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2 DAN an DEIRG.
Feuch taibhfe Chrimin' * air cheo-tràglia,
'S na feidh nan tàmh air Sgur-eild'f.
An fealgair na ileibh cha taoghail,
Tha Dearg is a ghaothair brònacli ;
'S tha mife le d' fgeula fo mhulad,
Tha mo dheoir a' fruthadh an cònuidh.
San là ud, bha Comhal J nan buadh
Le cheol, is le fhluagh air an leirg,
(Ge h-iofal fo chluainein and fheidh
An diugh an Laoch treun ann am feirg,
f.gnem, omnibufque infolità corporis mole formidolofum :
Circularibus fabulis, et iis qua; de Arthuro Britonum rege,
paffim apud noftrates leguntur llmillimum, magis quam eru-
ditorum teftimonio decantatum."
Boeth. Hift. Scot. 1. 7 ad finera.
Archbishop Usher places Cormac, and fome other of
the heroes cotemporary with Offian, fomewhat later, but in
the fame century.
* Cri'-min, " tender heart" ; fhe was the fecond fpoufe
of Dargo. The fequel of this poem gives her hiftory.
f Sgur-eild', " the hill of roe3 :" the name of a rock or
mountain.
% Cao'mhal, (contraaed Cudl) " mild brow" the father
of Fingal, and grandfather of Offian,