Literal Translation of the Poems
Donnell.
I will be a fiery bull in the war.
I will make blood spring through the skin.
I will give many incessant blows
to Conor the red-sworded.
Ferb.
Not too much would be that Conor the fair
should die, as vengeance for Mani the courageous;
For there will not come, and there is not born
The equal of Mani in Croghan!
Donnell.
Conor, though great his glory,
and Niall and Feradach
are vengeance for Mani—a sharp hewing in pieces.
My hand shall slay them, O Ferb !
Ferb.
If you it were, O Donnell Derg,
whom the Ulstermen had slain for the sake of Ferb,
so would the revenge taken for you be glorious
in the tale of Mani, the doer of great deeds.
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