac don galls ; the cheerful, chief renowned, battle harnessed Camerolls ; the inimical, passionate, hardy Maciieils ; the manly, sanguinary, truly noble Mackinnons ; the tierce, undaunted, great feated Mai\piarrie8 ; the brave, defending, fin-aging, valiant, heroic, ale abounding Ma. kenzics ; the active, spirited, courteous, great bestowing Clan Morgan (or Mackay) and the men of Sutherland came as a guard to the Royal Prince ; and the powerful, lively uctive, great numbered, arrogant Mackintoshes, in a very large, powerful force around the chief of Clan Chattan, ill active, hardy battalions with their champions. There came along with these warriors 'iris, princely high chiefs, knights, chiefs, lords, barons, and yeomen, at one particular place, to the noble sou of Alexander ; and these numerous rejoicing heroes, and powerful, active, fierce sounding hosts gathered together. This is the maimer in which they appointed the powerful, tierce, active, mighty deeded, white armoured, supreme King of the Gael, viz., the terror strikiug, leopard like, awful, sanguinary, opposing, sharp armed, fierce, attacking, ready, dexterous, powerful, steady, illustrious, full subduing, furious, well prepared, right judging carl, as he received on him the armour of conflict and strife against every tumult, that ìb, his fiuo tunic, beautifully embroidered, of fine textured satin, ingeniously woven by ladies and their daughters ; and that good tunic was put on him. A silk jerkin which was handsome, well fitting, rich, highly embroidered, beautiful, many coloured, artfully done, gusseted, corded, ornamented with the figures of foreign birds, with branches of burnished gold, with a multiplicity of all kinds of embroidery on the aides of the costly jerkin. That jerkin was put on him to guard him against dangers. A coat of mail, which was wide, well meshed, light, "f substantial steel, beautifully wrought, gold ornament ed, (rfth brilliant Danish gems. Such a mail-coat as that was possessed by 262 TIIK BOOK OF OUKIUirALD. mar an biiridh sin ag I.ugh lutlimhor Inmhfhada an linceh Iw'rcch ai«. Do ghabh Eoin aliiofiamhail iiime a athar da dhiden ain'iughalHtWi roimh arnmibh a eaagarad Et cuiredh ar an gcathhiiriiihsi;/ crura i'iuiilnluiglu' cathlilma^lwcli i-i'inleach clach ghorm eumoaatteoh ciianda craobbach GeazdftltthcJ dviiÌJHin'di dioghiiiK degh chengnil ar na ghenajwh don oircaltiiin na imlibh nr eitealitA ' Do chaìth cèrd achomliacAfa re deuai an deighchrlnaa 7 do chturedh ar a uaehtai nifilench ilir chiuwisaoh chomhnart chlouhghorw clioilcracb bcfiad hliuaghach bliuc!a«mich dlnitlimlnn thairnech thaitneml òirtach iallaeh uagarach leaglia-rfA aùìl ag alrfhechain le tail treansgabirill Et do toirbhwrndh an trdth tochair do/* treii mbihitclfi cefibheirt shocuir alienamba/ bhefiach bhuaghi bhecghawhuil ghealghorw gha.sda giu'aineaiuho/ cuaila ohiorchi ehraobhleagach rclla aigh aniorghaluibh an mionri cumhti elochgborw sin na?' claoidhegh a cconihlinmuibh tig fraoch na fedbncebuibb re faioaifi na feilroe ain 7 taruigh ar taobh tail- □embaoh an treinfhirsw cloidhemb faobhraoh forranach fada tiorchrnaidh fulafiach direch dreiehmhin diasfada 7 e chomhrjart cert coimhshmte m 1 ' an luiu a Icitheidaein do bhi ag F flieinidb no colg oignir atbasuigh accath nirdbrrc Fhiofitraghi litj) oile abiontaajjihuil do bhi ag coin na craobhmaigh aeimhigh subhaltuidh no chloidhenih caow/li coagartaoh ahoi clievnaigk catlibhuaghuidh ler cuiredh an dergruathj hoirdbeirc an anmafia tarrla ag Eoin anaonrogha 7 do ghabh fa na ghealghlacnibh alamhaiia lammhilfWA go magh dfon da dhemaflnibh ar udonichur nded uoilfint ro haublmain aniom- bitailte ag tuargum na ttreinmhiledh 7 do ghabhasdair tuagh taublighfirm tanaighe t-iitniin bhelgher biumafita diaraiì fbioF' ehruaidh ait.hleaghtha do bhi ag foinhoir feratnlwi/ ag banin na |>iaide ler brisedh le borbbuillibh an taoith ar na treinfemibh uria anam na hensaonta an tuaghsa aga tbigema 2 ag m c Doaihmnll deirlaicecli Air criochnughat/A ageowiajrle 7 ar notlinhugh werful men were defeated. In the time of the rebellion this battle axe was in the possession of his lord, t>., Macdonald, to whom it had been preseuted. On concluding their Council, settling their controversies, rising of their champions, removing their difficulties, they unanimously united with the noble sou of Alexander, the heroic King of Fingall, in turning their faces against foreigners, in parties, in numerous 264 THE BOOK OP CLANRAXALD. nibh na ndronguibh na ndiairmadhi'M na ttaintibb na ttrom- HÌuagkuibh na ccathuibh 11a coirighibh na cciptibh na ceiteirnibh na ruagthuibh na ruagh chathuibh ni thainic re naghuidb shèin a duintibb na a daingn«'//tibh a diamhribh no a droibhelt/jA a cuirtibh na a caitbrechi'M araargadh na niorbhailtibh go bfuair an ri roibhretocl. gach riar .unia rabhasdar gwrab da dearbbadh sin do chan an fììedh na focuilsi Fior mo mhoiadh ar rab c DoinhnaP.l cur le gcengluim cur g* comhlann . croidbe leomhum lamb nàr tughadh . Guairc G&oidheal aoinfher uladk . Tàtb na pobal rosg le rugadh . cosg na wogadh Grian na nGaoidhra/ . gnùis i cbolla fa bhruach bana . luatb a longa cuilen confuigb . cboisger foghla croidhe cunla bile banbba tir na tenal deirg na dhcgbaiV/A a bbert bunuidb techt go tembair mea8gadh midhe onchu ile f reim na feile . trèn g c tire nior er aoinflier no dàimb doiligk craobh fhial oinigh ò f hiadb noilagh nior fbas uÌTwe ficht riogbna is riogba fuighle fiora fior mo molW/t Marbhruin Shior Toirmoid vie Leoid ; do reine Niall m c Muirricgh * Do thuirn aoibbneas iflsi gall dambna do bròin da tagbàll, otbar is ambghar gan ceilt. 1 an docbar atbbhal oirdbeirch Aicmbe l^eoid ba mo menna, tromfa thuirsi an ric albh/a,* * alba 1 an bron as oire oirthuib, 2 tar slogh oile dalbafichuibh, 1 Here the coarse handwriting already noted resumes, and continue* in the next two poems. The spelling is bad, Hometime* phonetic ; and the writer often apj>ears to mumndenitand hw text. THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 26f> companies, in troops, in crowds, in multitudes, in great armies, in battalions, in lines, in ranks, in kerns, in chasing parties, iu defeating battalions ; and there did not appear any forces equal to them from fortresses, strongholds, retreats, sequestered places, courts, cities, markets, or great towns, until the potent king obtained all the obedience granted to him ; and it was to certify this that the poet sang. these words :-- True is my praise of Macdonald, A champion with whom I unite ; The hero of every conflict, the lion's heart, A hand that fails not, pride of the Gael ; The champion of Ulster, the controller of Assemblies, The eye for causing the stopping of war. The sun of the Gael, the countenance of O'Colla ; By the banks of Bann, quick sailing are his ships ; A furious hound that checks plunders [Fodhla, Ireland ?], A modest soul, the tree of Banba, The country with fire brands is red after him : His family ancestor came to Tara, Putting Meath in commotion, the leopard of Isla ; Root of hospitality, powerful in every laud ; He refused no man, nor importunate bard ; The bountiful branch of hospitality, of the land of Oileach, There did not spring from him but queens and kings, True are the statements. True is my praise. The Elegy for Sir Norman Macleod, which Niall Mac Murnigh made. The pleasures of Innsigall have ceased, A deep felt sorrow has taken their place, There is anguish and affliction without concealment, For the awful loss of the noble. The tribe of Leod of the highest spirit, The royal race of Scotland are in deep sadness ; The greatest sorrow afflicts them Exceeding that of any other host of the Scotch. 1 For the place of this and the next two poems in R. B., sec p. 212. 266 THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD * UIW ? All teinech fa iftsi gait, nimoar urra da alt ram. sèdh gan digh oilcmhna a miodh .S doimenma a?' gloir na ngaoidAto/. Mur fhear othar a treabhluidh Ian dimnadh is deigh enbruidh an toinec hi fhogbhaii cioii 4 fa ghorr/ifhofi groidech ngaoideal Mur dhalta dcis a oide. f chiaid thuirsi is treabhluide. rogha deigh fhir dion ar ndul 5 sniom a neinigh ni hiongnadh Sir Tormòd fa thoil an daoil, tug an teiech fa an àoibh se nu * amiaigh o g° oirecht 6 an chlii uaidh gan aodhuirec/^ Fine Leoid lughuide a ni buaidh, gan urra an aince ar anbhuain an fiiiealbha ar mbi'iain fa bròn 7 bùaidh a ceinemna ar cclaochlod Diombuan nachhinxm oirthuibh tar droing eile dalbailchuib doibh af baoglaeh gid be anurra * 8 n c saoghlac e etarra. Maidwi ag an eg druim ar dhruim, gan cogadh gan cur comluiii sioruidh gach maicne da mair, 9 ar rioghuibh * aicmc olbuir. Fuiglech air aicmha olbhuir, fa an diogbhail tar docamluib gan cur air Gaoideal no Gall 10 aoinfher a mhainsnach mar ail Aninwhc ni habar tnuidh tairnigh flaites abfortuin a nanarr do chuaidh ar ccall 1 1 uair a ccònaigh do caitedh. L&ocradh * gan \ocadh treasa * TaocrwM, MS. tughsad aiwser aoibnesa rioghradh togtha an talmnin thaigh, 12 ar aghnuid orchra aneiuuatr * anaira ¥ * roghuibh ? THE BOOK OF CLAN RAN ALU. Tlie hospitality throughout luusigall Is not so bountifully nursed, Yes, without the nourishing drink of metheglin ; Dispirit rules the glory of the Gael. As a man with wounds in his troubles, Full of anxiety and extreme oppression, The hospitality finds no place of rest In the delightful blue land of the Gael. As ji foster son is after his foster father F'dl of sadueas and tribulation ; The best of the good protecting men having departed, No wonder this anguish should arise. Sir Norman, who is now at the will of the worm, Calmed the lamenting to pleasing looks ; And after all that, he is away from all parties, His repute from him without shepherd. The sway of the tribe of Leod is lessened, Without a chief furthcoming of equal power ; The tribe of herds are in lasting sorrow, Their hereditary .sway is altered. Their rulers are of short duration over them Compared with other tribes of the Scots ; To them it is dangerous, be they ever so guarded, That he is uot long lived among them. Death gains a defeat hy prostrating all on their backs, Without war, without lighting a hattle, Everlastingly against all tribes that have lived, Of the best and most powerful races. There is but a remnant of a noble clan By a loss sustained by the parties ; Without disparagement to the Gael or Gall, He was their chief champion, but bo does not live. The praise is conferred on the church, The hour of their destiny has passed. Heroes that failed not to gain the victory, They passed their time in pleasures ; Select princes of extensive lauds Are in a fervour of grief in one hour. 268 THE BOOK OF CLAN RANALD. Romhor do chuaidh da ccothram, roighne freime fionlochlaii fada as diodh a ccuimhnc chaig, 13 crioch ar gac duilge an dioghbail A mhuirn ant i fit in otrbirth ar neg durra asochair neirt tug an tred f hirer lam fher 14 ar mhèd mhinihenmna inhileadh   The truly grand clan of men selected him On account of his great military spirit Every happiness came into the country Until the death of the Royal son of Rory ; On it has come the grievances, Every misfortune since you interred him. Their excessive grief is no wonder for them, To the nobles of Fionugall it is death ; The pure-armed land on which no rout pressed On account of the chief mustering its forces. Mournful they go from it after him His royal troops, his trusty forces ; The land of division walls of the best profit, Deep sorrow replaces her pleasures. Every great engagement in slaughtering or fighting The clan of King Leod had their full share in them ; The end of the first hospitaller of each clan, Lamentable is the end of his justness. The weeping at Babilon in bondage, It would appear to you it came into this country, By the greatness of the downfall of power Through the death of the defender of this territory. Joy was in the affliction of sorrow, On account of its delightfuluess being changed, Without an expedition it was plundered, The territorv of the Isles is in a similar condition. Our sorrowful case of anguish is similar To that which occurred after Conn and Conaire ; There was daily excessive grief among the learned, I believe that ours is an exact type of it. A sadness which has not ebbed after him Is that for the son of Macleod, a cause of true sorrow ; On everyone therefore there is a gloom, On account of the decease of the chief of our protection. 270 THE BOOK OF CLANRAKALD. Fada as cuimhn le cloifl Leoid bas feinigh fola ri Leoid ullmhugh do ccradh croidhe. 23 Ian durdhubhcw/A ib dcolcair. Eagai * ga truime dogra, * Eagui, in MS. acairde a lucht lean#iana ar a uaigh necht mar do nid. 24 uain ar a fliert ìvich bfuigliinidh. gheibhiil uaidh na farrad, ro aoibhneas do cdamar. matrg do fiiair a mèd muirue 25 sa aèg annair tnathchuingc. Mna g° tire fa thuirsi a laoich a hicht eagluise a saoirfhir chomtha occuniha 26 faoiligh orchra eatorra, Anteinech an tengnawi glan, anuaile an failte ollanih re aois na dhiaigh as dursan 27 làis accrfaidh do cuadarsan Budh cian fa orrcra gach dm era Dowmuill Iiisi Fion gall fath caoine is enesguin   A victorious prince who did not break his word Was Sir Norman to the time of death ; Except the coffin in the earth in which he lies There was no column raised for his monument. The death of a prince of a mighty tribe Is a want of honour to the learned professors ; Woe to the poet who received attention, His heart is gone without recovery. Ours is greater than the lamentation for cities, Above the grief for the daughters of supreme kings, Or the death of a beloved spouse, You may judge the severity of our affliction. •Seventeen hundred and two to be reckoned, And three years the age of the supreme king, A gold wand the purest to be seen, To the death of the excellent son of Kory. Were you to estimate the greatness of the anguish, The vastness of the sorrow would suffice, Among all persons, although lesser day by day, The grief for him the time he died. The pleasures of Innsigall have ceased. [ a mag ttoil le ri g c ruire, a bhreith go hoi rear/* f cm chuifi, ni ceiladh sin daill dar docracA/ 14 a bbeiradh slàn go soeracA* sin THE JiOOK OK CLAKKAKALD. 283 Their relief is not to be obtained in Ulster, Although their people were beloved in Magh Fail : Since the parties huve been taken, Leaving the King of England over sea. There is news coining with a mustered force, Kverv day arousing amongst us ; ( >n account of us being without them, except as a loan, The kingdom is not at ease by it. To us it is more rueful than to all others, To the race of Colla of the warlike deeds (steeds ?) Thev are out of their inheritance and rank, The people that gave payment to the poets. The royal blood of Ranald is the chief guardian, They arc without the possessions of the blood of Conn ; The want of thy government lowered my pride, Thy arrival was the signal for our loyalty. The grandson of John not l>eing in his ancestral inheritance,. Our minds have decayed contemplating it ; Nuts from. a wood that bears no fruit, From a wood by which our hopes have been blasted. Let us give a call with ?u fervence of will, To the Heir of Mary, the Son of God, Should they be in danger of sustaining a loss, Since He is the Head of our nobility. May he come free to the rights of his kindred, To maintain the possessions of the ancient (house) ; Our chieftain calm and our prince hospitable, The guide of our nobles who would pay the troops. As Ranald is the king of our choice, [ implore Christ to send him to protect us, That he may come to pay us our will, [n the right of the princes ever before him. May the chief of our instruction come unto us, Who is descended from the blood of Conn and Colla l : ais > fn the government of the royal tribe of Ranald, His protecting clan by whom 1 have lived without danger If it should be pleasing to the King of all Kings, To bring him to the inheritance of the blood of Conn ; He would not refuse the most hazardous meeting, He would bring us safe into securitv. 284 THE BOOK OF CLANRAXALD. Soirbh don tti do cum an chruiile, slat ar riaglila do diol dho mur do sgaoil an muir ag maoise 15 le gclaodh ttuil g° daoirse dhò A mic Dowmuill a cru chroidhe aigill go minic mac ndè \im gac ni bhus easbhuig oirruibh 16 sleasuigh se go hullamh è Amhairc siar ar aisdir iosa, o thuirliii go muire mac . gus ar ghabh ccoroiil dar cceanach 17 sglac oiloir mar eallach ort. A dhuin do thuirliii oigre ar nathar do dioll no ccana thuit ttrom, mar do bhi mhathair da mhollad 18 ttri raichair ttallawh ttoll. ghabhagh feoil ma mac muire no go bhf uiair gcesadh san g c ran biomguidh cidhfn dan crois guaillibh 19 los iolluigh g c uabuir an Densa hairis ar lorg an leinib mhic Dhownuil an crotha chaoim giodh n c bfaig go soirbh ail saogall 20 gabh an goirwi le saorthar sibh. ( ) n c far ach ttuirse as ttriobloid a gceilidh ri nime naoi . ccreid gur sgaile age re in an caithe 21 aille 8geim an bheatha bhaoi. Tmhluigh do ghathair na nuile an ri o bfuig math is mo o si ccios n c ccoiglear dfìarruigh 22 gcios ttaignagh da diollad dho Da chuis Niall mor m c muiridh ' Do l-uaio-hri mor m c leid Sc hoidhce dhamhsa sj\/ì dun nior bhe an coiflmhe fallsa fhuar ciiirm lionmhwr ga hibhe ahòr fionbhrugh mor is lionmhur sluagh THE BOOK OF CLANRANAL1>. 2#5 Praise be unto Him who created the world That the scion of our government should be freed by Him ; As He divided the sea before Moses, And subdued the flood of every oppression. 0, son of Donald, thou blood of my heart. Implore often the Son of God For everything that is wanting to thee, And he will readily grant it. Look continually on the path of Jesus, Since a Son came down to the Virgin Mary, Who took upon Him a crown to redeem us, Receive honor as a burden to thee. From a man descended the heir of our fathers To pay the tributes which fell heavy [upon us]; How his mother was praising him While proceeding on the hollow earth [i.e., earth below]. Since Mary's Son became incarnate, Until he was crucified on the tree ; Let us implore the chief of the shoulder cross, The joyous plant of all pride. Go thou onward in the track of the child, Son of Donald of the pleasing figure ; Although you may not find this w r orld agreeable, Accept the invitation by which you shall be saved. As you may not find but sorrow and trouble, In submitting to the will of glorious heaven ; Believe that the sunshine of this world is short, More delightful is the beauty of the everlasting life. Submit to the Father of all, The King from whom we shall receive the greatest goodness ; The tribute which is not neglected in demanding it, Is the tribute of your mind to be paid to Him. Two causes. Niall Mor M c Varich for Rory Mor Macleocl. 1 Six nights I had been in the Dun, It was not a fallacious entertainment I received ; Plenty of ale was drunk at the board, There was a large wine-hall and a numerous host. 1 For the place of this poem in the MS., see above p. 216 286 THE BOOK OF CLAN RANALD. Teglach an tighe air g c taobh fa hi au fhine mheghrach mhòr ferrde suaiwihnes ratha an riogh lion cat ha annignes fa 61 Gàir na gclairscach sn eouach ttrom ag nach gnathach fuath na feall gair na mbleige* fleasgach fioft * miledh, delete*!. lion misgach is teine then Ri o nolblmir aignedh ur cofimhuigh achaidrem gaeh cliar na rioghbri/gh ni haisling 61 da shlògh lionm/twr farmiing fial Fiche misge liii g c laoi nochar leisge lin no le fin anert ar ml>etuidh do bhi cethni/- atri asecJU le so So. [Welcome to Allan, Chief, 1686-1715]. Failte dar nail in righ na raghnallach ad chim gur faghlamach a ghlaiw- fhem ghormlaftoch e nach obadh sa fhein fliionghalla cèim nach iowrallach anu chogodh chomhlaftaoh • cuirfed anegar rann go robhl ears, on |>age *J7"». tin* Kuglish poem on Bishop Burnet, who died in 171.0. The Whig bishop was •detested by the Jacobite*. We give the satire an it stands. The Hubert jeferred to is doubtless Sir Robert Walpole. The poem is as follows : The Divills was brawling when Burnet Dessended Tran8porte eui follows, at p. 292 of the MS., immediately on Fergal lf c An Bard's medley, and is probably by that poet. But o my Dr Saram how goes thing* above Doth George hate the Toryes and Whiggks only love wt. a fa la a Were your highness impropriated in person to reign You coud not more bravely our party maintain But h«»w doth gd. Robert ■ perfectly well A whigg you had nere in hell wt. a fa la & Hugh Peter is making a Sneaker within for Luther, Buchannan, Jo. Knox, and Calvin but ore ye have tipled a bran* of punch bowls yile swear you never Drank wt. Di*honester souls, wt. a fa This night wile caruse putt ane end to all pain goe Cromwell you dog King William unchaine and tell him at length yt. Saram* come down who just left his Mitre as he left his Crown, wt. a fa la la They lived as they dyed in our Service all spent they only come hear who never rebuts. Lett the heralds aloud, our victor}* tell lett GeorKe live for ever amen cryed all helL THE BOOK OF CLAXRAXALD. 259 Ni glic nar chants dom cholufrro ar ttùs gradh do thabhatrt do thaitnem a gora- rosg nur • bheith re treabhadh ni cneasd ma?* obair an hi * mo dhiol feasda do- bhethuidh an dowhuinsi sùd Sud mo bheatha ar fedh mo rè thar liom fèin ni millsi mil a làn am ghaile do ghràdh ni beg lemsa go bràch sin. Ag sin na hadhbhar do dhaingnidh os- na mo cleibh • fuilt chlanbhuighe go talmhnin ag rocA* an fheir ruisg mhall ghlas rer samhladh angloine do nèimh • scruibh bharrlaga le a ttatrear gaeh sompla don ghrès (ires oirrdheire do bhegan rail do dhealbh misi cha ferr sdiiaitti muiia bfaghawi thall an diol och fa rior ni fhuighim dùais Duais mo raft is ferr do bfacabhatr riamh * ragharc mall anall tre bharribh aciamh labhairt ghan go ten do chloisdin ag triall ni beg leawi sgaeh àm do chabhnir mo pian Pian man »ia mar aon smo ehuirp a dhuine do chluin. g c maoin na sealbhuidh da rachadh sibh an ria/u-h sin is decnir dhaoibh Aoibhift an gala?" an gràdh Cathal l Dcacuir tvcht on galar ghrrfidh an galur dom olinr fa chiaidh ni he an galur ga/i ghuin mbròin galar nach fair luibh no liaigh Galw gràidh is galar dhamh an galur go bràch nar mbim 1 This w not the title of the poem, which is in Dispraise of Love. It means evidently that Cathal M° Vurich is the author. ID 2.0 THE HOOK OF CLAN RANALD. am chroidhe do choidh asteg cnedh thoile ler dhoigh mo dhul Mile fàobhar gràidh dom ghuin baoghaZ mar ataim on toil ni fhèidir techt saor mar sin sneimh on toil san taobh astoig. Toll tseirce na tuile trill tuile le mbèirter ar mbuaigh tug 8oin ar snoidhe go cnàimh doigh ghraidh am chroidh do chuaidh Misi do thuitim do taoib cioth fa fuil da chur a cceill ni fail cabhatr an dàn duin mo ghradh ruin gar foguil fèin An rioghain n c miodh do mhnaoi mo shearc ar na lionadh lè an coimhdhe ga cor a gcli ca ni is doilghe dhamh a dhè Decatr techt on galar ghràidh Niall mòr in c mhxùredhaigh ecu 7 Soruidh slàn do noidhche anrèir fada geir a dol ar cul da ngealltaoi mo cor accroich is truagh nach i anochl a tus Ata dias is tighsi anochf nach ceileft an rosg an run ge nach fuilid bel ar bhel is gcrr geir silleadh an sul 8 truagh an cuibhreach do ni an chiall ar mWeadh siubhlach na sul ni fcirde an tosd do ni an bel sgèl do ni an rosg ar an run Nocha letgid luchl na mbreg smid as mo bhel a rosg mall tuig an ni adeir mo shuil 7 tu san chuil ud thall THE BOOK OF OLAKRANALD. 291 Cum aguin a noidhche anocht truagh garw i mar so go brach na leig an mhaiden a stech eiridh scuir amach an la Uch amhuire abhuime an tseing os tu cen ar ar cceill tarruigh 7 gabh mo làmh soruidh slan do noidhche areir Diarmuid m c Laoisigh m ic an bhaird cc- 1 A chormuic cuiftihnigh an choir na ben dfuil ir anonòir ni hi an choir ègàra is fherr ni dòigh èdala an fhoiren Na rioth do reir do thoile na car * sechran siorraidhe * can, B. B. na heirghe an guais n c dlecÀt duit na gluais tar chert a chormuic Ni cas do nech ni do ragh gan derhhadh suadh na sen dàn bhcith go brach gan luagh leabhar màs dual chàch chreidemhuin Leigsi dhi mar gach duine armas fhreimh rughruighe na saoil gur libh an lamh dherg ua sir acht ràgh na ri * lèrg * righ, B. B. Muc dà hògh * oighrecht oile * thò, B. B. clan go naicme dàirighe no cha dilsi dhaibh no* an làm * B. B. omit*. san chrichsi fail ar fadàgh Na hiarr a chormaic dibh chuifl an làmh lc fiiadach feruin afihealbh na sirsi mar sin mas dearbh libhsi na leabhatr Fèchidh an leabhar ulltach 8griobhao'A* na sgèl niongafltach * sgribhin, B. B. 1 Here the B. B. adds : an so da dhcrbhadh gur do chlanaibh rughnu'flhr ù coir an lamh dherg. 292 THE BOOK OP OLANBAKALD. a chormuic ni dleaghar dui tar leabhar oirdheirc uladh Sean dan fire ar a bfuil dath lamh dhèrg eiren i bheathach do rin an toide glan grin na ben re hoige* 1 huigift * lioighre, B.H. A nesbhuigh airgid na òir do bhi sun ar siol sen ròigh diol na laime tar chen cruidh aneng do bailie anulltuibh Caidhe an ti thràth da cenacb rug uain i ar aitherrach cia dhine do dhiol aneng as gniomh fire go foircen Cia do cbàch nach cuala sin derg ruathar chonuill chernuidh cin chàigh do chur ar an ghad ni dòigh a dhul ar derniad 1 ik> hoighadh eirc nihic cairbre air ccur atr gach aon airde nior hioiììadh alamh leis gur bhiongnadh dàla aw dualgbais Dar thum abhos sari bhratach do chach nior bham anacail aig fiUcadh na laimh leis nir miMeadh aille an aroiais Fhgbadh Conall tuar treise lorg amhear saw meirgse guv * oighrearw* ga thsiol o sboin *  e duinc deradh riom «ro mbhiadh con (?) dainbhios oroiw nac/t fior uaim araidhim ruibh Saithim mo thuath attalmhuin 1 H«*rc the R. R text of thin i*>eni endn. The rout of the |>oem and flu* whnlf of the next are taken from the B.K THB BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 293 Bhan tsheilbh dhibhsi nach dleghthar do ttairgthadh dfheilioghagh giou go hiuil èire an dan dhuit ar slan fa chèile a chormatc Freagra air in dansa an so 6 Eògan o Dhonnaoile Nà*r an sgealsa ti&cht do tigh chluinmid uàid amh lc Laoisig tagra na laimhe nacA doibh o chert do chlanaibh Ròigb na robhert Tairing do thuath stop do bhèl munab thu Conall na narm rogher ler mian fir eirin uile do chtur air en ghad guallana Tri tèad is laige tàin do chim alar do thiompàin beag ambrigh searbh an gloir ni dearbharfn ar in laimh laimhoir Muc dha tbo cè* mòr a meas nior churtha ris in laimh accoimhmes armti8 corma an tore fa mear armws troda an bhàs bharrgeal Dearbbadh eile bheir tu asteach lamb dherg eirt'nn i Beathach ioradha focal aderid each nach bhfagthar sgriptuir do chomdocb File fallsa do ghràdh s^ad do roin an ran Ian bhrèag nil aoinfer ar in sgelsa leis ni shaorfin e atr ainbbfeas An treas puirt ta ar do pbibh dergruathar Chonaill chearnàoi nior sin an lambsa lin sgan an &cht finsgel fabhuill Creidim go ttug an ruartbar ten dar cbuir lèn ar bhferaibh eirin sni chreidim go bratb gur rad 2 mhfle cell atr aonghad THE BOOK OP CLAN RANALD. Dirira fòe sua derbtha lift nock bfhagthar a sgeal no Bgrfbhill dim mile mac rfogh go mbhuadh do beith a neirin a Ni dhèra sibh deeAfaibb a rianoh aeht dwg ruathar ehonall ni ditrmad chiall as nar àonglmiomb go mhet auilt * beitb do thsfor mhaoidbeamli a dhernioid Mas t&sgadh fola as glacaibh caradk dhtrbhnx an lamhsti dho ndleghar uirim tech cia dhin ia lia do thum alaiiih abbfolaib eacAtruiri Feach Con accnuca na ccladh hi ar lia fuil da fàsgadh iomdba mèirge in ar tliiira alàmb ni hftril an sgelsa air seachran At thuit do mh^aibh riogh leis ar magh lena fn gaibhtec greis do ccuirthaoi ancnghad ar Choii sair do bbiadh an tualacb taobbthrom CAth ohaagline aa catb cbuimair ina oatha do cuÌKadk ar looh fcabhail aig easruadh ar lochlafl llr ca roibh bhnr lambda an la sin Sua cathaìbb do cuireorfA lifl aig cosnanih orich heirinn iorodlta gealghlac fa corcra gnè do mherclaflaibh nertmhar naomhneil Ag tagra riom ni beit dhnit ni mè pfobuire anenpbuirt iomdhtf ea^Af 2ar buidhench baibh dherbhiTM gur lifl an righ laimh Stad a Dheamwtd na tagair nios mo ni fheid«r an Bgealaa daithchco ni lent an lam as aille d reach le h&nìtndh eirinn an bhratach Tatring.' ' End of quotatation from B. B. The tWD replies by SU] Me Vm which follow, are in the R. B. only. TOT BOOK OF CLAWRÀICÀLD. 295 Fegra a?* diarrauid m c an bhaird •. o. niall m c muiredhuigh. Labhradh trian chonguil go ciuin na biodh euiesbhadh fhiriuil da nèirigb fraoch ghoimb na bfer do laochruigh ghle mhir Gbaoidbaa/ A fhir thagras on treibhsi mun ab ar mfan maileisi na hiarr sencbairt cbru choll nar nemhpailt clu comblona Agair gacb onoir oile as diecht do reimh rughrutdhe giodbedh lèig dbi a dbuine a mbi nar mbrèid mbratuighe Inis go rèigh gacb robbàigb na biomraigb ar iomarbhaigh lèig feasda thoradh ga tur ni cniosda anfbaluidb dfbadugb Fior go raibb le brigb mbuaigbe ag curadbuibb craobbruaigbe a nàgb budb docra a diumgbuidb lamb cborcra san caithiorgbuil Da èis do tbraotbsad an trèin siìocht uaìbbrecb eochach duibblèin fuil ir da ttreine an trea&adh bban t(r eire tinuiresbhadh Tug triath dfuil ir sna colla mar tà roin san ri rolla le recht ratba dfior oile secht ccatba seal secAlmuine Nacb cual adbuis do gbuin gba gur tbuit Feargbtis afodba ger gbàrbb acblafl s&n cbogadb bbudb marbb all do fbanadar Do ejabhadh buaidb is bratacb fola bir go bimertacb sdo bbi ri orrtbuibh re beadb dona ttri colluibb cneasgbeal 2Ì G THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. Lamh anùacAl datha dheirg cuirid ansoin san sroilmhèirg do shior go chaithghreis do chur màs fior aithrie na uugbdar An làmh ga lenmuin line magh aill fios na firifle mile bliaghain le broin chèd riaghail is coir ar choimhèd Lenuighsi an leòmhan buighe a neinig ùaine òirthuighe san lèirg le buagba a pughatr mèirg do cbuala ag Conchubhar A maighin moigbe ratha an .la cburrtba an chruadhchatha ga seoladh don chuire chas budh leomban uile anarrahus Suaithentas bur congail cblaoin gona aleomban na leath taoibh nach derbhadh Flan ga ràgli ribb nàr de&Ybhadh lamb an idir Dar lem is leomhan sni làmh àrmtts shil ir sg c aon àgh raaith an fhiadhain Flann file go rfaghuil ran rithfimne Tuigim an tagran taodhg dall ibh eathach duibhlèn dearbhàm ge be leighfedh a lorg lin ni shènfagh ord i uigin Mar sin lèigther line an lamb anuacAlar in gach aòn àgh sgan a buain din le deubhadh dfuil ir 7 eirembòin Le do cho8ain colla uais urmbor \i\adh dàl degb cbruais do roinert a chleth sa cbor 7 leth oirecAl alban Bratacb barafita ar mbruighne lamh budh sèla ag somhairle lèr gabh daghfhon na ndrochghall go glan sferann fiofllochlann THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 297 An làmh chèdim ag cloin Domhnaill riu gara en dream ion chomhluinn anuatr anfuigh ar fhoghluibh fuair manchta'A is mathghamhnuigh Loam is chumhain sni cian uagh an lamhsa ag brisdedh borbshluagh do gasruidh ba mhagh monuigh gal C08mhuil rer ccuradhaiòA Oram ni bherar baire sesbhuim sealbh na laochlaimhe o bhèd tuaighe da trnime le mèd buaighe ar mbratuidhe A fir thriallas don tir shiar uaimsi giodh urchuir irachian beir na gaoisin ar nglac r&nn go m c Laoisidh mar labhram Labh Fregra ar Eoghan 6 Donoile Nar lèm choisnes tu clu chuin lèd dhàn am ic i Dhonuill ag àiremh chaithrem is chrech nar ghabh tu an taithger direc Mar taoi gan eagal roimh thuaigh acht o chonall on craobhruaigh is truagh gan tu aneambuimnbach mar aon re canal 1 cernacb As maitb an tiupanac tu bi bin no gbeibhir micblu mas suain is còir do cblecAtedh do sluagb ar chioii cbais mbertadh Muna coisnir an lamh dberg na cbuir an nihuc san sròilmbeirg SLcht tomhuil a tarr as tech mar srumuil conall cernach Ni derbhadh let ar laimh dheirg dàn direch taodg i buigifi 8go cuirfet anaon chethram cam n c cuirfedh taodhg sa leathrann 298 THB BOOK OF OLANRANALD. Puirt nar sineadh ar pib riamh ruathar oonuill anim chian ge do dherbh a lamh aa Ian nior leanbh ar sal na saorchlami Gan athas an rioghfhuil ròigh mas tu a dèradh do begcòir an dèigb tana bo cuailgne iomdha anagha aniomruaga Nar lèigb tu cath ros na riogh cu na cèrtcha * a chosgarghriomh * chèrtcha t Concubhar Ferghvs na bfecht na morchlann ir a neinfheacAt * * nem ? Cath eduir libh na linibh caithreim chongail chlairinigh no foghuil Fergwt* amach na toghail temrach luachrach Cleaa lùigha choin cbuluin troid nar bhobuir ionfhuluing e ar àth onach f hacais truagh o chàch n c cualadhas Baile afuair Fer dia a ghuin m c nosa is Fraoch m c Fiodhaigh da mbetha ar muinntir meidhbe do chluinnti anuirsgèla A mhic 8emui8 go noige òig duit o nach lèis na lorn ròid biadh àbhrafn ròimh mar roghain ni glòr abb loir ealadbain Dod mhaoidhemb ar m c an bhàtrd a hucht eòlais gan aon àt'rd na buail bos re bel fiMdh do dhuain chros go ccoiridhir CrH fa slointer do diocht ir cath chuinn a ccnocha chlaidhmhin nert sluaigh an chròdha chre&chadh còra a luaigh re laighnechiM Ar thuit ar magh lèna leis guidhim dia riut is ifiis bha aech do BÌiocht èimhir fhin ar an leith a deas deirin THE BOOK OF OLANRAVALD. 29* Na dèin dearmad do chloifi ir a ccath midbe ar a mhoirghniorah gwr thuit mac mail go mhaithibh do laimh ar ccuin chèd chathuigb Mur ata uait ar iarruidh gabhail sliocht neill naoigbiallut^A ar emuin anfhuifi sgatbuidb an deghaidh chuin chèd ch&thuigh An lamb dherg ni choir diàrrufgh do riogfhuil neill naoighialltttgrA hvdh còra na naoi nglasa do cborùgb na armusa Giall Breatnooh borb is Pbicecb geill sagsan umbla albanach do ghabh niall an toigfber ten is giall cboig ccoigedh Eiren An lamhsa chloine oolla fuair doibb iomad urrama do chuir an choroin ma ccen maille rè bonoir Eire ft A sbliocAl neill mboir m lc eochach sa sbiol chonaill cbruaidb chreachatgrA ni hèdail ar laimbne dbuibb dàn a an ègcòir a biaruigb Ni mairen m c conmbidbe dua neill mbacba a meirtine rug leonadh ar sgèla ar sgol mèla is cogan na ughdar Luchi ealadhna, aicme neill nar diunarbadh a heirift m c i Dofluil diol gàire * * gh&ir* na ollarah riogh ro naire Nar learn Niall m° muiredhuigh. l 1 This n the end of the Red Book as now preserved. The last page is numliered 811. 