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<text><body><div><p><span><pb n="52"/></span>
<lb n="1"/><span>BRÉAGÓIR ÉIREANN.</span></p>
<lb n="2"/>
<lb n="3"/><p><span>Bhí bean aon uair amháin, agus ní'l anois agus is </span>
<lb n="4"/><span>cuma gá hacú bhí nó nach rabh, is bhí mac aicí.</span>
<lb n="5"/><span>Thainic sé isteach aon lá amháin.</span></p>
<lb n="6"/>
<lb n="7"/><p><span>"Mo dhonas is mo dhothairne orm, a </span>
<lb n="8"/><span>mháthair," adeir se, "mur racha me a </span>
<lb n="9"/><span>dh'iarraidh nighne an ríogh."</span></p>
<lb n="10"/>
<lb n="11"/><p><span>Chan fhuighedh aon dhuine nighean an ríogh </span>
<lb n="12"/><span>acht an té bhainfeadh trí "thug tú h'éitheach" </span>
<lb n="13"/><span>as.</span></p>
<lb n="14"/>
<lb n="15"/><p><span>D'éirigh an buachaill agus fuair se réidh a </span></p>
</div>
<pb n="53"/>
<div><lb n="16"/><p><span>chearc 's a bhunnóg, is chuaidh se go tigh an </span>
<lb n="17"/><span>ríogh.  D'fhiostruigh fear an gheata gá rabh </span>
<lb n="18"/><span>se ag dul ná goidé bhí a dhíth air.  Dubhairt </span>
<lb n="19"/><span>se gur mhaith leis a bheith ag caint leis an </span>
<lb n="20"/><span>rígh, go rabh se ag dul a dh'iárraidh a ninine </span>
<lb n="21"/><span>(inghine).  Chuaidh fear an gheata isteach agus </span>
<lb n="22"/><span>d'ársaigh se do'n rígh go rabh fear amuigh a </span>
<lb n="23"/><span>rabh gnaithe aige leis.  Sgairt an rí isteach </span>
<lb n="24"/><span>air.</span></p>
<lb n="25"/>
<lb n="26"/><p><span>D'ársaigh an buachaill a ghnaithe, go rabh se </span>
<lb n="27"/><span>ag dul a dh'iárraidh a ninine (inghine).  Thug </span>
<lb n="28"/><span>an rí amach e an áit i rabh páirc chruithneachta.</span></p>
<lb n="29"/>
<lb n="30"/><p><span>"Nach maith a' chruithneacht í sin?" adeir </span>
<lb n="31"/><span>an rí.</span></p>
<lb n="32"/>
<lb n="33"/><p><span>"Is maith 's is ró-mhaith," arsa Bréagóir </span>
<lb n="34"/><span>Éireann; "Goidé is brígh é seachas a'</span>
<lb n="35"/><span>chruithneachta atá in-sa' mbaile aige mo </span>
<lb n="36"/><span>gháid-se?"</span></p>
<lb n="37"/>
<lb n="38"/><p><span>Char dhubhairt an rí an dadaidh.  Thug sé </span>
<lb n="39"/><span>amach e an áit i rabh páirc mhór phise.</span></p>
<lb n="40"/>
<lb n="41"/><p><span>"Nach maith a' phis í sin?" adeir a' rí.</span></p>
<lb n="42"/>
<lb n="43"/><p><span>"is maith 's is ró-mhaith," arsa Bréagóir</span>
<lb n="44"/><span>Éireann, "acht goidé is brígh e seachas a'</span>
<lb n="45"/><span>phis atá aige mo gháid-se?"</span></p>
<lb n="46"/>
<lb n="47"/><p><span>Char dhubhairt an rí an dadaidh.  Thug se</span>
<lb n="48"/><span>amach e an áit i rabh gárrdhaidh mór gobáisde.</span></p>
<lb n="49"/>
<lb n="50"/><p><span>"Nach sin a' ghobáisde mhaith?" ars' an rí.</span></p>
<lb n="51"/>
<lb n="52"/><p><span>"'Seadh, 's maith 's is ró-mhaith.  Goidé is </span>
<lb n="53"/><span>brígh e seachas a' gobáisde tá in-sa' mbaile </span>
<lb n="54"/><span>aige mo gháid-se?"</span></p>
<lb n="55"/>
<lb n="56"/><p><span>"Goidé an maitheas at' ar ghobáisde do </span>
<lb n="57"/><span>gháid-se?" adeir an rí.</span></p>
<lb n="58"/>
<lb n="59"/><p><span>"Tá," arsa Bréagóir Éireann; "Bhí </span>
<lb n="60"/><span>málthraigh ag dul thart a rabh deich marcaigh </span>
<lb n="61"/><span>is dá fhichid ionn.  Thainic cíth mór fearthainne</span>
<lb n="62"/><span>orthú.  Chuaidh me fhéin," arsa Bréagóir</span>
