# p.14-15

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-26.-%27a-great-birth-1" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 29.8px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 29.8px;"><td style="width: 49.9383%; height: 29.8px;">26\. 'A great birth 1 will come after ages,  
That will not be in a lofty place, 2  
The son of a woman whose mate will not be known,  
He will seize the rule of the many thousands.

27\. 'A rule without beginning, without end, 3  
He has created the world so that it is perfect,  
Whose are earth and sea,  
Woe to him that shall be under His unwill! 4

28\. '’Tis He that made the heavens,  
Happy he that has a white heart,  
He will purify hosts under pure water, 5  
’Tis He that will heal your sicknesses.

29\. 'Not to all of you is my speech,  
Though its great marvel has been made known:  
Let Bran hear from the crowd of the world  
What of wisdom has been told to him.

30\. 'Do not fall on a bed of sloth,  
Let not thy intoxication overcome thee,  
Begin a voyage across the clear sea,  
If perchance thou mayst reach the land of women.'

p. 14

</td><td style="width: 49.9383%; height: 29.8px;">26\. 'Ticfa már-gein íar m-bethaib  
nad bía for a forclethaib,  
mac mná nad festar céle,  
gébid flaith na n-ilmíle.

27\. 'Flaith cen tossach cen forcenn  
dorúasat bith co forban,  
isai talam ocus muir,  
is mairgg bías fua étuil.

28\. 'Is hé dorigni nime,  
céinmair dia m-ba findchride,  
glanfid slúagu fua linn glan,  
is hé ícfes for tedman.

29\. 'Ni dúib uili mo labre,  
cia atfess a móramre:  
étsed Bran de betho bróu  
a n-di ecnæ adfét dóu.

30\. 'Ná tuit fri lige lesce,  
nachit-tróithad do mesce,  
tinscan imram tar muir glan,  
dús in rista tír na m-ban.'

p. 15

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