Brian Boru

valiant champions, soldierly, brave,

active, nimble, bold, full of courage, quick.

 Doing great deeds, hot, strong, swelling, to save.

 Bright, pompous, beautiful, aggressive, thick,

fresh, never weary , terrible, brave.

Valiant, victorious heroes quick!

Danars

Blue-green piratical foreigners,

Bold, without reverence, hard-hearted, pagan.

Fatal, murderous, stout swords leave mourners.

Sharp, swift, bloody, keen, crimsoned, begun

Wounding. Bitter, bounding, barbed, foreigners,

 fierce terrible, piercing, surly, pagan!

Such were the natures of long ago foes,

as sung by the bards of those who won.

Ah! While death has brought all equally low,

no one will really know how it was done.

*the Irish with the Gauls.

Most terms used here are reported to be used by mac Liag (eleventh century) .