<lb n="63"/><span>Éireann, "is fuair me duilleog ghobáisde</span>
<lb n="64"/><span>is chuir me folach ar na deich marcaigh is </span>
<lb n="65"/><span>dá fhichid."</span></p>
<lb n="66"/>
<lb n="67"/><p><span>Char dhubhairt an rí an dadaidh.  Thug se </span>
<lb n="68"/><span>amach e an áit i rabh páirc phónair.</span></p>
<lb n="69"/>
<lb n="70"/><p><span>"Nach maith a' pónar sin?" ars' an rí.</span></p>
<lb n="71"/>
<lb n="72"/><p><span>"Is maith 's is ró-mhaith," arsa Bréagóir </span>
<lb n="73"/><span>Éireann, "acht goidé is brígh e seachas pónar </span>
<lb n="74"/><span>mo gháid-se?"</span></p>
<lb n="75"/>
<lb n="76"/><p><span>"Goidé an maitheas at' ar phónar do </span>
<lb n="77"/><span>ghaid-se?" ars' an rí.</span></p>
<lb n="78"/>
<lb n="79"/><p><span>"Tá," arsa Bréagór Éireann; "Bhí mise </span>
<lb n="80"/><span>is mo gháid aon lá amháin ag cur pónair.</span>
<lb n="81"/><span>Thuit gráinne de'n phónar ar a' chasán is </span>
<lb n="82"/><span>d'fhás se suas go rabh se suas as m' amharc.</span>
<lb n="83"/><span>Nuair a bhí an pónar apaidh," arsa Bréagóir </span>
<lb n="84"/><span>Éireann, "smaoinigh me fhéin go rabh a lán </span>
<lb n="85"/><span>pónair air agus gur mhór a' truaighe a leigean </span>
<lb n="86"/><span>amogha.  Fuair me réidh málaidhe is shiubhail</span>
<lb n="87"/><span>me suas ó bhrainse go brainse.  Nuair a </span>
<lb n="88"/><span>bhíodh an mála líonta, chaithinn le casaidh e.</span>
<lb n="89"/><span>Bhí me 'g dul suas ó bhrainse go brainse </span>
<lb n="90"/><span>go rabh me thuas aige na béacáin, go </span>
<lb n="91"/><span>deacha me isteach ionn i dtigh.  Bhí me</span>
<lb n="92"/><span>geárr as mhálaidhe" (.i. go rabh se gann</span>
<lb n="93"/><span>ionntú); "chonnaic me deárnait ar thaobh</span>
<lb n="94"/><span>a' bhalla.  Bheir me greim ar a' deárnaid </span>
<lb n="95"/><span>is thug me feann ar phocán air is rinn me </span>
<lb n="96"/><span>naoi mála de'n chroiceann.  Nuair a chaith</span>
<lb n="97"/><span>me a ndeireadhle casaidh, cha rabh fhios agam </span>
<lb n="98"/><span>goidé mar gheobhainn anuas.  Bhris na </span>
<lb n="99"/><span>brainsí faoi mo chosa is thuit me síos 'un na </span>
<lb n="100"/><span>gcairgeach.  Chuaidh me síos eadar dhá chloich </span>
<lb n="101"/><span>is cha dtiocfadh liom a fhágáil.  Cha rabh fhios </span>
<lb n="102"/><span>agam goidé gheanainn.  Bhí sgian in mo </span>
<lb n="103"/><span>phóca.  Bheir me ar a' sgian agus bhain me an </span>
<lb n="104"/><span>cionn díom fhéin is chuir me a bhaile le </span>
<lb n="105"/><span>sgéala e.  Chas an madadh ruadh ar mo </span>
<lb n="106"/><span>chionn is bheir se ar mo chionn," adeir se:</span>
<lb n="107"/><span>"Thug me spriseadh as a' chairgeach is lean </span>
<lb n="108"/><span>me an madadh ruadh gur bhain me mo chionn</span>
<lb n="109"/><span>de.  Chuir me mo chionn orm aríst," adeir</span>
<lb n="110"/><span>se, "is bheir me ar a' madadh ruadh.  Thug</span>
<lb n="111"/><span>me trí chic dó, is ní'l aon chic dha dtug me </span>
<lb n="112"/><span>dó nár chuir me rí maith amach as, 's a rí 'a</span>
<lb n="113"/><span>mheasa caú, b'fheárr e 'ná thusa, a rí!"</span>
<lb n="114"/></p>
</div>
<pb n="54"/>
<div><lb n="115"/><p><span>"Thug tú h'éitheach!  Thug tú h'éitheach!</span>
<lb n="116"/><span>Thug tú h'éitheach!" ars' an rí.</span></p>
<lb n="117"/>
<lb n="118"/><p><span>"Tá do nighean bainte agam," arsa </span>
