Oengus the Culdee

Summary

Oengus the Culdee,  The Forbidden Fruit (1912)

“ O God our help, whom champions prove,
who fashioned all with perfect justice,
not bright the matter of our theme (?) [3]
the King who spake an admonition with them.
⁠Prince who gave a clear admonition.
(The figures in brackets after the title of the chapters are the numbers of the poems or cantos in the text.)
↑ Lit. "share of a festival"; this is one of those chevilles which are frequent in this poem, often introduced without much sense to fill out a line, or to give a rhyming word. We have omitted a few of them in the translation. ↑ There seems to be some error here.
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Source: Wikisource

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