Is ó mhnáib do·gabar rath nó amhrath.

Is ó mhnáib do·gabar rath nó amhrath.

(is * of * women * is taken * good fortune * or * bad fortune)

It is from women that fortune comes, good or bad.

Spoken in the council of the Túatha Dé Danann by Midir Mongbuide, son of the Dagda, in “Acallam na Senórach” (408-09).


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