Roddet in cach cill caid
Etir tir is tuinnd is traig
Foglaim ecnai crabud De
Lubair cretra commairge.
—From a poem attributed to Flann Fine, the Irish name of Aldfrith, King of Northumbria (d. 704 A.D.), who studied in Ireland.
Text in Eriu, viii., p. 67. Translation, p. 71.
This stanza is written in Old Irish, a language that can be read today by only a small number of scholars. The following translation, which is not in the source book, was made by Paul Walsh who published the entire poem in Eriu.
There were yielded in every holy church,
on land and water and beach,