The Amra Choluim Chilli of Dallan Forgaill (from Lebor na hUidre)

Preface.

These are the common words today: dochubin original: "dochuḃin"; likely a rhythmic or phonetic term, maelán original: "maelán"; a term for something blunt or shorn, and fenchar original: "fenchar"; a poetic term for keen-sightedness. According to the ancients, however, there is a poetic variation original: "deirmerechta"; a technical term for a specific type of metrical or phonetic alteration here: for the common words used by them were dochubitech, mael, and fenchar. Today, however, the "head-syllable shift" original: "cennachpor"; a linguistic term for a transposition or substitution of initial sounds consists of making the word fenchar out of fenchar: for the common form today is fenchar, as it is said:

"Fenchar": the poetic variation there is the use of "f" for "f". The author is discussing a subtle phonetic distinction or mutation in the initial consonant. Both "beheading" original: "díchned"; the loss of an initial letter or syllable and "head-syllable shift" are performed at the beginning and at the end of a word; however, it is only at the end of a word that "shortening" original: "dóchned"; specifically the loss of a final syllable is usually done. We do not see among the Gaelic poets a specific name for the loss of a letter or syllable in the same way we see names for the addition of a letter or syllable: namely, dóchned for the addition of a letter and formolad for the addition of a syllable.

GOD OF HEAVEN, DO NOT ABANDON ME IN THE TRACK OF THE OUTCRY IN THE MIST BECAUSE OF ITS MAGNITUDE. This is a gloss on a religious poem. That is: For the sake of the modesty of truth I say "God of Heaven," or truly so that He is not a God of idols. "Do not abandon me in the track of the demons where crying is made because of the greatness of their gloom."

MAY GREAT GOD BE MY PROTECTION FROM THE FIERY WALL OF LONG-LOOKING TEARS. That is: May the Great God protect me from the abundance of the fire, the place where tears are shed while looking from afar. That is: múr means abundance, as it is said:

Díu-derc meaning "long-view" or "far-seeing" is a compound name from Latin and Gaelic original: "Scotic".