300 TH£ BOOK OF CliAN RANALD. HIGHLAND CLAN GENEALOGIES OF THE BLACK BOOK. [MS. p. 176.] Genelach chloinne Ghiolleòin •S- Eòin, mh c eòin mh c aillin, m u loilin m c eachuin 6ig mh c Lochlin mhòir m c eochuin òig m c eachuin mhòir m c Lochlin catanat^A m c Eachuin uibhir m c Lochlifl òig mh c Lochlin bhroifiigh "1* czmhsronach -1* mbòir 7 is bhuagh athanig tigmia cholla .i. lad soin ar sliocAl Eoin gharbh mh c Lochlin bhronnatoA '1* camA- nronaigk .i. tigmia atrde gabhir ar sliocAf Domhmitll m c Lochlin nech aroin diluin re mghin m c each thighern chin gherloch (acht nod leat g-ttr badh e niall on dangadar shocht neil). Ba tmgadh a Tugadh &cht ise m c inghin Iarla màra dan derna tighama. m c Eachdhuin ruaig na cath m c Lochluin \\xhox\aigh m c Eoin duibh m c Giolla cholluim m c Mhaoilisa m c Giollaeaoin mhòir 7 dir cuid occ gur on Ghioll eoin mhòir so a taflig clann choindigh ar a nadhbar go roibh birt m c aigi .i. Maolisa o bhfuillid clann Giolleaoin, 7 Coindech o bhfuillid clann Choindigh Genelach cloinne Choindidh Murchad mac coindidh, m c eoin, m c coindidh, m c aoughns cnum, M c coindidh, m c Giolleoin òig, m c Giolleoin mhòir, m c murchadhj m c Douchatdh, m c Mwrchaa'À, m c Donchaidh, m c Mwch- adhj m c coindigb, m c crin, m c Giolleoin na hairde, ciogh be e soin do tigearn cloinne Ghiollaeaoin, m c Rrath, m c Maolsuthin, m c Neill, m c con ConduUattfA, m c cellaù/A, m c Rrainc, m c Fmshir abhraruaigh, m c Baigh, m c Fionlaoich, m c Ferchir fada righ alban o bfut/id clann coifldigh, clann chatan, clann Grigoir, clann Fionguin, clann Ghuatr, clann Neill Bharra 7 Ghigha, clann NeacAftiin, clann Duibhshith, 7 morginuigh mar adir cuid mhor •aoca THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 301 Genelach cloinne mheig Betha an so sfos Conbhetha mac Dathchil, m c CongaluiA, m c DonachaùfA, m° Btuanain, m c Conill, m c Forballat^A, m c Conbueali, m c cremhthuifi > m c Eochadk bhinigh, m c Eogbain, m c Neill *9- g- m c EoghadA &c. Genlock m c Caillin an so sios Giollesbut^r fiofi m c Giollesbntgr bhig m c Giollesbut^r chaira m c Giollesbuw/ ghruaime m c Chaillw bhuighe  hiarwiuid i DhuimAne naoi biuidhmx do;i mlwcaom/j 6g, le cluidhche ar luib sar liaih nil*/ 5 • 20 • bliWAna is derbh Horn, saog/il Chair-ill inh«WV in* Fin nir tarrla comArag laww. nar bhen (anvil ;is achcfi THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 305 Cnoc an Air. Cnoc anàt'r an cnòcsa siar, go là na braith bid da ghat'rm a Phàdruig na uibachall mbàn, ni gan fàth tugadh an tainm Innis masa cumhain leat, aiia Chubb aill nach beg bròn abair biadh mo bhennacht let, seel fire sna can gò. As truagh an ni rèr an mè, a m(h)tc Albruinn nar èr nech an sgèl ro fhiathfroig(b)is diom, innsim ar sgath riogh na mbreth La da ndechaidh Fiofl na bbflegh, is Fian(n) Eiren na ngredh seng ar an chn^csa lion an slòigh, nior begal doibh techt re accenn En bhen do bailie no grian, do chi anFhian(n) ag techt san leirg do mhac Cumhuil(l) (iilsk dhuit), beiicuis rioghain an bhruit dheirg Cia tù arioghain ar Fionn fèin, is ferr meifi sis aille dealbh fuaini do ghotha is bine lift, na abfwiY re seirw gion gur searbh NiamAan nuachrothach se mainm, inghen Doilbh mtc Dòlair fhiii airdriogh Grèg, mo ni(h)allacn£ air, do r me do thaile mh c trein Creel do bheir ga sechna tu, na ceil do ruin oirn eniocht dul do c(h)o/nrag ar do sgàth, gabhani do laimh ar do thocht An ri soin ga ttugas fuath, do ròift adubbghùal do?n ghnè cluas is urball is ceil cait, do bhi atr, nior bhait an sgeimh Dimches an domhan fa thri, nior fhagbha* ri ann no flaith nar iarras acht sibhsi aFhian, snior gholl tr/ath manacal air. Ainigfed tu ainghen òg, ràgh mac CumAuill nar chlodh ri&mh no go ttuitfid ar da sgàth, na secht cathsa ata an Fhian Ar an laimAsin ortsa a Fhinn, is guais lift go dernuis breg an ti re teichi?n ab(h)fad, tuitfidh leis cath 7 ced Na dein iomarbhaigh as, afholt cas ar dhath anòir snach tainic àon làoch accèin, nach fuil san bhfein fer da chlòdh Is gerr go bfacamar uainn, ri fer ccaitceii fa crwaidh lamh nior bheafiuidh snior \xmh\aigk dFhionn, sdo iarr cath tar ckionn amhnà Tèid dhèifl ced làoch na dhàil, do bferr lawh an latbatr gleò nochar thill nech dibh ar ais, gan tuitim le Tailg mhac Treòin Iaruis Osgur ced ar Fhion, ger bholc lift e do luagh dul do cowhrag an làoich loin mar do c(h)onairc dith na sluagh Do b(h)eirim ced dhuit ar Fion, giodh ole liom do thuitim trfd eiridh beir mo b(h)enacht let, cuiwAnidh do ghal is do g(h)niomh 20 906 TBI BOOK OF OLAMBANALD. Fedh chòig oidhche fed 5 14, do bhi an dias stn nar thlath gleic gan bhiagh gan choladh ar dhi suain, gur thuit Tailc le buaidh me mhic Do Wig sin tri garrtha os atrd, san chomhrag sin nar thlath gleio gfttr ohaointe far thutt dar bfeinn, eda ghà(i)r mhaidhfe fa eg Thaile NiasnAan udaohroch mar an an bed mar do choinaic med anàir ghabho* natre an ghruadh d*rg ghlan,tuitis marbh le mèd natre Bas an rioghna deis gcu;A utlc, ase is mo do chutr ar chach ar an cnocsa des accliath, do bhaisd an Fhian cnoc anatr. Deirdrè . cc Glean do gach mess iasgach linach antulcha corrach as aill cruincnt bheith dho fomradh dhomaa as dèrach glean beagach na mbiiabhall mbeanach Glean cnachach smaolach lonach bùadhach anfhoraois do gach sionach glean crèamhach biolrach mongach seamrach scot hoc h barchas duillach Bin goth fladhuid druimdh^rg bhallacA faoi fhiodh d&raigh as maoilin mhullach aga grtagh is iad go fàiitach * * fàistach ? na laoigh abhfalach sa ghlefi bhflach Glean na caorthan go ccniias ccorcra go meas molta do gach ealta Pàrthas sùain dona brocaibh anùamhchaibh socra sa ccuan aca Glean na seabac sulghorm èghtach glean iomlan do gach cnua&ach glean na mbefi lesach pèucach glean smenrach atrnach ubhlach Glean na ndobhran sliora dhon smotoch os cen issgaigh is bin guth bocach is iomdha geis thaobhgheal shocrach is eigne urach re taobh leacach. Glen THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 307 GENEALOGY OF CLANRANALD. We here give the genealogy of Clanranald from the present time as far back as Adam ! The portion of it from 1715 till now, we are responsible for ; the rest is in the Black Book, though not given in one place. Ginealach Chloinne Raghnaill an so sfos ; An t-Admireal Sir Kaghnall 1 mac Raghnaill mhic Eòin m • Raghnaill m • Raghnaill m ' Dhomhnaill Ghuirni, fir Bhinne Bhaghla agus tighearna Chloinne Raghnaill) mhic Raghnaill òig m * Rsighnaill m * Ailin m ' Eòin Mhuideordaigh (obiit 1584) m * Alasdair m * Ailin m * Ruaghri m ' Ailin, o nabartar Siol Ailin, mhic Raghnaill, on raitear Claim Raghnaill, mhic Eòin a h-Ile (John of Isla, first Lord of the Isles, obiit circum 1386), mhic Aonghusa 'Oig m * Aonghusa Mhòir m * Domhnaill, a quo Claim Domhnaill, m ' Raghnaill m . Somhairle (obiit 1164, the great " Somerled of the Isles,") m * Giolla Bhrighde m * Giolla Adhamhnàin m ' Solaimh m * Meargaigh 2 m • Suibhne m * Niallghusa m • Maiiie 3 m • Gofraigh m " Ferghu8 4 m • Maine m * Earc m • Carran m • Eochach m • Colla Uais, Aird Righ (High King of Ireland from 322 to 326), m • Eochach Duibhlein m • Cairbre Liffeachair, A.R. 5 (obiit 284), 1 Translated : — Admiral Sir Reginald Macdonald, son of Reginald, son of John, son of Ranald, son of Ranald, son of Donald Garni, of Beobecula and Clanranald, son of Ranald Og son of Ranald, son of Allan, son of John of Moydart, son of Alexander, son of Allan, son of Rory, son of Allan, son of Ranald, son of John of Isla, son of Angus Og, son of Angus Mor, son of Donald, son of Ranald, son of Somerled of the Isles. 3 B.B. Irish genealogy gives iledraigc ; Keating gives Medraide. 3 This Maine is not given in the History of the Clanranald Book, but it is in the Irish genealogy of the B.B., in Keating, and in Skene's genealogies taken from the Books of Ballimote and Lecan (Celt. Scot., III., 466). 4 Fergus is called in B.B. Irish genealogy " Ferghus Mhòire mhic Carthoin m* Kochaigh (ar shliocht an Eocha igh so ataid clan Duibhghuill) mhic Choi 1a uais, &c. Skene's genealogy makes Fergus son of Eire, son of Eochaigh. * Contraction for Ard Righ, King of Ireland. 308 THE BOOK OF CLANRAXALD. m • Connaic, A.R. (246-266), m • Airt A.R., m ' Culmi Cheud-chathaigh, A.R. (Conn of the Hundred Fights, obiit 157), mhic Feidhlimidh Rechtmhuir, A.R., m* Tuathail Techtmhuir. A.R., m a Fiachach Fionnala, A.R, m ' Feradhaigh Fionnfechtnaigh, l A.R., m * Criomthainn Niadhnair, A.R. (Birth of Christ in Crimthan'a eighth year), m * Lugdheach Riabh ndearg, A.R. (Lugaidh of the Red Stripes), mhic nattri Finnemhna (the Three Fair Ones of Emania), mac n- Eochdhach Feidhligh, A.R., m * Finn m ' Finnlogha m * Roighnen Ruaidh m * Esamain Emhna (of Emania) m * Blathachta m ' Labradha Luirc m * Enna Aignigh, A.R., m * Aonghusa Tuirmigh Temhraigh (of Tara), A.R. (obiit 325 n a). m * Eochadh Ailtlethain, A.R., m . Oilella Chais-fhiacla»gh (Bent- tooth Oilell), A.R., m • Connla Chruaidh-chealgaigh (or Caomh), A.R., m * Iarruinn Ghleò-fathaigh, A.R., m* Melghe Molbhthuigh (Praise- worthy), A.R., m • Cobhthaigh Chaoil-bhregh, A.R., m • Iughaine Mhoir, A.R. (regnavit 633-673 b.c), m * Eochach Biiaidhaigh m * Diiacha Ladhraigh, A.R., m* Fiachach Tolgraigh, A.R., m * Muiredhaigh Bolgraigh. A.li , m • Simòin Bhric, A.R., m • Aodhain Ghlais m ' Nuadhad Finnfàil, A.R., m * (Jiallchadh, A.R., m • Oiliolla Olchaoin m • Sionia Saoghalaigb, A.R., m * Dèin (Dian) in . Demhain m • Roitheehtach, All., ni * Maoin m • Aonghusa Olmucadha (Much-swined), A.R., m • Fachach Labh- rainne, A.R, m * Smiorghuill m * Enbotlia m • Tighernmais, A.R., m * Follaigh ni • Ethreoil, A.R., m * Ireoil Fàidh, A.R., m • Ercmhòin, A.R. (regnavit 1698 to 1684 u.c.) ni * Mileadh Esbaine 2 (of Spain), m • Bile m * Breogatn ui * Brat ha m * Deghfhatha 1 Thia name in loat in the genealogy- of the Book of Clanranald. 5 Mile of Spain wu married to Scota, (laughter of Pharaoh Ncctoml.u>. who l*>re him six Rons, inter alios, the famoun three, Ir, Eber Finn, and Ereuion. The son* of Mile "took" Ireland iu 1700 B.C. from the Tuatha- Dv-L>anann, or the God-race of Dana. Th* pedigree from Mile to Adam is froin the Irish Genealogies i i the ~Uck Book. Keating give* a like list. THB BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 309 m * Earchadfta m * Eallòid m * Nuadatt m ' Monuail 1 m • Feibhric Ghlais m • Adnòin 2 Fhinn m * Eibher Ghluinn Fhiun m ' Laimh Finn m - Adhnamòin m * Tait [or Tath] m * Oghamhain m • Bèoamhain [Beogamhan, Keating] m ' Ebher Scuit m • Sruth m - Easrù m * Gaoidhn/ Ghlais m - Nuil 3 m ' Feinìùsa Farsa m - Bat [Baath, K.] ra - Magog m * Iafeth m * Noè m ' Laimhiach m * Metasalem m - Enoch m * Iareth m • Malaleil m * Canain m * Enos m * Seth m * Adhaimh. 1 Meoual (Keating). His father ifl properly Nuadha, genitive Nuadhat. 1 This name is not in Keating's historical account, but it is in his Irish pedigrees, which are founded on exactly the same authorities as the R B. Irish lists, agreeing generally verbatim, even in the digressions. * Niul (Keating) was the contemporary and friend of Moses, and was married t«> Scota, Pharaoh's daughter — the bad Pharaoh. THE TURNER MS. XIV. A to Thb first notice of tho eiistenoe of this MS. appears in the preface to J. F. Campbell's Leabhar na Feinne {page viii., heading T). It was recovered or discovered, like bo many others, in the Advocates' Library presses, fcy the late D. C. Macpherson, pro- bably in 1872, when Mr Campbell was putting his work through the press, for be either could not or would not print any part of it in his book. The probability is that it was thus discovered too late for Leabhar na Feinne. Dr Cameron had a very high opinion of this collection, and carefully transcribed the whole of it. We print it here in its entirety. The MS. is of cinrsc not included in Dr Skene's Catalogue of the Gaelic MSS. in the Advocates' Library, the number of which is 65. It belongs to the extra MSS. discovered or presented since Dr Skene formed his list. The number XIV. is possibly Turner's own catalogue place for it. That it was iu Turner's possession is evident, for his name appears on it (p, 45), with the date 1808. Besides, Turner was an inveterate, if not notorious, collector of MSS., some of which, fortunately, have found their way into the Advocates' Library, notably numbers 54 to 57 of Dr Skene's Catalogue. The Manuscript consists of two parts — the main body of the MS., which extends from page 25 to page 196, and the first part, which makes only five leaves of nearly quarto size, the leaves of the main work being somewhat smaller. Two detached leaves appear between these two ill-assorted parts The first portion is possibly an attempt to renew the dilapidated leaves of the original manuscript, for it is newer than the main body. The main MS. belongs to the middle of the last century, and is written in good ordinary English script of the time. The date 1748 and the name Cameron appear on page 54, and the work is clearly of Argyllshire, or rather of Kintyre, origin. Its contents, in regard to this and other points, speak for themselves. THE TURNER Mtt. 511 (TURNER) No. U. Marbhrainn Eoin Diuc Earreghaoidhiol Tuirseach an diugh criocha Gaoidhiol Galach deurach Clanna Gall chairgheadh na leaba Roilge N t saoi nacb diomair cealg no feall Glac a Bhreatain cullaidh bhroin 'S bidh silleadh do dbeor gun tàmb Cbaill thu ceann do cbath s do chliar Do choidheamh do sgiath 8 do sgeimb Prionnsa cumhachdach nan Gaoidhiol B iomlan a cheutfaidh sa bhrigh S bhuiligb 8hubhailce 's athreis Riamb air leas a Riogbuchd sa Riogb An Leogban Mordbalacb feargba Bb' aig Alba mar gbriann 8 mar cbeann Sa dhorduigh Dia o aois a leanbuis Mar dbion 's mar tbearmann da chlann Ar Cucbuluinn 's gacb Cearngbabbaidb * * [beam- 1] An curidh romh maidbmadb na sluaidb Cbriothnuigheadb sgheilleadb dba gach nambaid 'S as gacb bàir se bheireadh buaidb B' òg re hagbaidh balla 's blair e Air cbeann chàicb re cosnadh cliù. Sa gbloir aig comhfhas le bbliadbnuibb Dealradh mar a ghrian ga uir A shluadb Bhretan banmbas* duibh *Canmhas Feitbeadh* le sguaim t as gacb blàr *Teitheadh I Nis a dbinnsios ar mibhuaidh dbuinn tsgaoim 1 Ceann an t sluaidb bhith 'n leaba làir S aguinn a bba n ceannpbort buadhacb Dbumbluidb uabbar Spainn 's Frainc Sparr gu teann a shrian san dig riu S bbuin araon diu siotb gun tainc Se dboirtcadh an cuirp a nambad Tairmeanacb na frasa garg Gun sgatb romh cbloidheamb no luaigbe Bheireadb buaidb romb tbeine dbearg Measail alloil e n tir nambad 'S trie a d' fheacb iad cruas a Lann B' uambunn do gacb Cuirt san Eorpe 312 THE TURNER M8. Chriothuuigheadh an sloigh romh ainni Riogh na bhfear a buaisle cail Thionoil gu h iomlan na chroidh Dhoirneadh uaisle Flaith no Riogh Prionnsa bu dirigh na bhreith Rianih nar chlaon a leith on choir A chroidh' bu treimhd hi reach iomlan Nach tiondoigheadh impidh no or Athair dileas caomh a Dhuthcha Cuirteoir bu Mho Muirn is meas 'Sa Chomhairle be cisde 'n eolais Air cheann sloigh bu chonsbal deas Bu dileas a ghradh do'n eaglais Sheas e 'n eagal Righ nan Gràs Bu dual do thug aitheach Rioghoil Am fuil mar Iodhbairt na ca» Mheas iad mar an gloir thar chach Seasamh air a sgath aa bheum 'S nior thug foirneart bas no priosun Orr* on fhirinn siachadh ceum Bu chiuine na ciuineas an sith B fuileachdach discir a bhfearg Calma 's gach linn re h uchd sluaidh Gnathabhairt buaidh fa linnte dearg Ach Eoin uaill is gloir Uicthuimhne l Tionol iomlan gach sarbhuadh Grian na Heorp' ar sgiath 's ar sgeimhne Seircin* neamh is gradh nan sluadh * seirean ? S cosmail cor Bhretann da dhi Re bàta le gaoith aa chuan Cho n urr' ar sgiobair san sdiuir Ghrad sgobadh ar cumpais uainn Air sgibadh gu frithir fann Gun 8uil an ceann air fir iùil Gar roladh o thuinn gu tuinn Dhfuaduigheadh ar croinn is ar siu.il Chaill sinn gu beachd ar fear stiubhridh Sa dheanadh ar niuil gu grinn Se 8haoradh sinn as gach stoirm Sa dhibneadh gach onfa dhinn S cuimhne leinn bliadhna chuig deug Le beagan ceud s tri mile sluaidh Sgaoil e sluaidhte puineach Gaoidhiol S thug da n trenaibh deanall cruaidh Dhfoghain gu dileap da Righ 1 Bead Uidhuimhne. See p. 318, line 13. THE TURNER MS. 31 •> Ach sheas a dh a Righach sa bhearn S nior lig bainne fol a Gaoidhiol Ach mead diu reubadh sa blar Nois ta na Cinnidh ga chaoi Taid uile da dhi fa sprochd Da m biadh e mar bu ghra re u cùl Cha n faillniodh an duil re h ioch Ta* ard-righ Bbretann gu treith *Fa ] Cleite churr a sgeith da dhi A charaid riamh nar chlaon e leas Chum na laimhe deis no cli Ta Bretann uile fa bhron Ta sdiuir fa Lochrann sa fa sgiath Air Oirdhearcas a bhriogh sa bhuadh Mac a b uaisle dhoil i riamh Dunèidion fa thuilteach deur Fa curaidh treun is fa treoir Fear a cabhair s gach cruaidh chas Se 8heasamh ga bhas a coir Se dhinnis do'n Riogh le colg Ntra bhagair na fheirg a sgrios Nach suigheadh a clann gu callna Re faic8inn a Tara leis N tra mhioghair e Alb* a phairceadh Sa lionadh Ian fiadh is earb Thigeadh mo Righ ghleusadh chon Chum bhith reidh airson an sealg Nuair a dhiusgte meirg an Tuirc 'Sa ruisgeadh e thuisg re feirg A chomhairle a Chuirt is an Campa Chomh-chriothnuid romh ghreann a chuilg 'S dilleachdain uile Fir Albann Colunn mharbh air call a cinn Na'r clachan aig each sna lointe Dhealuidh ar craobh chomhraic ruinn A chinneadh cli ui teach fa 'n dun Aoraighach Guilfid is caoinfid gu geur Na thug gul air suil an t saoghail 'S trom bhuille da theaghlach e Sud an Fhine reachdmhor Riogoil An am sith gu saoidhoil seimh Gach flaith toirt barr air a cheile *N ionach an ceill is an daimh Ntra thogradh an Triath an togbhail Theid gu dian an cogadh Riogh THE BOOK OF CLAKRAKALD. Teglacli an tighc air g" taubb fa hi an fliine mheghrach ìnliòr ferrde siinimlmes ratlin an riogh lion catlm atmigneg fa 61 flair na gclairBoacli sn cium-li tteiim ag iincli gnatbaeli f until mi feull gair na nibleige* fk'asgacli tìoil lion misgach is toino then Ki onolMnui- aigiiedh iir oonmluiigli aohaidrcni gach cllar na rioghbrugh ni liaisling til daghlogli lionmAwr funwng fiat Fiche misge lin g 1 ' luoi iiochar leisgc lin un le fill anert w mbetiiidh do l>hi uuthtiic atri wuxht le so [Welcome to Allan, Chief, 1686-1715]. Failte dar nailin righ na laglmallach ad cliim gwr faghlaroadi a glilain fhcin ghormlanxcli u ncich obcidA aa fhein fliiofiglialla c(-im nacli iomralUu-li a chogadh chotahlanacb ' cuirfed auogw rami go rohliW/oit'li ago morrdhalac gan chain don divgan I>07/innllTcjii Nior bferr xaur cbeii fedhua an Hat Mgar no ar inhemiia ar ngathgasgan rt' toft* naah tugasiili *p» iomchruidh sgiath re chach «aa L-lnitlieliosgir ar ttriatb da imthbroi*J  Burnet, wlm  erfectly well A whigg you had nere in hell wt. a fa la & Hugh Peter in making a Sneaker within for Luther, Buehannan, Jo. Knox, and Calvin but ore ye have tipled a bras** of punch bowls yile swear you never Drank wt. Dwhoneater souls, wt. a fa This night wile canine putt ane end to all pain goe Cromwell you dog King William unchaine and tell him at length yt. Sarams come dowu who just left hw Mitre as he left hi* Crown, wt. a fa la la They lived as they dyed in our Service all Hpent they only come hear who never repent*. Lett the heralds aloud, our victor)- tell lett (Jeni^e live for ever amen cryed all helL THE TURNER MS. 31? An am a nseolaidh ga mbearteadh Ga ntulgadh sna Crannaga Guauach Le* ncoimhdheis l f uaradh no fasgadh * Se Se 'gloir sa sgeimh thargach einni — A Huaislibh flaithoil Rioghoil Statoil Sa ncuirtibh maiseach mcadhrach muirneach Bha 'nsinnseara Cliuiteach ga nai teach Clanndonaill na feil is an tsuarcais Ga inbuaine Ceannos na ninseadh Scian bunadh na Treibh is uaisle San Tir mhaisigh bhuadhaidh Rioghoil An Fhine bu teinne re dòr u inn Snach Imreadh foirneart air fainiie Thoirbheiradh air 2 luchd an Ceiligh Onoir is feile gun Ghainne Gloir Dhiarmuid is Grian na Heorpa Craobh Abuidh Chomhruic fear Bhrctann Sa Chomhairle Choisinn Crun an eolais Sa Bhlar be Leodhann gach Greise Sgiath dhion a Rioghachd sa Cum pais A Gran n nach lùbaclh re fuaradh A Hacair nach drinniodh re tarrxiing Snach Glacte 'Neangach na truailligheachd Diùc urramach oirdhearc na noilcun Mac Chailain Iarla Chinntire Gheibhte 'Chuirt sa Bhaile Cuanna ('hois an Locha . . Bhuadhaidh [From another detached leaf in MS. See p. 311, near end J Measoil Alloil o ntir Namhad 'S trie a dfheach iad cruas a Lann B' uathmhann do gach Cùirt sa neorpe Chriothnuighadh a nslòigh romh ainm Riogh na blifear a buaisle càil Thionoil gu hiomlan na chroidh Gach sarshubhaic brlgh Is buaidh Dhoirueadh uaisle Flaith no Riogh Prionnsa bu dirigh na bhreitl» Riamh nar chlaon a leith ou choir A Chroidh 1 bu treinihdhireach I o ml an Nach tiondoigheadh Impigh no or Athair dileas caomh a Dhuthcha Ciiirteoir bu mho muirn is meas Sa Chomhairle be Cisde 'Neolais 1 licoiuihdhciM, L)r C. a " Do" delcte»l in MS. and " air" written aUve line 2 THE BOOK OP CLAN RANALD. am chroidhe do choidh asteg cnedh thoile ler dhoigh mo dhul Mile fàobbar graidh dom gbuin b&oghal mar ataim on toil ni fhèidir techt saor mar sin sneimh on toil san taobh astoig. Ton tseirce na tuile trin tuile le mbèirter ar mbuaigh tug soin ar snoidhe go cnaimh doigh ghraidh am chroidh do cbiiaidh Mifli do thuitim do taoib cioth fa fuil da chur a cceill ni fuil cabbair an dàn dnin mo gbradh ruin gar foguil fèin An rioghain n c miodb do mbnaoi mo shearc ar na lionadb lè an coimbdhe ga cor a gcli ca ni is doilgbc dbamh a dhè Decat'r techt on galar gbraidh Niall mòr m c mhuiredha^/i CC117 Soruidh slàn do noidbche anrèir fada getr a dol ar cul da ngealltaoi mo cor accroich is truagh nacb i anocbf a tus Ata dias is tigbsi auochf nacb ceilcA an rosg an run ge nacb fuilid bel ar bbel is gcrr getr silleadb an sul 8 truagh an cuibbrcacb do ni an chiall ar siUradh siubhlach na sul ni feirde an toed do ni an bel 8gel do ni an rosg ar an run Nocba leigid lucbf na mbreg amid as mo bbel a rosg mall tuig an ni adeir mo shuil 7 tù san chùil ud tball THE TURNER MS. 319 Sa Ncion bhias Cloch air muin a cheile MbaiP Uidhuimhnc Mairfidh Tainra is Talladh Siorruidh Buan air Chuimhne Do Mharcus Earraghaoidhiol a rinneadh an Rose so sios Trialluidh me lem' Dhuanaig Ullamh Gu Riogh Gàidhiol Fear aig a mbi Mbaile Dumhail Sona Saibhir Triath Earrghàidhiol is fearr faicin 'S is mo maithios Gilleasbuig Iarla fou Chliùidh 'S is fial Flaithios Seabhac is uaisle 'theid sna neulta Crann air Chrannaibh Mac Rath do chum Dia gu hullamh Don Chleir eat hi am h Abhall uasal farsuing freimhach Dou' chliu mholuidh Crann is ùir' a Dhfas romh thalamh Lan do thoradh Dias Abidh Chruithncachd 's i lomlan A measg Seagail 'S beg nach deachaidh Alb' air udail An aird air theagal 'N tra Ghluaisfas Gilleasbuig Iarla Le 'shluadh bunaidh Cuirfar leis air fairrge Calaidh Ardraibh Ullamh Luingios leathann laidir luchdmhur Dealbhach dlonach Sleamhuinn Sliosrcidh roluath ramhach Dairchruaidh Dhlreach Togbhar leo na Geal-chroinn chorrach Suas le 'nlònaibh B' iomdha ball teann bhiadh ga ndeanamh 'Nam dhuit Seòladh Deantar an Stadh dionach dualach Don Mhaoil thoisigh Togbhar an Seol mòr leathann maiseach Sa nsgòdlin Croiseach '120 THE TURNER M8. Deantar a Chluas don Chich thoisigh Dol san fhuaradh An Sdeud roluath Sruth ga Sailtibh S muir ga bualadh Siomadh Laoch fuileachdach Meanumnach Dòrngheal trèidhach A dhiomreadh lub air a hàl Gu Sundach Seitreach Do Shluadh lionmhur leathann armach Air bharcaibh reamhra S mairg air 'ndeanadh Feachd Uidhuimhuc Crcach na Samhna Cho naithne dhamh fad amach ort 'S ni maith m' eòlas Ach sro mhaith mo dhoigh as àbhaist Mac Leòid Leoghuis Clann Ghilleòin gu laidir lionmhur Don Fhiann inhuileach Dream a thug buaidh ann sgach bealach Sa bfearr fuireachd Tiocfidh Seumus na nmag gu d' Bhaile Gach uair Shirinn Uaislibh Innsibh gall a ncomhlion Mar a deirani Tiocfidh gu lionmhur giuT bhai'e Lc 'nsluaidh daoinc Leat a bhi Alb* air a Halach 'Sa nfrainc bhraouach Clob is uaisr aig Fearabb Albann Feachd is Loingios 'S leatsa sin gu humhal tairis An tus gach Conais Thig chugad Clos Thlre Conuill A Bhith beochalma ( 1 onn a ris bu chruaidh a cbuibhreach Lc 'Shluadh meanmnach A Ntathair Cumhachdach dad' choimhud 'San Mac Firinn San Spiorad naoiuhtha Mlifon do nair* *nahv A High LochfTona Cho dfuaras do chomh maith dhurrruinn \S ni mo Dhiarros A Righ na bhfcar is pailtc cùram 'S leatsa 'thriallas Trialluidh 1 f written after iwir but blotted. THE TURNER MS. 321 Marbhrainn larla Earraghaoidhiol. 'S truadh mimtheachd o Chùirt Mhic Cailain Cabhair chumhduidh na n Cuach Nòir B' adhbhuidh ma dhlon Duiu na mbeannachd Mughmhur Rlogh gu meabhair mhòir Thog Mac Cailain an Tur glegheal Deadh mhac Cailain na n Colg geal Ni bhfàsadh feur fir air thfaiche O lèm lùth, *s o ghreamhthruigh Greadh Air dol dòibh don Ghealmhur ghreadhnach Do ghoid uainne lo dar linn Aig Laochruidh ludh Meadhruidh Macaibh B* aoibhinn a Ndun seach Bruth Finn 'S amhluidh dfuaras sun Luchairt lonnrach Lomlan Laochraidh san leith thnll Kioghanna scimh bu mhin snaidheadh Aig scinn Rlogh an Aigbidh ann Greis aig seanachas seal aig salnmibh Seinn-theud aim sa nteaghuis mhoir Fir san 16 aig bruacha braonaidh Mnai re fuaibh a Nuinnibh oir B' lomadh air folt claonadh orrthuidb B' lomadh Ruidiol chaoin air Chlàr 'S mòr do Sheanachas air gach Talla 'Mhealfas ann do Bhallaibh ban ^a Mac Cailain Coart an Cabhair Criosd da choimhed Dia da dhion Foil Francach is Bret'nach binnc Ancrach Reachtnihur Rathmhur Rlogli Fuil ghreadhnach Dhuimhneach is Dhubhghlais Na ghruaidh gar air dhreach an ròis Gnuis nar ghabhadh fearg re haoiblie Geal leirg aghaidh is a thus Chuir mac Chailain dùil a Ndiadhachd An Daonnachd a Ghna a ghnlomh Gu lenir Stiguch Gràdhach Ceolmhur Buadhach Scimhidh eolach flor Fear is daingionn a nCeird chràbhuidh Cofra bnaii beannachd na nibochd Dean air Rlogh Geag air llgh an lilidh Guidhemuid Rlogh Nimhc 'nochd Mo Chraobh chomhruic mo chloch bhuadhach Mo chnu lomlan m' eitionn Oir Roleisg mo lorg uaitse 'giomtheachd Mo cholg cruaidh smo cheannphort Còir 21 322 THE TURNER MS. Marbhrainn JDhubhghiir Oig Tighearna Achaidh na mbreac. O ! 'b uaigneach anochd Clar Ghiorra Inniol bròin air aillbha chais Sluadh lionmhur le nearradh eidigh Cuimhne chian nar bhfeud dol as Och ! a Ruidre 'neididh airmdheirg. Aonchù treun liach D fuiling tair Feinnidh fiorghlan don Treibh uasail Saoi le mbeurthaidh buaidh gach blàir Colgartha mar osgar Amhna Mllidh deudgheal o ngarg greis Fo lùdhlàmh a bhcum mar churaidh Togfar Geill Chuig Uladh leis Mac Lughach air àgh 'a Ailneachd Slioe rèidh mar bhlàth 's deud mar chuip Gnub Rioghoil don aillbhan abuidh Togfar Clo8 le bagradh dhuit B fuileachdach thu an Tir namhad Conbhaltach air dhaimh 's air Chliar Tuicsionnach Teud on ghaoir chollbhinu Croidhe Ceolmhur fonnmhur rial Bronnfadair bladh mar mhiann Guaire i Air Ineach air Chèill, '» ar chliu Craobh Chonuir an Aigh '«a Neamhna Mar ( 'honall an Teamhra thu Dheirgheadh fad bheum an Tub Totail Karrghalaidh na n Ceannbheart glas , Sluadh laidir lionmhur ardghruaidheach Kuitcach Mheanumnach bhuadhach bhras Xi nseol na Saoidhan thar muir Ni thig an Aois-dàn fuidh Sgoil O bhax Ghaisgidh na ngniomh Glan Cliar air Lear ni thriall anoir O Nleodhann ur aluinn og Smairthionnach bròn mar Nighean Loinn Is mar bhi 'Ntreibh tarèis Chimin Uisneacli   chualas alladh Bosdain Bha n Dunardrigh re 'Osdachd THE TURNER MB. 323 Rinn a Dhia da Shluigean geocaich 'Sa Thigh stoir da nihaoJail Mac Cairbre Stabhach na Croice Bh' ann sa nross re reic na Noirrleach Sgaball crocht' o chroit ga thoin Air 'Gheilt gun or gim Aodach Mar chu-baibhid air fcadh na tire Tabh'rt greis air gach poit' a Sgrlobadh S gun ach Snaght no leaba fhrlne Air son diol a mhaoile Ach ghabh e meisneach s chuaidh c Ghlaschu S thug Ian màla 'bhreuga blasda Air Siabunn Madur 's Tombaca 'S thainig Dhachuidh 's Slaod air Las bosd fan mhailean a ghiubhlan Eibhall nach bàthte na ghiùran Chuir c mpaca sios da niuchadh Na Shruth grind* is Caochain Air Slugadh a neithe 'sa nàire Chuaidh alladh Sruthair' os àird air I&iginn teichadh Chum na nàrd \S a ntoir gach là le maoir air Ordu gach la teachd a Glaschii 'N Sruthaire breugach a ghlacainn 'S gu togbhadh fad suas air aithmhigh Mar Mhastigh re Craoibh e Ach ma ntogte reaclid na Dhuthaidh Bheith cur as do luchd a ntsrubhlaidh Bha gach neach a deanamh ruin air •Sheasamh Cliù na Craois doibh Thug Ceigain da Cro hun osdaehd (toigean dèirc a cheannach Stopain Ceitiuin bo chrubach 's boll Horn' Chionn toiseachadh re Aoireadh Ntra rinn na dheoch chuir clab na Glime Beulmor a Hhutta re Shluigain  >£ irrt.i.TifTi^mrt ftT 1E ; m. ft ìm=ÌC fUftifctt £3MK ftVH 31k TUkL 30» ?• T*tL ÌÌ2i&£ ài fiunun arm jt ^r:irn£i-.r 5ft SnalC^r- or sìirefr r racà. àion ft xmuauk 'TTiHiìffanàiP Tar: firniugs. ** ahrwì rrcft ft jniuci ?s tiiiirtrrt*tfài#y»k rtaSuitL cift nic * iL* iwnf THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 29% Na dèin dearmad do chloin ir a ccath midhe ar a mhoirghniomh gur thuit mac mail go mhaithibli do laimh ar ccuifl chèd chathuigh Mur ata uait ar iarruidh gabhail sliocht neill naoigbiallwt^A ar emuin anfhuin sgathuidh an deghaidh chuin chèd ch&thutgh An lamh dherg ni choir diarrufgh do riogfhuil neill naoighiaUtttgrA budh còra na naoi nglasa do chorùgh na armnsa Giall Breatnach borb is Phicech geill sagsan umhla albanoch do ghabh niall an toigfher ten is giall choig ccoigedh Eiren An lamhsa chloine colla fuair doibh iomad urrama do choir an choròin ma ccen maille rè honour Eiren A shliocht neill mhoir m te eochach sa shiol chonaill chruaidh chreacbat^A ni hèdail ar laimhne dhuibh dàna an ègcòir a hiaruigh Ni mairen m c conmhidhe dua neill mhacha a meirtine rug leònadh ar sgèla ar sgol mèla is cogan na ughdar hucht esladhna. aicme neill nar diunarbadh a heirin m c i Dofiuil diol gaire * * ghair* na ollawih riogh ro naire Nar learn Niall m° nmiredhuigh. l 1 This it the end of the Red Book as now preserved. The list page is namljered 811. HIGHLAND CLAN GENEALOGIES OF THE BLACK BOOK. [MS. p. 176.] Genelach dbìoinne Gbìolleòin ■S' Kòiii, mi." eoiu mil' aillin, in" loilin m" eachuifi dig mh 1 ' Lochliii mhoir m L " eochuifl dig in' eachuin mhdir m c Lochlift aiUumitfh va r Eachuin uibhir m 1 Lochlin dig mh* Lochlift bhroiftigh ■]■ camAsron«eA "1" mhòir 7 is bhuagh athanig tigmia ubolla -i. (ad soin a?- sliocAf Eoiu ghiu-bh mh'' Loohllll Lliroun  m c Eochadh bhinigh, m c Eoghain, m c Neill *9- g- m c EogbcwM. ifcc. Genlock m c Caillin an so slos GioYLe&buig fion m c Giollesbt« n bi' Binigli.il! Oiain m'* Fid, .1 ce( blwguirt go huobhin '1 blinfMiiu deg fa dho, mf is sechtmhuin is en 16 20 bliitfAnn sa 18', aaognll Osgair is ni hreg DM troigh nr aia nguur ca.th.11, aeli/ hreith gi'itl gneh aomflilulti Tn bUotfAna d'g ; 2 rli-"'. riiiov'flt I'hanilte ua mar ecAf mi Ib rnndh nu Bod, gw bstthad 6 ouuiUnilifl Nil' 'i Relief blicii/Ziiiii g'.' l>ir/if, -.'in^hcl I'lmbliill fa mor munch t t'ioa an itomn do do dhail, si «0 Laighen d  thogbhail Oeithre eh'7 bliWAabi -vhl ml, naog'il (lluiill m' c Mormi ambri nar leig nech siur no soil*, ùadlia gun eomArag aonfliir SerAf fiehef blirtrfAna fu sbeol, saogn/ t'honain 11a oconnsgleò ug iomaibhnigh ctrr 11« Fbein, re bmil'ti/A dorn le d«imA*in 6 nchrV bttatffan hdo deft wucnciW iu lc Lngh»ich re neg w ghoil ar gbangadh U ghiOO, Ron bfawr mairi booh eiren h tiilir/ lili.i/'AiiH iv -uiiylir, sitog.il I'hi.u'tHiiid i DhiiiMAnc naoi \>\iitdh\\u d'i" iiih'/i.'.-ii""A t'm. le eluidlir.-h,' nr !uit> stu linlh S ■ 20 • bli'ii/Aua h detbb liowi, saogil I'Iiik'fÌII inliòt; ni lc Fin nir Inr/lii BOWbl^ Inn". Mr bhen I UroO as lichen THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. 305 Cnoc an Air. Cnoc anàir an cnòcsa sfar, go la na braith bid da ghatmt a Phadruig na iu bach all mbàn, ni gan fàth tugadh an tainm Innis masa cumhain leat, aua Chubhaill nach beg bròn abatr biadh mo bhenn&ckt let, seel fire sna can gò. As triiagh an ni rèr an mè, a m(h)ic Albrutnn nar èr nech an sgèl ro fhiathfroig(h)is diom, innsim ar sgàth riogh na mbreth La da ndechaidh Fiofi na bhflegh, is Fian(n) Eiren na ngredh seng ar an chn^csa lion an slòigh, nior begal doibh techt re accenn En bhen do bailie no grian, do chi anFhian(n) ag techt san leirg do mhac Cumhuil(l) (iflstTn dhuit), beiicuis rioghain an bhruit dheirg Cia tii arioghain ar Fionn fèin, is ferr mein sis aille dealbh fuaim do ghotha is bine lift, na abfutl re seirm gion gur searbh NiamAan nuachrothach se mainwi, inghen Doilbh mtc Dòlatr fhifl atrdriogh Grèg, mo m(h)allacA$ air, do r me do thaile mh c trein Crcd do bheir ga sechna tii, na ceil do ruin oirn anocAf dul do c(h)o77irag ar do sgàth, gabham do laimh ar do thochi An ri soin ga ttugaa fiiath, do ròin adubbghùal do?n gbnè cluas is urball is ceil cait, do bhi air, nior bbait an sgèimh Dimches an domhan fa thri, nior fhagblir** ri ann no flaith nar iarras acht sibhsi aFhian, snior ghcll tr/ath manacal air. Ainigfed tù ainghen 6g, ràgh mac CumAutll nar chlodh riawA no go ttuitfid ar da sgàth, na secht cathsa ata an Fhian Ar an laimAsin ortsa a Fhinn, is guais lift go dernuis brèg an ti re teicbim ab(h)fad, tuitfidh leis cath 7 cèd Na dein ioma?