FRAOCH 55
Auctor hujus an Caoch O Cluain
H-osnadh caraid an Cluan Fhraoich
H-osnadh laoich an caiseal chró H-osnadh dheanann tuirseach fear, Agus da’n guileann bean óg.
Aig so shear 56 an carp fa’n bh-feil Fraoch mac Fhiodhaich an fhuilt mhaoith,
54 Fraoch's mead, i.e.
55 From the Book of the Dean of Lismore after Dr Cameron's transcription and transliteration in Reliquiæ Celticæ (i. 63). His transliteration is in several places corrected; mac Fhiodhaich is dialectal for mac Fhiodhaidh, mac Idhaidh, old nominative Idad. 56 Shiar?
Fear a rinn buidheachas baoibh Is bho’n sloinntear Carn Fraoich.
Gul aon mhna an Cruachan soir
Truagh an sgeul fa bh-feil a’ bhean Is se bheir a h-osnadh gu trom Fraoch mac Fiodhaich nan colg sean.
’Si ’n aon bhean do nidh an gul
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