Mór in bét!...

Mór in bét!
Immad sliged ocus sét
tar lebaid na sruthi soer,
tar nar chóir acht óen de chét.

(great * the * calamity /
abundance * of ways * and * paths /
across * bed * of the * streams * noble /
across * would not be * right * but * one * of * hundred)

What a pity!
Many are the roads and ways
across the bed of noble rivers,
yet only one in a hundred is right.

A quatrain left in the margin of a page in the Lebor Brecc, edited and translated by Kuno Meyer in ZCP.II.225. See also “Is mór in bét” in this collection.

Topics: Verse Maxims & Wise Counsel