*bhaigh as, afholt cas ar dhath anòir an ach tainic àon làoch accein, nach fuil san bhfein fcr da chlòdh Is gerr go bfacamar uainn, ri for ccaitcefi fa cruaidh lamh nior bheaftuidh snior mnhlai^A dFhionn, sdo iarr cath tar ckionn amhnà Tèid dhèift ced làoch na dhàil, do bferr lamh an latbair gleò nochar thill nech dibh ar ais, gan tuitim le Tailg mhac Treòin Iaruis Osgwr ced ar Fhion, ger bholc lift e do luagh dul do comhrag an laoich loin mar do c(h)oiiairc dith na sluagh Do b(h)eirim ced dhuit ar Fioft, giodh ole Horn do thuitim trid eiridh beir mo b(h)enacA£ let, cuimAnidh do ghal is do g(h)niomh 20 906 THE BOOK OF OLÀMRANALD. Fedh chòig oidhche fed 5 là, do bhi an dfas sin nar thlath   THE BOOK OF CLANRANALD. m ■ Cormaic, A.R. (246-266), m • Airt A.R., ni' Cuinn Cheud-chatimigh, A.R. (Conn of the Hundred Fights, obiit 157), mhic Feidhlimidh Itechtuihuir, A.R., m ■ Tuathail Tcchtmhuir. A.R., m- Fiaehach Fionnala, A.R., m * Feradhaigh Fiomifechtnaigli, ' A.R., m ■ Criomthainn Niadhnair, A.R. (Birth of Christ in Crimthau'n eighth year), m " Lugdhoach Riabh udearg, A.R. (Lugaidb of the Rod Stripes), mhic nuttri Fmncmhiia (the Three Fair Ones of Emania), IBM B- Eochdhach Feidhhgh, A.R., m ■ Finn m ■ Finnloglia m * Koiglincn Riiaidh m ■ Eaamaiu Euihna (of Eiuauia) m ■ Bluthadita m ■ Labradha Luirc m ■ Enna Aiguigh, A.R., m • Aonghusa Tuirmìgh Temhnngh (of Tara), A.R. (obiit 323 i> c). ni ■ Eochadh Ailtlethain, A.R., m . Oìlella l'hais-fhiacln^h (Hi-nt- tooth Oilell), A.R., m ' Connla Chruaidh-cheaigaigli (or Caomh), A.R., m - larruinu Uhleò-fathaigh, A.R., in- Mdghu Moìbhtìmigh (I'miM-- worthy), A.R., m ■ Cobhthaigh Cliaoil-liliregh, A.R,, m ■ lughaint Mlioir, A.R. (regnavit 633-673 B.C.), tn ■ Eochach Buaidhaigh m ■ Duaeha l.adliraigh, A.R., m- Fiaehach Tolgraigh, A.R., m ■ Muiredh.iigh Unlgi-nigh, A.Ii , m ' Sinioin Rhric, A.R., in ■ Aodhain Uulais ni ■ Nuadhad Finufai], A.R., m ■ tiialkl.adh, A.R., in ' Oiliolia Olchaoin m ■ Siorna .Saoghalaigh, A.R., Ni I ii lin (I fan) in . T >L'LI1 iuiiii ni ■ RoithechUeh, A.R., in ' .Maoin ni • Aonghusa Ohniicadha (Much-s»iiied), A.R., ni ' Fachndi Lubh- rainne, A.R.. m ■ Smiorghuill ni ■ Enbotha ui ■ TighenimaiB, A.R., m ■ Fullaigh ■ • Kthreuil, A.R., ru • Ireoil Eàidh. A.R,, in ■ Ereuihoin, A.R. (regnavit 169* to 16f4 u.c.) in ■ Miieadh E>bàiue s (of Spain), m - Bile ni ■ BMogoÙl ni ■ Bnthl in ■ lirghfhatha ' Tlli- II - Mil- , ii l "- of Mile "took" liilwnl iu 1700 u.c. fruiu the Tumlia- M-ChaMM, ..r (he Ood-nM  f Dana. Tli- MÌÌ0M '"'in Milt- to A  ar sgiobair san sdiùir Ghrad sgobadh ar cumpais uainn Air sgibadh gu frithir fann Gun 8uil an ceann air fir iùil Gar roladh o thuinn gu tuinn Dhfuaduigheadh ar croinn is ar siuil Chaill sinn gu beachd ar fear stiubbridh Sa dheanadh ar niuil gu grinn Se shaoradh sinn as gach stoirm Sa dhibneadh gach onfa dhinn S cuimhne leinn bliadhna chuig deug Le beagan ceud s tri mile sluaidh Sgaoil e sluaidh te puineach Gaoidhiol S thug da n trenaibh deanall cruaidh Dhfoghain gu dileap da Righ 1 Road Uidhuimhnc See p. 818, line 13. THE TURNER MS. 31 •> Ach sheas adha Righach sa bbearn S nior lig bainne fol a Gaoidhiol Ach mead diu reubadb sa blar Nois ta na Cinnidh ga chaoi Taid uile da dbi fa sprocbd Da m biadh e mar bu ghra re n cùl Oha n faillniodh an duil re h ioch Ta* ard-righ Bbretann gu treith *Fa 1 Cleite churr a sgeith da dhi A cbaraid riamh nar chlaon e leas Chum na laimhe deis no cli Ta Bretann uile fa bhron Ta sdiùir fa Lochrann sa fa sgiath Air Oirdhearcas a bhriogh sa bhuadh Mac a b uaisle dhoil i riamh Dunèidion fa thuilteach deur Fa curaidh treun is fa treoir Fear a cabhair s gach cruaidh chàs Se sheasamh ga bhas a coir Se dhinnis do'n Riogh le colg Ntra bhagair na fheirg a sgrios Nach suigheadh a clann gu callna Re faicsinn a Tara leis N tra mhioghair e Alb* a phairceadh Sa lionadh Ian fiadh is earb Thigeadh mo Righ ghleusadh chon Chum bhith reidh airson an sealg Nuair a dhiusgte meirg an Tuirc 'Sa ruisgeadh e thuisg re feirg A chomhairle a Chuirt is an Campa Chomh-chriothnuid romh ghreann a chuilg 'S dilleachdain uile Fir Albann Colunn mharbh air call a cinn Na'r clachan aig each sna lointe Dhealuidh ar craobh chomhraic ruinn A chinneadh cliuiteach fa'n dun Aoraighach Guilfid is caoinfid gu geur Na thug gul air suil an t saoghail 'S trom bhuille da theaghlach e Sud an Fhine reachdmhor Riogoil An am sith gu saoidhoil seimh Gach flaith toirt barr air a cheile 'N ionach an ceill is an daimh Ntra thogradh an Triath an togbhail Theid gu dian an cogadh Riogh 314 THE TURNER MS. 'S an corp is cruaidhch' on cheann a beolaig Tarruing buadh is treoir is brigh B 9 iomadh Morair agus Iarla B iomadh Baron Triath is Flath B 9 iomadh Toiseach Curaidh 's Ceannphort f Q iomairt a bhfearrchleas na chath B iomadh pib re deanamh ceoil B iomadh srol ga chur re crann Bu tearc Fine shineadh suas leo 'Sgapadh luaigh' no dhiomairt lann *N fine bu mhuirngh ma'n triadh Sa m flaith chiatfaidh da Threibh Rogha chinnfheadbna na cruinn Bh' aig togba gach Fine fuigh neamh Aid Mhac Chailain Riogh nan Oilean Sgiath ar bhfulaing sgath ar ndion Ar reull iuil is grian ar naoibhuis Truadh an teug da ghearradh dhinn. Altughadh an Uisgebheatha Anuair a dheirighmid gu moch Mun rachamid air fcur amach B' ionmhuin an spisiornach bruich 'G an sinnsiornachd beirm is braich Ainniseach tha snuadhmhor glas Ann dochuir caoin ghriosach teas Mac na cleithe ris a phrais Bragairneach is Cruighneach treis Ogha chaochain an dara huair Troimh na chleith luath sa cursa cam Spiorad cas an 'ic gun smùr Dhimira8* tuchadh air a chcan * [Dhimeras Is caoranach an t uisge cas Canranach gun smuid fa theas Craobh ad ? chridhe ga do mholadh S do chhas a coinhdach do threis S grismhor garg an claigueach cruaidh Sgailc* nam buadh snior choir a chleith * Sgaile, Dr C. Bithidh e teith re la fuar Agus fuar re la teith THE TURNER M8. 315» Moladh Chinntire Suruidh soir uam gu Cinntfre le caoine, disle agus fàilte Guu ard no iosal a dhearmud eadar an Tairbeart is Abbart Banaltra Galltachd is Gaeltachd ge do threig i nios 1 a habhaist Rha drughadh gach tir d'ah ionnsuidh 's cho dubhruic aon neach a fagbhail 'S cubhraidh, 's is fallan a faileadh ag èirigh thar blàthaibh 's thar gbeugaibh Measarradh a Samhradh 's a Geamhradh gun an-iochd stoirme na greine 'S aoibhinn a cnocaibh 's a oruachaibh 's àiridheach 's is buaigblteach a glinne Bothath, laoghach, meannach, uanach, gruthacb, bainneach, uachdracb, iomach. Dh' eabhte prostan àluiun uasal a ruagadb a bhriiic uallaich oeannaird Le coin ghrad-charach ro luthmhor 'g a chur gu dubhshlan air a cbaribh Bidh 'n coileach san torn gu samhach is gadhair 'nan amhailt 'ga chealgadh Is gus n glacar san lion e Cho smuain e inntleachd an t-sèalgoir A glinn is binne durdan srutha seinn tromh shrathaibh fascach fearach Luibheach, craobhach, mèadhach, duilleach caorach, cnudhach, subhach smearaoh 'S ealacarach, binne-ghobach ordoil a sheinneas an smeòrach san fbeasgar An uiseag as a cionn gu h-uallach an Ion 's a' chuach a' cur beas Jea Cho 'n 'eil fear-ciuil 's a' choille chubhraidh nach seinn le dubhrachd a corns Gu fileant', ealant', dionach, siublach a' roinn na h-ùine gu h-eòlach An caomh comh-sheinn poncail ordoil freagairt a mòramh 's a minim. Gu h-eignigh, geibnigh, teibnigh ceòlmhor orgain a's glòrinhoire 's a' chruinne Gu feart-taraach, ceart-tarnach, ceatfach gun buige na gèire, na dith-cuim 1 The MS. has the accent above " nios." .'H4 THE TUKNEK MS. He taobh na Tulaigh Sitha 'Se geisteachd ris ua srothuibh Le nuallan na dCod gradcharach 'S le ceol na Nsrothuibh slotha Do lion Cobbran codaltach Ogruidh Mhic an Riogh sin Is air bbitb sa ntromcbodla Do Sbearlus og a ntogbair Gu bbfac' e 'nainnir ghormrosgacb A teachd sa nrod fa cbomhair Eindreach ris an Inghin sin Bu gbile 'Cneis na Cobhar Meoir chaol air a Gealbhosaibh Bfearr curaa sa ndomban Do bhi fa mhèar na Hainnire Or air lasadb mar sgaile Is naoi Clocha ceangail Air gach leitb amuigh da Fainne Ionar agus òrsbnaigbtbe An teannta fa na clochaibh Leine ghasta Chròbhuidhe Faraon is Brota sloda Aorlaid air a còruichibh Bu soillseach Glormbur Dcarsadh Sa Folt amlacb Orbhuigh Gu Cuachach Coniach fàinneach Ionar chncis na Hinghine Ar l Cboitin riamh nior shamhailt Lan do dhòr 's do d hfi on naiad h faraon is Clocha Ceangail S ann leinne gu biongantach A mbrot caol uaine comhthromach Ni fheudar learn Innisadh Leith no Trian 'sa chunnuig me O na Gleanna Craobhruadh Tbainig a nseol slotha 'S a mbrot Amlach Orrthuigh A Dhionnsuidh Mhic an Riogh sin 1 " A r An " r" seems inserted between " A" and " Choitin." THE TURNER MS. 31? An am a nseolaidh ga mbearteadh Ga ntulgadh sna Crannaga Guanach Le* ncoimhdheis l f uaradh no fasgadh * Se* Se 'gloir sa sgeimh thargach einni — A Huaislibh flaithoil Rioghoil Statoil Sa ncuirtibh maiseach meadhrach muirneach Bha 'nsinnseara Cliuiteach ga nai teach Clanndonaill na feil is an tsuarcais Ga mbuaine Ceannos na ninseadh Scian bunadh na Treibh is uaisle San Tir mhaisigh bhuadhaidh Rioghoil An Fhine bu teinne re dòruiun Snach Imreadh fòirneart air fainiie Thoirbheiradh air 2 luchd an Ceiligh Onoir is feile gun Ghainne Gloir Dhiarmuid is Grian na Heòrpa Craobh Abuidh Chomhruic fear Bhretann Sa Chomhairle Choisiun Criin au eolais Sa Bhlar be Leodhann gach Greise Sgiath dhion a Rloghachd sa Cumpais A Crann nach lubadh re f uaradh A Hacair naeh drinniodh re tarruing Snach Glaete 'Neangach na troailligheachd Diùc urramach oirdhearc na noilean Mac Chailaiu Iarla Chinntire Gheibhtc 'Chuirt sa Bhaile Cuanna Chois an Loeha . . . Bhuadhaidh • •••«•• • [From another detached leaf in MS. See p. 311, near end \ Measoil Alloil e ntir Namhad 'S trie a dfheach iad cruas a Lann B' uathmhann do gach Cùirt sa neòrpe Chriothnuighadh a nslòigh romh ainm Riogh na bhfear a buaisle càil Thionoil gu hiomlàn na chroidh Gach sarshubhaic brlgh Is buaidh Dhoirneadh uaisle Flaith no Riogh Prionnsa bu dirigh na bhreith Riamh nar chlaon a leith ou choir A Chroidh' bu treinihd hi reach lomlan Nach tiondoigheadh Impigh no or Athair dileas caomh a Dhuthcha Cuirteoir bu mho muirn is meas Sa Chomhairle be Cisde 'Neolais 1 ncoimhdheis, Dr C. a " Do" deleted in MS. and " air'* written almve lint* 318 THE TURNER M8. Air cheann slòigh bu Chonsbal deas Bu dileas a ghradh do neaglais Sheas e 'Neagal Righ na ngras bu dual do, Thug Aitheach Kloghoil a mfuil mar Iodhbairt na cas Mheas lad mar an gloir thar chach Seasamh air a Sgath sa bheum 'S nior thug foirneart bas no p Orr* on fhirinn siachadh * ce * seachadh, Dr C. Bu chiuine na ciùineas an slth Bfuileachdach discir a bhfhearg Calma 's gach linn re huchd sluaidh Gnathabhairt buaidh fa linnte dearg Ach Eoin Uaill is Gloir Uidhuimhne Tional Iomlan gach sarbhuadh Grian na Heorp' ar Sgiath 'a ar Sgeimhne Seircin Neamh' is gradh na nsluadh S cosmail cor Bhretann da dhi Re bata le gaoith sa chuan Cho nurr > ar Sgiobair san sdiùir Ghrad sgobadh ar Cumpais uainn Ar sgibadh gu frithir fann Gun suil an ceann air firiuil Gar roladh o thuinn gu tuinn Dhfuaduigheadh ar Croinn is ar sluil Chaill sinn gu beachd ar fear stiùbhrìdh Sa dbeanadh ar niuil gu grinn Se 8baoradh sinn a* gach Stoirm Sa dhibreadh* gach onfa Dhinn * [dhibneiulh ? S cuimhne leinn bliadhna chuig deug La began Ceud stri mile sluaidh Sgaoil e sluaidhte gu in each Gaoidhiol 'S thug da ntrenaibh deanall cruaidh {Page 25 of MS., which is now consecutive and undetached.] Thai nig gu Ceanalta Cairdeoil Chum a dhaoinc Sgaoil e In each air gach laimh dheth Gu ro Dhaonna Leag thu Steidh na Cuirt in ailln' Ad àite Dùchais Gu bhfuighe tu Saoghal is Slàinte' Dheanamh muirn ann THE TURNER MS. 319 Sa Ncion bhias Cloch air muin a cheile Mbail' Uidhuimhne Mair6dh Tainra is Talladh Siorruidh Buan air Chuimhne Do Mharcus Earraghaoidhiol a rinneadh an Rose so sios Trialluidh me lem' Dhuanaig Ullamh Gu Riogh Gàidhiol Fear aig a mbi Mbaile Dumhail Sona Sàibhir Triath Earrghàidhiol is fearr faicin 'S is mo maithios Gilleasbuig Iarla fon Chliùidh 'S is fial Flaithios Seabhac is uaisle 'theid sna neulta Crann air Chrannaibh Mac Rath do chum Dia gu h ullamh Don Chleir eathlamh Abhall uasal farsuing freimhach Don' chliu mholuidh Crann is uir' a Dhfas romh thalamh Lan do thoradh Dias Abidh Chruithneachd 's i lomlan A measg Seagail *S beg nach dcachaidh Alb' air udail An aird air theagal 'N tra Ghluaisfas Gilleasbuig Iarla Le 'shluadh bunaidh Cuirfar leis air fairrge Calaidh Ardraibh Ullamh Luingios leathann laidir luchdmhur Dealbhach dlonach Sleamhuinn Sliosreidh roluath ramhach Dairchruaidh Dhlrcach Togbhar leo na Geal-chroinn chorrach Suas lc 'nlònaibh B' iomdha ball teann bhiadh ga ndeanamh 'Nam dhuit Seòladh Dean tar an Stadh dionach dualach Don Mhaoil thoisigh Togbhar an Seol mòr leathann maiseach Sa n8gòdlin Croiseach •'20 THE TURNER M8. Deantar a Chluas don Chich thoisigh Dol san fhuaradh An Sdeud roluath Sruth ga Sailtibh S muir ga bualadh Siomadh Laoch fuileachdach Meanumnach DòrDgheal trèidhach A dhiomreadh lub air a hal Gu Sundach Seitreach Do Shluadh lionmhur lcathann armach Air bharcaibh reamhra S mairg air 'ndeanadh Feachd Uidhuimhuc Creach na Samhna Cho naithnc dhamh fad amach ort 'S ni maith m' eòlas Ach sro mhaitb mo dhòigh as àbhaist Mac Leòid Leoghuis Clann Ghilleòin gu laidir lionmhur Don Fhiann mhuileach Dream a thug buaidh ann sgach bealach Sa bfearr fuireachd Tiocfidh Seumus na nruag gu d' Bhailc Gach uair Shirinn Uaislibh Innsibh gall a ncorahlion Mar a deiram Tiocfidh gu lionmhur gud' bhai'e Lc 'nsluaidh daoine Loat a bhi Alb' air a Hàlach 'Sa nfrainc bhraonach Clos is uaisl' aig Fearabh Albami Feachd is Loingios 'S leatsa sin gu humhal tairis An tus gach Conais Thig chugad Cios Thlre Conuill A Bhith beochalma Conn a rls bu chruaidh a chuihhreach Lc 'Shluadh meanmnach A Xtathair Cumhachdach dad' choimlmd 'San Mac Firinn San Spiorad naomhtha 'dhlun do nair* *naiiv A High Lochflona Cho dfuaras do chomh maith dhurrruiun \S ni mo Dhiarros A Rlgh na bhfear is jmilte ciìram 'S leatsa 'thriallas Trialluidli 1 c written after wiir but blotted. THE TURNER MS. 321 Marbhrainn Iarla Earraghaoidhiol. 'S truadh mimtheachd o Chùirt Mhic Cailain Cabhair chumhduidh na n Cuach Nòir B' adhbhuidh ma dhlon Duin na mbeannachd Mughmhur Rlogh gu meabhair mhòir Thog Mac Cailain an Tur glegheal Deadh mhac Cailain na n Colg geal Ni bhfàsadh feur fir air thfaiche lèm lùth, *s o ghreamhthruigh Greadh Air dol dòibh don Ghealmhur ghreadhnach Do ghoid uainne lo dar linn Aig Laochruidh ludh Meadhrnidh Macaibh B* aoibhinu a Ndun seach Bruth Finn 'S amhluidh dfuaras san Luchairt lonnrach Lomlan Laochraidh san leith thnll Rioghanna seimh bu mhln snaidheadh Aig seinn Rlogh an Aigbidh ann Greis aig seanachas seal aig salmuibh Seiiin-theud aim sa nteaghuis mhoir Fir san 16 aig bruacha braonaidh Mnai re fuaibh a Nuinnibh oir B' Iomadh air folt claonadh orrthuidh B' Iomadh Ruidiol chaoin air Chlàr 'S in or do Sheanachas air gach Talla 'M heal fas ann do Bhallaibh ban ^a Mac Cailain Ceart an Cabhair Criosd da choimhed Dia da dhion Foil Francach is Bret'nach binnc Ancrach Reachtmhur Rathmhur Rlosrh Fuil ghreadhnach Dhuimhneach is Dhubhghlais Na ghruaidh gar air dhreach an rois Gnuis n:ir ghabhadh fearg re haoibhe Geal leirg aghaidh is a thòs Chuir mac Chailain diiil a Ndiadhachd An Daonnachd a Ghna a ghnlomh (Ju leoir Sumach Gràdhach Ceolmhur Buadhach Scimhidh eòlach flor Fear is daintfionn a n Ceird chrabhuidh Cofra buan beannachd na mbochd Dean air Rlogh Geag air llgh an lilidh Guidhemuid Rlogh Nimhe 'nochd Mo Chraobh chomhruic mo chloch bhuadhach Mo chnu lomlan m* eitionn Oir Roleisg mo lorg uaitse 'giomtheachd Mo cholg cruaidh smo cheannphort Còir 21 350 THE TURNER MS. 2 Ntu Neat fiadhuidh bhiodh aig Fionn Re fiadhach o Ghleann gu Gleann A 'ntu bh' aig Oscar an fhuilt fhinn Dhfag thu Laoich fa dhochar ann 3 A 'ntu bh' aig Lughaidh Mac Loin Creud as fa nach cumhinn an tsleagh Na 'ntu chuir an Tsuil ma ntor Na ntu bhuin re Brian na mbladh 5 * 'Ntu chuaidh gu comunnach ciùin Gu Bruth Solui8 na Mban saor Le maiseolachd do dha shiil Dhfag thu triur torrach od' ghaol 6 Mo thruaighesi thus' a Dhonnachidh Cha do tharla dhuit bhith falachidh Ma bheirthar ort anochd Ionnsuidh Ionnsighthar dhuit air a chroich Damhsa 7 Dona sin a chait na cluaise Tachdar thusa nGeall a Chaise Iocfaidh do mhuineal a smuais as Si 'Nuairse deiradh do la.se £ A Chait Chroidh bu mhaith do chliu Bu ludhmhur thu fa narasa 'nde Mead na mbuillion fuair do Chruit Rug siad diot a nGruth sa nCea i) Dhaithnighas nach bu dileas duit Lamhan Chatrine gu trie Mead ga nurchair do ehaidh thart Dhuitse 'Chait nior Chunnradh Glic 10 Bfearr dhuit bhith marbhadh Luchag An tsealg sin bu dual do Dhfisoig* * Dhfisai^ t Dol don Bheinn a mharbhadh Uiseog Air feadh Chuiseog agus Dhriseog 4 An tu chuaidh fa nleirg anunn An la sin a shealg na mbeann Na 'ntu chuir an tsuil fa ntoll Na ntu chrom ga nCunntas thall 1 The verges are numbered in the MS. a*» above, the 4th l>eing given at * he end. THE TURNER MS. 323 Rinn a Dhia da Shluigean geocaich 'Sa Thigh stoir da mhaoJail Mac Cairbre Stabhach na Cròice Bh' ami sa nro»s re reie na Noirrleach Sgaball crocht' o chroit ga thoin- Air 'Gheilt gun or gim Aodach Mar chu-baibhid air fcadh na tire Tabh'rt greis air gach poit' a Sgrlobadh S gun ach Snaght no leaba fhrlne Air son diol a mhaoile Ach ghabh e meisneach 8 chuaidh e Ghlaschu S thug Ian màla 'bhreuga blasda Air Siabunn Madur *s Tombaca 7 S thainig Dhachuidh 's Slaod air Las bosd fan mhailean a ghiubhlan Eibhall nach bathte na ghiùran Chuir c mpaca sios da muchadh Na Shruth grind' is Caochain Air Slugadh a neithe 'sa nàire   Ta niinntinn fuigh smuairain 'S eho chaidil me suaimhneach O chuaidh Mpibair' air chuairc uainn gu Heirinn 'Se Eòin macGhillepheadair Sheinneadh ceol duinn gu leadarth' Is gu Heolach air Feadanaibh Sedair Ta do chàirdion fa smuairean 'S tuirseach dhfag thu ar Xuaislion O na chuaidh thu air chuan na Xtonn beieeach Ta Cinntire gu tostach "S bidh me fhein re Sior-osnaich (ius a m pill far le fortun Deadh sgeul ort THE TURNER MS. 331 Ta Honndubh air an smeoraich *S chaill an Uiseag a cronan (■ho dteid lad Sheinn ceoil duinu Air Gheugaibh Chrioii an Canach na'r Cruach» 'S lion an Aileag ar Cuacha Dhfàg thu 8mal agus gruaim air Na Reulltaibh Ach rinn aslach na mflrean Do thabhairt Dh.nchidh 'nar criochaibh Agus Dhaisaig thu ris duinn Ar Ceutfin Sheinn na Heòin mar bu duai doibh Fhill na Brie gus na Bruachaibh Tha ar Nislibh 's ar Nuaislibh Gu hcibhinu An tra chàirghiodh tu suas i Ann a Nlathair na Nuaslion Be mo 8haimh mo dha chluais Bhith ga hèisdeachd Seannsair binn mar an smeorach Bu ghrinn ceanai do mheoir air A cur tinntinn an Urdu 'nam èirigh Port is cinntich na iiine S is fearr sincadh na urlar \S braise dhionaich cur Crunludh An Gaclibh Rinn me dlchuimhn' da Tormais Sea las* firinneach foirmoil *Sealas t Ann a millseachd na norgan Le cheil iad Pears' is Rioghoil air Faich' thu 'S fada chite do Bhratach A dol slos ami sa Chath (tii bu treighach Clogad Shuas ort don Stàilinn Sgiath dhualbhuigh mad' Ghàirdemi Lann thana Gheur Spaiuncach 'Nad* threun laimh 332 THE TURNER MS. Poighre Piostal neamhchearbach Ort air Chrios na mball Airgid 'S Cho bu cheisd learn nach marbhadh Tu ceud diobh Ach tha me sgi bheith gad mholadli 'S do Bhiast phlb is breun boladh Air a llonadh le Ronnan S mor Deistin Gur e Uilleadh na nGlasan Bhias ga fhucadh na Craicionn 'S Bidh na tutan a Tachdadh Na beiste Balgan Cabrach fuigh teachlais Seirbhe na ngaphann a sciamhuil Stric an Driuchdan air do mhaluidh Toirt laimh is anail don Riabhuigh An Riabhach ainin na plbe Caoi Mhic Ui Mhaoilchiarain Mao ui Mhaolchiarain mo Ghradh Mo Ghrianan è 'smo Choill-chnò I^eabe' 'nùir ge aig' ata •S faide 'nlà Dhuinne no Dho Gus an Dubhadh leith mo thaoibh Oho dteid Curaha Maonmhic Dhiom Biaidh na theine feadh mo Chleibh Mar la8air gheur chonnuidh chrion Tunis mo mhic air muir siar Dhfàg fhuil na lie air an lar Ghèibhthaidh Bath gun dol a reic Duan Truadh a mhic do dhol le Dan Bas Fhearchair a shearg mo shuil Mar Cheard gun Tean 'chair ataim Rug tu' m'aithe T s meagar uam J S truadh a Mhic do Dhol le Dàn Mac mo mhicsi Gabhra riom Ach 'Einte mo chroidhBi air Chall Nior fhag an Riogh is bla bonn Ach an lamh lorn 's gun einmhac ann THE TURNER MS. 333- O ! S muladach me gnu mhac Mar thional slat air Sliabh lorn Mar thaphonn Gadhair gun Fhiadh Sior-chur Grain ann a n Cliabh toll Mo Mhacsa sud a dol fa Llgh Cliath Shlat o' leabigh ga ùir 'S fasaid' mo ghabhail sa mhòd Gun mhac 6g no sean ach sud Leachd mo Mhicse nleachd ud thall Nein leaba le daola donn Chuaidh na Daoil romh Chneis ga cheann Ach Smeasa learn an taobh do tholl Och ! 's aoibhinn duitse *s tu slàn A Mhathair Mheic ui Mhaoilchiarain A lihean ud gur buighe dhuit Nach cluinn thu Aigheadh taonamhic Thig an samhradh s thig an samh Thig a Ghrian Ghobhlanach Gheal Thig a mbradan as a bhruaich Ach as a Nuaidh cho dtig mo mhac Mac Cumha na Mbrathar Seisior Sinne saor ar sliochd Seisior nach do smaoin a ntolc Ta fear don tseisior gun teachd leachd an Fhir chaoimh a nochd Cuigear sinn a teachd on Uaidh Sa Nteug a comhfhàs re ar taobh An Riogh le mbeirfar na sluaidh Bhreugnuidh uain a nCiiigeamh caoinh Ceathrar Bràthar sinn an sin Sa Nteug a Naoradh gach fir Tiocfidh 'mbas on Ghabhra Chruaidh 'S rcub e uainn' a nCeathramh fear O Triar bràthar sinn gun (J hò Mar bn deon le Kiogh na Ndul Mar Sgaoilfadh an ceò don Chuan Bhrcugnuidhadh uainn an treas do ntriiii 334 THE TURNER MS. Dia8 Bhrathar sinn an sin Is Dia« an Easfidh gach Fir Tiucfidh a nteug arts nar gar Rois* e dhloms' an Dàra fear * h ort ruile dhiobh chumail air fhoiin Is nach Cluinnar a bheal Ach gu gearr e gu hullamh gach siolladh sgach pone Dhiobh, le buillibh a Mhèar THE TURNER 318. 339 A cliii air abaiche gleois Sfada do chiiaidh An Ionnstrumaid Mhaide nach inor S ooitchiont a buaidh Cuiridh i Sniaointena Gaisge gu leoir Ann a Naigne go thruas Togich a Cncitrich le brasbhuille meoir Aigne gach sluaidh On is beus dith geirich gu ceart Saoibhinn a stuirt A ntus a heirigh eibhidh isgairt Nach breugach puirt Le seidaig a Dhanail a steach Chur a nearrabh a Cuirp Ouiridh sin Ceol iorailteach ait Ann na Ruibhaide stuic S Ceil' i ni oighre gun chol \S nach beudach sdil •Gun anbharr RuTmhaidh na sgeimhidh air chor Kadach cho sir Liiighidh ochdar na leabidh lc toil Do Mhacanabh fir 'Sa naon diobh a Chromadh air Comunn gu'Col Bu Chollaideach sin •S fad' o na fuair sinn taisbainadh sul Nach bu Ghealtach a gnàth's (hi bhfuil me dearbhtha nach rachadh i ncuil Da falach gu brath Ntiis gach cath biaidh fear brath a cul A toirt fabhar do chach bioch borb is Gaisge na run Agus Bratach na làimh An urram thar na chunnaig mo shiiil Don* tha Muile dhiobh Ntras Mac Chruimain o bhuinginn e I 'lift Lei# don Duinc sin tamh San ga Nurric Connduilich air thus Iain Mac Uilliam a dhà Pàdruig an treas duine don triur Nach Uireasfach làmh. 340 THE TURNER MS. Diomoladh na Plbe. A Ghilleasbuig mo Mhallachd rem bhco Air do choluinn gun bhrfgh A chiomi 08 cionn do na chruinich don cheol Gu dtug thu nurram don phlb Stniic a chuala luchd tend Sganuail do bhèil Sto bu dona ga ndlol Ach gu bfearr thu dhich arain is mharag is feoil A Bhathaich na mial S iomadh Iarla Nalbuinn anochd A braimnich na bheid An dels a bhrù 'lionadh le Cabhruich a poit Gàbhoil a ntseid A chionn a Cluinntinn anmoch is moch Bu Searbh leo a meas Bheireadh mar dhuais do Dhaimlasg a Dos Na Coin a chur ris Ge bè Glocaire thòisich andtoiseach re fonn A thoirt as a bian Tha mi cinnte gu raibh bruadar is breisleach romhòr Ann na Chlaigionn re oian Cho dtig Ceol Iorailteach driothlannach luath Air Thollaibh a Mèar Sann a bhios i re stadail 's re gaguil gun fhonn Mar Ghoguil na nGeadh A cliii air Ghlagarsich mhòr S fad o na chual Ga tarruuing amach as teachlais gun doigh Mhaidarlach thruadh Ouirich i smaointinna gealtach gu leoir Ann an aigne ga chruas S gu mbfcarr mar ehlachbhalg chartadh na 'neach bhar an fheòir Na bhrosnachadh sluaidh On is beusan dith breugan gu beachd *S breuii i ad Uchd *S ga do bhiodh tu ga seidadh gus a neirigh do shl-t Oha seinn i dhuit j)iiirt Nuair a chuiradh tu Salami is tanail a steach Ann a nGaile na Muic Cuirigh sin brcun bholadh amach Air Karrabh a Cuirp THE TURNER MS. 341 S breugach a mbeul 'duirt gur ceil i gun Choi S nach beudach a still ■S nach do dhiult i cuairt as a lèinich gu moch Do Dhaoneach air bith fìiaidh ochdar ga bogadh do chromana fear Moire Scoma learn sin "S g mbfearr iad Dhfeannadh nanCraicion bhar chon Na sheinn a nCuid mion Sfad' o na fnair sinn taisbenadh sul   No jpir rainig a bhuinn lar Saor o longa Da haonar Seal *\ f bhi dhuinne mar sin Aig coimhad an chuiq» choimghloint Gu bhfacamar a teacbd trathnon Fionn m^umhaill mhic Treunmbor An tan do aithuidb an toscar Fionn Deirigh air Uilinn gu grinn iJo ambairc anagbaidb dhaladh Agu* bbeannuigb l da sheanathair Mo thruaighe sin Oscar fhèil Ma Scar thus anocbd riom nfein Caoinamsa feasd thu gu faun S tar heis ni Rait hear 2 fiann eirionn Ban Oscair do chraidh mo chroidhe Triath fear Xeirionn urhhuidhe Och agus e nochd na luighe bu tearc neach da thcaghmhail Mairg neach do chomhduigheadh ort Our Croidh' feola do bhi ad ehorp Ach croidhe do chuimhne cuir Air a dhubladh le lanum Mo laodh fein is laodh um laoidh thu Is cuilean geal an fhir chaoimh thu Mo cbroidh a leimuidh mar Ion Chionn gu brath nach eirigh oscar (Jeisdeaeh re gcalbhriartha finn Anuin as Oscar gur linn Do shin uaidh a dha laimh Is dhrnid o bhfeasd a rosg roglan Ioiii|K>ighas Fionn ris a chul Is lion na deoir a dha shuil Ach fa Oscar is fa tthran Ni chaoinfadh neach air dhruim taltuhana 1 "ae" deleted before "(la." •This wonl a little doubtful. 1« it " liaithear." THE TURNER MS. 361 L. Ni he bu ni hi an ii Horn a radh An ni is olc Horn a* ta * u A aithris an Eamhuin uaine A churaidh na craoibhe ruaidhe Cu. Iieir mo bheannachd leat a Laoighre An dail Eimire an fhuilt chlaoin I nn is di da ghairbhe a guil Nach bhfuighthar marbh re caoineadh L. Ge deirinnsi 'Choinchuiluinn sin Ra Eimir aluinn ionmhuinn Nocho bhith na beathaidh dhith Tareis catba murteimhne Cu Taisgeadh aice a tuirsc t real I sDòigh nach mise bhfeasd do threigeadb Nocho threigfinn i bu dèin Air a bhfuil go Mhnàibh fuigh 'n ghrèin L Do bheansa a choinchuilinn chain Inghean an Bh nigh aid h bharrghloin Ni thrèigfadh si thu dariribh Air Churaidh no air Chathmhilidh Cu Iimis mo ghnionihartha san chath, Dèimir is do Chonall cearnach Cluinneadh Ultaidh ann 'sgach am Mo chumasg is fearaibh Eirionn Do mharbhas ceud dibh Dialuain Fa mhòide easbhuidh an t-sluaidh Da cheud diamairt misde amaoin Ts tri cheud san cheudaoine C-eithir cheud liowsa diardaoin Fa sheachd macaibh abhra chaoin Cuig ceud san naoine ghniomh ghloin Agus se ceud san tsathama Da cheud deag diadomhnuidh dhuinn Do marbhas dom chrann tàbhuill •362 THE TURNER MS. Xior bu bhreug da nabruinn de O thra eirghe gu hoidhche Xochor lambsat leo mo chorp Dhibh gur biomdha dom fhuabhort Giodh i mo lamh chomhal ndil Do mharbhadh Cara gach aonfhir Tharradar ort fein re tfioe Mar do roinneas an aimhleas Do thiomairc siad an àit' uilc Dam bheoghghoinsiad gu geur goirt Goirt Tuiriomh Eimire air Chuchuloinn air fagbuila a Cbolna dbachaidh a Murteimhne agua a Chinn war angccdna a Teamhair. Do chuir si an ceann air an Choluinn agus do Dhrud re na buchd agus re na hurbhruinne e. Gblac a Jamb loima lainib agus dhruid a bheul re na beul agus a dubhairt an laoi Och a lamb on ocb a lamb Do bhamar sealad gu slan Minic do chuirfadh i fom cheann Ocb do bionmbuinn Horn an lamb Och a chinn on ocb a chinn Ge do niheasgadh thu air an linn Mor shochaidh da ndtugas eug Mor cburaibb s mor cheuda cinn Ocb a shuil on ocb a shuil Bu gbradlvacb do inbcanmna dbuinu Ionann Ionadh a mbiaidh ar leachd Ion an n Feart do tbocblar dbuinn Ocb airm on ocb airni «S chaidhe da ttugas inaidbm Nocho raibh tu anaon cbatb riamb Nach ttiubbartha biadh do Hbaidbbb Ocb a Leith on och a Lcith Do Tbigbeania nocbair treitb Fada gu lambtbaoi do cbradb An cean do bhiadh air sgath a sgeitb THE TURNER M8. 363 Och a Dhuibh on och a Dlmibh Ni threigfinn thu do chionn cruidh Och do bhris an croidh' am chliabh An Triath do fhagbhas air an Mhagh Is maith lcam sin is maith learn A Chuchuloinu muighe Meann Xachar imdheargas do ghnuis 'S nach dearnas dnuis thar ro cheann Ionrahuinn bcul sin Ionmhuinn beul fa bhiasta aig inusinn na sgeul do fhas gean air do ghruaidh Nochar curas truadh no trenn Ionmhuinn Riogh on Ionmhuinn Klogh Nar eurastar neach urn ni Thriochad làithc gus anochd Do chomhruic mo chorp red Chll Ionmhuinn fear on Ionmhuinn fear Ler thorcharadh na sluaidh re seal Ionmhuinn folt forordha fuar Agus ionmhuinn a ghruaidh gheal Sgiath chonchulionn 'sa dhà shleagh Agus a Chloidheamh go neimh Tabhair do Chonall na ccath Ni thugadh riamh rath mar sin Ionmhuinn each on Ionmhuinn each Na ecluinnfadh guth na cuach gu brath Agus nach dtiucfadh re na ngairm  jr Deirge n* lt»^ & gLr^aidh znia£ Se is ne&aa dont Wiuh ehl: Ceann an Kkxdi nar atih*rtLu:^h dath Cea&n R:^h Mid he na 'neach luarh Earc n*ac Chairbre na Lcnach cam An *riri*- a*" d ha! tain iV-in TTiu^u leam an crceicn a cneuun CuicLe noeannsa dom leith chli bear;r a li no lochd a dhealbh A nce&nn o tharla *run chorp I& matth Horn ge ole le rneidhbh' Mainne Moibhirt na 'neach Ma/; Meidhbhe le nCreachte gacli caan Air Scarf ad h a chinn re cliorp Lioiii uile do thuit a hhluadh Cia e ncearin air ma^haidh thall Co fholt faun '/*i ritiJui-lheach sliui A Kosj; u^ir oiirhre a dheud mar bhlath 'S ailne iia *-uch croth a claim I* b-t* a aud do thuit do thuit an cu iihfa^r iiii.se a chi-q> Iia '.hl'iiiiii thais Lu^haidh iiiac Chcnrizii na ulann Thujas Horn a cheann air ais *r Cia nda cheanns* air mairhaidh Shoir A Chonuill iijhoir trun troil a niraoith (li.-a\ an" aiirhth" dubh a bhfuilt I)eirtre a mrriiaidhc na fuil laoiirh Cinn mhail is Mhiodhna mhoir An do cheann sin is dòigh leinn Aca dfuaras ccann na Con Ai^ inurteaiiilira na nscol slim Cia nda cheanns' air tna U like o in M8. THE TURSElt MS. 361 Aon dath air fholtaibh na bit fear Dearg a ngrnaidhe geal a ngniiis Cuilionn orbhuidh 's Connla ruadh Dias do bheiradh bnaidh lo feirg A Eimir aig sin a ccinn Thugas a ecuirp fa linn deirg Cia na so chins' is olc iieimli Do chini fein air inaghaidh thnath Gorm a naighthe dubh a bhfuilt Shiabhruidh 'nruisg a chonnill chruaidh A siad sud an seisior IWihbh' Do chi tu marbh sa inbèil re gaoith Clanna Chlailitin lnchd na ccleas Dream nach raibh air leas mo laoigh Air dtearnadh o chleas na Con Do chloiun Chailitin fa nimh (Jnath Do niharbhas an seisior baidhbh Thniteadar le mairin thar chaeh Cia nda eheanns' is faide amach A Chonnill mhoir do bhraith baidhbh Air ghradh theinidh na ceil oirn Cinn na dcise do ghon thairm Cinn Laoighre ? s Chlairo cniig An da cheannsa thnit lem irhtiin Do ghonsath Cuchnloinn cain Trid do dherirais mairm na hhfuil A Chonnill o 'Ath Feardiadh Cniche nCeannsa dar ghiall each Ouna or fa chnislibh a chinn (in Cnmhdach sliom a Dhairgiod bhan Ceann Mhic Finn Mhic Rosa ruaidh Mac Nia a Dfnair bas lem neart A Kimir aig sin a Cheann Ard Hiirh Lai^heann na nleirg tais Cia nccann sin ata ad dhorn À Chonnill mhoir is nior bhaidh leinn O nach mairionn V\\ na nClcas Cia mbi tn air leas a chinn Ceann mic Feargnis na nKach Mnircach le ncreachte irach Colt THE TUE3TEB MS. Mac mo Shcathar o ntor sbeixnh Do .Scanaa a eheann re eborp A Chonoill mhotr Mboighe an S^ail Crend do thort led laimh gun lochi Do na aluadhaibh do mhill sinn Leat an Dioghailt Chlnn na Con Xaoninhfir » da fhichiot ceud A deiram riot fa lein sluaidh Do thorchair Horn drnim air dhrnixn Do nimh cnilge cioidheamh chruaidh A Cbonuil donnas ataid Mnai Innirifail tareis na con A bhfuil cumh am cholt ma chels Na ntiabhartha speis da dhol An da gh&r do chraidh mo chorp A 'Eimir og na mbreith hlath flair chomhinhaoidhthe na bhfear cicith J« jrair chaointe Han ro reidh A Cbonuill i* Midhthe dhuinn Ouchuloinn an tiir do chur Tochlaidh gu foircheann an Uaidh San leabuidh choitchiont chriadh chloich A Cbonuill creud do ni tu fèin Gun an Cu ad * reir fa rath *   nil linn " in M.S., bit evidently a mirtike for "'i»i a i i j THE TURNER MS. 371 Published in the Perthshire Collection. 1 Sgeula air Chonn mac an Deirg Air na lionadh do throtn fheirg Teachd a dhioghailt athar guu fheall Air uaisle Maithibh Fiann Eiriouu 2 Aithris duinne Oisin Naruigh A Dheaghmhic Finn is teobhaghaidh Sgeula air chonn feargach fearoil An Sonn calm a bu chaomh ceanol 3 A mbu mho Conn no ndearg mòr Oisin na mbriartha binnbheoil Na mbionann do Dealbh is dreach Is don Dearg mhor Mhear Mheanmnach 4 Bu mhò Conn gu mor mor Le teachd a ccaramh ar Slòigh lie tarruing a Luingios a steach A nciomhuis cuain is Caoluis 6* Reachadh e bhfriothlannaibh na ueul *sic MS, Os ar ccionn san dara meur Aig iomairt a chleasa garg An aice na bhfirmailte 5 He faicsin duinn chonmhaill chuinn Mar chathadh mara a treuntuinn Tre mead folachd an Fhirmhoir teachd a dhioghailt athar le dioghbhail A ghruaidh chorcuir mar Iubhar caoin A Rosg gorm na maladh corrchaoil Fholt ur cearrnaeh Clannach grinn Fear mor mheanmnach Athreoil aoibhinn Buaidh gach àite a raibh se riamh Leis air ghaisge 'a air mhorghniomh Sgur biomdha laoch do bhi gun sglos Tabhairt do Gèill agus Morchlos Bheiramsa dhuit briathar ciunteach A Phadruig ga nar re Inns'e  o ghluais feargus inin baghach Muirneach Meanmnach morghairdcach Air chonihairle athar mar bu choir Ghabhail Sgeul o Chonn romhor Do Mhac an Deirg bu gharbh Gleuc Bcwinuighas Feargus tiorghlic Is fhreagair ('onn mar bu choir Feargus beuldearg binnbheoil THE TURNER M8. 