Note 10 — Chapter XXXVIII
Reading edition
It commences:—
"Sluagh seisir tháinig do m' thigh, Béarfad uaim iúl an tseisir, Tearc do lacht mé ar na mhárach O thart na ré selánach (i.e., bitheamhnach);"
and the last verse runs:—
"Guidhim Dia do dhóirt a fhuil O sé a mbás bheith na mbeathaidh, (Ni mhairid gar marthain sin!) Nár marbhthar an sluagh seisir."
I.e., "I pray to God who poured his blood, since it is their death to be in life,—they do not live whose living is that of theirs!—may that crew of six be never slain"! This last poem of the unfortunate Teig Dall is preserved in H. 1. 17 T.C.D. f. 116, 6, whence I copied it, but it has lately been printed in the brilliantly descriptive Catalogue of the Irish MSS. in the British Museum.