The Voyage of Bran

Imram Brain maic Febail, ocus a Echtra andso sís 1. ’TWAS fifty quatrains the woman from unk...

silver with white blossoms, nor was it easy to distinguish its bloom from that branch. Then Bra...

6. 'Feet of white bronze under itGlittering through beautiful ages. 1Lovely land throughout...

11. 'A beauty of a wondrous land,Whose aspects are lovely,Whose view is a fair country,Incompar...

   16. At sunrise there will comeA fair man illumining level lands;He rides upon the fair sea-...

21. 'There will come happiness with healthTo the land against which laughter peals,Into Imchiui...

26. 'A great birth 1 will come after ages,That will not be in a lofty place, 2The son of a wo...

31. Thereupon the woman went from them, while they knew not whither she went. 1 And she took ...

34. 'What is a clear seaFor the prowed skiff in which Bran is,That is a happy plain 1 with prof...

39. 'Though (but) one chariot-rider is seenIn Mag Mell 1 of many flowers,There are many steed...

44. 'We are from the beginning of creationWithout old age, without consummation 1 of earth, 2...

49. 'This shape, he on whom thou lookest,Will come to thy parts; 1’Tis mine to journey to her...

54. 'He will be a stag with horns of silverIn the land where chariots are driven,He will be a s...

58. 'He will be--his time will be short-- 1Fifty years in this world:A dragonstone from the sea...

     about the island. Whenever his man came past Bran, his comrades would address him. But he...

63. Home-sickness seized one of them, even Nechtan the son of Collbran. 1 His kindred kept pr...

'For Collbran's son great was the follyTo lift his hand against age,Without any one casting a...

2:1 Imram, lit. 'rowing about,' denotes a voyage voluntarily undertaken, as distinguished from lo...

1. a tirib ingnath. This curious use of what is, apparently, the undeclined adjective after the n...