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<title type="main">Caint Sgurtha - Athbhaisteadh Chaoilte.</title><author><persName/></author><editor><name type="main">Laoide, Seosamh (Lloyd, Joseph H.)</name></editor><respStmt>
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		<pubPlace>24 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin</pubPlace><date>Aibreán, 1901</date><idno>IG11-11198</idno><distributor>Royal Irish Academy</distributor>
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<text><body><div><p><span>ATHBHAISTEADH CHAOILTE.</span></p>
<lb n="1"/>
<lb n="2"/><p><span>Nuair a chuaidh Fionn mac Cumhaill agus </span>
<lb n="3"/><span>mór-ochtar de fhearaibh toighte na </span>
<lb n="4"/><span>Féinne go críocha Lochlann dh'fhogh-</span>
<lb n="5"/><span>laim goile gaisgidh, char bh'fhada gur chas </span>
<lb n="6"/><span>dóbhtha ar an bhfódán bhán fear mór árd,</span>
<lb n="7"/><span>'s é ag féachaint soir, léinidh dhubh-shacannáin</span>
<lb n="8"/><span>is croiceann fiadh ar a uachtar.  Bheannuigh</span>
<lb n="9"/><span>Fionn mhac Cumhaill dó.</span></p>
<lb n="10"/>
<lb n="11"/><p><span>"Gárb áird duid?" arsa Fionn, "ná gá </span>
<lb n="12"/><span>hainm duid?"</span></p>
<lb n="13"/>
<lb n="14"/><p><span>"Méadhbh Ní Lorcáin bhí ar mo mháthair.</span>
<lb n="15"/><span>Bhí mise aici agus mo leithid fhéin eile."</span></p>
<lb n="16"/>
<lb n="17"/><p><span>"Truagh nach dtainic ceó nimhe is acaise</span>
<lb n="18"/><span>ar an talamh," arsa Fionn, "a mhuirbhfeadh í,</span>
<lb n="19"/><span>sol a rabh do leithid-se 'bhodach aici."</span></p>
<lb n="20"/>
<lb n="21"/><p><span>"Mise gobha mór ríogh Lochlainn, ag </span>
<lb n="22"/><span>teanamh airm do rígh Lochlann."</span></p>
<lb n="23"/>
<lb n="24"/><p><span>"Gá bhfuil do cheardcha?" arsa Fionn</span>
<lb n="25"/><span>mhac Cumhaill, "nó an féigion dúinne a </span>
<lb n="26"/><span>fheiscint?"</span></p>
<lb n="27"/>
<lb n="28"/><p><span>"'Tchifir, má's éigion," ars' eision, "má </span>
<lb n="29"/><span>tá, má fhéadaim-sa, cha n-fhaicir."</span></p>
<lb n="30"/>
<lb n="31"/><p><span>D'imthigh an gobha mór, is bhearadh se cnoc</span>
<lb n="32"/><span>dhe léim is gleann dhe choispeán (bhí sé gomh</span>
<lb n="33"/><span>lúthmhar sin), is dhul anonn ar Cheise Chorainn </span>
<lb n="34"/><span>dó, léim Caoilte thiar 'sna sála air.</span></p>
<lb n="35"/>
<lb n="36"/><p><span>"Gá hé an gaisgidheadh sheas insa' tsáil</span>
<lb n="37"/><span>orm?"</span></p>
<lb n="38"/>
<lb n="39"/><p><span>"Mise," arsa Caoilte, "beir as duid."</span></p>
<lb n="40"/>
<lb n="41"/><p><span>D'imthigh an gobha mór go rabh se aige </span>
<lb n="42"/><span>dorus na ceardcha.</span></p>
<lb n="43"/>
<lb n="44"/><p><span>"Fuasgail, fuasgail (fosgail)," ars' </span>
<lb n="45"/><span>an gobha mór.  Nuair a chuaidh se isteach,</span>
<lb n="46"/><span>"Druid, druid," ars' eisean.</span></p>
<lb n="47"/>
<lb n="48"/><p><span>"Ná druid," arsa Caoilte, "go mbéidh</span>
<lb n="49"/><span>cuideachta leat."</span></p>
<lb n="50"/>
<lb n="51"/><p><span>Caitheadh an dorus isteach.  Thainic Caoilte</span>
