Note 26 — Chapter XVI
Reading edition
Reprinted by Windisch in his "Irische Texte," Heft 1., p. 5. The first verse runs—
"Sén De don fe for don te Mac maire ron feladar! For a fhoessam dún anocht Cia tiasam, cain temadar,"
which is in no wise easy to translate! There are fifty-six verses not all in the same metre. Another acknowledges St. Patrick as a patron saint, it would run thus, in modernised orthography—
"Beannacht ar erlám [pátrún] Pádraig Go naomhaib Eireann uime Beannacht ar an gcáthair-se Agus ar chách bhfuil innti!"
A three-quarter Latin verse runs thus—
"Regem regum rogamus / in nostris sermonibus Anacht Noe a luchtlach / diluvi temporibus."