Ní eter licc ocus losait rom-alt-sa!

Ní eter licc ocus losait rom-alt-sa!

(not * between * slab * and * kneading trough * has me been reared - emphatic)

I was not raised between the kneading slab and the kneading trough!

Cú Chulainn uses this and other proverbial expressions in “Tochmarc Emere” to assert that he was not brought up as a kitchen serf, but rather in the company of poets and warriors.


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