Note 13 — Chapter XXXV
Reading edition
"Fuath gach fir fuighioll a thuaidhe, Tuig a Fhiacha, duit is dual, Má tá nach binn libh mo labhra, Os cionn do chinn do thárla an tuath."
O'Donovan, in his manuscript catalogue, quotes the last two lines of the verse in note 12 above, and translates them, "My bitter woe my heart's oppression is the news for which I grieve." Afterwards he erased the words "for which I grieve" and wrote instead "it wastes my vigour," thus showing that he did not understand the original, for one translation is as bad as the other. The difficult word troithlidhe which perplexed him, is a common one in Roscommon, I have frequently heard it in the sense of "chilly." The translation is, "the news which chills me."