Beloved to me-- three sides
I cannot hope to see again:
the side of Tailltiu, the side of Tara,
and the side of Aedh son of Ainmire.
--Lament written in 7th- or 8th-century Ireland, ascribed to the wife of the king of Ireland, Áed mac Ainmirech (reigned ca 571-600). From Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland (a compilation finished ca 1616). My translation owes a debt to Myles Dillon's in An Anthology of Irish Literature (1954), ed. David H. Greene. The Irish is from Chronicon Scotorum (p. 46), [Annals of the Irish], an electronic text published by University College, Cork, Ireland
Báttar inmuini tri toib
frisna freisciu aitherrech--
taeban Taillten, taebh Temra,
taeb Aedha meic Anmirech.
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