cailin

And he seldom spent a night in his father’s house, but he used to be always out rambling, and, like Shawn Bwee long ago, there was“grádh gach cailin i mbrollach a léine, ”

Teig O’Kane and the Corpse 1921

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'cailin deas donn,' gathering rushes in a field, but she does not know him; and after they have exchanged words of greeting, he asks where her brother is, and she says 'beyond the sea'; then he asks if she would know him again, and she says she she would surely; and he asks by what sign, and she tells of a mark on his white neck.

Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892