{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/vob/vob14.htm","path":"neu/celt/vob/vob14.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/vob/vob14.htm","text":"Caomh-Colum c\u00e1idh ciuin cubaid cobsaid comdalach com ramach cumachtach Cille mirbuilech,\nFoghar gotha Coluim Cille,\n [15] lor a binne os gach cleir,\n co tend cuig fichet d\u00e9c ceimenn,\n aidble remenn, sedh ba reil.\nMac Eit[h]ni is Fei[d]limid finn\n cuigi romcinn Dia do cein\n a Tir Tarrngaire na finn,\n [20] mar a cantar f\u00edr gan br\u00e9ig.\nTri caoguit inis rea rim\n ma docuired on rig r\u00e9d,\u00a03\n in gach innsi dar mo leighend\n tri coibheis Eirenn fodein.\nColum Cille c\u00e1in gan g\u00f3,\n briathra an laoich gersat ra l\u00f3,\n ant\u00e9 nach cabair na fainn [5]\n noca carann\u00a02 caom-Choluim.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Caomh-Cholum caidh.\nBeloved, chaste, gentle, just, firm, disputant, combative, powerful, miraculous Colum Cille,\nThe sound of Colum Cilia's voice--\n Abundant its sweetness above every train, [20]\n To the end of fifteen score paces,\n Vastness of courses! it was clear.\u00a03\nThe son of Ethne and of Fedlimid the Fair,\n To him God sent me from afar,\n From the Land of Promise of the blessed, [25]\n Where truth is sung without falsehood.\nThrice fifty isles are counted,\n As they were set by the bright King;\n In every isle, by my lore!\n There is three times the size of Erin herself. [30]\nColum Cille, fair without falsehood,\n Though the words of the warrior were . . .\n He that doth not help the weak,\n [10] He is no friend of beloved Colum.'\n88:1 This na is superfluous; it spoils the metre.\n88:2 [30] In the notes on F\u00e9line Oengusso, p. ci., these lines are as follows:\n88:3 Read r\u00e9il.\n89:1 Read \u00e1ighadh.\n89:2 Read cara.\n89:3 This quatrain is also found in Three Middle-Irish Homilies, p. 102, in F\u00e9lire Oengusso, p. ci, and in Goidelica, p. 163. Instead of c\u00f3ic fichet d\u00e9c read c\u00f3ic c\u00e9t d\u00e9ac. D\u00e9ac having become a monosyllable, c\u00e9t was changed into fichet to make up the seven syllables.","title":"The Voyage of Bran: Appendix: XI. From MS. Laud 615, p. 18.","type":"page"}