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Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, Volume 6, Issue 26, Page 9

Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, Volume 6, Issue 26, Page 9
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Irish Folk Song Society
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Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society
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6
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3III. Tdn iomad crn n-a n-drlannaibh drnAg fds go fer n-a deigh-siN-a sgathanaibh ir a shdruigh an t-ambro,Agus ndirigh g-mhnd na h-Eirne.Amharo an tseid dd bhfeiefoadh an trein-fhearIdson crdhach tritheach,Gan spairn gan ghle go bhfaigfeadh go deAn lomra ir is Meda.IV. Paris trdth bhi ar mhalaidh Shlibh Id,Tabhairt faire gach oidhche ar shrSadaibh,Go bhfaca sS antriar ban chuige go dianLe Mercuri thrid na spSirthibh:Mo sheare-sa d mbi n-a seasamh s a Islighe,S dd bhfeicfeadh agus I gan line,Gur di-si do shinfeadh an abhull gao spnaoiThug an t-ainm on dis do Bhnus.MS. 10, no. 65, with readings from MS. 26, no. 19, p. 9. MS. readings: I, 1, Ta oruibh.II, 3, naornh. II, 4, dhiadh-si. II, 5, a sgaol. II, 8, Cd RI. III, 1, na ndr Ianaibh. III, 2,diaidh-si. III, 3, tharuigh. IV, 1, Shliabh. IV, 4, speiribh.TRANSLATION.I. Her hands are soft and delicate, and deft in action,Showing no joints, muscles or sinews;And she would excel the nine skilled muses,Dexterous though they were upon the strings.On a cloak this maiden can finely embroiderEvery species of wild bird under the sun,The deer and her fawn, the salmon and the wolf,The swan, the grouse and her chickens.II. Consider, sweetheart, that the world is deceitful,And if you are beguiled, dire is the treachery.If you forsake me for another, the curse of the saintsShall rain down heavily in pursuit of you.I cannot call it folly if I should become frenzied,Or fly in the air like the birds,And it was for a woman like you that the two heroes,Odchulainn and Odraoi, did battle.III. Many ringlets, each a handful (?),Grow down and meet the grass behind herIn wisps of gold more lovely than amber,Putting the young women of the Erne to shame.Had my jewel been seen by that warrior,Jason the valiant and resourceful,Without struggle or contest he would have left for everThe golden fleece and Medea.IV. Once Paris was on Mount Idas brow,Nightly watching his flocks,When he spied the three goddesses rapidly approaching himWith Mercury through the heavens:Had my love been standing in his path,And he had seen her undraped,It is to her he would unhesitatingly (?) have given the appleWhich gave the title from the other twain to Venus.NOTES.AIRNoted by Bunting from James Duncan, harper, County Down. Variantsliav been printed as follows :1. Stamford-Petrie, no 1111: Is truagh me gan mo ghrddh.2. ditto, no. 1162: Orn an uig.,,3. ditto, no. 1361: Henry, a ghrddh!4. ditto, no. 1414: Eiligh geal ohiflin.5. ditto, no. 1445: 0 Dhia rd, a Shedghain I Petrie says, See theGaelic air Oran an aoig. If he means the Scottish air of that name, it is priutedwith notes in Grahams Popular Songs and Melodies of Scotland, 1908 ed4tion,p. 56, hut there does not seem to he much connection with ours. He may, how-ever, mean no. 2 above.6. ditto, no. 1574: Mo chreach is mo lean gao Kitty agus me.7. ,Toyce (1909), p. 25: The Pearl of the Irish Nation, with two verses ofthe song of that name.WORDSNo other version appears to have been printed. In addition to thetwo copies on which the above text is based, there are others in MS. 11, p. 38and MS. 26, sheet 27. In no case is there any indication of origin, and in nocase do the readings afford any help for solving the difficulties which haveoccasioned the insertion of queries in the translation.The fair maid for whom Odchulainn and Cdraoi did battle (verse II) is ofcourse Blanaid (Keating, Foras Feasa, II, pp. 222226).Professor OToole tells me that in the MS. of Peter Gallegan, in the Libraryof the University of Edinburgh, there is a poem (p. 74) entitled Aills Nul Chearbhuill,attributed to Mao Odarta and be8innin
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26
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9
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1967-01-01T00:00:00
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