<lb n="119"/><span>Bréagóir Éireann.</span></p>
<lb n="120"/>
<lb n="121"/><p><span>"Tá le donas is doghrainn daoi," ars' an</span>
<lb n="122"/><span>rí.</span></p>
<lb n="123"/>
<lb n="124"/><p><span>Pósadh Bréagóir Éireann.  Bhí banais lae</span>
<lb n="125"/><span>is bliadhna orthú, 's an lá deireannach gomh</span>
<lb n="126"/><span>maith leis an chead lá.</span></p>
<lb n="127"/>
<lb n="128"/><p><span>Tagra.</span></p>
<lb n="129"/>
<lb n="130"/><p><span>Bréagóir, in other districts bréagadóir and bréa-</span>
<lb n="131"/><span>gaire, "liar," but perhaps rather restricted to the </span>
<lb n="132"/><span>sense "inventor of untrue stories or fiction," whilst</span>
<lb n="133"/><span>bréagach = an habitual teller of falsehoods.  Éireann</span>
<lb n="134"/><span>throughout appeared to be pronounced Éirionn.</span>
<lb n="135"/><span>H'éitheach for t'éitheach (through th'éitheach?).  The </span>
<lb n="136"/><span>h-form must be a long time in colloquial use when </span>
<lb n="137"/><span>thoroughly "classical" writers found it necessary to</span>
<lb n="138"/><span>use it.  Ninine is an extraordinary genitive (?) form.</span>
<lb n="139"/><span>Each of the three n-s has the thin sound.  Gáid,</span>
<lb n="140"/><span>father.  Gárrdhaidh = gárrdha, garden.  At' for atá.</span></p>
<lb n="141"/>
<lb n="142"/><p><span>Málthraigh, a wedding procession, on horseback, as</span>
<lb n="143"/><span>will be seen from the use of the word in this story.</span>
<lb n="144"/><span>For málthraigh one also hears málthrach,</span>
<lb n="145"/><span>márthlach.  The latter occurs in the </span>
<lb n="146"/><span>following lne of a song: - </span></p>
<lb n="147"/>
<lb n="148"/><p><span>Cha leigfeadh Eoghan a'márthlach ó lá go tigh a'tsagairt</span>
<lb n="149"/><span>ionn.</span></p>
<lb n="150"/>
<lb n="151"/><p>
<lb n="152"/><span>A leigean amogha, to let it go to loss; amogha = amugha.</span>
<lb n="153"/><span>Le casaidh, down; thuit se le casaidh an chnuic, he fell</span>
<lb n="154"/><span>down the hill, thainic se le casaidh, it came down (of a </span>
<lb n="155"/><span>house having fallen down).  On the other hand, </span>
<lb n="156"/><span>in Farney imtheacht le fánaidh = imtheacht leis an bhfalc,</span>
<lb n="157"/><span>to go with (be carried away by) the flood.  Béacáin, </span>
<lb n="158"/><span>clouds, more especially as a weather portent.  Néal</span>
<lb n="159"/><span>sneachta, néal fearthainne are also heard.  Geárr as</span>
<lb n="160"/><span>mhálaidhe, short of bags, the narrator explaining this</span>
<lb n="161"/><span>by another idiom, gann ionntú (ionnta), which conveys</span>
<lb n="162"/><span>the same sense.  Deárnait, deárnaid = deargnait</span>
<lb n="163"/><span>(dim., "little red thing"), flead.  Feann ar phocán, the</span>
<lb n="164"/><span>flaying required in order to make a bag of the skin;</span>
<lb n="165"/><span>thug me feann ar phocán air, lit., I gave the flaying for</span>
<lb n="166"/><span>a bag on him.  Pocán is especially applied to the bag</span>
<lb n="167"/><span>carried by a bacach.  Cairgeach, a rock, whereas</span>
<lb n="168"/><span>carric cloiche = a big stone.  Spriseadh, a jump;</span>
<lb n="169"/><span>bhain me spriseadh is also said.  Cic = Eng. kick. 'A</span>
<lb n="170"/><span>mheasa = ba mheasa.</span></p></div></body></text></TEI>
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