W. 4485.

"Dear the homestead, 'Horse-head's Dûn,'[a]

Where our hosts were wont to go.

Dear the water, soft and sweet;

Dear the isle, 'Isle of the Red!'[b]

"Sad the care, oh, sad the care,

Cualnge's Cow-raid brought on me:

Cethern, Fintan's son, to keen.

Oh that he had shunned his woe!

"Great the doings, these, oh, great,