373 A Mhic an Dèirg dhmieasaidh aird A Chuinn bhuadhaidh dhealbhaidh dheudghil Brigh do thuruis aithris duinn Oeud e fa da theachd gu Heirinn Aithrisidh mise sin duit Fhearguis fhilidh is buin leat Eiiraic M' athar is aill learn uaibh A Mhaithibh uaisle na feiune €eann Ghuill sa dha mhic mhoir Fhinn agus Ibhinn is airt Agus Chi anna Morna uile •Gun diohuimhnuigheadh einduine Olanna baoisgne na fir chalma Sgach Curaidh ta nCriocha Banpa S gu buininn a ccinn amach A Dhaimhdheoin Fhinn agus Chormaig Eirinn uil' o thuinn gu tuinn Fhaghail damh fein fa maon chuing Na comhrac cuig ccud da sluaidhte Gu moch air Maduin amaireach Do phill Feargus mo Bhrathair fèin A Phadruig Mhic Alpin fhèil Is thosdamar an Fheinn uile A chluinnsin Sgeul an einduine Brigh do thuruis o nfhear mhor Se labhair fionn flaith an tsloigh Aithris sud duinne gu prap Mar dhimrios oirn a spraic Ghloir Euraic Athar is aill leis uaibh A Mhaithe uaisle na feinne Na comhrac Chuig ceud dar sluaidhte Gu moch air maidinn amaireach Do labhair cuig ceud dar bhfine Coisgemuidne a luath mhire Is buinaim a cheann amach Do chonn dhiomeasach Uaibhreach Ne raibh sud dhoibh mar a radh Re dol ann san Iomarbhuàidh 374 THE TDBHSR MS. Is Com i aig Calcadh a sgiath Aig darruidh comhraic le anriar Do ghluais ar cuig ceud na dhail Turas on dtaineig ar dioghbhail Cuig ceud eir da mbiamuid ami Do bhimuÌ8 marbh air aon bhall Thaghamar seachd fichiod fear mor Do mhaithibh Theaghlaidh ar slòìg* *so in MS. Dhol a chomhrac Mhic an deirg Chunncamar Fionn fa throm fheirg Chuaidh conn romhpa na gharbh sgean Mar Theabhac romh Ealtuinn ean Thug doirbh ruathar Firfoirinn 'S bu luaithe e na gall mhuilionn Biomdha sud san bhair a bhos Fear ah* leithlaimh s fear gun chos Bu lionmhur Cloigeann air chall Is cuirp na ncaigionn air aon bhall Thuit air seachd fichiod fear mor Adhbhar mur dtuirse 's mur dobroin Thug an Fhiann na garrth cruaidh Re ham tuitiom an mhor shluaidh A Ghuill Mhic Morna na mormhiann stu chleachd mo chabhir riamh A mhiann sula gach dedhbhara l A phrionu8a bhuadhaidh gach teaghbhala A bhfaic tu conn a bagradh ort Is air na bhfuil beo do Dhfearaibh Eirionik Nach buinfea 'cheanu gu fearoil dhe Mar bhuinas da Athair roimhe Do dhearnamsa sin duit Fhinn Fhir na mbriartha blatha binn Cuirfaim fuath *s folachd air gcfiil Is bidhemar fein a dhèinrùn Chuaidh Goll Ionna chuluidh chruaidh. A bhfiaghnuis Maithe is morshluaidh Bu gheal is bu dearg gnuis an fhir S bu narach garg a ntus Iorguill " cruaidh" written in MS. above "dedh. »# THE TURNER MS. 375 Nochdadar diamhair a ngclasa (sic) An dias do thug na garbh ghreise 'S chuiradar an tulac air crith (sic) An dias Curaidh bu gharbh oith Cith teine da nairmaibh nochd Cith fol' o chnea&aibh a ngcorp AguB cith cailce da nsgiathaibh *S bhiadh iad siar 's a niar sa Niorguill Deanntrach Soillseach teinndeach ruaidh Frithleim da nairm faobhar chruaidh *S da ngceannbhearta caola corrach Re cuimhneachadh na morfholachd Re Id agus aon tra deug Bu tuirseach fir is mnai nar bhfèinn Gu bhfacamar Iolluinn crodh' A breith buaidh air chonn romhor Gàir aoibhinn thug an Fhiann A samhuil nior thug roimhe riamh Re faicsinn Ghuill mhir na rabeurana An uachd r Chuinn a lorn' eiginn Air ditcheannadh Chuinn gu feardha Dhiolluinn Mileanta Mear chalma Do sgaoil se conan a sas Tarèis a lonain fa mighras Seachd Raighthibh do Gholl an aigh Fuidh leigheas sol fa rabu slàn A slorol ftona a dteach Finn Is re bronnadh oir a dheisgaibh Published in the Perthshire Colbction. Ta sgeul beg agum air Fionn Sgeul a chuirfinn gu suim e Air Mhac Cumhaill bu dearg dreach Scumhainn learn sud re mo rè La dhuinn air bheagan sluaidh Aig Rasruaidh na neiginn mall Chunncaniar fuidh sheol anoir Cttrach mar or is Bean ann £7* (Jaozad Lftodh same fa tLri 1 Ba mahh air* gxuomh is ar an t **r fj^rr Fir Lear defigh is mairgdo cbi Ge be tir a mbiiLL>d newt Deirigb Run uiLe gu dian Atbt Fionn na bhfhiann agus G>H I>* feitheamh an Cbnraich do b" ard "S do bhi treon a sgoltadh thoon ghabh si earadb no oosg \ior gbabb caladh a bport gna Teaebd don churach air a Xeas as maeoimh mna Do ghluau i gn pubal Finn Is bheannaigh si ga grinn dbo Fhreagair mac cnmhaiU £a thrnim Ga hamhal bmn i fa dbo Brigb do tharnis air gach rod A Ingheaa og is aOne dealbb Aithris an tosacb do sgeil ì"ul tha fein no creud e thainm Ingbean me do Rigb fuidb tbuinn Innsim dhait gu cruinn mo egeul Is ni bhfuil srath* fa nluigheann grian *sroth Anns nar iarras do Dbfiannuibh Fail Mo cbomairc ort ma's tu Fionn Sc dubbairt an Maooimh mna Do bhrigb tburlabbra ? s do bbuaidh Gabh mo chuimrigh gii lu&tb tra   chuirfas geaaa na cheann Gu dtiubhradh Fionn mi air Sal 1 The *&?fod lint written in Irish character* after the first in the same line. THB TURNBR MS. 377 Siiach bid hinn aigesion mar mhnaoi Oe mor leis a ghniomh is agh Se Dubh'rt 1 Oscar le ghloir mhir An laoch sin ler choisgfeadh gach Riogh No gu ccaibhreadh fionn do gheas Ni rachadh tu leis mar mhnaoi Ohunncamar a teachd air steud Fear is a in head os gach fear Marcuigheachd na fairrge gu dian San Iul cheadna thainigh' bhean Da chraoiseach chath na dhorn A teachd 2 san rod air a Steud Air ghil' air dheirge air dhreach Ni bhfacamar neach mar e Do bhi flath agus Rosg Riogh San Aghaidh b'ailne ligh is Cruth Bu bhinne a ghuth na gach teud \S bu mhire a Steud na gach Sruth Cloidheamh trom trostoil nach gann A dteannt air thaobh an Fhir mhòir Sgiath leabhar nach nochd air ais Se 'giomairt a chleasa Corr thuinn ntrà thainigh Se fa thir labhair mo Rlgh bu mhaith elifl An aithnigh thu fein a bhean 'Ne sud an fear a deir tu Aithuigheas a Mhic Chumhail ghrinn Sinor a mpughar leibh gur e Tairgfidh se mis' a bhuint leis Oe mor bhur dtreis as an Fheinu Na dean thusa bosd a bhean As aon fhear da bhfuil da phor   No Rlogh Lochlann na ncolg sean Muna hann do chomoradh arbhfiann Do thainigh an Triath thar lear Ni hann do chomoradh bhur bhfionn Idir do thriallas thar Lear Ach chum a Bhean do bhuint o Fhionn Da aiudeoin air tuinn is Bran Dar do laimhse Mhanuis mhòir As do shlogh ge nior do nihùirn Da mhead da ndtugas thar lear Ni bheura tu Bran air Tuiun Dar do laimhse Fhcarguis fheil As an fheinn ge mor do ghreaun Ni Gheibhad cum ha gun Bran No comhrac fear air Ceann Do bheir an Fhiann comhrac cruaidh Do d' Shluadh ma bhfuighc tu Bran Agus bheir Fionn comhrac trcun Dhuit fein ma bhfuighe tu 'Bhean Do pliill Feargus mo Bhrathair fein Bu shamhuilt re grein a chruth Dathris na nsgeul mar bu choir S gu b' oscartha mor a ghuth Se Biogh Locblann sud ta 's tràigh Ni bhfuil fath a bhith 'ga chleith Nil ach cath dibhfeargach dlu No do bhean s do chu fa blmith Ni thiobhradsa fcasd mo bhean A deinneach ata fuigh 'u ghrein S ni thiodhlaicfas Bran gu brath No gu dteid a mbas am chre 402 THE TURNER MS. Sa Mfear ud eile buaisle beus Bu sgàthan 's bu reull do chach Sud 'e 'nois le toil amhiann Neaugach an Diabhail an sàs Anum prisoil soilbhir seimh Bailne sgeimh le hiomhaidh De Muchthaidh nois na mhiannuidh Colluidh Mpriosun mamiidh doiligh ere S mairg a roghnuidh 'chraos mar dhia Chuir a chuid sa ehiall na bholg Truadh an Tanum a nguais phian Le riaradh anmhianna borb S baoghlach an Leannan a mheisg Se saimh bhith sgrios a haoisghraidh Re slaid do thuigse s do bhriogb Do chliu do ni is do shlaint Tohar cinnhuinn gach droch bheus A dhfosglns geibhinn gach uile Siochadh Coguis mucbadh reusuin Laguidbca8 na ceutfaidh mar uisg An subhailc ni bhfuil a speis \S an lagh De ni bhfuil a mcas Ta miann gu briseadh gach aithne 'S chum gach saruidh sullamh deas S toigh le striopachas is striobh Falachd miorun fuath is fearg 'S gach Lasan buarthaidh san Inntinn Carnfaidh si riii griosach dhearg Na comhradh biaidh mionna searbh 'S briarthra garg air bhegan ceill Is ainm naomth' Ardrigh na nsluadh Le Damnadh ga luadh sgach beul A mba8 cia baoghlach a dhail Da ndtiocfadh stu bàthte 'meisg Tumaigh dheirionnach re Damnadh S tu tiomna tan ma da sgrios Soil loir gur hi baight an Diabhail Re mealladh ariarnh le cluain lion a mogluidh e na ccudaibh Air (tcur a nCeutfaidh na nsuain THE TURNER MS. 383 Nochdamar Gilghreine re Crann Bratacli Fhiun do bu gbarbh treis 'S i Ian chlochaibh an òir 'S gur leinne bu mhòr a meas Biomdha Cloidheamh drollchuil oir Biomdha srol ga cbur re Crann A ncath fuilteach Fhinn na bhfleadh Bu lionmhur Sleagh os ar gcionn Cromadh ar gcinn duinn san cbatb Do rin n gach Flath mar do gheall Fiann Eirionn na ncomhlanu cruaidh Do bhriseadh leo buaidh na ngall Chasadh mac Chumhaill na nCuach S Manus fuilteach na nruag Naigh He cheile ntosach na nsluadh Sa cbleirigh bu chruaidh an dàil Stadamar uile na sloigh •S dar leinne bu mhor a mogb S n i ligfaid duine da ngcoir No gu bhfionnfadh each an gcor Clochaibh agus talamh trom Dhiiisgfadh siad le foirm a ncos Fuaini a nlann 8a nsleagh sa nsgiath Chluinnte sud an gcian sa ngcros Lcagadh Riogh Lochlann an Aigh A bhfiadhiiuia chaich air an Kaon Chuirfadh air snior b' onoir Riogh Ceangal guineach na ntri chaol Sin do labhair Conan Maol Mac Morna bhi Kiamh re ole Druid sua** o MhamiH na nlann (»u sgurfinns' a clieann re chorp Xi bhfuil cainleas damh no gaol Uiotsa chonain nihaoil gun cheill So tharla nic fa iochd Finn S ccud fcarr learn no bliith fad mhein tharladh fam* mhein fein Ni iomairaim treun air Flath Ach f uasglaidh me* thu o nfheinn A lamh threun gu cur mor cbath 414 Se tosach gach gliocais nacmhthachd Gleidh do Dhia s cho treig tu rath Bheir tu buaidh an ceird an Doctuir Treig an tolc is dean an inaith Bean gun Earradh uainn don mhacaiinh Thngas do gun teachd air ais Do lamh threun oscionn do mhathshluaidh Aiiim an Laoich ni chanfaidh as Nois o theilg me dhiom mo cburam So na gfalac me Tuc an Riogh Ma ta mo chairdion dhiom diomach Dam dhuthaich gu bhfuil me sgi Dhfag me eadar Ros is Ainnis Nainnir ghasta mhuinte mhln Sole a dhimair mo chursa Sgun duil re pilleadh arts Sfada sios an Rugha mara (iairid o Oilean an fhraoich So Dhuthaich mhic Leoid na Hearadh Dhfag me nainnir a dhfas caoin So nach bhfuil mo shuil re pi Had h Soruidh leat sgach ball am bidh S niana bhfiosruich thusa mise S mor as misde me do dhi Da mbighinn fein aim san Eiphte Mo laimh sa Ghreig no san Spainn Ou b' ait learn faghail deagsgeula (sic) Air Ainnir bheildearg an Eadaiun bhain aach dean do luadh dhamh eifeachd S learn is eidar bhith am thamh Leigidh me mo mhile beannachd ' iathaui ntigh na bpian an laimh Oisin U mall gus a ncreidfinn uait A Ghleirigh na nleabhar lyan  iaidh sc ntigh na bpian fuidh bhron •JS 406 THB TURNER MS. Do chional bu bhuan sbu chaofn Cisde mo mbaoin is mo stòir Thionoil gach suarcais ad chliabb Rogh' gach Triath da bhfacas foe Mo sharbharant air mo cbul Nach ligfadh mo chuis le each Ge gu caillfinn cean an tsluaidh Cho toiUfinn do ghruaim gu brath Getame air bhegan storuis S gu minic mo phoca lorn Bannsa learn no or na crinne 'Rte do philleadh riom a bhfonn Ach seid a sluigain a mhiniin Teanga gun fhirinn gun stuaim Do lion croidh gun gho Ian diombuaidb S tbionndoigh uile riom a ghruaim Seanfhocall is nor re aithris Sleamhuinn starseach an tigh mhoir Chomhairle bheirinn air mo charaid Gun teachd ach aunamli da coir Ach mas eiginn dhuit a saltairt Bi air thfaicill aim sgach ceum Oir ta miorun reidh gad thuisleadh (riodh nach tuitfadh tu leat fcin Bhi mis air mfaicill an gcomhnaidh S mhcal o moigc speis mo thriath Sud anois ni sfaide amuigh me Sgiodh nach bighinn a stigh riamh Ma ta mo namhaid sa ntsaoghal Gu raibh sud mar dhiogh'ltas do Bhith ncrochadh air fabhar chaich S ga bhfeitheamh gach la re bheo S mairg a dhearb a gairdean feola S gun ach seal da dheo na chre Ni bun a ceanal no cairdeas Cia diombuan cia faillneach e Ni bhfuil cairdeas ach mar dheatuigb Antràs' a leantuinn ort gu dian Ach s beag an osag leis au tionndoiglii Oir Iompoighidh si leis an tsion THE TURNER M8. 387 Is leis an chaisiol Fhrancach Do mharbhadh an fearsin Ni he sin a deirani Ach mac mo mhic is manam ( .'ioimaa do bhi ntoscar Re scoltadh na ncathbhar Bu luaithc na Eas abhann Mar Sheabhaic trid Ealtann Mar ruadhbhuinne srotba Bhi ntosgar a'g aiseag Bhiadh e seal oile Mar bhile re treunghaoith Mar chrann os gach Fiughaidh 'Sa shuil air gach einneach Chunnairc se Riogh Eirionn A stigh an lar catha S thug se ruathar chuige Mar fhuaim tuinn' air Sratha Do mharbh se Riogh Eirionn Is an Coron uime \S thuit leis Airt Mac Chaibre Air an dara buille Caoi Oisin air Oscar. Smor anochd mo chnmha fein Sua healghisibh ta dom reir He smaointeadh an Chatha chruaidh Chuirfamar le Cairbre Crannmadh A ccath fuilteach Mhoighe chathbhare Chuirfaim re shluadh is re Cairbre Do thuit an Fhiann bonn re bonn Is Rioghraidh uasal na Heirionn Biomdha Cathbhar Cumhduidh Con* Agus sgiath go Nothaibh oir I )o bha tarr8iiinn ann san mhagh Agus Triath bhi ann gun an urn 388 THE TURNER MS. Nior bu leir ameasg an t sluaidh Ach na treunfhir do bfcarr biiaidh Sni thogbhamar as an chath Acht mac Riogh no rofhlaith Aithris duinne Oisin fheiP N0Ì8 o 's binn learn pfein do ghloir An dfuair tu do mhac san àr No ndnig tu air urlabhthra * * urlahhra Ì Dfuaras mo mhao fearrdha fein Is e na luighc air uilinn chle Is e 'sileadh fhola tc Trid bloighte a luirghe Leig Earladh mo shleagh rè làr 'S os a chionn do rinncas tamh Sa phadruig do smuaintios an sin Creud do dhearnfainn na Dhiaidh Se dubhairt riomsa mo mhac fearrdha Agus e ndeiradh an anma A bhuidhc ris na Duilidh sin Ma ta thusa nlan athir Damhairc an toscar ormsa suas S dar Horn pfein bu lcor a chruas Do shin ch again a dha laimh Oo Cliuni eirigh am chomhdhail Ghlacas lamha mo 111 hie fein Agus Shuigh me fuidh na sgeith O ntsuighe sin gns anochd Nior ehur me speis sa Tsaoghal Os cionn nio mhie Oscar aigh Do bhi me greis ehur an air S do bhi eaoilte aim mar sin Os cionn a sheisear chloinne Thamig mac Ronain iar sin Chuirainne do dhfeaehuinn Oseair Se dubhairt an milildh treun Air bhith cian do na mhorncul Mo thruaighe sin Oseair eil Ma sgar thus anochd re ar bhfein Dhealuidh 'mirmorra re Fionn Slean an cios re siol mhorchuinn. THE TURNER MS. 389 Aithris duinne Oscair f heard ha  iounas ata tu fuigh d' Mheanmna Luighe dunchreachdach do chneis A bh feud far le liaigh do leighas Mo leighios ni bhfuil a bhfàth Sni mo dheantar gu dti * mbrath * dti, doubtful. Sni bhfuidh sibh a bheg dom thairbhe Ach began beg dom urlabhra Deirghe Caoilte croidh gun gho Dfeuch le Ionga luigh ua dho Druim an Oscair chreuchduidh chaoin Air na sgoltadh leis a gheirshleigh 18 measa do bhi tu shiar Tareis catha Dhroma cliar Dhairimhto na Fir Trid do chneis 1 8 Dfuaramar do leigheas Is ni mbfearr do bhi tu shoir Maduinn la Bheinn Euduir Rach na Corra Thrid do chneis Is Dfeudamar le Leigh do Leighios Na fuaras fein Shoir is Shiar Do chreachduibh san Domhan riarah ihir measa Horn aonghuin chairbre Eadar Mfordronn is mimlinn O ! 's measa Horn aonghuin Chairbre Taithe nior fhuaras fein tearnadh  ng thar fairrge Mun bhiadh Cairbre dom ghuinse Clann na deise deirbhsheathnich Thogbhadh linn an Toscar aigh Air chroinn air sleagh as an ar i'huir na shineadh air tuilm ghloin Da fhuasgladh as airm sas Eideadh Lead na bouse dbeth o fhok Xi raibh ofle slan da cheep No gur raini? a bhninn lar .Saor o long* na haonar Seal d' bhi dhuinne mar sin Aig ooimhad an chuirp cboimghloin Gu bhfacamar a teacbd tratbnon Fionn rn'Oumhaill mhic Treunmbor An tan do aitbnidh an toscar Fionn Deirigb air Uilino gu grinn Do amhairc anaghaldh dbaladb Agna bheannnigb l da sheanathair Mo thruaighe sin Oscar fheil Ma Scar thu* anochd riom pfein Caoinamaa feaad tbu gu fann 8 tar hèia ni Rait hear 2 fiann eirionn Baa Oscair do chraidh mo chroidhe Triatb fear Xeirionn urbbuidbe Ocb agu* e nochd ua luiirhe bu tearc neach da thea:rhmhail Mairg neach do chomhduigheadh ort Our Croidh' feola do bhi ad chorp Ach croidhe do chuimhiie cuir Air a dhubladh le lamnu Mo laodh fein in laodh mo laoidh thu lb cuilean geal an fhir chaoimh thu Mo chroidh a leimnidh mar Ion Chionn gu brath nach eirigb oscar (reindeach re gealbbriartha finn Anum as Oscar jrur linn Do shin uaidh a dha laimh Is dhruid o bhfeasd a rosg roglan lompoiirhas Fionn ris a chnl In lion na deoir a dha shuil Ach fa Oscar is fa Bhran Xi chaoiiifadh neach air dhruim tahuhanQ 1 "k" deleted before -da." •Thi* won! a Utile doubtful. Ih it " Baithear." THE TURNER MS. 391 Ni ghuilfadh bean fa fear fein Ni Chaoineadh a bhrathair e Ach a caoi mo mhicse ncath Na sluaidh uile ge biomdha Nuall chaoi na neon re mo tbaobh Agus cumha na nsean laoch Is gul a bhannail ma aeach Se sud do chraidh me am chroidhe Da ntiocfaid allmharaidh an sin Chugaibhse gu heirinn Iathghloin (Veud do do dhearnadh an sin Fionn Na sibhse uile Fiann eirionn Dar do laimhse chleirigh chaich Ni raibh an sud sa Bhanpha bhain Ach beagan do laoch ruidh gun treoir Agus do Dhoigfhir gun dearbhadh I/) da ìiraibh Pàdruig na uihùr Ni raibh Sailm air uigh ach 61 Chuaidh se 'thigh Oisin mhic Finn Dhiarruidh Ian a chinn do ghloir Fàilte riot a sheanfhir shuairc Chugad air chuairt thainigh Sinn A Laoich Mhileant is dearg dreach Nar eur a riamh ncach fa ni Sgeul do b'aill linn fhaghail uaid Ogha Chumhaill is cruaidh colg An Cath is teinne an raibh an Fhiann O ntra ghin thu riamh na nlorg (Ju dtiubhrainns' a dhearbhadh dhuit A Phadruig sin na nsalm grinn Ncath is teinne nraibh na fir 'ntra ghineadh Fiann uibh Finn Dearmad Fleighe do rinn Finn An Almhuinn re linn na n laoch Air chuid do nfheinn air Dhruimdearg No gur eirigh a bhfearg 'sa bhfraoch 392 THE TURNER MS. Air Chaoilte mac Rannchuir Mhoir Deadhmhac Ronain bu toigh linn Faraon agus ailleamh ur Freiteach bliaghna re mur Finn rhogbhadar a bpuiplidh gu trial] An dias nach bu chian air tuinn Faraon an dias Fiannuibh ur Gu Rloghachd Lochlann na nsrian slim Bu riogh air Lochlann sa nuair An fear le mbeirthaidh buaidh gach bair Fearghuin mac Rannchuir na nlong Sgu bu romhaith Lann 's a lamh Muintiordhas bliaghna don ltiogh Se thug an dias bu dearg d reach Deagh mhac Rannchuir na nsleagh geur Agus Ailleamh nar eur neach Bean Riogh Lochlann na nsgiath donn Thug gaol trom nach raibh gu deas D' ailleamh ghreadhnach an airm dheirg No gur eirigh an sgeilg leis Ghluaiseadar a leabuidh nriogh An Gniomh fa ndo dhoirteadh fail Gu Almhuinn a nluigheann an Fhiann Thogbhadar an triall thar inuir Chruinnigh Riogh Lochlann a shluadh Cabhlach cruaidh do bhi fa dheas Thionoil fa mheirghe chum buaidh Naonmhur Rioghraidh san sluadh leis Sheoladar an Aibhis aird Gu Rioghachd Eirionn bu gharbh agh Gu Almhuinn an luigheaun an Fhiann Thogbhadar an triall o thraigh Shuigheadar a mpuiplidh gu luath Na Sluaidh do thaiuig a ugcein Air an Tulaigh do hh auiuigh An gar don Bhruth an raibh Fionn Teachd'rcachd do thainigh gu Fionn Sgeul tim do chuir rinn gu truadh (Jomhrac einfhir 'Dhnannuibh P'inn Fhaghail air a ghleann fa thuath THE TURNER MS. 393 Fhreagair Ailleamh 'n comhrac cruaidh Sgeul truadh do thainigh nar bhfeinn ( ,'eann àluinn Ailleamh mhic Lir Do thuit air au dara beum Seachd Ceannphoirt fhichiod dar bhfeinn Is Ailleamh fein air antns Do thuit le Lai mh Fhearrghuin Mhoir Sol far chuaidh na sloigh andlus Do thairg Fionn doibh cumha mhor Do na sloigh do thainigh ngceinn 'S do Riogh Lochlann na uanu glan Faraon agus a bhean fèin Acht Lochlannuigh an bhuighion bhorb Tre neart a ncuilg na ntir fein Nior b'aill leo cum ha Dhorduighead riamh Is an Fhiann a bhcith na ndeigh Ni fhagbhuidh mis agaibh teach No binn no Abhuinn no Tulach Ach Eire na cnoca glas Do thogbhail learn ami mo Luingeas Labhair Mac Chumhaill na nCuach Re maithe sluaidh Innse Fail (Jia dhiongfas Fearrghuin 8a ghreis Ma mbuinionn se leis ar dtair A fhreagra sud bhi aig (J oil An Sonn bu deacair a chlaoi Rachfads' is Fearrghuin sa ghreis  eo Xior rinn sinn san 16 ar leas Air bhith don Fheinn uile ceangailte am bruigbinn Clieise coruinn tre dhraoidheachd Thri Ingbeana chondrain mhic aimidil agus air feachainn a Dh- feargus air Goll aig teachd da bhfuasgladh a dubhairt an Laoi Buadhach sin a Gu mbuaidh 1 8 prap ro uirdheis na sluaidh Do bhimis uile gun chinn Muna dtiocfasa chugainn Ge mor gach uair fhoinis riamh oirinn a ghuill na nardghliadh Hu mho acas oirnn an uair Air mbeith ceangailt an einuaimh 1 la " mean" a Mjiarate word ? THE TURNER MS. '*9« r > Camog agus cuilionn chiar Is leo do cheangladh an Fhiann Agus Iarnach fa gharbh gleac Do chuibhridh sinn tre chroueart A nuair do b' aill leo ar ccinn Do bhuain dinne gun eislinn Do chuaidhdar an triar amach 1« Dfhag siad an Fhiann gu bronach Nior chian doibh sin air an leirg Na tri Diabhail fa chlaon ceird (?u bhfacdar aig tcachd na gear Coll mor is e na aonar rp Fiaghaid ni tri innai mora A ccomhdhail an churaidh chrodha Is chomhraicis riu tre rath An doras bheoil na huamhadh Nior ghnath leis comhthrom a diarraidh Goll mor an aigne fhialuidh Do chomhraicis riu gu teann Dar mharbhadh camog is cuilionn A dhaon bhuille don loinn luim Chearras iad araon fa ndruim Do thorchuir Camog am has Is Cuilionn go cruaidh an cas Agus Iarnach leath da druim Cour calma an curaidh comhlan lompoiglicas lolluinn ria gu ccart Is chcanglas i tre chroibhneart Nochdas lolluinn a lann Is di do bhcanfadh a ceann No gur gheall si an Fhiann uile Aisde o og gu seanduinc Sgaoilfas Iollainn di iarain Is tiaghaid araon don bhruighinn Agus 8gaoiIas dinne uile O og laoch gu seanduinc Aon ghair hheannachd uainne nil Kadar Riogh agus ro dhuine Do gholl chionn ar brcith amach Don Bhuinne bhrioghmhur bhuadhach -396 THE TURNER MS. 'S aid aigne Ghuill Fear a chogadh Finn Laoch Leabhar lorn Mheadhail nach tim Ta Miamiidh r a ort Fhinn A chuil bhachlaidh dhuinn Air eagal Mhor ghaill Bighadh taigne trom Ta duinne na fholt Ta bhruinne mar chailc Fa* Iomlan a chuirp *T.i I»mlan do nheirc Ohiom&a ghoirfar caoilte Mac Rannchuir mhic Ronain Sa nlunduinn do bhai&diadh me Lo mac morn' na raorphniomh Bu mhaitb an duine Fionn S bu romhaith an duin' e ('ho do thiodhlaic einneach I^eith na thiodhlaic He Bfilidh c h bu bhard Bu churaidh h bu triath Bu cheanphort niaith Sloi^h S bu toirbhearach fial An Chreud Creidfam a Nat hair na ngras Na Nuile chumhachd san cheud chas Do cnithaigh ncanih is Talamh trom Sa cnithaigh Fir na bhfior fhonn Oeidfam aimsa dara cas S an Ti dhfuilinn ;rach cruaidh chas Mac Ardriogh neul agus neanih An Ti da ndailtear dhuinne furtachd THE TUUNEll MS. 39Z Aii neacli bin do ghin aig Muire Is o Spiorad ua trocaire Gun chionta gun chaigh no col Ach sanuis on Aingeal uasal Is rugadh do reir na feola Laoch foisigb na tior oighe Is dhfuilaing pais gun chuimsc choir Fuidh bhreith Phuinsais Phioloid Cheusadh agus dfuair sc bas Macairnh Uasal na naorahgbuas Dannlaiceadh an Uaidh mar chorp Au Ti dliiobair uainne gach lochd Chuaidb so nifrioun air chcann cbaich Bu bbuau piscach an trom-gbraidb Deirigb sc on bbas gu bcacbd Air an treas la dar bhfurtachd Cbuaidb so suas air Ncamb na naomb Am niacainih uasal Ard chaomh \S sbuigb air Deaslaiiub Atbar na ngras A nC'atiiair gun eud gun Uathbbas ' As sin tiocfaidb sc lc buaidb Thabbairt Breith air bhrcithaibb gacb sluaidh Eadar Bhcodbaibb agus nibairbb   ! gu mbcagal leibh an langbairni Crcidfam annsan Spiorad naomli S an Eaglais uile 'dbciuntaobh A ngcoiiibchomuuu na naonih is buan troid Anaghaidh Fuatb agus Karroid Tiocfaidb 'n Tigbearna lc gbras A mbaitbadb saruidb a sbluaidb Sa (Ibusgadh anios na ncorp Bbias gu tostacb aim san Uaidb Tbcid an sin amacb gu l>eachd An droing do cblcacbd an dcagb gbniomk (lu Hciseirigb na Beatha buan S biaidb siad sbuas a bbfocbair Ios' An sin a bbias an coniunn caomb Na Naoiinh a tabbairt gloir da n Riogb 'S a scinn moladb binn don Tan (lu siorruidb buan. Anibluidh biodb 418 THE TURSEB MS. Cho ghlacfar lew crann Cascboibe na laimh cho bfiach S cbo lugh' e na Diuc Mac a bhodaich bha ruamhar riamb Beir an taoridh no uam Gu beachduidh gu Ruairich og Aguft Innis da fein Mead a chuntairt mas e Mac Leoid E Dhamharc na dheigh Air an Iain bo dheug snath beo Gu bu saidhbhir a chliu \S cbo ufagadh e ndun gu*: cheol Re linn na nlinntion do bba Mc tathaicb a gbna sa ndiiu Re linn Iomdha Mac Leoid Cbo b' uireasbbuidb eolais duinn Scho nfaca me riamb na ghineadb mo tbriall air thus Gun Taoiteoir gun Triatb Gun Tighearna riamh an Dun Soridh uam gu Beitiras A ghabh me ceisd 1 antras di Si iiiiinnir chruthach cbeutfacb Eiphteug na niear f&inneach Sma Leabhar an fhortuin riot Gheug ur na mbosa bàna Gu raibb triuir air fhicbiod agad Rinn thu noi.s an aicheadh Fhir a riun an sgriobhadh ud No cbuir sio8 e mpapair Nar fliurtaich an Riogh ort No mirbbuiltibh a Phapa Dbearbhthan (?) nach striocadh An lub ur in fionngheal braghaid I,e cloidheamh geur dba fliaobhar No le Hpath ghla aodtrom stailinn 1 •' cead" changed into " cewd" io MS. THE TURNER M8. 419 Macsamhailt na Rioghainn ad Ni fheidar Innse leinn Mar dhearrsadh glan na greine Sa nla cheitiuin a teachd oirn' Peucag Ibhinn aoibhinn i Si beuldearg na nsul gorm Mar eal' air cuan a heigcosg No mar reull san oidhche dhorch' Ta camchul fada fàinneach Air ailleagan na mbuadh Sa niamh mar òr na Spainne A tàl na nihil te dual Slat don fhreimh a chiosaichadh Gach Fine ta fa ngcuairt Triiin maise na Rioghainn ad Cho ni nn sear gu la luain Do dha ghruaidh chorcair chaoindearg Mar chaoir a teachd o ghual Mailighion cuimir caola Agus iad saor o ghruaim Eadan fionalt aobhach thu Fuidh chamfholt 8 craobhuidh sguab Do ciineis mar uchd na faoilinn No mar shneachd air faobhar chruach S maith thig coitin sioda seimh dod chorp cuanna caoiu Na gheal lasrabh orbhuidh Man ghealrosuidh reidh Dearca brionnach boigheach Mar cheo air bhar an fheir S cuimire no an fheorag An Oigh is gloine beus Smaith thig truscan don tsrol uasal Mad ghuailneach gasta seimh Clocha honnbhuidh buadhach Suas ma sparr do chleibh Lamha mine malla Is ailne chuireadh greus Mar nuallan a seinn orgain An fhoirm a thig od bheul -420 S maith thig dunadh oir amladh ort Air tbuchd mar bharr ad neoil Ohuirfainn geall ? s cho Xeurainn e Nach striocadh si da deoin Smeorach na mbos tana i Si in gile ghloine meoir A barr bachlach sgaoilte Js e roar theuda ceoil Da mbiadh fhiosam c'aite Bhfuil Fortunatus ann Ghluaisfinn lem' sdeud uaine Bheirinn an ruaig so don 1 White Hall GLeibhinn ordu rioghoil ann Comcheart sa sgriobhadh peann A chomhdacliadh na nctiisibh ad Le iiirag na nciabh cam Ca aite bhfuil e 's Tolanda Na ncorsaibh Kigh na Frainc Uu hiomal na Heorpadh Dhosan bhiadh a mhairg Oir Bretann cha Naitighadh e (in brath gun cbur san uaidh Se '& finid do na dailtibh sin lieir failte is sorigh uam End of last page now preserved. DEIRDRE AND THE SONS OF UISNEACH. Tub story of Deirdre and tlie Sons of FJimeaoh is known as no other is over all the lands of the Gaol, both in Ireland and Scotland. It forms one of the three crowning tragic stories — the Three Woes— of Gaelic atorydom (sgeuluigheaehd). There are many modern versions of the tnle. One of the best Scotch variants was got in the Isles by Mr Carmichael, and published in the 13th volume of the Inverness Gaelic Society Transaction*. Commonly the literary shape which the story takes is the ballad form, and the ballads are numerous and varied, being found in prai-tically all collections of Ossianic noetry. There are many, more or less old, versions of the story. The eldest variant is in the Book of Leinster, a 12th century MS., and il is also one of the shortest versions of it. This is published in Wjndisch's Iritcht Trxte, Volume I., where comparison is made with a 15th century form of the tale, found in a British Museum MS. O'Curry published u 14th century variant of the story in a defunct Irish periodical ; and O'Flanagan, in 1808, edited two versions for the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin, republished lately in the Gaelic Journal. The versions which follow are found in the Edinburgh USS. HC and 53. Dr Whitley Stokes has already published a complete and consecutive text from these two MSS. in Wiiulisch's IrÙeAe Ttxte, Volume II. Dr Cameron evidently prepared the first text (MS. 56) for publication in the SeottM Jirairw, both text and translation. MS. 56 is a paper manuscript of last century, and of Irish origin ; it belongs to Turner's Oolleo- tiou in the Advocates' Library. Its text agrees for the most part with O'Flanagan's second text. MS. 53, which is on vellum, lielongs to the 15th eentury, and ia known as the Glennuisaiu MS. ; it is doubtless of Scot.)] origin. The text is much the same as Turner's MS, 56 has ; but owing to the state of the MS. it is imperfect at the beginning and still more so at the end. It begins with Gonchobar'fl feast, and breaks otf with the death of Ilanu Finn, forming about three-eighths of the whole. MS. 56 is will punctuated, MS. 53 only at the end of sentences. The inverted commas and RjxwtmmhM are, however, editorial ; so, too, are the parentheses save with ar (immit) ; the capital letters are often so, especially in MS. .>3. MS, 56 writes 7 or tl for agu* indifferently. 422 TOT TALE OF DQBDRE. MS. 56 TEXT. OIDHEADH CHLOINXE H-UISNEACH. Oidheadh Chloinne h-Utsneoch Bonn ; no an treas th'rtiafrh do thrf truagh na Sgealu/gheacAte. High uasal oirdhearc ard-chomhaeAtacA ro ghabh ccann n of Dubh. k«>ii   . or " FioiiHgothach " (of wine fl«»wer«), wu a cognomen of Fiaclia. ,2 !*•> Fiacha Fionnfigotliach wait ulain (a.m. 3847) " Sexlna, non of Airtri, vm  f Eibhrir, Hon of Emher, hoii  f Ir " ( F.M., I. 51 ;. 13 The MS. in " 7/' for v Iih-Ii we uniformly write "agun." " " Doill" f«,r 4t iMill." gen. of •• Dall" (blind 1. 15 The MS. ìh " fithchid." >« Tli- MS. w " et" and), for which we uniformly writ4i " agUM." » 7 inghean. »• CathU, r»r Cathbadh. l9 Hie MS. i« " terr.ui- gaire." * Tl»c MS. w 44 inghion." » Older form, - Dcnlriu," gen. •' Denirend ' or " IX-nlrenn." THE TALE OF DEIRDRE. The Tragical Death of the Sons of Uisneach ;• or the Third Sorrow of" the Three Sorrows of Story -telling. A noble, illustrious, and most powerful King 2 assumed the sovereignty of the Province of Ulster, whott HUM ma Oonofaobar, 1 the son of Faehtna Fathaeh, 1 son of Rossu, "■ son of Congal (Jlaringnech," son of Kudhniighe Mor* (from whom the Clanna lindhraighe take their name), son o(' Sit right, son of Duhh, na of Foghmor, son of Airgetumr, son uf Sirlamh, son .if Finn, son of Bratha, son of Labhraidh, son of Cairbn, sou of nllamh Fodhla, son of Fiacha, son of F inn scot hach, son of Seadna, sou of Airtri, son of Eibhric, sou of Emher, sou of Ir, son of Militlh of Spain. And this brave, provincial, high-king s went to partake of a feast and entertainment to the house of Feidhlim, son of Dull, i'nii ebobar's s tory- teller ; for this was the manner of partaking of a feast in Kmain Maeha at thai time, namely, live and three score, and three hundred were the number of the household on a certain night in the house of each of them. 11 And while the feast waa being partaken of, the wife of Feidhlim gave birth to a daughter ; and Cathbad the druid. who happened to be then of the company, foreboded and prophesied concerning the child '" that many calamities and evils would befal the Province on her account. And when the nobles 11 heard this, they pro[>osed to put her to death forthwith. " Let not that be done," said Couchobar; I will take her with m become my own wife." 1 Lit. " childr . and send her 1 always so. "Lit. "high-mighty." ' Usually * " Fathach " = " Che wi«e." " U., " Koasa RuadJi," " Congal nf the Vnwl nails." ; i>,, Rudhraighe," 01 ..  ii l«tr. * Lit. " in tlie hnuw of every uiaii .if sliortened into " Conor "Rosea the Red." ' i. " Rory the Oreat." ■ them," f.c., of every entertainer. The parallel passage in O'Flanagan's i» translated — " Tlio uaage at the feast -if Kninii DM, that hil "«'» princely neat was appropriated to each of the household of Conor : and the ciuinlier of the Imii.-i-'hulii ■■!' Conor was live iiinl three .-hit almv.- sis hundred and one iIiiiuhukI." ''' Lit. " daughter." " Lit. '" heroes." " Lit. " only wife to me." 15 "Deirdre," from older '■ Deirdiiu," gen. "Deirdreud," like" " Eire," from older "Eiriu," gen. " Eirend" or '' Eireun," (low " Eireaun." " Deirdre" in pronounced " Duuvluil " ill the Highland-, of So Aland. Hence Macpliereon's " Darthula." 42 1 THE TALE OF DEIROKF. do 'n Choige * dul ionjia lathair, arA/ a h-oide, agus a buime, agus btnchainte - Cft)onchubha(i;r fèin, d a ngoirthaoi Leabharcham. Agus do bhi ar an ordugha/M sin go uibeith ionfn;uachaiV di, (agus; girr chiim ar mhnaibh a còrohaiiiisire a sgeiinh. Là Daon tharla d' a h-oide laogh do mharbhadh la sne(a)r^/a re proin* diae ; agus iar ndortadh fola an laoighe san t-sneacAfct, cromof fiach dubh d' a b- L, agus mar thug Deirdre sin d T a h-airt\ adubAatrt le Leabharcham, go madh mhaith le fein fear do bbeith aice ar ambeidis na tri datba ndchon n aire, mar ata dath an fhèich % tar fholt, dath fola an laoighe ar a ghruadhaibh, agus dath ait t-raearA/a ar a chneas. Ata a shamhuil sin d' f(h ; ear a bhfocha(i)r Chcmc\i\ihh&(\)r san lea%(h)iaeh. re a raidhtear Naoise mac Uisneacb, nctc Conuill 4 Clàtriugnig(h , m\e Rughraoi mhoir, 6 tièìmgh Conchubbar, amhutl adubhramar '' shuas. " Maiseadb, a Leabharcham," * ar Deirdre, " guidhimse thtoa a chur do m' agallamh fèin 'g ainfhios. Sochdat Leabharcham 6 do Naoise an nfdh am. An stn tig Naoiae os isiol an dàil Dheirdre, agus do chro'r Dèirdre a siitm dò mead na seirce do bhi aice dho ar a thuanagbbail, agus iarra* ar i fèin do bhreith ar ealodh 6 Chon- chubhar. Tug Naoise a aonta leis sin gè 'r leasg leis e d' eagla Chonchubhatr. Tri alia* Naoise ana sin, agus a d(h)is dear- bhrathar, \odhon, Ainnle agus Ardàn, agus tri chaogad laoch mar aim riii go h-Albain, mar a bhfuaradar congbhail buanarAla 7 6 Righ Alban, go bhfuatr tuanagbhàil sgèimhe Dheirdir, gur iarr mar mhnaoi dhò fein i. Gabha* fearg mhor Naoise ui me stn, agus triaNa* fro na bhrathraibh a h-Albain* an oilean mara ar teit(h)- cadh le Deirdre tar eis iomad coinbhlio/7rfa do thabhatrt do mhuintir •' an Righ agus doibh fein do gach leath roimhe sin. Là naon ionna dhiaigh stn do 10 comòradh 1! fleadh m(h)oraclh- bhal 12 le Conch ubhar an Kaiuhuin inhin àlutnn mhacha, 'ionnus %ur \*t siigach, soimheanmnach, meadhar-chaoin na slòigh. D' eirg- eadar aois ciiul n agus oirfìde agus caladhii'/ na( oige 14 011ta(i)ghe do ghabhail an duan, agus an drearnfa, agus an draoidhearnfa v> molta, a ccraobha coimhneasa, agus an geaga geinealai^A a bhfiadhnaise an Righ agus inaithe na Còige. 