Oengus the Culdee

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Oengus the Culdee The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise (10th century)

Is \ijladh, of
which one meaning is "meat," or " food " ?
8 Or " it is thus according to rule," i.e. laid down for us.
3 Donad seems to be used in the same way as didnad, ' ' solace ' '
or "consolation," v.n. of didonaim, " I console."
28 THE SALTAIR NA RANN
('The SERPENT speaks)
" Though on the plain l you be equal,
yourself and Adam, O Eve,
you are not more intelligent, O gentle, pure one,
than any of the beasts.
" However great be the host under you outside
it is lamentable that you are without minds,
like to any of the ignorant animals
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