<lb n="52"/><span>'s an Fhéinn isteach.  Bhí naoi naonbhair de </span>
<lb n="53"/><span>ghoibhnibh gruamdha ar an taobh thuaidh de'n </span>
<lb n="54"/><span>cheardcha ag obair.</span></p>
<lb n="55"/>
<lb n="56"/><p><span>"Toisighgidh," ars' an gobha mór, "go</span>
<lb n="57"/><span>mbearamuid luach a n-astair do fhearaibh </span>
<lb n="58"/><span>Éirinne, go ndeanamuid arm fíochrach troda </span>
<lb n="59"/><span>dóbhtha, sleagh dhíreach, sleagh ró-dhíreach,</span>
<lb n="60"/><span>sleagh a mbéidh naoi n-órlaigh de bhuinne gheal </span>
<lb n="61"/><span>chruaidhe inntí."</span></p>
<lb n="62"/>
<lb n="63"/><p><span>Thoisigh builg ar lúth (.i. go gasda) d'á</span>
<lb n="64"/><span>séideadh is uird ag éirghe i n-áirde.</span></p>
<lb n="65"/>
<lb n="66"/><p><span>Bheir Caoilte ar an órd, is bhí se ag </span>
<lb n="67"/><span>teanamh leideog do'n iarann do'n ghaisgidh-</span>
<lb n="68"/><span>each.</span></p>
<lb n="69"/>
<lb n="70"/><p><span>"Gá hainm duid?" ars' an gobha mór,</span>
<lb n="71"/><span>"nuair atá tú ag teacht comh cruaidh orainn</span>
<lb n="72"/><span>(leis na buillidhe)."</span></p>
<lb n="73"/>
<lb n="74"/><p><span>Labhair Conán ag an dorus: "Delgus bhí</span>
<lb n="75"/><span>riamh air, is baistiomus Caoilte feasda air."</span>
<lb n="76"/></p>
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<pb n="68"/>
<div><lb n="77"/><p><span>Labhair Conán: "Mur gcoinneachaidh siad</span>
<lb n="78"/><span>an t-iarann ar dóigh duid, téidh de'n ór 'sa'</span>
<lb n="79"/><span>chloigeann orthú."</span></p>
<lb n="80"/>
<lb n="81"/><p><span>Fuair feara na hÉirinne a gcuid airm,</span>
<lb n="82"/><span>is thainic siad a bhaile, 's cha deacha siad go </span>
<lb n="83"/><span>críocha Lochlainn ní 'mhó.</span></p>
<lb n="84"/>
<lb n="85"/><p><span>Tagra.</span></p>
<lb n="86"/>
<lb n="87"/><p><span>The above legend, so far as I know, has never been</span>
<lb n="88"/><span>yet published, in a folk-version, from an Irish source,</span>
<lb n="89"/><span>but it did not escape the research of a famous Scottish</span>
<lb n="90"/><span>collector, rare though it be. Delgus, </span>
<lb n="91"/><span>is a survival </span>
<lb n="92"/><span>of an old form, otherwise we should expect Dealgus.</span></p>
<lb n="93"/>
<lb n="94"/><p><span>De fhearaibh, do fhearaibh: between the words a </span>
<lb n="95"/><span>y-sound is heard. </span></p>
<lb n="96"/>
<lb n="97"/><p><span>Mór-ochtar, a big eight, no doubt = nine (naonbhar),</span>
<lb n="98"/><span>just as mór-sheisear = seven persons.  The narrator</span>
<lb n="99"/><span>could give no information as to who the mór-ochtar</span>
<lb n="100"/><span>were other than: "Fionn, Conán, agus Caoilte; féadfaidhe</span>
<lb n="101"/><span>go rabh Goll ionn."</span></p>
<lb n="102"/>
<lb n="103"/><p><span>Goile (valour): this appeared to be pronounced as</span>
<lb n="104"/><span>if spelt galla.</span></p>
<lb n="105"/>
<lb n="106"/><p><span>Fódán dimin. from fód, a spot or place (fód fá</span>
<lb n="107"/><span>leith, &c.) </span></p>
<lb n="108"/>