14 Agus asiad so na fi lead ha ro eirigh ann sin \ jegina at thw word. " MS. f • , oòmhmò^^dh. ,, ,s MS., " mòradhbhall." M Af»-riaiWmuaiciatis). 14 C igheacAla, ,, "Cathba. » 7 "Cathbadh" w thegen.of "Cathba," TIIE TALE OF DBIKDRE. 425 her ; and Conchobar put her into a fort apart, with l a tutor and nurse to rear her ; and no one in - the Province durst go into her presence except her tutor and her nurse and Conchobar's conversa- tion-woman, who was called Lebarehaui. She continued under this rule until she was marriageable ; aud grew in l>eauty above the women of her own time. It happened on a certain day, in time of snow, that her tutor killed a calf for food for her ; 3 and when the calf s blood was spilled on the snow, a black raven lighted 4 to drink it. And when Deirdrc observed this, she said to Lebarcham that she would like to have a husband having the three colours she saw — that is, his hair of the colour of the raven, his cheeks of the colour of the calf 8 blood, and his skin of the colour of snow. " There is such a man of Conchobar's household, whose name is Naesi, the son of Ui8nech, son of Congal Claringnech, son of Kudhraighe Mor," from whom came Conchobar, as we have said above. " If that be so, Lebarcham,'' said Deirdre, " I beseech thee, send him to con- verse with me privately." Lebarcham disclosed that matter to Naesi. Then came Naesi secretly to meet Deirdre. And Deirdre told him how much she loved him from the report she had heard of him, and asked him to take her away by stealth from Con- chobar. Naesi consented, 5 but reluctanth, for fear of Conchobar. Then Naesi and his two brothers, namely, Ainnle and Ardan, and three times fifty warriors along with them, journeyed to Alba, 6 where they obtained a holding 7 for military service from the King of Alba, until he had received an account of the beauty of Deirdre, and sought her as wife to himself. Great wrath took hold of Naesi on account of this, and he departed with his brothers from Alba, and came to an isle of the sea, 8 having fled with Deirdre after they and the King's forces had engaged in many conflicts. On a certain day thereafter, a feast of great magnificence was prepared by Conchobar in the softly beautiful Emain Macha, at which the people were joyful, in high spirits, and very merry. The musicians, singers, and |>oet8 arose to sing their songs, and strains, and famed incantations, and (to repeat) their trees of affinity and branches of genealogy in presence of the king and the nobles of the Province. And the following are the bards who then arose, namely, Cathbad, the generous druid, and Genan of the shining countenance, son of Cathbad, Misdeadha, son of Aimbergin, Fercertne the bard, and Breicne the son of Cairbre of the grey head. 1 Lit " and a tutor," etc. 2 Lit. " of the Province." 3 Lit. " On a certain day, it happened to her tutor to kill a calf [on] a snowy dav for food for her." 4 Lit " stooped down." 5 Lit. u Naesi gave hia consent to" that" « " Alba," gen. "Alban," dat. and ace. "Albain." 7 i>., " Land of maintenance" in return for military service. 8 »>., " «ea-girt." MaiVg tliàmigb le brrithir mhir FlieargiMit iu(h)ic R(o>igh > rù-ghil ; Ni dheanadhe - me ncht ni cliridh dhe — Uch is «ch aim mo chroidhe ! Mo ehniidbe iouna chril ebuiiiba, Atàanois'' fà mhur phudhar; 4 Mo tlmiagb uiL mc/ea muitlic ! Tangadur bbiu- ttiughlaitlie.* Nà It-abtiiV [sin], a Dlu-irdre dliian, A bbcan is (rile ita an ghrian, Mima ttigb Fuargjw go ndàil ugat'rid, Ciau bbiM d buna a bliiotlimairg. Farior 7 is fada lioni sin, Bhtìr ooììtù uxaoU go b-F.-imhuin— ìiìmr tteaMf a h-Albaiii g(li)]a(i)n gh7-/anaig(h), Nodi« liowsa is lautnhairg. A h-ait(li)lc uu laoi(dbe) sin taiigadae gu Fii>nn-rharn s no fbrflmi're ar Sliubli Fuaid, ajriis d' f(li):m ['t-irdro d' a neia" ag" ainfhios doibh ; agus do limit a toit'chim suaiii agus uodlata uirre 10 trt thut'rsc. Ague do mhothaig(h) Naoise gar fliagfadh " se lleirdre d'an «s, agus d' f(li)ill uino. ls Agns to eirigli as a coilla. ■' Cread an mhoillso do rm(n)Ì8, a Kioghcm 1" ar Naoise. " Bòm liltglii! a sitan," ar si, "agtis tar fan l3 fis fdthacli agiis aiding inlliiiiillioilidr iougi-iTitatli dlmnib aim, ioilkon, gan acheami ar cl]cacA(a7* agaibbse a ttrinr, iona ar Iollarm Fhionh, ague a chrmin l'ùin ar libuinne iiorliniadb, a (jus l".ui a eboiignamli libhse ; a-rus do riu(u) an laoi(db) : Tniagb nu taidhbbso tarfaa 1J dhamh, A cheathrur f[h]eati f hiomi ghlan, Gan ehenim oaibli ar cheaMfar dbe, Gan choiignainb fir re clièile. Nochar 14 chnn do bheul acht olc, A 1i]h;h.ii ni-àluiure eadrocAt, Neimh do bheòil thatia fharm Ar gliallaibb la mam Manaun. "The MS. in " Rlih ;" but ether veraionn have " Roigh," fttgOm' flrthf. ' illii'Hiit'iul. 'US., " aiiiini?." 'MS.. " ;j hud hair." "bliur Uiodhlnkllir." 'in. ■ MS., " fairior." 8 MS., " "" • M3., '• di nrftìs." 10 MS., " uirthe." " MS., " flujgabh."' " " MS.. " turW " MS., " Noch «." » Tho MS. h»»" «■ dhiilie i; Mamnn." It was then that Conehobar raised his lofty, light-clear voice, and this was what lie said. " Ye yung men and nobles of Ulster, " aaid he, " know ye of any fault, or blemish, or want that you no« have?" "We know not any, ! king and lord," said they. "H is not so with tue," said Conehobar ; " I kuow of a great want you have, namely, that the three torches of valour of the tinel are absent from you ; that is, that the three noble valiant sons of Uisneeli, son of Cougal Olaringneeh, namely, Nuesi, Aiunle, and Ardan should be in exile on account of any woman in the world, and that Nuesi the sou of Uisuech is tit to be a king, ami that he mill his two brothers have defended the half of Alba by the might of their hands and the hardness of their swords." "0 ! king and lord," said the rest, " it is long since we witild have said that if we had not been afraid ' to say it ; for these three would defend Oh whole province of Ulster against every other province in Erin, although the men of Ulster should not rise with them, for a lion in valour and prowess and a serpent in veuoni is each of them.' - "If that be so," said Conehobar, "send ye messages and messengers [or thorn toAllm." " Who will goto bring them ?" said the nobles of Ulster. "I know," said Ccnchobar, "that it is one of the gttua 9 of \aesi not to dime to Erin except with Fergus, sou of ttossit the lied, sou ,jf Kudhrnighe, or with Couall Cernach, 4 or with i 'nchulainn ; and I will know now which of these three loves me most." And he took Couall Oarnaoh into i place apart, and this is what he said uuto him, " Warrior-king, 1 1 :  nr'liiiliar, "it is now that I understand that the sons* of Uisncch arc more dear to thee than myself." And he sent ('onall away, 7 and rci| nested Cuuh.ulaimi to he brought unto him; and this is what he said unto him — " Cuchulatnu," said he, " if I should send thee for the sons! of Uisnceh, and they should be destroyed forme — a thing which I do not purpose to do — what wouldst thou do unto me I" " I pledge my word," said Cochn- lainn, "that if thou wouldst do that, shouldst thou seek eastward 1 Lit,, " if fe«r hail ulluweil us." 'Lit, "each own of tlieai." 'The grnta were eulvuiti iiijuiiL-iJiiij.-, whi.-li tli'w* uj»>n whom they were litit] were under niilii;iLi iiiii» ,:i' hi .mil i r t" fulfil. * i.e., " ('..mill the vktorioun." * Lit., " but every one of I lie I'Uteruien if ivli.in I could lay hold, he would not tnape from me without beiiuf put to death." * Lit., "children," Mid ulw.iy -. ' Lit., " he Mat QonU from him." 433 THE TALB OF DQKDRE. Do chiusa a chfiaa ar Bhuinae, '0 'se l a shaoghal is faide — A cheamt ar Bhutnae Borbruadb, Nocha liom anorA/ is truagh. A h-aithle na laoi/dhe) siit do ghluaisfada*- riompa go h-'Ard- na-soileach, ris araidhtear Ardmacha andiu - ; agus adubhairt Dèirdre : " As fuath :; liom an nidh ad chim sonn," ar si. ** Crèad ■i*. a RiogAaa V ar Naoise. •* Do nealsa fcin ad chiu 6s do chionm aa» aèr,* agus is neul fol eidi8 fir 'Eirionn air tl an (locha(i)r agus aninnnarhhtha 1:i nachar u dhaingion dòibh Hgiath v * na cloidhiomh ,,; mi cathbharr uaidhe fèin. " Ata a fhios s/n agamsa," ar Nacise ; "agus reachamaoid leat." Gluaisighid riompa ,T iar san ; lK agus ni h-aithristear an imthe(a)^A/a go rangadar go tig(h) Bhorraig(h) mhic Càinte. Agus d' f(h)euch Deirdre tar a h-ais ar chriocliaibh na h-Alban, agus adubhairt an laoi(dh) mar lcana* : rompa. THE TALE OK DBIRURE. 431 again that it ffU the cry of a man of Erin. "That is not the cry of a man of Erin," sakl Deirdre, "but the cry of a man of Alba." Fergus gave the third cry, and they all reeoanised thai it was Fergus, and Naesi said to Ardan to go to meet liim. And Deirdre said that she recognised the first cry from Fergus. " Why didst thou conceal that from us J" said Naeai. " A dream which I have hod," she said, " io wit, that three birds came to us from Emain Maeba, and brought with them for us three sips of honey, and left the three sips of honey with us and took away throe sips of our blood in their stead." "What opinion hast thou (formed) as to that dream, Princess V said Naeai. "My opinion is," replied Deirdre, "that Fergus has come to offer to ns a message of peace, and that Conchobar has a design against you ; lor sweeter than honey is a message of peace." "Hearken !" said Naesi, "Fergus' ship is in ihe port, and Ardan, arise thou, to meet him." Ardan went forward until he came where Fergus uns, mid gave three kisses to him mid to his sons. And he brought him with him to where Naesi, Deirdre, and Ainule were ; and they gave kisses affec- tionately and earnestly to Fergus and to his sons ; and he asked of them tidings of Erin, and more especially the tidings of the province of Ulster. "The liest tidings we have," said Fergus, "are that Couehohar has sent me for you with covenants and guarantees of peace, and that he is himself faithful and kindly disposed towards you ; and my word is pledged iu regard to the Fulfilment of this guaranty," "It is not meet for them to go thither," said Deirdre, "for their own lordship in Alba is greater than Coiic ho liar's lordship in Erin. "Better," said Fergus, "is the sight of one's native country than all that ; for one is not Imppy however great may he his prosperity and state if he does not see his native country every day." "True is that," said Naesi, " although my lordship in Alba be greater." " Sure unto you are my word and guaranty," said Fergus. "They are sure," replied Naesi ; and it was not with Deirdre's consent that Naesi nuitl that ; and she was forbidding Naesi to go to Erin for fear of Conchobar and the men of Ulster ; for she was sure that it was with a treacherous design that Conchobar sent Fergus for them. Fergus pledged his word unto them that if the men of Erin were intending their injury and destruction, neither sword nor helmet would protect them from himself. " L know that," said Naesi ; "and we will go with thee.' 1 After that they set off, and their journcyings are not told until they came to the house of Borraeh the son of Caiute. And Detain looked l>e]iiud her at the coasts of Alba, and uttered the following lay : — 432 THE TALE OF DEIRDRE. Ionmhutn tir, an tir ud shoir — Alba go na h-iougantaibh ; Nocha ttiocfainn 1 aiste ale, Muna ttagainn le Naoise. Ionmhutn Dun Fiòdh(a), is ionmhum Dun Fioim 'Sw 2 ionmhutn [an j Dun òs [a] ccionn ; Ionmhutn Iuis Dròighin de, \S is' 2 ionmhutn Dun Suibhne. Coill Chuanna ! '0 'n Choill Chuanwa. Mar a bhfutlid uiageadha fuara ; Aoibhina do bhadh«« an tan, Agus Naoise an oirear'' Albàn Gleana Caoin ! '0 'n Gleaun Caoin ! Do chodlainn fà m' earradh chaoimh lasg is eisfheoil |is saill] bruic 4 Fà h-i mo chufd an G\cunn Caoin ! Glertiin Ma sain ! 'O 'n Gle'in/t Masain ! Ard aehreamh, goal a ghasain ; 5 Do ghniodhmaois codlm//* eorrach, 'Os Inbhear mongacli Masain Loch Eitche ! '0 'n Ijoch Eitche ! Ann do thogbh'/* mo chcmf t(li)ig(h) ; Alu/nn a fhiodh ar nèirg(h)e liailo 7 greine a Loch Eitche. Glean n 'Orchaoin ! 'O'n Glcnin 'Orchaoin ! Fa he an gkv/im direfch dromchaoin ; Nior uallcha s fear a aoise Nà Naoise an Gleann 'Orchaoin. Glean* na Uuadh ! ••» 'O 'n Gleinn na Ruadh !» Mo ghean ar a bhfear lu da; dual ; Biim guth cuaiche os c/aoibh chruim ar* an drui'm u us Glcaim na Uuadh ! 1 MS., " nooh an ttiocfainn." - MS., «• \S ■#*," or " \S a*/ s MS., " oirth- car." 4 MS., " broic." 5 MS., " a inha«ain :" but tho (Hen Masan MS. *how* tliat " a ghanam" in tho correct reading. 6 The MS. Inn ** o* monga (rlejiium MaBain." Tlio Olen Manan MS. ha* " 'On InW munpach Mam in." 7 The Glen Manan MS. has " Iluailc." M MS., " rallach." "MS., " ruag." w MS., " ar an bhfear." n MS., '• ar an ndruf'm." THE TALK OF DKIRDRE. 433 Dear is the land, yonder eastern land — Alba, with its wonders ; I would not have come hither thence If I had not come with Naesi ! Dear is Dun Fiodha, and dear Dun Finn, And dear is the Dun above them ; Dear is Inis Draegen, too, And dear is Dun Suibhnè. Coill Cuanoa ! Coill Cuanna ! Where there are cooling springs ; Happy was I then wont to be With Naesi in Alba's bounds. Glen Caen ! Glen Caen ! I would sleep beneath my soft covering ; Fish, venison, and badger's fat — This was my food in Glen Caen. Glen Masan ! Glen Masàu ! High its sorrel, fair its grasses ; We slept our sleep unsteady On grassy Inver Masàn. Loch Etive ! Loch Etive ! 'Twas there I reared mv first house : Lovely its woods on rising Glen Orchain ! O Glen Orchain ! It was the straight glen of smooth ridge ; Nor more gallant was a man of his age Than Naesi in Glen Orchain. Glen of the Roes ! 1 Glen of the Roes ! My love to him who is its heir ; Sweet is the cuckoo's voice on bending bough On the ridge above the Glen of the Roes ! 1 " Gleann na ruadh" ((Hen of the roes) is " Glend da ruadh" (Glen of the two roes) in the Glen Masan MS. This glen is understood to be " Glen- daruaL" In " Gleann na ruadh/' the final » of the article disappears bjr assimilation with the following r. 28 lonnihuin Inis Droighin de, Ague a uisge gaiiimhe ; Go nach (t)tiocfainn aiad * alè, ■VA' mima ttiginn le Naoise. A li-aithle na laoi(dbe) sin tmnir/h FeargiutaguB clann Utttneeh yo tig(h) Bhun-aig(h) mhie Càinte mar aon le Dèirdre, agus tug Borrach pòga doibh go dil ague go diachro, " Ati &eadh ' again dui't, a Fhearguis," ar Borrach, " agiiB is geas dutt gan a dialtadh." O d' clniala Feargiu sin, do rin(iieadh) rotlmuall MKN dhc o bhonn go bathct*. "As olc do ghniodh tù sin, a Bhorraig(h)," ar se, " agus Conchubhar ar ccur mo bhrèithir orasa dann Utsneach du ehur g«« oit-easadh : ' go h-Eamhuin M(h)ac)ia ail là thiixhiiili.s an Kiriiin." Agus d' f(li)iafraigh * Feargiw do Naoise : " Crtkd [do] d(li)eantar uime sin," ar se. " Deantar," ar Iieirdre, " a rogha agjtdsa clans Uisneach do thrèigion ntì flrai/A do cbaithiomA." " NÌ threigteadh miae iad," ar Feargut ; "tte/-t vuirtead mo dhis inline leiti leu, indium, Iollnnn Fionn agus Bm'nwe Burbruadb." " Dar mo bhreithir," :ii' Naoise, " ni beag liom fèin bin, oir ni neach eile do chosain ■ roe riamh acAt me fèin." Agiis do ghluais Naoise Ò 'n lathraig(h) le feirg ; agus do lean Dèirdre, Ainnle, agus Ardan e, agua dis mhau Fbeargwua. Agus d' f(li)a^- lihadar Feargui l'o duliluith dob(h)r6naeh, &rfit iimliàin gwr bit ilearbli leis da inbeidis cùig' 1 Coige 'Eiriotin ar aon hUhaiV nàili [l]tiocfaidh dbiobh a choimeirce " fetn do bhriseadh. Dàla chloinne h-Uisncach, do ghiuaiaeadar riompa 8 an atb- ghairid gaclia couairc agus gacha caoimheolais ; agus adubAni'i Iieirdre : "Do bhèaruinn fein eòmliairle mbaith dibh." "Cicomti- ai'rle sin T ar niad. " Dul go h-Inis Cnillin* idir 'Eirinn agiis Albain ww/j', IglU fiiinmiliiu'n innte BO ceaitlifritL/A Feargiw ;m r[U)l"jfM ùd ; agiis is comhaill brt'-ithir d' FlieargtM gin, agus fris is iiireaabhuii/A dliibhsc c." Do labhaiY elatin Fheargtua, agus /uxadh adui.liradar: "Is ag radb uilc linne sin, a Dbeirdrf, mar naeh biadli ionjtainn eoimeirce D do diièanamh, gion go mbiadh Miur eeomltiiibaithse do [Aim/i ag cosnamh linn, agus brèitbir Fheargut* maille ris." " Matrg thaiuigh leis an breithir 10 Bin," ar hùinby, " agu.s g«r tfaxtig FmigtuarfbUadAsinn ;" agus adubhmVt anlaoidli": ■. * MB., "Mb Ms., ■ i'nuumìi." * MS., "chùìg." ! c . mt.irithir." " MS., "kdidhe." THE TALE OF BBIHUHE. 4J5 Dear is Inis Draegen, 1 too, And its stream with sandy bed ; B I would not have come hither hence If I had not come with Naesi. 3 After that lay, Fergus and the sons of Uisnech came to the house of Borrach, the son of C'aiute, and Deirdre along with them ; and Borracli kissed them fondly and earnestly. " 1 have a feast for thee, Fergus," said Borrach ; "and it isan obligation of honour on thee not to refuse it." When Fergus heard this, he became a crimson mass from the foot-sole to the face. " 111 hast thou done that, Borrach," said he, " and that Conehobar has bound me under solemn promise that I should send the sons of Uisnech to Emaiu Macha without delay the day they came to Eriu." And Fergus asked of Naesi, " What is to be done regarding that V said he. "Let this be done," said Deirdre— " Thou hast thy choice, to foiuake the sons of Uisneeh, or to partake of the feast." 4 "I shall not forsake them,'' said Fergus ; " but I will send my own two sous with them, namely, Ilhiuu the Fair and Buinne the Fierce lied." " Upon my word," said Naesi, " I think that not little, for it is not auy other that has ever defended me but myself." And Naesi moved from the spot witli wrath ; and Deirdre, Ainnle, and Aidnn, and the two sous of Fergus followed him. And they left Fergus behind them sad and sorrowful, only that he was certain that if the five Provinces of Eriu were assembled on one spot, they would not be nble to break his guaranty. Ab to the sons of Uisnech, they went forward by every nearest way and kindly information i and Deirdre said, " I would myself give you good counsel." "What is that counsel!" raid they. " To go to the Island of Cuillinn, between Erin and Alba, to-night, and stay there until Fergus will cat of that feast ; and that will 1»' .i fulfilling liy Fergus of his word, and besides it is needful for you," The Sims of Fergus spoke, and what they said was — "That is saying evil of us, Deirdre, as if we were not able to give protec- tion, though such good bauds as yours were not protecting along with us, and the word of Fergus besides." " Alas ! that we have come hither relying on that word, said Deirdre, "and that Fergus lias forsaken us for a feast ;" and she uttered this lay : — 1 Now « Ir.ii Draighneach" (the Maud of Th.rn») in Loch Awe. a Th» Qkn Mnt-au MM, tinii "» uisge iugaiuim glrm " iit* water in pure und). ' Fur "leNwiiee," [he O len Mnsan MS. haa "lull IninaJn " - " letii' ionniliiun" (with my dear or beloved cue', the last word of the li.v lieiug thun, as usual, the mm; as the fimt word. ' A* these aj-e ti*-t n]trri]*tive», there wtnii to 1* a mistake in the text. I.) 'Flanagan's version hie, "do rogha ag&t-Ba, ujic I'i'iieili ,l,i ihrèigi ],> :,n fhlca.Hi " ilmu hint thy choice, t« forsake Ilie children of Uisnech or the feast). 436 THE TALE OF DEIRDBE. Mairg thàinigh le brathir mhir Fheargiua m(h)ic R(o)igh * ro-ghil ; Nf dhèanadhe 2 me acht to chràdh dhe — Uch is uch ann mo chrdidhe ! Mo chròidhe ionna chro chum ha, Atà anois 3 fà mhòr phudhar ; 4 Mo thruagh 11a maca maithe ! Tàngadar bhùr ttiughlaithe. 5 Nà h-abatr [sin], a Dhèirdre dhian, A bhean is gile na an ghrian, Muna ttfgh Feargus go ndail ngatrid, Cian bhus 6 buan a bhiothmairg. Faraor 7 is fada Mom stn, Bh//r ccèim anocht go h-Eamhutn — Bhur tte&cht a h-Albain g(h)la(i)n ghrtanaig(h), Nocha liomsa is lanmhairg. A h-ait(h)le 11a laoi(dhe) sw tangadar go Fionn-charn b na forfhaire ar Sliabh Fuaid, agus d' f(h)an Deirdrc d' a nèis 9 ag ainfhioe dòibh ; agus do thiu't atoirchim suainagus codlata uirrc 10 tre thutree. Agus do mhothaig(h) Naoise gur fhàgfadh u se Dèirdre d'an èis, agus d' f(h)ill uirrc. 12 Agus ro eirigh as a codla. " Cread an mhoillse do rin(n)is, a Rfoghan V ar Naoise. " R6m lutghe a suan," ar si, u agus tarfas irj fìs fàthach agus aisling adhuathmhirr iongantach dhomh ami, iodkon, gan acheanu ar cheacAtar agaibhse a ttriur, iona ar I oil arm Fhionn, agus a ch^inn fcin ar Bhuinne Borbruadb, agus gan a chongnamh libhse ; a«?U8  eed, Thou wouldst not be against me then, 1 sav to thee, ! Naesi. i « Arduawlech " (the Height of the Willows). * Now DunrUllc '450 THE TALK OF DEIRDRG. do rin(n) dr(a)oidheacht ' orrthv ; oir do chntr Be muir m(h)òr- tlioimaeh ar ttadh an mhachaire roimh ohloinn Uisneach, agus fir UWA ar talamA tirim d' a ccoìs ionita ndiaigh. Agus ro ha truagh mar do bhadar claim Uisneach d' a ttraoeha Ban m(h)or-mhuir, agua Naoise ag congmhàil Dhè.irdre for a ghualaitm d' a h-anaeail - ar a bathadh. As twin s»n d'f{h) i::ii> Voiichubhar claim Uisneach do mfbJarbWA, agus do dhiultadar fir V\adh utle sin do dheauaWi ; òir ni raibh aon dutne an Oltaibh na raibh tuarasdal o Naoise dhò. Do bhi oglach ag CourAub/mr dar bh' ainim Maine Loimb-dhw-g, owe Righ Lothla(i)ii», agns as e Naoiae do mharbh a atbair agus a dhias dt'tubhrathar agns adubhaiHgo ndionguadh [e] Km an dithcheuu(n)tidh an dioghail an ghniomha sin, " Maiseiiitt," ar Ardin, " marbh me Fern ar ttoÌB, 6ir is mè in oige do zu' b(h)rdithribh." "Ni h-e st'n a deantar," ar Ainnle, " acht marbhtbar me Tiin ar ttoia." " Ni h-amhhi is coir," ar Naoise; " tu/U ata doidAeavah agamaa lug Manan(n)àn mac Lir dhiuuh, nnch fagbhaim futghioll buiTle nà bèime ; agus buailtior" uruinn attruir an èinf{h)cacAf è go nach fnicf«i iin cb.iVMWmb dhòibh g«r theasg na tri ciiui an einf(h)eocA( diobh ar an latliair sin ; agus goch nench d'OlItai'haiMi ar ar ghoiH sin do lèigeadar tri trom- gharrtha 4 cumha mnpa.* * O'Flanagau's Version has here a short prose paragraph followed by the lay which refers to Naesi's visit to the daughter of the Earl of Duiitroon and to Deirdre'a jealousy. We give in this note the prose paragraph from (. V Flanagan and a version of the lay (slightly different from O'Flanagau's) fvom a MS. collection i.f Scottish and Irish snugs written at least two centuries ago, and forming No. XLVIII. of the Edinburgh Collection of Gaelic Haunscripts. [See Reliquia Celtics, Vol. I., p. 119] : " Initlmsa Deirtlve ni chaeidb go truagh, tnirsech, t harming a folt Uisnigh, acas ai "Sor(a)iiih soil' go b-Albain uatm ! Fa maith i-adharc [aj cnan 'sh s gleaun Mar re claim I'/sncach aig seilg, B' aoibhin(n) a bheitli ds leirg a be{a)mt. THK TALE OF DEIRDRE. 441 When thou didst lead me forth To Easruadh . . . Thou wouldst not be against me then, I say to thee, ! Naesi. After this lay, they went forward until they saw Emain Maclm in the distance. " I shall tell you how you may know for certain," said Deirdre, " if they mean to act treacherously towards you." "How that?" said Naesi. "If you arc allowed into the house in which are Conchobar and the nobles of Ulster," she replied, " you will not be treacherously dealt with." They came to Emain Mac ha, and knocked at the door ; and the doorkeeper answered them, and went with tidings to Conchobar that the sons of Uisuech were at the door, and the sons of Fergus, and Deirdre. Conchobar called all his servants and attendants to him, and asked of them how the house of the Red Branch was provided with food and drink. They replied, that should all the men of Ulster come to it, they would find a sufficiency of food and drink. It was then that Conchobar ordered the sons of Uisnech to be taken to the house of the Red Branch ; and Deirdre said that it were better to take her own counsel, " And depart forthwith," said she. " We will not depart," said Illann the Fair ; " and great is thy fear, woman. We will go to the house of the Red Branch." Attend- ants were sent with them ; and generous and pleasant foods and bitter cheering drinks were supplied to them, so that they were joyful and merry, and servants and attendants were all drunk and jovial ; but they * were weary from the leugth of their journey. It was then that Naesi ordered the chess-board to be brought that they might play. It was then that Concholwir said, " Which of you, youths, will go to see if her own form and beauty still remain to Deirdre ? for if they remain, there is not in the world a more beautiful woman than she." " I will go myself," said Lebarchan, " and I will bring thee sure tidings." This was the way with Lebarchan — Naesi and Deirdre were more dear to her thau any other persons in the world ; for she often went through the regions of the world bringing tidings to them and from them. lebarchan went to where Naesi and Deirdre were ; and Conchobar's chess-board (was) between them, and they were playing on it. Lebarchan kissed 1 i.e., the sons of Ufanech and Deirdre. 442 THE TALE OF PEIRDRK. eadtortha 1 agu* iad ag imirt utrthe. 2 Tug Leabhareham poga. go dil agus go diachra doibh, agn* adubhairt : " Ni maith dhfbh an dara nidh as annsa le Conchubhar rngadh uaidh riamh do bheith agaibh d' à h-imirt, iodhon, an ceannchaomh ; signs is do bhur bhfios do cuireadh mise d'à fhèuchaint an matrionn a d reach na a dealbh fèin ar Dheirdre." " As olc an nidh adèuntar anocÀ t an Eamhuf'n." ar Deirdre, " iodhon, tri coinnle gaisge na ngaodhal* do mharbha(dh) a bhfeall, agu* ni bhiadh Earn hum aon oidhche is fearr iona 4 sin go bruinne an bhràtha ; agus adubhairt an laoi(dh) : As truagh Horn an meabhal 5 A dean tar emocht an Earn bum ; Agtu 6 'n tf meabhal 5 a mach 6a hi an Eainhuin fhionghalach 7 An triar as fearr faoi neamh Ddr imthigh ar Uvinn talmhan, Doilg(he) liomsa am beith mar (a)ta — A marbhao'A a los aon mhnà. Naoise agus Ainnle go mbladh, As Ardàn baisgheal am bra"thatr ; Feall ar an dreim * stn go luaith, Nocha liomsa nach ld*n-truagb. 9 A h-aithle na laoi(dhe) sin adubhairt Leabharchdm le macaibh Vhe&rgusa fuiuaeoga agus doirse an tighe do dhunadh : " Agus dà ttigthear chugaibh," ar si, " beiridh buadh, agus dèan aid h l0 calmacAl, Agus cosnaidh sibh fèin go maith." Agus do c(h)aoi Leabhareham frasa dian dear, agus ceileabhra* 11 dòibh, agus tainigh mar aràibh Conchubhar. Fiafraiglieas Conchubhar sgeala dhi. " Ataid droichsgeala agus sgeala matha agam," ar si. " Cia h-iad ainV ar Conchubhar. "As maith an sgeala," ar si, an triar is fèarr deal(bh) agus deanawi/t an Kirinn do iheacht chugutnn, iodhon clann Uisneach do tho-.icht go Coige UWA ; agia as e sin sgeala as fearr agutnn. Agus as e sgeala is measa agam,. iodhon an bhean is fearr dealbh agus deanamn san domhan"ag imthe&cht uainn a h-Eamhuw, nach (bh)fuH a cruith na a deilbh fèin ut'rthi ;" '0 d' chuala Conchubhar sin, do chua(i)dh moran d' à èud ar cciilu, agus do ghaibh 12 ag caoi andia(i)gh sgèimhe Dbèirdre go ndubhatrt aris : "Cia aguibh do reachas ,3 d' à l eatorra. , uirre. » no ncaoidheal. 4 Ms?.. "ioiina." * MS., "raeabha]L H • MS., ° on." 7 MS., '• fhionnghalach." • MS., •• ar an drat'm." »The MS. U '• oooh U liomsa is Mntrùagh," which is evidently incorrect. The Olen Masan MS. has " noch limsa nach iswtruagh," with which 0' Flanagan's version agrees* ,0 MS., " dèinidh." » MS., " ceffiobhras." ,5 » do ichabh. » MS., •« reachach." THE TALE OF DE1RDRE. 44& them affectionately and tenderly, and said, " It is not well of you to have the second thing dearest to Conchobar ever taken from him playing upon it ; that is, the polished chess-board ; and it is to see you to ascertain if her own form and beauty still remain to Deirdre that I am sent." " Evil is the deed that will be done this night in Emain," said Deirdre, " namely, the three torches of valour of the Gael will be slain by treachery ; and Emain will not be better for that for one night until the hour of doom ;" and she uttered this lay : — Sad to me is the treachery That is done this night in Emain, And because of that treachery henceforth It will be fratricidal Emain. The three best under heaven That have walked on the face of earth, Grievous to me their being as they are Slain for one woman's sake. Naesi and Ainule renowned And Ardan of white-hands their brother, Treachery to this band suddenly Tis not to me 'tis not full woe. After that lay, Lebarchan told the sons of Fergus to shut the windows and doors of the house. " And if they come to you," smd she, " win ye victory, and do valiantly, and defend yourselves well." And Lebarchan shed hot showers of tears, and took leave of them, and came where Conchobar was. Conchobar asked tidings of her. " I have both evil tidings and good tidings," said she. "What are they?" said Conchobar. u It is good tidings," she replied, " that the three of best form and appearance in Erin have come to us, that the sons of Uisnech have come to the Province of Ulster. And these are the best tidings we have. And the worst tidings I have are, namely, that the woman of best form and appearance in the world when she departed from us out of Emain has not retained her own beauty or form. ,, When Conchobar heard that, much of his jealousy left him ; and he took to lamenting the loss of Deirdrc's beauty, until he said a second time, " Which of you will go to see if her own form and 444 THE TALK OF DBRDRE. fheochaint a matrtoon a dealbh na a dèanamh fèin ar Dheirdre 1" Agoa d' f(h)iafnu?* sin fo t(h)ri, agus nior fhreaga(i)r aoin(n)each è. As an* sin adubhatrt Conchubhar le Treandorn : ! "A Threiuidoirn,* da do mharbh t'atha(i)r agus do t(b)riàr d(h)earbh ratharT " D* f(b)eadar," ar se, "gurab e Naoise mac Utsneach do mharbh iad. "Mais/ao**, a Threandoirn," * ar Cone&ttòar, " èirìg(b)6i d' à fhios a mairionn a dealbh fein ar Dhèirdre." Do ghluais Treandorn roimbe d' vmnwdht na brùtghne, agus fuatr se fmnneoga agus dòirse an duna dunta. Agus do ghaibh eagla è, agvj adubhatrt : " Ni coir dhamh clan* Ctsneach do thaobbadb, oir atrf fearg go mor orrtha " Agit* fuatr futnneog dearmaid* ar ait mbrwighin 4 gan dunadh, ngtts do ghaibh ag feuchaint ar Naoise treos an bhfutnneoig ; 6 agus do mhotbaig(h) Dèirdre stn, agus do chut'r a cceill do Naoise e. Agus d' f(h)euch Naoise amach, agus do chon(n)atrc sutl an fliir stn. Agus as ambla du bhl iein agus fear ghonta na tàiplise ionna laimh ; agus tug urchar utrimisneach uaidh do 'n fhear gur chut'r an ionad sùtl 6 an òglaoig(h)" è. Agus tainigb mar araibh Conchubhar mar sin agus e ar leath-shùil. " As brtathar danihsa," ar se, "a Chou- diubhair gurab adhbhur 8 Righ 'Eirionn 9 Naoise mac Utsneach, agus gurab i Dèirdre bean as fearr dealbh agus deauamh do mhnaibh na crutnne." As aim stn adubhatrt Conchubhar : " £irg(h)idh, a Olltacha, 10 agus tag(h)aidh timpchioll 11 na brtrighne agus cutridh tre dbearg lasracha i." lar sin d' èirg(h) f t Vine h "bar, at that time, so that he forced him to i-much behind the shelter of his shield ; and the Qnhan roared with a horrible room] mmd bsonuM ol the great- ness of tli» distress in which Fiacliu, the BOB of t'onchobar, was. And the three chief Waves of Erin roared (responsive to it), namely, the Wave of Toth, the Wave of Olidria, and the Wave of Rudhraighe. And   Email] Macha ; and the I'lstermen dared not prevent him. And he came to lllann the Fair from behind him, and thrust the Colg-glas, 1 that is, his sword, through his heart. " Whoever hath pierced me at my back," said lllann the Fair, " 1 would have given him battle in front of me." " Who art thou thyself 1" said ('ouall. "I am lllann the Fair, the son of i ■ .. the " grrcii" ur " blue b'ftde." 458 THE TALE UF DEIRLllE. Cuchuloinre * roim/ie go Dun 1 ti-ulgà(i)n go cumhach, doblionath ; agtw ro inhallu/g(li) Cnthfiich - draoi Eanibuin M(h)acha an dioghu/1 : ' an mhoritilc sin, agus adubhi/j't naeli Livahhadh f'uii- chubhar na neach eile dh'a sliliocA* an baile sm go brath an deoigh an fheill sin. Dala Fhcargiwa mic Koaa rlua(>)dh, tuinìgh ar na nihaireach d'èis marbht \ui ehloiiiric b-l'isiieach go li-Eambuiu M(li)aeha; agua nmr fim/c gur nmrbbfttl/t iud tar » shlana fHn, tug frin agus Corm/ic Conloingios iii.il' ('(b)onchubhair agus Dubli- tbach Bao]{ah)idiich goii a™ bu/dhin ' coimheasgur do mhm'ntir ClionchubhaiV, gwr thuit Maine nun' C(li)ouchubhat'r leo agus trf uhèad d'a mini/nth- niar aou leis. Loisgthear agua aiVgtliear Kiimhum M(b)acha, agus marbhthor b*ntr«eht 5 Cbonclmbliair leo. Agua cruin»ighid a reaiiMl" do guch loath, agua fa li-e Hon a sIÌi)1h"/ ; //i tri cnliilc laoch ; agus Lriallaid as sin go Cutwa'Vf'nil.'b go h-Oiliol(l) M6r, ,: fa High CoiniiicAf nn tratli ni», agus goMeadlibh Cliruachna, mar abhfuaradar faille ugtu fostu. Dala F(h)eargtwa agus Clionna/t 1 Clionloingios go na laoch- raid/t, iar roc/Um'ti a cConnii'Vt/uilili dijilih ni bli(e)idis rionuidlii'lu* gau \»eht fogblif uathiL ag argu/ii ag;« ag loagaA Vind/i, mar sin dhòibli guv tnmcliadli i iin.li   Ct:mt.