Ní raba-sa ríam cen fher ar scáth araile ocum.

(not * was I - emphatic * ever * without * a man * on * shadow * of another * at me)

I have never been without one man in the next one’s shadow.

At the beginning of the LL version of “Táin Bó Cúailnge”, Queen Medb, an extraordinary woman, tells her husband, Ailill, that she has always had men standing in line for her, so naturally she could not abide a jealous husband!

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