<lb n="109"/><p><span>Dubh-shacannán, black sacking or sack-cloth?</span></p>
<lb n="110"/>
<lb n="111"/><p><span>Gárb áird, 7c.: Afterwards dictated as "Gárb</span>
<lb n="112"/><span>áird b'as duid ná gárb ainm duid?" </span></p>
<lb n="113"/>
<lb n="114"/><p><span>Acais, explained as = spite.</span></p>
<lb n="115"/>
<lb n="116"/><p><span>Teanamh (also tionamh, especially in Cavan and </span>
<lb n="117"/><span>Meath) = déanamh.</span></p>
<lb n="118"/>
<lb n="119"/><p><span>Arm, nom. sing., and airm, gen. sing., appear to be </span>
<lb n="120"/><span>used throughout as the equivalent of "arms, weapons."</span></p>
<lb n="121"/>
<lb n="122"/><p><span>Féigion (for éigion, éigean?), though peculiar, occurs</span>
<lb n="123"/><span>also in Sgéalaidheacht Chúige Mumhan, p.9, "Ba féigion</span>
<lb n="124"/><span>dóibh."  The narrator glossed it by "féidir," saying </span>
<lb n="125"/><span>"Rud amháin iad," and also explained éigion in the </span>
<lb n="126"/><span>reply of the gabha mór by "féidir."</span></p>
<lb n="127"/>
<lb n="128"/><p><span>Feiscint: This form is by no means unknown in </span>
<lb n="129"/><span>Leath Chuinn, though feiceáil is the common spoken </span>
<lb n="130"/><span>one.  In Co. Mayo feiscint = a view, whilst feiceáil = </span>
<lb n="131"/><span>the act of seeing.</span></p>
<lb n="132"/>
<lb n="133"/><p><span>Coispeán, footstep; the identity of his word with</span>
<lb n="134"/><span>coiscéim is doubtful.</span></p>
<lb n="135"/>
<lb n="136"/><p><span>Beir as duid, be off, escape(?).  Breith as is usual</span>
<lb n="137"/><span>in the sense of escaping, but the final prepositional</span>
<lb n="138"/><span>pronoun here is strange, unless it fulfil the same</span>
<lb n="139"/><span>function as Leat in abair leat and ort in fan ort, &c.</span></p>
<lb n="140"/>
<lb n="141"/><p><span>Druid, the Ulster equivalent of dún, shut, close.</span></p>
<lb n="142"/>
<lb n="143"/><p><span>An taobh thuaidh, perhaps here = the left side (?)</span></p>
<lb n="144"/>
<lb n="145"/><p><span>Fíochrach, fierce, ferocious, from fíochra, anger,</span>
<lb n="146"/><span>ferocity.</span></p>
<lb n="147"/>
<lb n="148"/><p><span>Buinne, explained as = "whiteness"</span></p>
<lb n="149"/>
<lb n="150"/><p><span>Cruaidh, gen. cruaidhe, steel.</span></p>
<lb n="151"/>
<lb n="152"/><p><span>Leideog, "flattening with every blow."</span></p>
<lb n="153"/>
<lb n="154"/><p><span>Baistiomus (usually baisteamuist) = baistímís, let</span>
<lb n="155"/><span>us christn or name.</span></p>
<lb n="156"/>
<lb n="157"/><p><span>There is also a poetic version of the legend current</span>
<lb n="158"/><span>in Co. Donegal, of which we shall have something to</span>
<lb n="159"/><span>say later on.</span></p>
<lb n="160"/>
<lb n="161"/><p><span>The above is given as dictated by the late Thomas</span>
<lb n="162"/><span>Corrigan, who learnt it in his youth from an old man</span>
<lb n="163"/><span>named Peadar Ó Gairtleain (Peter Garland).</span></p>
<lb n="164"/>
<lb n="165"/><p/></div></body></text></TEI>
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