-lii ilihaj- Ciii.ni/dhe ;   Chore util Concliubar Clioreainruadh ; agus o Chonnili'ie at:i gacli Conrulmicne da bhfuil a cConnarAtailili : agus gi(dli) b'c leighfios are duan * dàrab tosach : "Clai r'hc:trg«*u tlaiiM ii do gbeabliaidli go folltw g«r mòr an t'lirriu-hfiis ■' do ghabhadar an triur m(h)ac sin Meidhblie a eConiia'Afaibli agim aan M(li)uml 1 Cuchulunn. * " C»thW  > avenge that deed;" and thereupon Conall gave a stroke to Fiaeha the Fair, so that his head was severed From his body ; and Conall departed from them. Then the Bigus of death came upon Mann the son of Fergus; and he put his arms into the house, and told Naesi to act valiantly, and that he had himself been wounded by Conall Cemach in mistake. It was then that the Ulstermen surrounded the house, and set fires into it. And Ardnn came forth and put out the fires, and slew three hundred of the troops. And after being out a long time, he came in, and Ainule went out the other third part of the night to utflh the house; and he slew a countless number of the Ulstermen until they departed helplessly from the house. It was then that Conchobar began to urge on the troops ; and Naesi came out at last, and it is impossible to reckon the number that fell by him. The Ulstermen gave the tight to Naesi ; and Naesi routed them three times. Thereafter Deirdre rose to meet him Rod said unto him, " Victorious has been that fight which thou thyself and thy two brothers have fought ; act valiantly henceforward. And that was evil counsel fur you, to have put trust in Conchobar and the Ulstermeu, and it is unfortunate that you did not take my counsel." It was then that the sous of Uisnech made an enclosure by joining their shields together, and placed Deirdre between them ; and made an assault together by the troops, and slew t hree hundred of them in that onset. It was then that Conchobar came to Cathbad the droid, and said— "Cathbad," said he, ■'restrain the sons of Uisnech, and practise enchantment upon i hem, for they will destroy the Province for ever if they escape in spite of the men of Ulster on this occasion ; and 1 pledge my word to thee that they will have no cause of fear from me." Cathbad believed these sayings of Conchobar, and went to the sons of Uisnech, and laid them under enchantment ; for he put a 460 THE TAT.E OF DE1RDRE. do rin(u) drfajoidheaclit ' orrthi ; òir do chm'r se muir m(h)or- ihonnnch ar feadA an mhachai're roirah chloinn Utsneach, agus 6r UliaVt ar talaniA tirim d' a ccois ionna ndiaigh. Agus ro ba truagh mar do bhadur clan» Utsneach d' a ttraocha Ban in(h)or-mhtiir, agus Naoise ag congmhail Dhèirdre f6r a ghnulninn d' a h-anacail - lira, bàthadh. As ann sin d' f(h)6L'air PlllnènMlH clanit Uisneaeh do [ii(h)arlxi./A, agus do dhiult&dar fir V\adh utle sin do dhcamiWt ; uir ni rnibh aon dutue an Oltaibh na raibh tuaraadal o Naoise dho. Do bhi oglach ag ConcAub/pir dar bh' ainim Maine Uiirali -dliearg, mac Righ Loehla(i)n», agus as e Naoise do raharbh a athair agus a dhias dearbhrathar agns adubhairt go ndiougnadh [e] fnii an dithchean(n)adh an dioghail an ghniomha Bin. " MaiBeadA," ar Aldan, "marbh me tern ar ttois, ùir is mi' is òige do in' b(h)raithribh." "Ni h-e stn a deanUr," ar Ainwle, "ocAt marbhthar me f«n ar ttois." "Ni h-amhlii is coir," ar Naoise ; " iu-h/ ata cIoù/A«imh agamsa tug Manan(n)an mac Lir dhamh, uach fagbhann fuighioll buille n» beime; agus buaiUior 3 oruìnn altmir an einf(h)eacAr è go nnch faicn-ai/A aoin(n)eacb agutnn a dhearbhraihiuV aga il(h)itheheaiin- adh." As MM sin do s(\i)\nradar na h-uaisle sin am brai glide ar aoinclicap, agus tug Maine coilgblieim cluù//i«uth dhoibh gar theasg na tri cinn an ciuf(h)eacnf diobh ar an lathair sin ; agus gach neaeh d'Olltachaibli ar ar ghoill s/n do lèigwfar tri troiu- gharrtha * enmba unipa.* * O'Flanagan'a Version has here a short prose paragraph Mil i»ed by the lay which refers to Naesi's visit to the daughter «f the Earl of Duntroon and to Deirdre's jealousy. We give in this note the proac pamgi-apb from O'Flauagan and a version of the lay {slightly different from 0' Flanagan's) from a MS. m»Hnnri« i>f Scottish and Irish songs written at least two centuries ago, aud forming No. XLVIII. of the Edinburgh Collection of Gaelic Manuscripts. [See fie/i'/iti  save her against drowning. It was then that  iadgii(i)ii go cuinhacli, dobhrvnach ; agiw ro mhallui'g(h) Cathfach - draw Eamhuw M(h)acha an dioghuil ■' nil mhoriulc sin, agus adublwiVt tmcli gwibhadh Cou- chubhar tut neach cik' dli' a ahliocA* an baile stn go bratb an dcoigh an fheill am. Daia Fheargjwa mm liosa Kua(i)dli, tainigh ar n& nihatVeach d'uis murbhUicr cbl^iiuie li-Utsneaeli go h-Eamhuin M(li)au!ia ; ngus ti i" ^ ■ fusiiY guv uuiriihtnt/t isid tar a shlana f«i», tug f«naga» Qatmaa Cunloiugins mae ('(hJuiitbubbaiV agus Dubh- thach Daol(sh)ùlacli gou aw bui'dhin * uoimheasgur do mhiu'ntir ChonebubhiuV, gur tlimt Maine m«c C( li kaichubhiuY Igo agtia trl chèad d'a mhiimtir mar aon Ic^ia. Loisgthenr agus lurgtlniin- Eiimhui'u M(h)atlia, agus marbbthar buitraoht" CbonchubhatV let*. Agus cnitnnighid n ivati"t"   gaih k'atli. agus fa h-e Hou a sflifljcfK/A tri inliik' [ai n.'b ; agus tnallaid as sm go OouMflitoibll go h-Oiliol(l) Mòr, 1 ' fa High ( \inunrlit an tiatli s/ji, agus go Meadlibh Climacblia, mar ubhfusirailar laillu agwjr foSttf. Dala F(h)ea7"graa ugns Clioniviic {.'lionluiiigìijs go ua laoch- ritidli, iar rocAfutn a cConnacA/aibl] dtitbh ni bli(c)idis aonoidbclie (tun iucki foghln natlia ag argn/ii agus ag losgorf/i Ulorf/t, mar sin dhòibh gut' traocliadli mod) ( 'liuaUguc lei'i, gniomh as a ttainigh ioniad dochnli)r agus dililifheirgr idir an dà Choige ; agus do chaithaadar aeatskt inbliadhna, do do ivir dronigfl eile deicli lnliliaillum ar mi ordtighdi'/i sin gun osadh aoimai're eadtorrtlw. An leith aistigih| don iiiiusir .sin do olioimi-g Fwirg-ii* In Meadlibh gur toirch  cl '  ghaibh cluithe i caoineas greidhm di, agiiH nach hit; nhhnr/ti na iirdiigìw/A aoiiih- neas [na] miineacb ionna h-aign';, do ehni'r fioa ar Eogan mac DurtharAr, flaith Feartmihw'dhe. 11 Agus adeirid ciu'd do na aean- vkuiMilift gurab e an t-Eog»« so do mharbb Naoiae mac Uiaueach- an Eamhui'n M(h)adia. Agus iar ttencltt d' Eogaa do lathai'r Chouehubhair, adubhatrt le Dèirdrc o nàch fuair Uin naithe a h-aigne do diaochladh 7 o na cuinha, go ceaithfrm/A du! seal eile le h-Eogin j agus leis sin curthar ar chnlif Koguin ionna cbarbud i, agua rt_'id Conclntbhar d' a ttiodhlacadh. Agw* ar mbeith ag trial) dhuibb do Vihciread/i hi suil ar Eogan roini|H.- go fioehdu, agns sutl ar I bonchnbhar iomi.i dia(i)gh ; oir ni raibh dis ar domban is mo dh' a itug f until no iad ar aon. Mar do mhothaig(h) uniorro Couidmbhar iae ag si!le{adh) fa seach ar tèin agi« ar Eog«n, ■dnbhoiVt rè tre abharAe : "A Dheirdre," ar se, " is Btiil caorach idir dhi reithe an t-sml sin do MwilTl Oram Bgw ur Eogin." Ar na cblos bid do I>h('-irdre, do ghaibh bio(dh)ga leia an bhreithir* Bin i, go ttug baoithleim as an ccarltad ,l amach, gur bhuail a weann ar charrtha cloiche do bhC roimpo go ndeamaidh l0 mire mionbhruighte d' :i ceaim, gur ling a )i-inc(hjinn g go no amhln sin titinigli has l>ln-irdn\ THE TALE OF DEIRDRE. 461 proof of this be the territories that are named after them in these two Provinces. Fergus and the Dubhlongas, that is, the strangers who accompanied him to Connaught, were continually plundering and doing mischief to the Ulstermen on account of the death of the sons of Uisnech. The Ulstermen, likewise, were avenging themselves on them and on the men of Connaught on account of the Cattle-spoil which Fergus took from them, and on account of all the injuries done to them, so that the losses and injuries which they had inflicted upon each other were so great that books are written on them, which would take too long to read here. An Account of the Death of Deirdre is given here. As to Deirdre, on account of whom those deeds were done, she was with Conchobar in the household for the space of a year after the slaying of the sons of Uisnech ; and even as much as the raising of her head or giving a smile with her mouth she did not do during that time. When Conchobar saw that neither amuse- ment nor kindness interested her, and that neither pleasantry nor honour brought joy or courage into her mind, he sent for Eogan, the son of Durthecht, lord of Fernmagh. And some of the historians say that it was this Eogan that slew Naesi, the son of Uisnech, in Emain Mac ha. And after Eogan had come into the presence of Conchobar, (the latter) said to Deirdre that since he had not himself been able to change her mind from her sorrow, she must go for a while with Eogan ; and with that she was placed behind Eogan in his chariot, and Conchobar went to give her away. And as they were journeying onward, she would give a look fiercely at Eogan in front of her, and a look back at Con- chobar behind her ; for there were not two men in the world whom she hated more than them both. But when Conchobar noticed her looking alternately at himself and Eogan, he said in sport, " Deirdre, the look of a ewe between two rams is that look thou givest me and Eogan." When Deirdre heard that (saying), she took fright, and made a wild leap out of the chariot, so that she struck her head against a pillar-stone that was before her, and made small fragments of her head so that her brain suddenly leapt out ; (and) in that wise occurred the death of Deirdre. 462 THE TALE OF DE1RDRB. CraobhsgaoikodA agus Coibhneas 1 ar chuid do Cliuradhaibh na Craoibhe Rua(i)dhe aim so, sul laibheoram ar thinlle(adh) do ghniomharthutbh Chonchulairm : f Cathfach : ' mac Maolchrò na ccath, Ceidrigh aga raibh Maghach ; Dias eile fà bhiian a bhfearg — Rosa Ruadh, Catrbr* Oinndeirg 4 Triuir do rag Maghach clann ghlan, Rosa Ruadh, Ca(i)rbrr, is Cathfach ; 3 Do ha triar rath m bar re roinn Do bhi ag Maghach Maloch dhoinn Tri mic le Rosa Ruadh tlhi, Is cheithn? mic le CatYbrc ; Slata Fin«g(h)eala gan oil — Tri h-inghion" le Cathfach '* Rug Maghach do C(h)athfach draoi Tri h-inghiona b fa gheal gnaoi Do chinn a ccruith tar gach aon — Deithchiw, Ailbhe, is Fionnchaomh. Fionnchaomh, inghion Chathfach :t draoi Deaghmhrtthatr Chonaill Chearnaigh • Tri mic Ailbhe, iiar ob àgh Naoise, Ainnle, is Ardan Mac Dcithchime na ngruadh nglan, Cuchuloi/?» 7 Diina Dea1ga(i)n ; Clann nàr ghaibh grain le goiw, Ag tri h-ing(h)iona s Chathfaidh. Clanna h-Uisneach, sgiath na bhfear, A ttuttim gan neart vXnaijh ; Maith a ccaidrtomh, goal a eeneas — Ag sin aguibh a/i trras thruagh. Finis. 1 MS., " coimhneaa." - MS., f 'huml'iiuti. 3 " Cathba" or •• Catbbtilli." * MS., " ccin/idearg." ■"• MS., liinginniia ( ' . ' MS., " Chonuil CheaTf-Dais.*' 7 MS., Cuchulainn. 8 MS., hiugionna ( '.). THE TALB OF DEIKDRE. 463 A Genealogical Tree and Pedigree of some of the Champions of the Red Branch are given here, before we shall speak further of the acts of Cuchulainn : Cathbad, son of Maelcro of battles, Was the first king who possessed Magach ; (There were) other two, of enduring wrath, Rossa Ruadh (and) Cairbre Cenn-derg. Three to whom Magach bore offspring fair — Rossa Ruadh, Cairbre, and Cathbad ; Three were they prosperous Whom Magach, the brown eye-browed, espoused. She had three sons by Rossa Ruadh And four sons by Cairbre — Scions pure-white without blemish ; Three daughters she bare to Cathbad. Sons of Uisnech, shield of men, They fell, but not overpowered in fight ; Pleasant (was) their fellowship, white their skin : There you have the Third Sorrow. Magach bare to Cathbad druid Three daughters of fair countenance ; They grew in beauty above all else Deitchim, Ailbhe, and Finn-caem. Finn-caera, daughter of Cathbad druid, (Was) the worthy mother of Conall Cernach ; Ailbhe's three sons, who shunned not battle, (Were) Naesi, Ainnle, and Ardan. Deitchim's son of bright cheeks (Was) Cuchulainn of Dun Delgan; Sons were they who feared not wounds — The three daughters of Cathbad bare. ! 1NIS. ■174 THE TALE OF DKIIltlRK. cohatm ambài Sneisi 7 sii agimirt fictile 7 Aii»«le garbh. 7 tile- 111«»» cuairt impa 7 adib dhigh 7 tug lochmii ai-lasm/ leis amaeh in 1 anbfhaithch* 7 do gab agsluide tv.ixlo^h 7 iiManwit tc-rA/ tiuicAef/ uabrut'ghui. Dob« maitU anuwc do bi afiaiu, v/on \\\m Fid mat b'crgusft, nirer uech nam imsi-d iiaiuiilmaiiie 7 nitardrt foWMdaJ iirigh dò, 7 nirgab aed riamh l nckt ò Ye-rgta nam*. IS iiiisiii adutwtrt Convhobar, ■' Gait abfuil Fiacha mo luacl" ar t'owcAoiar. "Sofia," ar Fiacha. " D[ar mo] cubhiw, iaanaou oidclii vuiittii/i txsa 7 Illiwin [7 aa iiit] aii-m aathur uta aigeeia 7 Ixir&i mairmai let [ic/on], anorehain ^ aneoagracA 7 afoga 7 mo co[lg] 7 dena calma ìeò. IS ailaiii di>iiis.fi;/f(.rr each ■M-h(.i' ilib. 7 tunic Fiacha tent oomIum co h-lllann 7 do fiafmig llliinre dF(h)iaclia. " l_'id sin, a F(h)iachii J" :use. "Cororuo 7 comlann dobail lem ritsa," ar Fiacha. " Olc dorifiia," ar 111« nn. " 7 maic Uis»t;/A ar mo o(h)onwi'ree." Doifisaigetar au/iè/r, 7 do ruiuiMt eomlonn tit-da forniatii dàna dcdln deglajvm/. 7 do fw- tamlai'/A Illimn ar Fìacba cotuc air liiidhe for agat(li) aageith 7 dogois ansgiath ; dogeisttar tri [ir/ni tofin EnW aflsiii ii/on Ton t'lidna 7 Tofi ThiwfAi 7 Tonn Batgraidkr. Do bi Craotì GanuttA an Du» Sobairce anmbitiV/ si». 7 do cualu torafl Tuifle Kngraide. " IS fir sin," ar Coaall, " aid Conchobiir anuigin 7 in coir gan a inwigkir 7 gabo* aairni 7 tiSiiic roimke go b-E'rmuin 7 fuair aucomrac arnarudnW w FidcAd bum C(k)oni:kobiiir 7 inorcliain acbuirmttt 7 acbeic foraigh iioaiii/m/ atig-rnii 7 nirlainiKit UW m-;. 4G5 :l Cia racbaa rissiii V ar cilch co coitcbefi. Dofbetur so," in- Conchobar, "gunib d  Naeisi teeA/ an- Eirinn ar sith acht le trt . i . Cnciiliwnrt ranc Subx/fuim 7 Conall nine Aimirgin 7 Fcrgtw mfte Rosa, 7 (aith)neocliatsa cia don triaraiu lenab andsa mè." 7 rue Conall leis (ar)fod foWA, 7 dofhiafrni;/ de, " Crod dogenta(r). a richumiridh an betlia," ar (Conehobar,) "da chuired'f tircemi torn ii-l"isncieh thu 7 a tuillrr/ ar tinchai'i 7 ar tsiuecli DM naeh fobraiwil" "Ni bas acnfduine dutiufad) de.siii," ar Cons&\, "acht gun USD aram-beruin d(o) Ulltfui ni roiidifet iiech uaimai a b ... gan bis 7 eg 7 "ii:ed dimirt air." " Is sin fir," ar C'mcAol/ar, " a Comudl I ttnots tuigimsi ua(ch iniiiuio) letaa mè ;" 7 dochnir se ConaQ uadn, 7 (tugad) Cwhtilriùin da indnaigtrf, 7 do fhiafruig an cetna de. " Dobrrirn se dom breithiV," ar Cikhulaiun, "da deasa gusau India (nosirtber tit) soir nach gebaidsi couiha socruidbe uaid, «eht do tortus fein (all gnim sin." '* IS fir sin, a Cu, nach lemsa bhf . . 7 anois (ruod)aigliimsi lit fiiath agadsa. 7 dochuir s*» Cuchulaiun uadha 7 tugad Fergus da iiidsaigri/, 7 dofhiafrntg an cc/na de, 7 as ed adubatrt Firgtu fris: "Ni gellaimai dul fa tfuil (na fat feoil," ar) Fcrgw 7 gidbed i-t-iiii ntuiu.il UlItacA ar auibwuuin nach bfiiigm/ baa 7 oigei/ Hm," "Is tuBa raca* ar cend cXainni Uisni^, a riuiil' 1 ''," a;' t\j«cWwr, " 7 gluais roniat amartfcA," arae, "oir is let tietitii/, ; gab iaHe'Af nnoir dnit co Diin Rorraig untie audi., 1 7 talmir do b(h)f*athrtr damaa maraa tawga tic fair an Ennn naeh leefw oiriaito na coninnir/At" doibh eotigid cohEniui'w M«c/ei aiioidcli/ sin." Tangatur rompa asdecb iarsia 7 doiflia Km/w u dolten aslaiiiiidiWiV daJHHJ ixVianiff, 7 docbtciirf aliiu ailr ' domaitlnVi an Coigùl inailli ris isuaslaiit'- sill. 7 mgatar as Miiiidchi '■' Bin; 7 do aigill Conchobar Borrach mac aft«'t, * 7 doAaxfo^B do : " Anbfutl Qtd agat damsa," ar ConcAotar. " At" eodemiw," or BomwA, " 7 do b(ih)eidir 1cm adcnaui 7 m* (f)he(i)dir lem a bnimi'i'/- I'uliK'irniffVi. 'SVtr/i't client at." " Mas-i/ ale,'' ?u Oonchobar, "tabotV dfirgu* hi, uair is da g(h)esaib fl«/ dobm/," 7 dogeall lloiracA sin, 7 riigat.ir ai uuMBki 1 s/n gu Ix'illi gan baognt 7 do einff Fergu* comocli RfMHDMBoA, 7 liirng I0Ì8 do slimyaib na doshoornide ac/i* adfas rune few, iilun 111««« Finn 7 Buiniie Borbruui/ 7 Cuilletid gilla nhOaaigt 7 iiniubr.n'A, 7 do gluaiaetir romtxi co daiitgen men: nUisii/;/ 7 00 I^ich riFitci 7 is ainl'i/'/ do batur untie t'isniV/ 7 tri fiaboghft* fairetnge hcu, 7 inboth an dendais fulacAfadh dibsin nihillti do 1 Above the I in % itrafck iiiarkiiiL,' a CMlliilMim. |»rrli»pa -alyh. * Denvleii in MS. bj n L-outmction. * MS., anag, with m stroke *lx>ve  > : "Atclumim glaedh aile, 7 is glaedh Eirefmigh i." " Nibedb," ar Dcirdr/, "ni hiuaA glaodh Eircfinigh 7 gh i, " Atd," arst, " Ft^im do tearlil cugaifi iitC'c-AiuirccA* nsar tir diith- chait Sen lè sitli ; àir ni mfltai mil nu teacfita.ire*ckt sftlii t 7 isi'at na tr/ bolgania fola rug  slanaighecAt *! > hliur tigenit ■■ Ì ■■ -. Tug Frrgit* Sen A hriJitlw d.iilih geniad int fir Emm uile  a a cen ar Bhvtna' ose a saegal is uille. iiocAa lemsa anocht uach trwag a ceo ar Bkiutnnt mBorb Rtcad." T. Aaahaitfhpe sin tangatar rompo go hArd [na] Saike* .r. id(ou) l Aramacha aniu. IS ansin doraidh Deird/i : " Is fada lim in ni docim anois .i. do nellsa, a Sarin van aer, 7 is nell fola è, 7 dobmun com/ztrle daib, a mam UiiniV/ !" ar Deirdri. " Canwt coniairle sia, a rigan f ' ar Sarin. " Dol co Dun~dealg icse)W dim Borraù/ iiintr Andi'rt co rangatai- BtnoM (Macha). IS aflain idnhwt BfatM : " taUuftar in Oandowxn Conchobair cugain co iiderum&is a himirt." Tagad in Cendcaoui citctha, 7 dosiiidigc/ ii f'iiVcnd fui-ri, 7 dngab Saiiu- 7 Deirdri aga frrtisimirt. a chluais a 's buidhre. teillir. 482 Bheir iad an aire gu 'ro bi an t-lni air an taobh fhèiu do 'i bhotmsob. Bheir mis' ort gu 'u cluinn Bheir sin a bhuil fathasd. Bhoireadh e eonas as a' mhaide-shuidhe. Bheir t\m teisteanas. Bi gu math ri cù is leanaidh e thu. Biadh an dara fir puinsion an fliir eile. Bidh beagan nisge far am bàthar an gamhainn. (There is aye Borne wator where the stirkie drowns). Bidh ciontach gealtach. (Evil doers are evil dreaders). Bidh eugal air an leanabh a thèid a losgadli roimh a (Burnt bairns dread the fire). Bidh e luis an righ a bhios air a' chathair. Bidh tana feargaeh. (A hungry man is an angry man). Bidh gauh fann feargach. Bidh gille [searbliant] aig an fheannaig 's an fhòghar. Bidh iteagan geala air an eun a thig am fad as. Bidh miall air deireadh na h-urchair. Bidh mi-dhoigh air an fhear a's miosa foighidiu. Bidh rad-èigin aig ecarc an scròbaiu, acb cba bhi dad. idir aig cearc a' chrubaia. Bidh tusa fochaid ormsa airson mo chuid a bliuan glas, is bidh mis' a' foehaid ortsa 'nuair nach bi agad ach a' Biodh e geal no biodh l- odhar i:- t".>iyli ii_-is a ^liuhliiir a menim. Bidh tu beò bliadhna : cha d 1 aitbnioh mi thu. Biodh gach fear air a ghearrau bacach bàn fèin. Bogadh nan gad. Boinne ri do shròin, bidh tu bed am bliadhna. B' olc an airidh do blieul binu a cbur fo'n talamh. B' olc an airidh c. Bolla niiue air a' pheighinn ' is gun a' pheighinn l asm. Briagaidh am biadh am fitheach bharr na craoibhe. Ba cheum air gaig learn a dhol a dh 'aite dh'am aindcoin. Ba dual daididh da. Ba leigheas soalladli dhiot air suilean goirte. [See above], Ba mhath an airidh e. (ft was well deserved.) Ba mhò an call là Cliuil-fhodair. Buil na fighe air a Btlm. Buille cbur an craoihh is gun a leagail. Buille ma seach buille gun dreach (in rowing). Buinidh urram do 'n aois. (Eild should bae honour). Buntàta proinnte is bainno leo, Biadh boi'.aich Uachdair-chlò. ' ogiUino. libh : 7 ise sin v.get is ferr agiuii duit. 7 iaa ain sgel is man ag?c;i, in bm dob few d*/b 7 donam ìbÌu domun ic imUeJit uaifl a hBaraow naol bfuil a drrtj En 1111 denam fm'rri." Obeunlfi C'mchobar siu, dochuatt/ 11 ed 7 a aigidee/ii! ulv»I, 7 doiblisrt dad no do anadhiaig sin. 7 liofiavfinj/ Cnnehobar aris : " Cia n/Aad dam da fio* 11« maireil a crutb no a d*/b no a denam f«» ar IVmlr/ii T" 7 dafiaffwlg lui/fi-i sol f[u]atr a fregra. IS aflsin adubiVrt Cvnchnbar re Tmi Doni dol and : " A Trm DnrÌTin,'' :ir Con e/iobar, " in fidnr tit cia domarb tathatV P " Dofhetar," ar so, " gurab o Haiti innc UÌBiiir/ doniarb e." " Maw/, eirsi da tioi nn nniirciiu a delb no a denam foin ar Derdrinn." 7 dogluais Treii I 'urn roinie, 7 tame doclium na bruigbne, 7 fuair na doirrsi 7 na fitifieoga jirvm n-fadhadbadh, 7 dogab oinan 7 iinegla ■'■, 7 i.W iidiibbdirt : "Ni conair ni'd'c Uisniy diiisnigtt/, ata ferg foji-a." 7 fuair fuinneog gan drud iain \>r :il mBuinde, 7 do chualw \)erdnn ancomntt/ sin. " Mo cbubais," ar Tbrdriu, do tbròicc liui'nne sib, a m/iaca I. r i9KU7, 7 is aitlireniMiV tut BUM ud." " Dar mobreithir fèin" ar IUaun Finn, n.n-Aa t.-igebb fon la! inocn mat-res an calm/ colg anilaim. 7 tàniV Illnnn amacb lamin, 7 tnc trt htgtteAwarta atimc/i'7/ iiabnogbni 7 do mart) trl OU amuigh 7 tame astocb 474 THE TALE OF DEIHUHE. cohairm ambai 'Saèiti 7 se agimirt fichle 7 Air ale garbh. 7 t Man* cuairt impa 7 adib dhigh 7 tug lochrafi arlasao* leis amach ar anbfhaithcht 7 do gab agslaide nasloan 7 nfrlamsaf timckell nabnagbnL Doba maith anmac do bi aflsin, via* Ilia Fill mac Ferouta, Direr nech nam imsed naimilmaine 7 nitarda tuarasdo/ origh do, 7 nirgab sed riamh 1 aeht F«rg*» nam*. IS aflsin adubatrt ConcAooar. u Cait abfuil Fiacha mo djoc?" ar ConcAooar. " Sofia,** ar Fiacha. *• D[ar mo] cubbo*, isanaon oidchi rugac/A twsa 7 Ulan a [7 as iat] at'rm aath/rr ati. aigesin 7 Mm mairmsi let [ioV>n] t anòrchain 7 ancosgroeA 7 afoga 7 mo coflg] 7 dena calma leò. IS aflsin doìùsmjrtfr each suckUe dib. 7 tanic Fiacha aoft comlaan co h-Illann 7 do fiafraig I liana dF(h)iacha. "Cid si a, a F(h)iach'iF arse. "Comrac 7 comlaan dobail lem ritsa," ar Fiacha. " 01c dorinis," ar Diana. ** 7 maic Misnigh ar mo c(h)omat"rce.** Doifisaigetor zckèlr, 7 do TÙamt comlann ficda forniata dana dedla degtapaiV. 7 do for- tamlat^A Illann ar Fiacha cotuc air luidhe for sgat / aflsin vion Ton Clidna 7 Tofi ThvatAt 7 Tonn VLvgraidhs. Do bi Gma// Orna mchobair 7 inorchaia acbuircao"* 7 acbeic foraigh acamtW atig^na 7 nirlamsat UlaiV/ atesargf/n 7 tanùr Cona\\ doleth acuil co h-Illa/ia 7 saitis a sl ve]. Ba mhath an airidh e. (It was well deserved.) Ba mhò an call là Chuil-fhodair. Buil na fighe air a stim. Buille chur an craoibh is gun a leagail. Buille ma seach buille gun dreach (in rowing). Buinidh urram do 'n aois. (Eild should hae honour). Buntàta proinnte is bainne leò, Biadh bodaich Uachdair-chlò. 1 Bgillinn. PROVERBS. 483 Cabhaidh aon uair de oidhche Ghearraiu seachd bollan sneachda troimh tholl tora. Cadal nan con 's na mhnathan a' fuineadb. Cailean a' foadaircachd is cearcan a* glaodhaich, Nithe nach robh sona o thoiseach an t-saoghail. Càirdcan an taighc, nàimhdean a' bhidh. C'àit am faiceabb tu 'n gionach ach am mionach na clèire ? Caitb mar a gheibb is gbeibb mar a cbaitheas ; Caombain — " Go dha" — is cuimbnich am bas. Car son nacb ith na coin an t-\m t Chionn 's nacb fbaigb iad e. Caombain am poca aig an t-siornan. Oar tuatbail t' aimhleis. (" Deiseil," i.e., following tbe course of tbe sun was considered lucky, but " tuatbail" tbe reverse). Casan fada gu dbol troimh an abbainn. Cas air a' cbruaidb. Oeannaicb ri grèin is croic ri coinneil. Cha b'e am fear a reiceadb a' cbearc ris an là fbliuch. Iha. b'e 'chomain. Cha b'e 'm muileann nach meileadb nan ruitbeadb an t-uisge. Cba b'e 'n t-uisge nacb ruitbeadb ach am muileann nach bleitheadb. Cha b'e miann Mhuirich am mèog. Cba ba ruitb ach leumraich. Cba blii cuimbne air an aran ach fbad } s a mhaireas e 's an sgoman. Cba bin e [thu] na's òige r'a ionnsacbadb. Cba bbi meas air an tobar gus an traogh e. Cha bbi meas air an t-slainte gus an tig an euslaint'. Cba bbi 'n t-im sin air an roinn sin. Cha bbi piseacb air suirgbe na Sabaid. (Sunday wooing draws to ruin). Cha blii shin deanamb dà Fhèill-Martainn air (no two bites of a cherry). Cha bbi sinn chionn a shaoithreach dha. Cha bbi 'shac air a* ghearran, gus an leig e bram as, Cha bbi toradb gun saothair. Cha bhiadh a cbuid } s cha luidcag a aodach. Cha bbriathar a dbearbhas ach gniomh. Cha bhris achmhasan cnàimh. Cha b' fhada uait a chuir thu an athais. Cba b' ionnan a 's t-athair. Cha b' iongantach leinn ach lionn air banais a' chait* 484 PROVERBS. Cha bu d\th iarraidh dhi. Cha ba mhac mar an t-athair e. Cha chaill an t-olach math ach air laimh an droch òlaich. Cha chaoin muc sheasg r'a h-àl. Cha chaomhnadh learn do chaomhnadh 's cha chaitheamh learn do chaitheamh. Cha chluinn e ach an rud a 's binn leis. Cha chreidear an t-aog gus am faicear an t-adblac. Cha chuir bean-tighe ghlic a h-uibhean uile fo aon chirc. Cha chuirear seann cheann air guaillibh 6ga. Cha chuirinn mo bheul anns an lite nach òlainn. Cha deachaidh e timchioll an tuim leis. Cha deach ceann còcaire riamh air òtrach. Cha deachaidh tonn air feisd dha o sin. Cha dean fear iomairt bualadh, 's cha dean fear luath maoraoh. Cha dean làmh ghlan eòrna. Cha dean mise toll anns nach cuir thusa tarraing. Cha dean treanaidh treubhantas. Cha deanadh e gille-poc dha. (He could not light a candle to him). Cha deic na 's fheudar. Cha do chleachd an capull a spoth. Cha do shuidh air cloich nach do shuidh làimh ri. Cha d' rinn fuine ri ceòl nach d' rinn itheadh ri bròn. Cha d' rinn maithcas nach d* fhuiling aghaidh. Cha d* rinn duine riamh lochd orm nach faca cnoc a mhais. Cha d' thug cridhe goirt nach d' fhuair cridhe goirt. Cha duine tàillear 's cha duine dhà dhiubh. Cha fliliuch an cat a chas ach air son an eisg. Cha fhliuch an cat a chas an dèigh an eisg. Cha freagair do *n fhcumach a bhith ailgheasach. Cha ghabh an soitheach Albannach ach a làn. Cha ghabhadh sinn iongantas— an uaisle gun chasan. Cha ghleidh bruidhinn buaidh. Cha ghloir a dhearbhas ach gnfomh. Cha 'n aithnich thu duine gus am bi do glinothach ris. Cha 'n aithnich thu an t-cach breac gus am faic tliu e. Cha 'n- aithiiichear camid gus am feum air. (A friend in need is a friend indeed). Cha 'n amais duine dona air a thapadh. Cha 'n e barrachd na sgoileireachd a's fhèarr. Cha 'n e tagha nam muc a gheibh fear na faighe. Cha 'n 'eil aim cosmhuil ris an dachaidh. (East or west, hame is best). Cha 'n 'eil an sin ach "Seachain mo chluas is buail m* adharc." Cha 'n 'eil bàs fir gun gras fir. PROVHRBS. 480 Cha 'n 'eil cinnteachas aig neaoh air bith air a bheatha. (Nae man has a tack o' his life). Cha 'n 'eil ceangal la fèill Naoimh no Dòmhnach air banaltrum no banarach. Cha 'n 'eil duthchas aig mnaoi no aig ministeir. Cha 'n 'eil e cho glic 's a tha e cho trie a lathachan. Cha 'n 'eil e cho marbhteach 's a tha e cho maoidhteaoh. Cha 'n fhaighear rud ach far am bi e. Cha 'n fhiach gille gun char, is cha 'n fhiach gille nan car. Cha 'n 'eil fhios co aca a 's fhaide saoghal, am fear a chaoimh- neas no 'm fear a chaitheas. Cha 'n 'eil 'fhios cò aca a 's feàrr, a bhith air thoiseach na air dheireadh. Cha 'n 'eil air a' chnatan ach cnapan itheadh. Cha 'n 'eil lochd sam bith an cridhe a bhios gabhail òrain. Cha 'n 'eil math gun dragh. Cha 'n 'eil saoi air nach laigh leon, no carraig air naoh caochail smth. Cha 'n 'eil saoi gun choimeas. — [Loudin]. Cha 'n 'eil saoi gun choimeas, no coille gun chrionaich. Cha 'n eiridinn [fhidir] an sàthach an seang. Cha 'n 'eil uaill an aghaidh na tairbhe. Cha 'n fhanadh e uair no ial. Cha 'n fhaigh balbhan oighreachd. Cha 'n fhad a th' eadar do ghal 's do ghàire. Cha 'n fhaigh cion cron. Cha 'n fhaic gràdh lochd. Cha 'n fhàidh 's cha mhac fàidh mi. . Cha 'n f has còineach air a' chloich a bhithear a' sir thionndadh. (A rowing stone gathers no moss). Cha 'n fhàs feur air an rathad air am bithear a' sir-shaltairt. Cha 'n f heàrr Ruair na Raonall. Cha 'n f heàrr na clach am baile fear is 'aire ri dhol as. Cha 'n fheud ciontach a bhi rosgach. Cha 'n fhoghnadh le cuid bhi air an each, ach bhi thairis air. Cha 'n fhuiling 1 cearc a cuiadachadh. (A. hen suffers not to be fondled). — Highl. Soc. Diet Cha 'n i a mhuc shàmhach a 's lugha dh' itheas de 'n drabh. Cha 'n iarr am biadh ach fhiachainn. (Eating needs but a beginning). Cha 'n fhuirich muir ri uallach, Is cha dean bean luath maorach ; Cha dean bean gun nàire cugainn, Is cha dean bean gun fhuras oudach. — [Loudin]. 1 Cha toigh le cearc, kc. 486 PROVERBS. Cha 'n ionghnadh an t-earrach a bhi fuar, is nach dual da bhith blàth. Cha 'n nàr do dhuine bhith lag, ach is nàr do dhuine bhith l»og. Cha } n uaisle duine na 'm bidh, deanamaid 'nar dithis a ; chabh- rach. Cha 'n urrainnear a thoirt de'n chat ach an craicionn. Cha robh brosgalach nach robh breugach. (Fairest words are fullest of falsehood). Cha robh bruidhneach nach robh breugach. Cha robh cèilidheach nach robh breugach, 's cha robh breugach nach robh bradach. Cha robh cèilidheach nach robh sgeulach,  Ò buacbar. Dh' fhalbh Peairt. 's am baile l>' fhaisge dha. Dh" fliconiicb i dc'n gbaoith, "Ma chailleas mi thu, c'àit am faigh mi tbu r "Airmullacb nan earn." Ris a' clico. "Air mullacb nam beann." Ris a chliù ? " Caill mise aon uair, is cha 'n fliaigb tbu gu bràth tuilleadh mi." Db* itb e am biadli 's cba d' rinn c 'n gnìomb. Dh' itbiun biadb 'n uair 'bbiodb ocros orm, is db 'òlainn deocb 'n uair 'bhiodb pathadb orm. Dh' eirinn 'n uair a db* èireadh a' cbearc, it* laigbinn 'n uair a laigheadh i. Db' ithcadh e do cbuid, is phronnadb c do cbab. Db' itboadb tu fein na b-uibbcan is bbeireadb tu dbombsa na plaoisg. Dbiult i na coisichean 's cba d' tbàinig na marcaicbean. Di-luain, tba e tuilleadh a's luath, Dì-Màirt, latha iomraich nam muc, Dl-ciad'aoinn cl raobhach, 500 PROVERBS. Is minig a thog tàcharan sabaid. Is miosa miann aou ghiullain lom-luirgnich no dà bhe&n dheug leth-tromach, Is miosa rasetar na meirleach. Is mò a dh' fheumainn cuideachadh na dad a thoirt do dhiol- deirceach. Is mò na beinn lochd duine mu 'n lèir dha fèin e. Is modhail fear an eiseamail. Is moid gach rath a mheudachadh. Is mòr a' mharcachd 'tha 'n each cosdadh. Is mòr an eire an t-ainealas. Is niòr le bean bhaoth a h-abhras. Is mòr sath mosaig de 'meang fèin. Is mòr ubh a toin an dreadhain-duinn. Is olc a' ghoile nach blàthaich ni dhith fèin. Is olc a' mhaoin gun leasachadh. Is olc an ni bhi falamh. (It is a bad thing to have nothing). Is olc an fhèill a chuireas duine fèin air an aimbeirt. Is olc an dileab droch ghalar. Is olc an t-iasad nach fhiach a chur dhachaidh. Is paidhir dhuinn sin, mar a thubhairt an fheannag ri 'ca&an. Is sàitheach duine làimh ri chuid. Is sleamhuin an greim air an easgann an t-earball. Is sleamhnaid am buachair saltairt air. Is 8oilleir cuid an fhir nach toir an dorus air. Is soilleir a chuid do 'n fhear a bhios an eiseamail muintir eik. Is tàireil duine far nach ionmhuin. Is tiuighe fuil na uisge. Is toigh le cu a shamhail. Is toigh leis a' chat a' chniadachadh. Is treasa cumha na inuir. Is trian obair toiseachadh. Is trie a blia rath air luid, is fhuair trudair bean. Is trie a fhuair " 01e-an-airidh" car. ("Tis-a-pity" has often I j cen crossed Is trie leis an earrach a bhi fuar, o nach dual dà bhi blath. Is trie a rinn a' bhean-tighe chliobaeh na coin bhradach. Is trom an t-eallaeh an leisg. Is truagh an t each nach giùlan a dhiallaid. Is uaisle am breid nan toll. Is uireasbhuidh air a' phiobaire am beul iochdair a bbith dh' a dh\th. Is fhusa bean fhaotain na leubag. ltean geala air na h-eoin *tha fad as. Isean deireadh linn. PROVERBS. 491 Feudar eag a chur 's a' mhaide-shuidhe. Feumaidh cuimhne nihath bhith aig fear nam breug. (A liar should have a good memory). 'Fhad 's bhios craobh 'sa' choilF Bidh foill 's na Cuimeinich. Fhuair thu comharra-cèilidh. Fhuair Emuin a dhiol each, is fhuair an t-each a dhiol mar- caiche. Fhuair e 'chuid mu 'n d' fhuair e 'chiall. Foinne mu'n iadh-ghlaic, Is nearach mac air am bi ; Foinne mu 'n iadh-bhròig, Is nearachd bean og air am bi.* * Nic, p. 24. Fortan a chodach air a' bheul mhòr. Fo 'n choileach. (In Inverness prison). Foghar Ghlinn-cuaich, gaoth a Tuath is cruaidh-reodh\ Fuirich o chù 's cha sgath e thu. Gabh an latha math as a thoisich. Gabh e is gu 'n dean e a mhath dhuit. Gabhadh e srath no sliabh. Gabhar an t-atha mar a gheibh. Gach cuilean a' dol ri dualchas. Gach cuis gu cumhnant. Gach duine beo 'na sheòl fèin. Gach duine a' tarraing uisge gu mhuileann fèin. Gach eun gu 'nead is srabh 'n a ghob. Gach fear a' searmoincachadh 'na chùbaid fèin. Gaoth à tuath, fuachd is feannadh, Gaoth an iar iasg is bainne, Gaoth a deas, teas is toradh Gaoth an ear, mcas air chrannaibh.* * crannadh. Gaoth à tuath mu Challuinn, fuachd is feannadh. Gaoth mhòr a bolg beag. Gaoth roimh aiteamh, 's gaoth troimh tholl, 's gaoth fhuar loin o bhonn an t-siuil. Garadh chùl-chas. 'Ga suathadh fèin ris. (Rubbing herself against him). Ge b'e a'g beag orm, buailidh mi sgiobag air. Ge b'e 'bhios a' ruith air an eirthir shalaich, thèid e air sgeir uaireigin. Ge b'e r bhios gun long gun each, bidh e dhà chois. »02 PROVERBS. Mar a'a mò a' cbabhag, 'a ann a's lugha an t-astar. Mar a's miaun le bra bruichidh bonnach. Mar a'a aine 'b arm a'a miosa, eosmhuil ri cuileanan a' rnhad; ruaidh. Mar itstur ■ loill :lu cabaraich tha teagasg gun eòlas. Mar a ihubhairt rouilionn gliogach a' ghlinn bhig, rigainn air, thiiid againu air." Mar a tbubhairt clag Sgiiint, " Au rud nach buiu duit na b dà." Mar an dubhairt an fheauuag ri 'dà choia, " Ba dona le chtì Mar chloieh a' niith le gleann, Tha 'm feaagar fann fòghair. Mar chu is maide agoilte mu 'earball. Mar gabh fàg, mar thuirt an tunnag ris au rachd. Mar ith thu biadh cha dean thu gnlomb. Mar mhada ag òl eauraich ainmeannan Chlann 'ill-Eathain : '• Kaehami, Lachann : Eachauu, I . ■■ !.■■ nn." Mar mhaith ris Kin ni 'n cii eomhart. Mar a thubhairt an " 'Nuair a thig an sàinhradh togaidh o tnigh ;" or, " 'Nuair a thig an aamhradh 'a fhfcarr bbith muigh r bhigh ataigh." [See above]. Ma 'a fiach o 'ghabhail is tìach e 'iarraidh. Math dh' fheudtarth nauh e 'n t-atharrachadh a b' fhèarr. Math an aghaidh an uilo. Math na dona, uiur theid an crodh do *n bhuaile. Mheall an duil a' bhaintighearna. Miroadh a' mheaaain ris a' mhial-chù. Mnathan a' fetidaireaehtl is ccarcan a' glaodhaich, dà ni i rubh soiia o tlioiaeach an t-aaoghail. Mo thrtiagh fear gun rud aige, 'nuair thnirageaa gach 'ehuid thuige. Mol au latha niatha air a dheireadh. Mol an lom-tbir is ua ruig i ; di-mhol a' cboille 'a na treig i. Mol an traigh mar a gheibh. Mòran toirm ia beagau tairbhe. Mu ni thti maitli ri d' dhalta dean li aois e. Mur hhiodh na taobbain dh' aomadh na cabair, Mur dean e spàin millidh e adharc. Mur feairrd thu e cha mhisd thu e. Mur toir thu oidhirp cha dean thu gnlomb. Mur toir thu ùmhlachd do 'n Pbapa, fàg an Kòimh. PROVERBS. 