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- Here
abode the gentle Corann,
- his
harp-music golden toned
- Corann
the fair-skinned was a poet
- in
the service of Surgeon Diancecht.
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- The
Tuatha De (excellent name)
- bestowed
land without rent for his fine service
- on
Corann of the soothing strains.
- For
his learning he deserve high esteem.
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- Here
abode this noble, generous person,
- plying
no savage business nor sinister art;
- it
was a mansion of hospitality and plenty
- when
this noble man lived here.
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- When
Caelcheis was driven loose,
- the
savage pet-pig of Derbriu,
- fleeing
swiftly from the hounds of Connacht,
- her
way brought her to Corann.
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- Each
man took the hand of the man next to him,
- hemming
in the swine with blood-lust
- and
the strong sow was slain -
- triumphant
was the outcome of that battle.
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- Ceis
Corann, the gathering place of the hosts,
- was
thenceforth the name of this place of mighty herds
- since
the swine was killed there without mercy
- in
the lands where Corann lived.
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