The Poem-Book of the Gael

King of the

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eate the fol

-living, eve

elements, sur

e the oce

h and North, in

contention

ysteries, who

lements, bef

rnal, comely

beginning,

eated lustr

rrogant, not

with its multit

powerful

t make the no

kness, with

the per

the very pe

shioned the

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o

ous forml

ed out of it

without restriction

estuous a

ate and i

d, gloriously

ery shapely

vy, rou

s, ... length a

ed within no

cle of the

obe, f

ly apple, t

med after th

asses about

th currents a

hill wat

sift the cold

-mass of the

the reservoirs[13

eir measures, w

he winds with

dained the

ut uncertainty,

ime winds H

fierce un

our other u

ned aut

the number, wit

nds, twel

oned the colou

them in sa

er, in well-orde

eties of each

, the cle

the very s

he red, sure

meetings wrath d

the grey, t

and the d

, darks

light, easi

ined them ove

wild und

down with

of the four

st, the smi

h, the pure w

the black bluste

, the babblin

the yellow

ite and

the blue, i

and the p

rk brown, hatefu

and dee

e speckled e

ack and

rdered th

osition wa

djustments,

r position and th

welve

sterly, Norther

justed them, He

them with

d them according

rld with many

of them about a

b for the w

ged them in ha

ways, without over-

peaceful wa

r time, t

nts of th

e clear the measur

arth to th

it, clear

thickness of

urse of the s

irmament t

piter, Mer

, the very

bered, kingl

earth to

iles with a

e them in f

that c

in its aer

lled ... wi

nt, deligh

from the mo

clearly, with ab

miles, gre

ve and fo

t upper eth

without greatl

led, without

of the wond

ch, the differenc

firmament

en to calc

mighty! most

he perfec

ess, im

he opinion of t

led the Thir

es, bright

mes five hu

star-run cour

irmament t

ure of t

arth to th

easure of t

firmament

y-fou

rty hund

istance

the fi

e of the w

rth to the

that from th

he depths

vereign lord, v

force set goi

ecure to Him o

em from the

firmament about it, "like a shell encircling an egg." The passage of the sun through the constellations is then described, each of the twelve divisions through which it passes being provide

five items

of every inte

without appearan

ecclesiast

olar month, the

ide, with

, the festivals of

arness, with t

Whitley Stokes

in Senchus mòr, Ancient Laws o

Stokes' reading. Dr. R. T

aning, is a means or instrument for doing a thing. The verb gléasaim="to harness." It seems to have some such meaning here. The winds were

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e. the

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chus mòr astronomical tract, Anc. Laws o

haps "bo