Note 81 — Chapter II · INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE GAILL AND THE GAEDHIL DURING THE VIKING PERIOD.
Reading edition
One of these fugitives wrote the following lines on the margin of Priscian’s Latin Grammar in the monastery of St. Gall, Switzerland:
“Is acher ingaith innocht fufuasna fairge findfolt, Ni agor reimm mora minn dond laechraid lainn na lothlind.” (Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus. Ed. Stokes and Strachan, II., 290.)
i.e.,
Bitter is the wind to-night, It tosses the ocean’s white hair; To-night I fear not the fierce warriors of Norway Coursing on the Irish Sea. (Translation by Kuno Meyer: Ancient Irish Poetry, p. 101.)