493- Ghabh e 'n càl rau 'n d' rinn e 'n t-altach. Ghabhadh luchd nan cuaran èirigh uair roirah luchd nam bròg. Gheibh an t-each èasgaidh a luchd. Gheibh an t-uaibhreach leagadh an uair a 's àirde e. Gheibh a shroin fuarachadh. Gheibh bò bleoghan is gheibh domhain daoine. Gheibh foighidin furtachd. Gheibh gach fear a sheise. Gheibh gach neach an ni 'tha 'n dàn dha. (Nae fleeing frae fate). Gheibh cnàimh feòil ach an cnàimh a chnagar. Gheibh loman an donas. (Misery follows the niggard) — Armst., p. 837. See Nic, p. 202. Gheabhar fàth air a' mhuir rahòr. Gillc piullagach, 1 is loth phcallagach ; dà rud 's na dèan tair orra. Glac ciall, gabh biadh, iarr Dia, 's cha 'n eagal duit. Gleann min Moiriston far nach ltheadh na cait na coinnlean ( — they use only torches of pine). Gle làidir gun m' fheuchainn. Goirid o do bheul mholadh tu e. Greasadh an eich is e 'n a dheann-ruith. Greim salach gun bhith sàthach. Gu ceann latha 's bliadhna. Gu gùg, thuirt a' chubhag, latha buidhe Bealtainn. Gu latha mo lice. (Until death). Gu là a' bhràth. (To the day of doom). Gu m-badh h-ann a bhiomaid air ar gleidheadh o lagh 's o lighichean. Gu ma fada beò thu is ceò dhe do thaigh. (Long may you live and your lum reek). Gu 'm meal 's gu 'n caith thu e. Gu 'm meal thu a' chuid eile ! (May you enjoy the remainder!) Gu 'n dean e maith an rathad a chaidh e. Gu 'm meal thu e, 's gu 'n caith thu e, 's gu 'm faigh thu bean r' a linn. Gu 'n gleidheadh Dia a' ghealach bho na coin. Gun dath gun dreach. Gun teine gun tuar. Gun bhiadh gun eudach. Gu robh math agad. Gu 'n traoghar a mhuir mhòr le liath cha bhi fear fial falamh. Guth gach duiue, bior 's a' chaillich. Guth na faoileig aig an sgaraig. Guth inor a balg fas. 1 luideagach. 504 Ni cearc an dà euii uiread do egrobail [fhoghoil] ri cearc an di ran deug. ; Ni ouir thana buan thana. (Saw thin, maw thin). Ni duine l>ùth air agàth na h-aon oidhche. Ni mat-hair iasgaidh nighean leisg. (A light-heeled mother makes a leaden -heeled daughter. An olite mi t her maks a swvar dochter). Ni 'a Nollaig dhuhh clailh maith. Nithear dh' easbhuidh nan càirdean, ach cha deanai easbhuidh nan coimhearsnach. Ochain an aois, is fhaid' i na 'm has ! Oidhche Choluinn Chain inn ofaniaidh, Thainig mis' le m' nan 'g a reic ; Thuirt am bodaeh 'a e fo ghruaim, Buailidh mis do ehlnais ri creig : Thuirt a' chailleach b' fhearr na 'n tor, Gu 'm badh choir mo leigeil staigh, Ib dileag clirìon ohrV>n ehur alos, la crioman crlon crlon leia. i meang beag 'n dlirideagan, is lionar an long mhòr n mhath leat e. (Whether you take it well or ill). Poit bhcag is bean mhath thaighe. Pùs aighean na deagli niliathar eò air bith a 's athair di. Riaghal thusa a' plmilteas, is riaglilaidh nn aire i fein. Buigidh each mall am muileann 's cha ruig each a bbristeas a chnamhau. Ritithidli cailleach le bruthaich. Saoilidh am fear a bhios gun mhodh gur modh am mi-mhorlh. Seachainn Ceolag in Ciiuicdiig ì* eolucb an colli. Seachain mo cheann in glac m' earrball. Seachaaidh duine a bhràthair, ach cha seachain e 'choiinli- earsuach. Seachd eglth. (Seven times tired). Seachd * sgadain sath bradain, Seachd bradain sath ruin, Seachd roin sath muiee-mara, Seachd mncan-mara sàth mial-mhòir (a' chuaia).f Sealgair theab. [See below]. •AL 1». fCwm-chro" (?) or " bd fliir nach coir." Olar an leadagain. PROVERBS. 495 Is beag orm ' mu 'ni dhinneir am meirleach a dh' itheas 's a dh' innseas. Is binn guth an coin 'n a nead fein. Is bochd an dà chaillich nach fòghainn do aon tè. Is bochd an dachaidh nach fcàrr na'n ceilidh. Is brian air caillich a h-aon bhò. Is ceannach an t-ubh air a' ghloc. Is ceannach do mhath air do dhragh. Is cliùtach duine measg a mhuinntreach. Is cuideachadh a 1 chlach a 's t-fhoghar. Is dall duine anns a' cheird nach d' fhòghlum. Old Gael. Prov. Oscar each i cerd araill (Ignorant is every one in another's art). Is daoi nach gabh comhairle, Is deamhain nach gabh seoladh. Is deiseil gach taobh na chill choir. Is deacair fearas-taighe a dhcanamh air na fraighibh falamh. l Is dileas lotan caraid, ach is mealltach pogan nàmhaid. Is diomhain an Ron a sgaoileadh an sealladh eòin air bith. Is diubhaidh duine nach tadhal caraid uaireigin. Is dual do 'n chuilean ròin dol air a spògan do 'n mhuir. Is dual do 'n fhaillean bhith mar a bhios an stoc. Is duilich a thoirt o 'n làimh na chleachdas. Is duilich rud a thoirt ach as an àit anns am bi e. Is duilich seann cheann a chur air guaillibh oga. Is duilighe beum thcangan na greim fhiacal fhulaing. Is e a chneadh fèin a ghearaineas gach duine. Is e a' chiall cheannach a 's fèarr. Is e 'm beagan a bhiodh againn fhèin a b' usa dhuinn fhaotain. Is e 'n ceud sput a thig as an taigeis a 's teòithe. Is i 'mhuc shàmhach a dh' itheas an treasg. Is e 'n duine an t-eudach, 's cha duine as 'eugmhais. Is e 'n t-aighear an t-òl ach 's e 'm bròn am paigheadh. Is e goirteas a chinn fèin a ghearaineas gach duine. Is e gràdh a.i airgid freumh gach uilc. Is e mo charaid am fear a'b fearr a gheibh. Is e 'n èiginn mat hair nan innleachdan. Is e 'n cuid-sa bu dorra gu'n robh e r'a chealachadh. Is fad a duine 'na shineadh, 's is mi-fhèin an t-sail. Is fada shhieas dà leisgeira. Is fad' an snàmh a shnìomhas bò. Is fada 'bhios duine a muigh mu 'n toir e droch theist air fèin. Is fada glaodh o Loch-Obha ; Is fada cabhair o Chruachan. 1 See Nic, p. 94. 3« Tu* hbv3 ch* * tea bèdatL air. Tia b*a* :^feib tfr^ air sdr*. TL* br*7t& -^uaL v^sail zL.'h*±rzA*ch. is deazh &(*«&. aefc k fearr a& ciic & cbosaae duizje dha ftm. Tfcfc 'chridL* iL.ìrwih ris. TL* e Vir :ar^:r.r; la ih&allaf h fb^-in. l'ij« da thaobh &:r a' mhaoOe. Tha do ch-iyl 'fe do tilling agad. Tha droch gean ni '  chiurradh T*ia gu leor do dhuine dona a dhichiolL Tha r h-uile nighean jru math, ach c'ait as bb- ? efl na. drovh tohnathan a ; teachd ? Tha h-uile fear na cheard ai^ a cheaird fhein. Tha iaJig cho math anns an fhairge r s a thàinig riamh aiade. TLa iaj»g anriA a' chiian cho math as a thai nig riamh as. Tha iornadh doigh air cu 'mharbhadh gun a thachdadh le im. Tha 'rn fortaii air dol fiar onn. Tha ; n giiniia cos rn hail ri.s an urchair. Tha mise an deircadh rno rxibaitheis. Tha modh an rat ha id rnhoir aig gach duine. TIj i 'n ciall a rnuigh 'n uair "tha n deoch a staigh. (Wfaeu driti k in uit'h out) Tha niall a : r;hiiid air. Tha 'n h Miiahh .-in coltach ri isean a ; ^heuidh — an toll air an tig e iij;tch W mhadainn cha teid e stigh am oidhche. Tha 'n Hiornaii cho feurnail ris an tugha. Tha ortsa ciialach a' ghille leisg. Tha slat 's a 1 choill' cho di reach *s a thàinig aiste. Tha 'thcangadh thar a ghualainn. Tha thn choolc 's ged 'thigeadh tu a Bàidcanach. [A common aavin^ in Caithness]. Tha thiiha mar a bha thu riarnh. Tha uair aig an achnihasan is àm aig a' chèilidh. Thàinig gille gu inac-leisg. Theah 's cha d' rinn, an sealgaire 's miosa 'chaidh riamh do 'n hhciiui. Thèid am mianan o dhuine gu duine, mar theid an t-eunlann  or. critical). Is lughaid an Gall an ceann a tboirt deth. Ib mairg a bheir droch mheas air an oige. Is mairg a chuireadh a chliù 'a a chomain a dh' aon rathad Is mairg a cbuireas e fèin a bharr nan alt ag iarraidb ni àirde na dh' fhàs c. Is mairg a dh' adhlaiceadh e gus am faigh e bis. Is mairg a dheauadh na dh' fheudndh e. Is mairg a dheanadh ri leaimbh duine eile. (Put another man's bairn in your bosom, anil he'll creep out at your sleeve). Is mairg a ghearainneadh air galar-fulaing. Is mairg a ni uaill a buarach mnà eilo. Is mairg a ni uaill à gairdean feòla. Is mairg a ni tuigli liiimii ri taigh a' mheirlich. Is mairg a racliudli eiidaraibb. Is mairg a ahireadh 's riamh nach d' fhuarar uisge teth fo leacan fuara. la mairg a tbacbrag an droch cuid each d. Is mairg a thaobhadh a' chreag 's a b-eoin fi'-in 'g a trèigsinn. PROVERBtì. 499 Is mairg a theireadh a shàr-fhocal. Is mairg ris an tachair duine lomnochd. Is math a bhliadhna a ni am madadh ruadh searmoin. Is math a' chreach a dh' fhagas leitheach. [See Nic, p. '2 1 ]. Is math am baile mòr 's am faighear rud r*a iarraidh. Is math a ruitheadh tu là spothadh nan cullach. Is math an dibhearsain a lionas bru. Is math an t-annlann an t-acras. Is math an leanabh nach toir adhbhar-guil do 'mhàthair uair- eigin. Is maith an seirbhiseach an teine, ach is olc am maighstir e. Is math an sogh an t-shamhchair. Is math dìcheall bòdaich dha fèin. Is math gabhar an dèigh creiche. Is math gach cosnadh ionraic. Is math le bochd beagan. Is math na fir ach na chi iad. Is math na dh' fhòghnas. Is milis a' chorrag a loisgear. Is minig gàire gun sugh a brù gun seadh. Is minig càinnt gun tur a brù gun seadh. Is minig a bha breagha air an fhèill agus mosag 'na taigh fèin. Is minig a bha bò chaol-chasach math gu bainne. Is minig a bha fear shùilean mora air droch fhradharc. Is minig bha 'm posadh luath 'na phòsadh truagh, 's am pòsadh mall 'na phòsadh dall. Is minig a chunnaic an dall ni 'b' fhaide na fear 's a' shuiiean aige. Is minig a dh' fhosgail beul ughach bun cruaiche do fhear eile. Is minig a dh 1 adhbharaich focal beag mòran nàire. Is minig a dh' fhalbh seang roimh thorrach, is si an roiinh ghalar. Is minig a dhiùkadh fear gu leas, 's a rinneadh a bheatha gu 'aimhleas. Is minig a ghoirtich a shuiiean duine. Is minig a fhuair a' choir a saruchadh. Is minig a rinneadh mar olcas ni ri duine a thàinig gu 'mhathas. Is minig a riun duine gàire mu 'n ni *bu duilich leis. Is minig a thàinig comhairle r\gh an ceann ònaid. Is minig a thàinig muir mhòr a caolas oumhang. Is minig a thàinig muir mhòr a plumanaich. Is minig a thai nig trod mòr a adhbhar beag. Is minig a thug teangaidh duine dha greim oruaidh r' a chagnadh. Is minig a thàinig mithean o mhaithean. 500 PROVERBS. Is minig a thog tacharan sabaid. Is miosa miann aou ghiullain lom-luirgnich no dà bhean dheug leth-tromach. Is miosa rasetar na meirleach. Is mò a dh' fheumainn cuideachadh na dad a thoirt do dhiol- deirceach. Is mò na beinn lochd duine mu } n lèir dha fèin e. Is modhail fear an eiseamail. Is moid gach rath a mheudachadh. Is mòr a' mharcachd 'tha 'n each cosdadh. Is mòr an eire an t-ainealas. Is mor le bean bhaoth a h-abhras. Is mòr sath mosaig de 'nieang fèin. Is mòr ubh a toin an dreadhain-duinn. Is olc a' ghoile nach blàthaich ni dhith fèin. Is olc a' mhaoin gun leasachadh. Is olc an ni bhi falamh. (It is a bad thing to have nothing). Is olc an f hè ill a chuireas duine fèin air an aimbeirt. Is olc an dileab droch ghalar. Is olc an t-iasad nach fhiach a chur dhachaidh. Is paidhir dliuinn sin, mar a thubhairt an fheannag ri 'casan. Is 8àitheach duine làimh ri chuid. Is sleamhuin an greim air an easgann an t-earball. Is sleamhnaid am buachair saltairt air. Is soilleir cuid an fhir nach toir an dorus air. Is soilleir a chuid do 'n fhear a bhios an eiseamail muintir eile. Is tàireil duine far nach ionmhuin. Is tiuighe fuil na uisge. Is toigh le cu a shamhail. Is toigh leis a' chat a' chniadachadh. Is treasa cumha na muir. Is trian obair tòiseachadh. Is trie a bha rath air luid, is fhuair trudair bean. Is trie a fhuair " Olc-an-airidh" car. ("Tis-a-pity" has often been crossed Is trie leis an earrach a bhi fuar, o nach dual dà bhi blath. Is trie a rinn a' bhean-tighe chliobach na coin bhradach. Is trom an t-eallach an leisg. Is truagh an t each nach giulan a dhiallaid. Is uaisle am breid nan toll. Is uireasbhuidh air a' phiobaire am beul iochdair a bhith dh' a  eun faiceam a bhlàth. Ma 's toigh leat a' mhuc is toigh leat a h-àl. Ma tha a' ghaoth air chall, iarr a deas i. Ma tha e saoibhir, theirear gu bh-'eil a choir aige. Mac bantraich aig am bi crodh, Searrach seann làrach air greigh, Is madadh muilleir da 'm bi min, Triuir a's meanmnaiche air bith. — See Nic, p. 308. Maith an aghaidh an uilc. Mar a dean i *n taobh-s' e, ni i 'n taobh ud eile e Maragan is bantraichean r* an gabhail fhad 's a' bhios iad teth. 502 PROVERBS. Mar a's mò a' chabhag, 's ann a's lugha an t-astar. Mar a's miaun le bru bruichidh bonnach. Mar a's sine 's ann a's miosa, cosmhuil ri cuileanan a' mhadadh- ruaidh. Mar astar doilj an cabaraich tha teagasg gun eòlas. Mar a thubhairt muilionn gliogach a' ghlinn bhig, "Thèid :igainn air, thèid againn air." Mar a thubhairt clag Sgàinn, " An rud nach buin duit na bean dà," Mar an dubhairt an fheannag ri 'dà chois, " Ba dona le ohèile iad." Mar chloich a' ruith le gleann, Tha 'm feasgar fann fòghair. Mar chu is maide sgoilte mu 'earball. Mar gabh fag, mar thuirt an tunnag ris an ràchd. Mar ith thu biadh cha dean thu gniomh. Mar mhada ag 61 eanraich ainmeannan Chlann 'iU-Eath&in : " Eachann, Lachann : Eachann, Lachann." Mar mhaith ris fèin ni 'n cù comhart. Mar a thubhairt an " 'Nuair a thig an sàmhradh togaidh mi taigh ;" or, " 'Nuair a thig an sànihradh 's fhèarr bbith muigh na bhigh staigb." [See above]. Ma 's fiach e 'ghabhail is fìach e 'iarraidh. Math dh' fheudtadh nach e 'n t-atharrachadh a b' fhèarr. Math an aghaidh an uilc. Math na dona, mur theid an crodh do 'n bhuaile. Mheall an duil a' bhaintigheania. Mi read h a' mheasain ris a' mhial-chù. Mnathan a' feadaireachd is ccarcan a' glaodhaich, dà ni nacli robh sona o thoiseach an t-saoghail. Mo thruagh fear gun rud aige, 'nuair thainigeas gach fear 'chuid thuige. Mol an latha matha air a dheireadh. Mol an lom-thir is na ruig i ; di-mhol a' choille 's na trèig i. Mol an tràigh mar a gheibh. Mòran toirm is beagan tairbhe. Mu ni thu maith ri d' dhalta dean li aois e. Mur bhiodh na taobhain dh' aoniadh na cabair. Mur dean e spàin millidh e adharc. Mur feairrd thu e cha mhisd thu e. Mur toir thu oidhirp cha dean thu gniomh. Mur toir thu unihlachd do 'n Phàpa, fàg an Kòimh. PROVERBS. 503 Na bi mor is na bi beag, An taigh an oil na cosg do chuid ; Aoidh gbaolaich, na tog trod, Is na h-ob ma 's èigin duit. Nàbuidh bhuin na h-ursan, nàmhaid bhuin na h-ursan. Na caill do charaid bàth r' a theagasg. Na cuir fearg air fuirbidh fir ; na toir balgam à dian ghoiL Na dean strith ri duine gun adhbhar. Na dean uaill à t-athair no à do mhàthair, ach dearbbadh do ghiùlan gur duin'-uasal thu. 'Na dhèigh sud thig tuilleadh. Na ghineas 's a* chnaimh cha toirear as a* chraicionn. (What breeds in the bone cannot be taken out of the flesh). Na iarr comhrag is na ob i. (Seek not battle, but shun it not). — Armst. Nach 'eil e cho olc bas fhaotainn leis a' ghaol is basachadh leis a' chaitheadh f Na 'm biodh tu a staigh air a' mhaor, bhiodh tu a staigh air a' bhàillidh. Na tool neach sam bith tuilleadh 's a' choir, gus nach bi rùm agad air a chàineadh. Na 'n robh thu cho math 's a tha thu cho bòidheach ! Nasg coille ort ! Nasg is bràighdean ort ! Nasg is brèid ort ! Na 'n toireadh an diu dhachaidh an dè. Na ob is na iarr onair. (Seek not honour nor refuse it). Na rach eadar fear ruadh agus creag [muir]. Na sùilean a bh' agam an uiridh, cha 'n iad a th* agam am bliadhna. Na suilean a th' aig duine am bliadhna, cha 'n iad a bhios an ath-bhliadhna aige. Na tri radhchan is grinne W Ghàidhlig — Mo chuid fhèin ; Mo bhean fhèin ; Theid sinn dachaidh. — See Nic, p. 318. Nead an dreadhain duinn an sùil an fhithich. Ni aire innleachd. Neasgaid air tòin baintighearna. See "Is goirt guran,   fLrvfbeas arf r* ar ber*. F+nckk a nk tb* feaefad * * trrae Xm feaeU Cknmmritt coc ^ eolcarra a* Ì*2*ciA DLhx UiEeim TeaeM oar tiitxO air Tbr nam Reran ! Tmdarfh * TLatfca. Va*eadb TheaznhmD, *SD*idheadh sm lc txnllean dian Gbcan berth* O^aDe-Oaragaidh, Kagadh air an clfa o chian ! Aininean tauMili ! Act dh" fkilbk an dmidhearfvi ? damn V an fH^iea/.h gill' an Boid. Bbkran-Adboll : DaHac-Spideil ! Peach bail-Chuinnidh ! l Agaidh-mhcc ! Gairidb draidr le t/>rr is d&ingnich. Stead tinn ftuaft d ar dea&n ra taobh, Foadasrhadh a chaoidh o lochan Codal ttadach nan linn aasd*. Btideanaoh nan gaillmn nadhaich. Anna an liono/hor liath-cblach mhòr, *S carragh-cuiinhne bhlaran fuil teach — Uaigneaz-h cha bhi 'cnuic ni s mò. 1 EtitfiA by Prisctptl Shair p t St Andrew*. The poem Engiiih is to* Ar'AMM* m 1S*4, the jcar After the opening of the FfighUnd Railway, when Principal HLatrp cm went bjr that line. See Shairp's Poems, edited Vy Mr PtJfwc, p. 144. 9 'Cratpè*, in another edition ; " tpanning." * Dail-dbohmftinh '»/ LECTURES, 529 It chiefly follows Stewart. There its also a grammar prefixed to M'Alpine's Dictionary, which may be cousulted. In 1828 11 grammar was published by Archibald Oniric, who was a teacher at Rothesay, and since a valuable grammar, with which you are acquainted, by Mr James Monro. The first edition appeared in 1835, and the second edition, very much enlarged, in 1843. If I except Dr Muckay, I do not know that any one now living has done ho much an Mr Muuro to advance Gaelic literature, and his services deserve an acknowledgment from his countrymen which they have not yet received. It ofteu fills me with indignation when I hear ignorant men who cannot write two consecutive sentences of correct Gaelic applauded as great Gaelic scholars, forsooth, and genuine scholars such as Mr Muuro virtu- ally neglected. Two gram mars have appeared since Mr Munro's, one by the late Established Church minister of Sleat, and another, a small traetate, by the late Dr Macgillivray, who was himself well acquainted with Gaelic. 3. 1 come now to glance at Gaelic Ptri-xtiailt. Several attempts have been made to publish » Gaelic periodica], hut after a time all of them proved a failure. This I regard as a great pity, for it indicates a want of iuterest in Gaelic reading. The first known attempt to isstto a Gaelic periodical was in 1803, when in July of that year the first number of the "Hosruiue" was published in Glasgow. It readied the fourth number and died. The ucst effort was much more successful. It was the " Gaelic Messenger"— the famous " Teachduire Gaelaeh" — the first number of which ap]*ared in May, 1819. It was edited, as is well known, by the late Dr Macleod, aud after an apparently prosperous farcer of two years, it died. lu May, 1835, the " New Gaelic Messenger" was commenced, and after reaching its ninth number it also came to au end. In May, 1840, the first number of "Cuairlcar nan  l, M net n tyre, and Uosa contain genuine poetry, and will always be read by Highlanders with delight. It, there- fore, we cannot boast of the quantity of our literature, we have no reason to be ashamed of the quality of much of it. And let us hope that, now that more interest is being manifested in Gaelic studies than has ever been, additions will be made to our literature of such a kind as will not be unworthy of our native language. I am very hopeful, gentlemen, that some of your own number will enter with eagerness upon the very inviting field of study which your native language and its kindred dialects present to you. It is not greatly to our credit that Celtic philology should at the present moment be more eagerly studied in Germany than in Scotland, and by persons who are obliged to spend much time in obtaining poRscssii'Jii of the key to those studies — a know- ledge of the Gaelic language — than by us, who possess that key from our infancy. This reproach, I do earnestly hope, will ere long be wiped away from us. Although our language is confessedly very ancient, we have no account of any book having ever been printed in it previous U> the year 156", when Knox's Liturgy, translated by Bishop Can- well, was published. This work is now extremely rare, only o fierfect copy of it being known to exist. That copy is in t 1 Delivered about 1868 to his Gaelic Claw for Glasgow Btudeut*. .to be remembered thut th» lecture dates twenty yean before his death ; the Doctor'* views on '' l>«*ian" eonniderablj- altera), while he hinuoif collected a library of Gaelic work", an a>V"iiul of which from Lit  oi-tui!t addition was made to Gaelic literature by the publication of Shaw's Dictionary in 2 vols. 4to. As a Lexicon of the Gaelic language Shaw's work is very poor Indeed, but still it is valuable. It was founded upon the Irish Lexicons previously published, and contains ft large number of Irish words, for which it is now chiefly valuable. in 1705 Robert Maefarlaiic's YoiidiiJan "as published, and in 1815 a vocabulary by Patrick Macfarlane, who translated so many Gaelic works, appeared in two parts. These two vocabularies are very meagre, but they may have been useful in their dav. 528 It was not until the publication of Armstrong's Dictionary 1825 that there was anything in Gaelic really worthy of 1 name of a Lexicon, but the importance of that work and also the Highland Society's Dictionary, published in 1828, it impossible to overestimate. But, valuable as they are, they are imperfect, and in this important department of Gaelic study very much yet remains to be done. There are genuine Gaelic words without number existing in the Highlands which have yet found no place in any Gaelic Lexicon, and he who helps to collect them will bo conferring an unspeakable benefit upon Gaelic literature. Since the publication of the Highland Society's Dictionary other three dictionaries have appeared. Macleod and Dewar*s Dictionary, which is but an abridgment of the Highland Society's Dictionary, with some additional words, was published in 1831 : Mac Alpine's Dictionary, the first and only attempt to produce a pronouncing dictionary, was completed in 1832; and a small pocket dictionary was published in 1862 by a Roman Catholic clergyman of the name of Ewen Maekechnie. 2. Grammar. No Gaelic Grammar of any value appeared before O'Molloy's Irish Grammar, which was published in Latin at Rome in 1677. There were several previous attempts, but none of them of any great importance. The next importut contribution to Gaelic grammar was Mr M'Cuirtin's Elements of the Irish Language, which was published in 1728. Since Mr M'Cuirtin's several Irish the grammars have appeared. O'Donovan's, published in 1845 so similar in structure that e grammatical knowledge of the also an important contribution " e other, and, therefore, " most important by far being The Irish and Scotch Gaelic are important contribution to the le language may be regarded as the grammatical knowledge of of Gaelic grammars I could • the Irish grammars which I have 4to and 8vo in 1778, a grammar of the Scottish not have avoided referring mentioned. Shaw : s Analysis, published both the firat attempt, professedly, to wr Gaelic. Tins work, which is now more curious than useful, was inpersedcd (although 1 believe it. was never much studied, and can, therefore, scarcely be said to be superseded), by Stewart' Grammar, of which the first edition was published In 1801. 01 the value of this work it is unnecessary to speak. Th edition, collected and considerably enlarged, was published in 1812, and a very good sbridgment of it wu prefixed to the Highland Society's Dictionary. The grammar prefixed Armstrong's Dictionary, although not nry copious, is useful LECTURES, 529 It chiefly follows Stewart. There is also a grammar prefixed to M 'Alpine's Dictionary, which may be consulted. In 1828 a grammar was published by Archibald Currie, who was a teacher at Rothesay, and since a valuable grammar, with which you are acquainted, by Mr James Munro. The first edition appeared in 1835, and the second edition, very much enlarged, in 1843. If I except Dr Mackay, I do not know that any one now living has done so much as Mr Munro to advance Gaelic literature, and his services deserve an acknowledgment from his countrymen which they have not yet received. It often fills me with indignation when I hear ignorant men who cannot write two consecutive sentences of correct Gaelic applauded as great Gaelic scholars, forsooth, and genu'iie scholars such as Mr Munro virtu- ally neglected. Two grammars have appeared since Mr Munro's, one by the late Established Church minister of Sleat, and another, a small tractate, by the late Dr Macgillivray, who was himself well acquainted with Gaelic. 3. I come now to glance at Gaelic Periodicals. Several attempts have been made to publish a Gaelic periodical, but after a time all of them proved a failure. This I regard as a great pity, for it indicates a want of interest in Gaelic reading. The first known attempt to issue a Gaelic periodical was in 1803, when in July of that year the first number of the " Rosroine" was published in Glasgow. It reached the fourth number and died. The next effort was much more successful. It was the " Gaelic Messenger" — the famous " Teachdaire Gaelach" — the first number of which appeared in May, 1819. It was edited, as is well known, by the late Dr Macleod, and after an apparently prosperous career of two vears, it died. In May, 1835, the "New Gaelic Messenger" was commenced, and after reaching its ninth number it also came to an end. In May, 1810, the first number of " Cuairtear nan Gleann" was issued. It was more fortunate than its predecessors, for it reached its fortieth number ; but a dialogue on the Church question brought it at last to an end about the time of the Dis- ruption. It also was edited, it is understood, by the late Dr Macleod. " Caraid nan GàidheaF' was commenced in April, 1844, but it only readied its fifth number. In January, 1845, the " Gaelic Witness," edited by Dr Mackay, was commenced. Thirty-six numbers were published, when it was discontinued. In January, 1848, "Fear Tathaich nam Beann," a periodical in 34 530 LECTURES connection with the Established Church, and edited by Mr C of Kilmallie, was commenced. It esiated for two years, twenty-fifth number was printed, but never published. In 18Ji3 a periodical ni attempted in Inverness. Ore n was published, bat ho far ns I remember, the second nevei its appearance. These are ;ill the attempts that have been made i: country to publish a Gaelic periodical, and none of them ' successful. Whether a new attempt would succeed better I cann tell. It is much to be regretted, however, that we have not o single periodical in the Gaelic language. There has been i attempt both in Australia and America to issue Gaelic periodicals, but I cannot apeak of the result. 4. I come now to speak of Gaelic Pros* Workt other than peri- odicals, and these, 1 am sorry to say, are not only few, but a" unimportant. Reid notices only thirteen original prose works which were pub- [uhed before 18SS, and none of the thirteen is really of much Tabu* One of them is the small Catechism which was published in 1868, Two of them are only different editions of one sermon, and that sermon is a mere translation. The most important of them — M'Derniid's Sermons — is supposed to be a translation of some of Walker's sermons. Two of them are small worts— one of them very small— on baptism, by f>r lieith of Stirling. Two of them are small Episcopalian Catechisms. One of them is a very short account, very much in the form of a tract, of t)r Love's life. Th* Since 1832 very few original prose works have been added to our literature, for. except a few Gaelic sermons, the following are the only ones that I remember:— A History of Prince Charles, by Mr Mackenzie, editor of Beauties of Gaelic Poetry ; a volume of sermons by the late Mr Macmillan of Arran ; a small Treatise on Gaelic Astronomy, l>y Mr (Viimel, ["ortingall ; Campliell's High- land Tales : and Mr Mackenzie's Gaelic History of Scotland. So far, therefore, as Gaelic original prose works arc concemec our literature is very barren. 5. I come now, but only to pass from it until another o_ _ tunity, to the department in which our literature is richest. I mean Original i'artry. Indeed, this is almost the ouly literature we jtosBcss, and portions of it are not only of real, but also of per- manent value. Some of the finest songs ever written have been written in Gaelic, and Ossian's Poems, though a translation, which is itself unquestionably a work of genius, although much inferior to the Gaelic, excttutra an influence upon the literature of Europe, ~* ere is much genuine poetry still among the people «h i.[,.'h:ki>. Jtjn. never found its way into print, ani any one who would help to collect it before it perishes altogether would bo rendering signal service to the literature of his country. Let me, therefore, earnestly attest you, gentlemen, when yon come across a good song, more especially if it be nn old song, to be careful to take it down, and ways and means can lie Tana far potting it into prist I hone none of you, gentlemen, would wish our native language to be extinguished, and if it is to lie preserved, it cut only be by means of a native literature, mid, therefore, it becomes the duty of all the lover* of thai language eagerly to seize hold of every IIn»ting fragment of genuine pootTJ uii.h the view of potting it into a form in which it may become a portion of our permanent literature. Lit ine now address to you a few words in regard to the importance of studying Gaelic. Need I say. gentlemen, that those who are to be engaged, as you eipect to be engaged, in teaching others should be well acquainted with the medium through which their instruction is to be conveyed 1 The clear- ness, force, and point of preaching greatly depends QpOfl an accurate knowledge ot'the language in which you preach. You know how true this remark is in regard to Knglish, let me umn vim that it is equally true in regard to ' talis. If you wish to be effective Gaelic preachers you must possess an accurate knowledge of the Gaelic language. It is no answer til this statement that many have been very effective preachers who never studied Gaelic grammar, and who even could not speak the language accurately, for how much more effective would they lie if they possessed an accurate knowledge of the language in which they spoke, when they were so effective notwithstanding that disadvantage Ì Many who cannot distinguish a grammatical from an inigrauimiitical sentence in Gaelic think that they know that langunge sufficiently well, and need not he at any [tains to know it better. Now it is remarkable that those who know it best are the very persons who leel most keenly that they have need of knowing it better. A little knowledge is necessary here, as in Oth* things, to make us sensible of our ignorance. Very few, indeed, know Gaelic so well as not to ueed to kuow it better. At all events, I am not one of them, for there are few days of my life that i do not learn something about Gaelic which I did not know- before. Some, again, think that no one can speak Gaelic ungrammati- cally, and I have beard it said that there is no such thing as Gaelic grammar. Now it is quite true that some speak Gaelic grammatically who never learned Gaelic grammar, as there are many wb" -peak Knglish grammatically who never think aliout to/am*. xioif cx 4 Jeu'jLut uxiut t«. "u •'.-l. 'jirt".K. MTtmdi. i*m£- Tìaai '-»*.*- ^y.v-r. ti^'Uf ^y*z tun** l riiif.Tjt yaiTQ?sa;A- a:- ~2i ali«eaJ •&. 7'*jfc u. Jvu. virtu-.- i. '.-itJ ii»'.*iii*^L >-•■•?» » b «>*a£rit pmmhroik. fsl's^h '•'j'ji*'? *,'.»v *j*.'ii.»riuii. r. 1st "f:«tiaii fldii lit* c foal 'M/tuJ'Vfdh * *j2ky:*\. um t *^ *"« / '??'k \ zj. i-**ezim-fttGMl nam*. T'o* 'fi/tsf, *. 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'>W* ':L*/t'iz.'tti ri* arj fh'x&l Ghreigi* f*V**- mar an ceudna *fr?c* i**Mt\A*t:ii air v/n tighc-y. tha Urivm o "n fbocal fc^* anns an \jnrt\uttj ag^* ///// . tha l'fry,n>i auj* an Laid inn (/ air a cur air iy/n '/  .Jufjijil ri lm/jwi agus 'lingua, teaiigadh) agus */«r aunt a' Ghaidhlig, osi/jh-chordadh ri  ** aims a Ghreigis tha cwH aijfi*} a ; Gliaidhli^ f 'oijih- « - a dh' fhacxiaiim a chur f«i 'r r-oiiihair, f:hith o aon do na toaghlaichihh sinn bninidh a' ohainnt Hhroatanaoh, no a' ohàinnt a ta air a labhairt aim an Walos ; an Armorio a ta air a lahhairt lo airoamh mhor anns an oarnum sin tlo'n Khraiug ris an abrsir Brittany, agus a* ehaiimt a bha LECTURES. 533 II. GAELIC—ITS HISTORY AND LITERATURE. 1 Tha mi a' riinachadh aig an àm so labhairt ruibh mu n Ghàidhlig — ar càinnt dhùthchasaich, agus mu chuid do na leabh- raichibh a sgr\obhadh innte. Faodaidh sinii a bhi ag eadar-dhealachadh ann am beachd do thaobh aois na Gàidhlig, ach tha sinn uile do 'n aon bheachd do thaobh cliu agus buadhan na càinnte sin a dh' fhoghlaim iomadh againn aig glùn ar màthar, agus a labhair sinn mu 'm b'aithne dhuinn a bheag mu chàinnt air bith eile. Dhuiune, air an aobhar sin, cha 'n 'eil càinnt ann a ta cho blasda no cho buadhach ris an t-sean Ghàidhlig, ged nach urrainn duinn a radh mu dèighinn, mar thubhairt am bard — " 'S i 'labhair Ad ham h, ann am Pàrras fèin, 'S bu shiùbhlach Gàidhlig o bheul àlainn Eubh." Ach cha ruigcar leas cron fhaotainn do 'n Ghàidheal air son a bhi a 1 meas nach 'eil càinnt air bith cosmhuil ris a' chàinnt a's faisge a thig air a chridhe fèin, agus le 'n duisgear smuaintean ann nach dùisgear le aon chàinnt eile. Tha e nàdarra, uime sin, dha- san a bhi do 'n bheachd " Gur h-i a's crìoch àraid Do gach càiunt fo 'n ghrèin, Gu *r 8muaintidh fhasmhor A phàirteachadh ri 'cheil* ; Ar n-inntinnean a rùsgadh Agus run ar cr\dh ; , (Le 'r gnìomh 's le 'r giulau) Surd chur air ar di ; 'S gu laoidh ar beòil Dh' iobradh do Dhia nan dul, 'S i 'h-àrd chrìoch mhòr Gu bhi toirt dha-san cliù." Ged bbitheas e draghail a dheanamh a mach gu 'n " Robh a' Ghàidhlig ullamh, 'N a glòir f ìor-ghuineach cruaidh Air feadh na cruinne Mu 'n d' thuilich an Tuil-ruadh," 1 This lecture belongs to the same period as the first one. 534 .LECTURES aontaichidh sinne, mar Ghàidheil, ri bcachd a bhaird cheudna, an ii air a thubhairt e : — " Go h-iomadh cànain linn Bhàbeil fhuair Sliocbd sin Adhaimh, 'S i a' Ghaidhlig a thug buaidh Do 'n labhradh dhàicbeil An urram ard gun tuairms', Gun mheang, gun fhàillinn, Is urraiun each a luaidh," agus cha mheas sinu gu 'u robh c fada cli an uair a thubhairt e, " 'S i an aon chànain Am beul nam bàrd 's nan èisg, 'S i a's feàrr gu càintadh linn Bhàbeil fein, 'S i a's fearr gu inoladh, 'S is torrunnaiche gleus Gu rann no laoidh A tharruing gaoth troimh bheul ; 'S i a's fearr gu comhairl' 'S gu gnothuch a chur gu feum Na aon teang Eorpach A dh' aindheoin bòsd nan Greug ; 'S i a's fearr gu rosg 'S air chosaibh a chur duain, 'S ii cruaidh uchd cofcpiir A bhrosnachadh an t-sluaigh." Ni mò a mheasa8 sinn gu 'n dubhairt Duncha Bàn tuilleadh 's a' chòir mu'n Ghàidhlig'n uair a labhair e na briathra snasmhor a leanas : — 'S i a's feàrr gu togail inntinn Le binn-ghuth còmhraidh thlàth, 'S i a's sgaitiche gu mi-mholadh 'S a's mine 'nochdas gràdh ; 'N àm cruinneachadh nam miltean \jc piob gu iomairt laun, 'S i a dhuisgeadh colg air òigiidh, 'X uair 'thogtadh sròl ri crann." Tha mi an duil nach 'eil Gaidheal 's an tigh so an nochd naoh aidich, an nuair a bheachdaicheas e air cliu agus air buadhaibh na Gàidhlig, " Gu 'm bu mhòr am beud gu 'm bàsaicheadh A' chànain a's fearr buaidh ;" LECTUKE9. 