Traditional Scottish <br />From 'The Death Of The Children of Usnech' <br /> <br />Beloved is the land in the East <br />Scotland with all its marvels <br />I would not have left to come here <br />Had I not come with Noisi <br /> <br />Beloved are Dun Fidga and Dun Finn <br />Beloved the fortress above them <br />Beloved the Isle of the Thorn-bush <br />And beloved is Dun Sweeny <br /> <br />Caill Cuan! <br />To which alas Ainnle would go! <br />How quickly time passed there <br />For Noisi and I in Scotland <br /> <br />Glen Lay! <br />I slept there under a shapely rock <br />Fish, venison, and badger fat <br />That was my fare in Glen Lay <br /> <br />Glen Massan! <br />Wild garlic grew tall on white stalks <br />We used to have a broken sleep <br />On the grassy banks of Massan <br /> <br />Glen Etive! <br />I built my first house there <br />A delightful house! When we rose in the morning <br />A sunny cowfield was Glen Etive <br /> <br />Glen Urchain! <br />There was a straight fair-shored glen <br />Never was a man of his age prouder <br />Than Noisi in Glen Urchain <br /> <br />Glen Da Ruadh! <br />Hail to those with this heritage <br />The cuckoo’s song on bended branch is sweet <br />On the hill above Glen Da Ruadh. <br /> <br />Beloved is Draighen over a firm beach <br />Beloved its pure sand and water <br />I would never have left to journey west <br />Had I not come with my beloved <br /> <br />From a translation from Middle-Irish by Kuno Meyer<br /><br />Stewart McKenzie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/landscape-17-deirdre-s-farewell-to-scotland/
