Cuit in tslóig...

Cuit in tslóig, is é a shamail,
ní berbthar é ar óengabail.

(ration * of the * army * is * it * its *
simile / not * is cooked * it * on * one fork)

Food for an army, as the saying goes, is not cooked on a single skewer.

This rhyming half-quatrain is part of Cú Chulainn’s poetic lament, found in the LL version of the “Táin”, on bearing all alone the burden of defending all of Ulster. See also Ní lassamain… and Noco modmar…

Topics: Proverbial Sayings