Talla Sgàthanan Oisein
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:40 pm
In Ossian's Hall of Mirrors is the following quatrain and I can't exactly say I understand it all:
I came up withFaic ann a d' àrainn an sgeul
air chùl sgàile na sgeòil -
cluinn briathrachd na h-aibhne cabraich
's i 'g aithris a beuc de sgeòil
The first two lines in particular make hardly any sense to me, and the a d' in the first is a complete mystery. Anybody got an explanation, or, more probably, correction?See there the habitat of the story
at the back of the story's shadow (reflection?)
hear the verbosity of the antlering (=branching?) river
as she relates her bellowing story