535 agus gur h-e dleasdanas nan Gaidheal do 'n d' fhàg an aithrichean i mar ftighreaehd g.ich oidhirp a tlmbhairt a chum a cumail suae. Tha cuid, gun tcagnnih. leis mi niiir a bhi ng aideachadh gur urrainn doibli a' Uhaidhlig n l;xl ibnirt., gcd nach urrainn doibb laii am beòil do 'n Bheurla a labhairt gu cuimir, ach tha mi an dùil nach 'eil an iireamb ach tearc. Is mi-chiatach an ni bhi a' clitinntinn dnine, ann an droch Bheurla, a deanamh u&ille as gu'tti bheil c air a' l.Jhaidhlig a dhi-ihuimhueachadh la e an cend ni mu 'm blieil mi gn labhairt ruibli aig an am so Dàimh ua Gàidhlig ri eainntibh aig am lilieil eairdeas rithe, ni (i 'm faod fiinn 'fhaicinn ciod e a h-àite am measg chainntean eile an domhain. na tlmbhairt mi cheana, th.t sibh air 'fhaicinn nach 'eil mi lie 'n bheachd gu 'm bi a' Ghàìdhlig "An labbairt 'bha 'b a' ghàradh 'Dli' fhiìg Adhamh aig an t-aluagh ;" Ach ged nacli gabh i lorgachadh air ais cho fada 'a bu mbatli le i^uid a bhi 'ga Inrgachailh, clia 'n c-il tcagnnih air bith nach 'eil i glè aosda. Tha iotnadh do Kichd foghlnim, a ta miou-rannsaehadh na cuise so, a' cumail a maeb gu 'm bheil i, co dhiubh, cho Bean rig a chànain l^nbhraidliieb, nuns an deachaidh a' cbuid a'a mi> do 'a t-Seatin Tìomnadh it sgriobhadh, ach nach 'eit ni 's faide air a labbairt. Ilia a air a dheanamh a mach, mar an ceudua, gu snilleir, gu 'm blieil daimh fhaisg aig a' Chàidhllg ii càhuitibh eile, dhe'm bheil cuid fathast beo, agus air an labhairt le àireamh mhòr do ahluagh an t-saoghail. Tha cainntean a' diiiunMlhaoine air an roinn 'n an teagh- laicbibh, a rèir agus mar tha na frcumh-fhocail o 'm bheil iad a' toacbd a mach a' comh-chòrdndh r' a chèile. 'N uair a ghabhaa sinn caiunt mar a ta a' Ghàidhlig, a' Bheurla, no an Laidimi, chi BÌun gu'm bheil na focail air an deanamh suas do dhà chuibhriun — 11:1 Freumh fhocail agus na litricheau a ta air au cur ri na freumh fliocail a elnnn bhi a' oochdadh math dàimhean Bònriiichte agtiB eadar-dhealai elite anna am fcudar beachdachadh air an amuain a ta am freumh fhocal a' comharrachadh. Ma sheallaa sinn ris an fliocal gabkaiilh, airson eiseimjileir, chi siun gu 'm bheil e air a dheanamh suas do dhà carrann — gabh agus iith — gabhaitUt. 'S e gabh an fhreumh, agua tha xdli a' cumail a mach an tini a ta ri teachd mar eadar-dhealaichte araon o 'n tini a bha ann, agua o 'a tlm a ta nis ann. Ach o 'n fhrcimh cheudna tha focail eile a fiis a tn eadar-dhealai elite o cheiie ann am brigh, ach aig am bheil dlii ehairdeas r'aclii'ih?, mar a ta. g/i ,>j>ib/i , ifibhui/, gh.ib/riimi A nis au uair a lomas sinn ua focail sinn de na litrichean a la toirt brlgh fa leth do gach aou diubb tha sinn a' faotainn da 5:ì6 lkctl'ees. frèiiuhe o 'm bheil iad ui)e a' fàs, eadbon gabh ; agua sinn gu seann sgrìr.iUiHÌdliibh ghcibli siim o mach gu 'ni bhcil j^a  oidhirpeachadh bhi a' feiichainn gu 'n d' ihàinig an Ghaidhlig, 's e a 's teàruinnte dhuinn gu n did in ■ràdh gu 'ra blieil nu Omanarraidhean càirdcis ft ta iad a' giulftn cho lioamhiir agus cho aoilleir, ngus naoh gabh e àieheatlb gu 'iu bheil au dà ohàmnt o *n aon fhrèiuih, agua »ir au aobhar aìn gu 'ni buiu iart do 'a aon towhlacli. Is call, iigns cba bhuanarlid, d.. fhior fhòghlum n bhiodh a' t&rruing comhdhiiuaidhean hhutiaitibh nacb seas ris an deurhhadli a's goiro a ghabhas orra, ìeis a' inhiiinntìr a ta a' mion-agriìdadh na dàimhe a eadar na caimitean win. Aoh mar faod sinn a bbi a' comh-dliùnadh gur leoir focail bhi ni-èigin eosmhuil r* a ehèile ami am fuaiin gu bht a'dearbhadh ::u 'iu bheil tad o iiìl h-aon fhreumhaibh, cha 'n fìiaod sinti, air an làimh file, a bhi a' cowh-dhiinaiili iiaeh faod focail a ta gu tor nen- chosmhuil r' a chèile aOD UD fuaim a bin aim an dlii-chàirdeas d' a chèile. Ma gliabhas siiin na focaìl cve(ue agus bùkop cha 'u fbaigli sinn aatis an aim fhooal aon litir a ta 's an fhocal eile, ach ged nacb faigh, tha 'n dà fbocal, mar tha Morair NeaTM a' ftìuchiiun duinn a' teaohd o 'n fhocal Ghreigia tpitcopot. Cha '11 'eil na focail evn, ite, prn, feather, cosmhuil r' a chèile aon ctiuid 'u an litrctichadh no 'n am fuaimilili, gidheadh tlia iad a' teachd. mar tba Kbel a' noobdailb,   chiadaibh biiaidh !" tlia c flor gn 'ra bheil àireamh niòr do fliocalaibh iasaid auns a' Ghàidhlig. Cha 'n 'eil mi ft' labhairt aig an aoi mu na focail Bhcnrla lois am blieil a' Gliiiidhlig nir a mcawgachadli agus air a tnmilK'iulli anns uft cearaaibli u thn criochudh ris a' Oh&lldMbd, ach mu na focalsibli a bhuineas do uhaiiintibh die a ta air faotaiim àitc aims n' chainnt, nir cliol a 'e gu 'm bheil iud "' di'auamb sua* euibhrinu do 'n chainnt a taainue anise a' labhairt . TUa niòran do na foealaibli iasaid so air an toirt a 'u Laidinu agus o 'n Glireigis troinih an Laidinn. Bha ioniadh dhinbh, mar ta emjlaif, gar/art, crtvd, air an toirt it stigh do 'n chainut Icis a' Chrcidinih Chriosdaidh. A nis is fhendar ua focail sin, agus ninniii eilc, ma ta icrivbh o tcrilx> ; Irugh o lego ; crmd a 'n fliocal ertda ; aoraJh fs an t-sean Uhaidhlig adrnd) o adoratio ; erùl o 'n fhocal qvettio ; ttirO/tìe o itrvu ; agna ItÌttem o 'n fliounl tettit, a bhi air an cur a thaobli an uair a tathar a' rannsaehadh a much diimlic na Laidinn agna ua (iaidhlig r' a cbèile. Ach an dei^li mu a dlieananih, hithidh focail ni 's lcoir air am fagail mu nach gabh tcagamh a bhi nach nor fhocail (ihaidlualaeh iad, (.-n bhi a dearhhadh gu soilleir gu 'm buin an da chainnt so do 'n aou tcaghlach. Agus cadhou do tliaobb nam focal i;isaiil fein ghcibliear freumhan iomadh dhitibli amis a' Uhaidhlig an uair a ni siiui an lorgaehadh SUM troinih an Laidinn gn in lior fhrennihaibh. Tha m focat sijriabh, gun teagaoih, a' teachd o 'u fhoenl Laidinn Kribu, Tha'm focal Laidinn ijnvU agus ikin focal Gùidhlig ijitrlJi dlù-chairdeach d' a chèile, ged nach rreagair e a radii mu dliuine mu 'u bob aiun : " He is a grave man," gu 'm bheil e 'n a dliuine garbk, Agus tha so a' toirt a ris fo 'ni eliomhair gu'm bheil am focal, ijarbk, ni 'a faisge air an t seaiiu Sanskrit, i/nru, na 'm focnl gravis, agna gu 'in faod an ni ceudna bhi air radii mu iomadh focal eile a' ta cairdcadi r' a clieile auiia an Laidinn agna anils a" Ghaidhlig, ni a dh' fhcuuiar a thoirt faineur ami bhi a' onimnmfltn nan caiuutean so ri 'ohèUe a chum bin a' dcanamh a mach cò aoa Chn cheadaicli nine dhomh mò ran a labhairt mn dhàimh ua Gaidhlig ris a' Ghreigis, no doighibli anns am bheil na litriehean air an atharrachadh cadar an dà chainnt, ague air an aobliar ain clia dean mi ach aircamh do fhocalaibh a cliur fo 'r comliair a ta leigcil ris gu'm bheil dlù-dhàimh eadar an da chaiinii. Tha 'm focal Greigia rhurt-os a ciallaehadli àitc air a dhimadh (enclosed place). Coiuh chordadh ris an fhocal so tha againn anns an Laidinn kortu* (lios), agus anna a' Ghaidlilic y^,/ ii>> y-irt, foc.il ris an cuinnieh linn gn trie aim an ainmibh àiteachan, agna a bi ai no 540 LECTURES. againn mar an ceudna anna an fhocal yorUtn, achadh boag. Tha na focail garden agua yard anna a Rlieurla cairdcacli do 'n fle»'al n> Tha 'm focal cheimn a' dnllncliadh aims a' Grcigis 'jr.mihriidh, rtadhadh, Jnacfai. Cmnlichordadh ri na focail Bin tha 'in focal Laidiun hitnu, agua an seann -focal Gaidhlig gcamh o 'in bheil geamkradk a? teooM, mar r U Kmhradho'n t-seann-focal nam*. Tha chairo a' ciallachadh bhi deannnili aoiblmeas, agus comli- cliordadh ris tha 'ui focal y  bhrigli agua uach ceadaich an dine sin domh, ia aim a labhras mi hcagain — ni "a lugha gu m6r na bha mi aon uaii Lt' ronaohadh a bhi labhairt — a nia anna an darn aite, mu na mauraibh anns au t -scan it ehaimit Ghuidhcalaeli air a roinn. Tha aèa càintilean air teaohd a inach o fhrcimh i Ghaidhlig, agua faodar iad aid a ruinn 'n an da theaghkon gu mòr ag eadar-dliealaehadh u ohèile, ged tha e BOtlleir n 'm bheil iad o 'n aon atoc. Do aon dc na tcaghUichihli Bran hninidh a' chainut Bhreatauaeh, no a' chaiunt a ta air a labhairt mm au Wales ; an Armorio a ta air a labhairt 1c aireanih mhiir anns an n de'n Fhraing ria an abrar Brittany, agus a' chaiunt a rx ,mar lirlgh igain x bhi ., hheil ha"^ LECTURBS. 541 aon uair air a labhairt. ann an Cornwall, ach a ta uise r' a faighimi a nihaiti ami an teabfcimiohibt), ftgiu cha 'n 'ffll iad sin lÌA&mhor. |).i 'ii i..-:r;lil.'i , li L'ilt' biiiniilli .(' ( ìhaiiilili^ Albrmuui-h, ;i' tlhaidhlig Eireamiach, agua a' (ihaiillilig Mhanainueach. Cha 'n e a nihàiu gu 'm bheil na cainntcan a' comh-chordadh r' a cheile aim urn outran de 'u cuid fhucal, acli tha iad a' comh-chordadh anna an dùigli no rian anna am bheil am focail a' leantaiuu a chèìlt?, agua a' riaghladh no atliarrachadh a chèile, an uair a ta iad air an cur cuideachd ann an sgriòbhadh, no aim au labhairt ; agua ged a ilia iad ag eadar-dhealachadli o ehèile ami an dòigh tuaiiuueudiadh nam focal, gidheadh, oadhou anna an ui aiu ftiiit tha miiran eomh- chordaidli eaturra. 'Nuair a chluiuneas tu a' chaiunt Bhrcataunach air a labhairt no air a lougliaiih, is garni gu 'n tuig thu focal di, ach au uair a raunsaiclieas tu na focail, agua an dòigb anna am bheil iad air au cur au alltaibh a choil, agua aims am bheil na litrichcan ;iir au Kthamohftdfa U) uair a ta na focail air an OUT an taic a clièile ann an sgriobhalb no ann an labhairt, clii thu gu aoilleir an dlù-dhàuuh a ta oadar a' chaiunt sin agua do chàinnt fèin. Chi si 11 u oho iaiag agus tha focail na caiuut Bhrcataunaich air focail na caiunt againu fèiu, agus aig an am cheudna au t-eadar- dliealachadb. a ta eaturra, an uair a choimhmcasaa sinn r' a chtile na focail a leanas ; Bardd agua bard ; blynedd agus btiadÀna ; bun agua bun ; bytiyrf agus bratlia ; byd agus bit/i ; bye/tan agua beagan; catr (cadar) agus eathair ; cad agus cath ; camin agus cam ; cam agus arum ; ei agua cu ; cL%id agua ctadh ; clock agus clrig ; cogail agus cuigral ; còlt agus call; tkwa» agus piuthar, do tivar ; cJiwerte agua trarldi ; c/ncarU agua sannt {•dim airson i) ; d , agua mar (c agua p) . / ctann. ; plant agus c/ann ; pren agua cranrt / ptdiuar agus ccatkair ; pimp agua citig , r/i'imi agua rana ; rkin agus ran ; rhyn agus iiiiiin ; .-'il/ir iigus arnll'idli ; Vint agua Irnd ; —n a^'ua nan. : y.llan agus iitdklan : i/mmyl agus iomtd ; yny agua inii; y.'ln "i agai ttrtallt ; marnr agus ut )r , rli/n, dyiwn, agin dttmr; daoiiif. O uhuid de na fuuail a illi' aiumich mi faodar 'fliaiciuu gu'm bheil a' chaiunt BbreotHIMIlh ami an iumaiili dc 'focail, mar tha d'tn', cutt, i. nit, ui 's faiagc air an Laidinu na a' Giianililig Albannach. A'.-li '■ '■ .i' Uliiiiilliliir Kiiviuiuii'.-ii :igm a (ihiiidiilig Milan- 543 LECTURES. ainucsch as faisge go mftr do 'n Ghnidhlig Albannaich ; agus tha iad sin cho faisg di '« gu 'in faodar a ràdh na mli-dii>j-ilivlh lis an Eabhra nach 'eil do 'n ami tcaghlaeh riu, a' dol ceum a chum bhi a' dearbhadh n air a foi 1 beach ad h ami am focal Dr, eadhon, gu'n "d' rinn ] a leis na leabh- raiebean a chuir e much 'n ;iui mttag. Anna a bhliadhna 10*^ hha leabhar lieag e heist air a chnr a much, a reir mo bharail le Mr Kirke, asjun in eontiihuil gu 'm b'e sill an cuigeiuuli leulihur a clilo Uiiialiuih s a' (diaidhlig. Anns a' bhliadhna 168'J, blia 'n Senun Tkonadh una an Tiomnndli Nundh air an cur a niach anna an litir KOuianaich a ehiim leas nan C a id Viral Albannach !e Mr Kirke. Bha da while amis a' el ild-l:.h naiad h, agus V e sin a' eheud nair a bha am Biol mil, fandaidli mi a ràdh, air a ehraobh-agaoil- endh am meaag (iliaidheul na h-Alba ; aeb bha e dtii air ccud bliadhna an dèigh sin mu 'n robh wnann air bith dbeth air a olmr a niach 'n an i.-ainni pein, otr eha d' rinn Mr Kirke ach am Biobull Kireannaeh, a bha roimh air a clitir a niaeh an Eirinu anus, an litir Kireannaieh, a ehnr anns an litir Rònmnaich. 546 LECTURES snasmhor le Seumas MacGregoir agua le Parra Grannd. Tha Seumas McGregoir ag radh mu 'n t-soisgeil : " B' e sgeul an àigh e, air beatha 's slain te,"  oken, hut also as they exist in ancient MSS., is absolutely necessary, and not less necessary is the power of resisting the torn ptut ion to adopt fanciful interpretations based upon mere resemblance in sound between the names to be interpreted and words still used by tho people. It would be easy to give illustrations of the danger of yielding to this temptation. A friend of mine who has devoted many years to the study of topography, has got the length of discovering in the Gaelic language a key to the right interpretation of the topography of three-fourths of the globe. No wonder that he is convinced that Gaelic — the present Gaelic of the Highlands of Scotland— was the fonntain-head of all languages — that, indeed, in which Adam und Eve conversed in Paradise. My friend does not know that the Gaelic now spoken in the Highlands is very different from that which was spoken in the country a thousand years ago, and of which we have still many monuments, so different, indeed, that I find it much easier to read Greek or Latin than to read the oldest forms of my own language. If you ask a Highlander what is the meaning of TilUechewai he will tell you at once that it signifies the knoll or hillock ol Ewen. Tillie is the Gaelic word Tulaich, and Ewen is plainly Ewen, a man's name. Or, if Ewen be not a man's name, it must be the Gaelic word uaine, which signifies green, and Tilliedu'wen must in that case mean the green knoll or hillock, just as Tillie- gorm signihes the sarae thing, a vtry beautiful and appropriate name. But wheu wc turn to charters that are not very old, we discover that all this is nonsense. Tillie, no doubt, is tulaich. That admits of no mistake. But the last part of the word is neither Ewen nor naiue, but Oolquhoun, and Tilliechewen is just a corruption of Titlie-Colquh 01111 — the knoll or hillock of Col- The topography of this county is partly British and partly Gaelic — the British element being probably the older. Wc know 550 LECTURES. from history that this formed part of the territory of the Strath - clyde Britons, that, indeed, Dumbarton was the capital of their kingdom, and, therefore, we would naturally expect to find numerous traces of their occupation in the local names of place*. By and bye the British receded as the Scottish or Gaelic advanced, and when the latter came to possess these districts, they too lefi numerous traces of their occupation on the surrounding moun- tains, and valley 8, and lakes, and rivers. By far the largest number of the names of places in this and the surrounding districts are Gaelic. In the remainder of this lecture I shall give you examples of the interpretation of these names. In doing no T shall carefully avoid fanciful interpretations. When I sh 11 have occasion to refer to names about the interpretation of which I do not feel satisfied, I shall not conceal it from you. As Dumbarton is situated on the Clyde, which is now the chief cause of its prosperity, it is but right that we should begin with it, although it does not promise well that I should begin with a name about the meaning of which I am not quite satisfied. Had I to begin with the Forth, I would have felt less difficulty, for it comes from fiord, the Norse for an arm of the sea. The Rev. Isaac Taylor refers the Clyde, together with the Clwyd, Cloyd, and Clydach in Wales, and the Glyde in Ireland to the Gaelic word Cllth, strong, while Edmunds derives it either from llwyd, brown, or from Clwyd, a British hero who conquered the Gwyddel or Gael in Wales. I think it probable that the Clyde is a British name, and that both it and the Welsh river of the same name were called after the British hero to whom Edmunds refers. 1 If we take next Dumbarton, from which the county takes its name, we all know what is meant by Dun, which enters so largely into our topography, and which is common to the Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish. It signifies a fort, and, therefore, it gives name to many fortified towns, us Duu-cidiu, Edinburgh, Dun form line, Dumfries, Dunblane, Dundrum, Dungall, and many more. It sometimes signifies a hill. Hence Dumbuck, the buck's Dun, the Dun mountain in Perthshire, and many more. Irs original meaning seems to have been a heap, in which sense it is still used in the spoken Gaelic, as Dun arbhair, a heap of corn. From that it. came to be applied very naturally to hills and mountains, and then to fortified places, which were very frequently built on hills, as we find at Dumbarton and Duu-eidin (Edinburgh), Edwin's Dun. 1 Dr Cameron, in the i$cot. Celt. Review, p. 113, derives it from the root c/w, to wash, Latin clucre, cloaca. The Htein is Clouda. i.wTi. am, 551 The hist part of Dumbarton was originally Britain — the port uf the Britons— but the meaning of Britain is nut so obvious. ,\ friend of mine used to interpret it wave- beget ring (breth thonn), but that ia n mere fancy. In Armstrong's Gaelic Dictionary Britain is explained us signifying liraigh-toun, the land on t hi_- top of the waves, from the appearance of Britain u seal from Calais. The old name of Dumbarton was Alclyd, which signifies the rock of Clyde, from al, an old and nou. obsolete Celtic word for rock. After Diuuharton, the Leven, from which our Vale takes ita name, and upon which its prosperity so much depends, is, perhaps, the next most important local name. Some dative the Word Leven from the Gaelic word leam/ttin, the elm tree, and think that the riter derives ite name (roue the abundance of elms which grow upon its banks. Chalmers, in his Caledonia, derives it, it seenis to me with more reason, from the British or Welsh word, /'cn.i, which signifies smooth. The Leven would therefore signify the smooth flowing river, and " smooth -flowing " is- characteristic of the river of which the poet said : — No torrents stain thy limpid source. No rocks impede thy dimpling course, Tli.il sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polished pebbles spread. The river gives its name to the district, and to saveral places ub its banks. Lenox, 1 a name well known in the history of Scot- land, was anciently Levenux, from Leven-uch, tbe field of Leven, the Gaelic word signifying field. St rath -le you, tbe strath of the Leven, is from the Gaelic word strath, a river-holm.. This word enters largely int.i Scottish topography. We have Strathbluno, Strath more. Strathdeam, Strathnuirn, Stratheurn, and Strathtay. The old DIMM of Lochlomond was Lochleven, before it took its present name from Ben Lomond. The name Lomond, uow applied to both mountain and look, is sometimes derived from Laomainn, u  wu— Llivan or I Jinn, formed 1>\ the overflowing of a wall. With it is connected the Celtic goddess, " The Lady of the fountain." the Irish Libnn, with the country of Lionca, &C. (Rhys, ArtL Lrg,.p. 3(1!1. The loot is li or Iti, as iu QieekiVio>, Lai. lerù, smooth, Sanskrit n', flow. Gaelic light, flood.— Ed. * The Laments are descended of the Lawmen of the laics. Xorse gen,, toyiMOnni. — ED, • derived from the British word Utunmoo, which signifies a a conspicuous object. It is deserving of notice thai where we have the three Lotnond hills hi Kinross and Fife, we have a Lochleven ami a river Leven at their base. If we come nearer home, our own important village furnish^ ati illustration of the danger of reiving too much upon local pro- nunciation for the meaning of a name. "The Ran ton " has iii-l.hing to do with mutiny, although it in sometimes noisy of a Saturday night, for it has derived ita name from Cecilia Kenton, who married a SmotUtt of Bon bill. Tha name of the parish is derived from caer and roe, the d lieing merely euphonic. Caer signifies a fort, and is common to the British and the Gaelic. It enters largely into our to[iograpby_ We have Caerlaveroek, Carphin, Camiytlie. It ìb one of the most frequent constituents of Welsh names, as Caermarthon. It also frequently occurs in Irish topography, at, Caher, Caher-harnuch, Ouvnl, Oaherkeen, Cahermoylc, Caherlarig, Cahermurphy, • 'aherdiiggan. Carman is from this word, the other part being mmiadh, mynedd, hill, and the/efore signifies the fort ou the hill. Coidel is, perhaps, derived from the same won!, although it might also be derived from car, a turn or bend, the other part being dnil, Boa, the other part of Cardros, signifies a promontory or point of land jutting out into the water. It is common to both the British and the Gaelic, and enters very largely into both British and Scottish topography. It gives name to one of our counties, I loss-shire, which, ou the east, projects into the sea. In our own neighbourhood we have Ilossdhu, the black point, and Rosneath, which may signify the naked point, although the name is no longer applicable to the well-wooded point on which Rosneath House stands. The meaning of Cardruss is, therefore, the fort on the point, the point being that opposite Dunbarton Rock, ou which, until comparatively recent times, the Parish Church of Cardruss stood As might 1« expected, the word dail, which signifies a meadow or plain U'nide a river, and which is cognate to the German Thai, and English dale, if the latter has not been derived from it, 1 U pretty frequently found along the hanks of the Leven. We have hi this parish Dalreoch, not, as is often supposed, from King Robert Bruce having lived in the neighbourhood, the dale of the king, which would be Dalrigh or Dairy, but the brindled or brown dale. The word riabhaeh occurs frequently in our topography, a> do indeed the names of all the colours. We have Am braigh ' The Gaelic dail ia from the Norse ; bo, too, it Eag. 'fair of Scan dilution uk and origin. — Ed. LECIUBBS. rinbhach, the brindled height, as t.I mountains of the Grampian range, the brindled sheltered valley, and Luban riabhach, the brindled bends, and tnany other names containing this word. After Dalrcock we have Daluiock, hut 1 do not feel certain in regard to the uieauing of muek. Then we have ruiqnhurn, the dale of the oaini, or Cairndale. This word ia spelled Dalchurne iti an old charter published in thu Cartulary of Lenox, so that we may feel satisfied that what I have now stated is the correct interpretation. We have Cord ale, to which I have already referred. Wo have Dilichip, the dale of the block. This name deserves to be noticed as in example of regressive assimilation a euphonic principle which largely influences the Gaelic language. Cip is the genitive of ceap, a block. It is governed by d&il, which becomes dil by the assimilating influence of the second syllable, on which, being a compound word, the voice rests. We have also Dalmonach, the dale of the monks, or Monksdale, and Dalmuir {Dalmore in an old charter), the great dale. This word staff enters largely into Scottish and Irish topography. In this parish are many other name of places the meaning of which is very evident. Colgraiu menus behind the sun, from cul, hack, ami grian, etin. Braehead is partly Gaelic and partly English. t rae is a Gaelic word signifying the upper part. It enters very largely, as you know, into topography. We have, indeed, braes without Camiseskiu is made up of two Gaelic words, cartius and eskin. Camus, which frequently occurs in names of places, signifies a bay, and sometimes a neck in the land, without any reference to water. We have in this county Camnstraddan, and opposite to it, on the other aide of the loch, Cain uslorga inn. Eskin signifies an eel, and also a fish pond. Craig-an-Dorau is the otter rock, from craig, a rock, and doran, an otter. Craig, as you are aw. re, enters very largely into our topography. There is a Craigend in this parish. Doran is from dobhar, water. Dobharchu is indeed another name in Gaelic for otter. Ardmore is the great height, from aird, height, and the adjective njor, great. Ardbeg is the little height, from aird, aud beg, little. These words, aird, more and beg, occur very frequently in both Scottish and Irish topography. K iltuah (".'.■ is the kill or cell of a saint of the uame of Mathew or Mill,.-.-., not St Matthew of the New Testament, but probably an Irish saint. Drumhead is partly Gaelic and partly English. Drum (in Gaelic, druim) is a ridge. This also is a word of very common •554 LECTURES. occurrence in the names of places, as Tyandrum, the house on the ridge, Drummore, Auchendroma, Drumfad. Ardoch signifies either the high field, from ar f Connel. The word Blair, which signifies also a moss, occurs very frequently in Scottish and Irish topography. We have Blair Adam, the field or plain of Adam, and we have Blair in Athole. and many more. We have several in this county, as Blarvottich, the field of the old man; Blarrennich, the field of the ferns ; Blarnshogil, the field of the rye ; Blarfad, the long field ; Blarnairr, the field of Nairn ; Blarinde;is, the south field, and others. Drumfork is the ridge on the summit, from druim, a ridge, and fork, top or summit. I have referred already to tV« word kill, a monkish cell. We have several of them in this county. There are Kilpatrick, Kilmaronock (St Marnock's cell), Kilsyth, Drumnakill, *he ridge of the cell. I am not sure whether Mollandhu is the black mill, from muillein, a mill, and dubh, black, or the black little hill or mound, from molan, a little hill, and the adjective dubh. This, however, can easily be decided by any person acquainted with the place. I find a stoney mo) Ian above Wood bank, where it LECTUAES. 555 must, I presume, signifiy the stoney mound. There is a Mollanbuie (Mollan-buidhe) in the parish of Bonhill. Asker may signify either a rocky ridge or a leap, but as I am not acquainted with the place 1 do not know which is the most appropriate interpretation. Ardraore is the great height, from airde, height, and more, great. Ard mores and Ardbeys are very common in Gaelic topography. Arden seems to be a diminutive of airde, and, therefore, signifies the little height. It is so understood by Dr Joyce, who tells us that it occurs frequently in Irish topography. Ardarden is, therefore, although it appears contradictory, the high little height. When, however, we consider that of two ardensj one may be higher than another, we shall find nothing strange in one of them being called Ardarden. We have several ardens in this county. Ardan is also the Gaelic word for pride, and is applied to a high or lofty look. Keppoch signifies a plot of land laid out for tillage. There ■are several places of this name both in this country and in Ireland. Keppoch near Fort-William is famous on account of a bloody massacre which took place there. I have some difficulty in regard to Kipperoch and Minnsheog. Minnseog is a young she goat. Ceap is a piece of land, and arroch is a little shieling. Kipper-minnseog may, therefore, be the place to which the people living on the plain below sent their young goats to pasture in the olden times. Succoth, or Sokkoth, signifies beaked, or pointed. It is the name of several places in the Highlands. In connection with Succoth in our neighbourhood, it deserves to be noticed that Suecat was St Patrick's name before he took the Latin name of Patrick or Patricius, after he had gone to the continent. Whether there was anv connection between St Patrick's name and Succoth i do not know, but when we con- sider that St Patrick was born at Alcluid (the modern Dumbarton), and that Suecat was his original name, it is curious to find *Succoth as the name of a farm in the immediate neighbourhood of the place of his birth. Cladach is a ehore or beach — often a stoney beach. The    show what Arran has not been derived from than to show what is the correct i of the word. In both form aud declension, Ara, gem 36 ' Lettiruaganach is the Ititir or hill slope of the canons, which poinlB back to the time (1452) when James II. granted to the canons of Glasgow the whole Crown rents of Arrao and uth.r lands in payment of the sum of 800 marks, which they hail lent to him out of the offerings of their church in the time of the indulgences. In Whitingbay there are three Largitt — Largicbeg, Largie- niore, and Largiemeanaeh. I.argie, I take to be the Gaelic word lairiff (a moor, the side of a hill). It is of frequent occurrence in (Jaelic topography. There is in Sutherland a parish of Lairg, and you have Largs on the Firth of Clyde. There is a I^argie in Kintyre, and the burying- place of the Bretidalbane family at Loch Tayaide is Finlairig. There is also a Gaelic word larg, which signifies a plain. But we may, with confidence, identify Largie with Lairig. The affixes, beg, mart, and meanacJi, are tin adjectives l-rci/ (little), mm- (large, big), and m' inu:h (middle). You have also three K isk ad ales — North, South, and Middle. In the old written documents, this word is written Keskedel. It is manifestly a Norse word, the affix dalr or dtt being the same word as our Gaelic dail (a plain, a dale), and related to the Eng- lish dale and the German thai. The first part of the word I do not know, hut I believe that, with a little more research, I shall be able to discover its meaning. There are some other words, such as Glenashdale, written Glenasdiwlide in old doeu mints, and Glensc'ii-adal!!, clearly Norse names, which I must leave for the present unexplained. SECTION II. In the previous section on the Arran place-names, I started from Brodick, came along by Lamlash, and went as far as the march between the parishes of Kilbride and Kilmory. time I propose to start again from Brodick, and to go opposite direction of Corrie, Lochranza, Catacol, and Dnugarie, to Shisken. This includes the whole north end of the island. As in the former section, we shall frequently meet with names at the meaning of which wo can only guess, although I do not despair of boing yet able to get at their correct interpretation. Here, as elsewhere, names that were once familiar have disap- peared, through the progress of adding field to field and house to house, from the map, although they still linger in the memories of the people. Thus, we know of a "Gort.an gainmheach " (the sandy little field), near where Mr Halliday has his sawmills; of the " Cnocan" (the Knockan), above the Castle ; and of " Peighiun a' Chaisteil" (the pennyland of the Castle), near the Castle. The i. The LECTURES, 563 tojuigniphy. It is identical with eoirt (a cauldron) ; it is cognate with the Ice. hverr (a cauldron, a boiler). There is more difficulty about the second syllable of Corrie- gills. It may from its form bo the genitive of Gall (a stranger), a term applied in the West Highlands to the Danish invaders. The word would thus Bignify the "Corrie " of or belonging to the stranger. The last syllable, however, may be the Norse git (a deep, narrow glen with a stream at bottom), which occurs so fre- (jiiently as ghyll and gill in our Scotch topography, and this I regard as the more probable explanation. From Corriegills we pass on to Dnnfin, which does not mean the Dun of the Ossianic Finn mac-Cumhaill, for then the word would not be Dnn-fionn but Duu-Fhiun. like Kill-Fhinn. In Dun- fionn is plainly the adjective fionn (white, fair), and Duu-fionn is the fair bill ; or it may mean the white or fair fort. The former, however, ia the more probable, for we have close to Dun-tìonn another hill Dun-dubh (the black hill), and when we look at the two hills, we find that the names are descriptive. The original meaning of dun is an enclosure. From an enclosed or walled place, it came to signify a fort ; and as forts were a - ually built on elevated places, the word came to be applied to hills, and from hills to any heap, even a heap of dung, or dunghill, which in I laelic is dunan, a diminutive of diin. But ddnan does not always main a dunghill. It also means a hillock, or little hill. Hence the Dnmmt below Corriegills means the hillocks, a dw.ciiptivo name. The English etymological equivalent of dun is (own, from the Anglo-Saxon tun, literally an enclosure. We shall now return to the centre of the Brodick district, but must have a look in passing at the sweet glen of Lag-a'-bhcitbe (the hollow of the birch). Lag, as those of us who speak Gaelic know, means a hollow, and laggan, a little hollow, Hence Lag, near Kilmory, is the hollow, a very descriptive name, and the Lagans — we have two iu the north end of Arrau— are very common in Gaelic topography. The last part of Lag a'-bheithe is bkeilht, the genitive of beitke (birch). The a' bet