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To: Rambi who wrote (3290)3/17/1999 10:54:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Respond to of 13018
 
The verse can be attributed to this 10th Century poem:
'Etan'

Ní fetar
cía lassa fífea Etan;
acht ro-fetar Etan Bán
nícon fhífea a hoenrán.

I do not know
who Etan will sleep with,
but I do know that Blonde Etan
will not sleep alone.

[as for Cahill's book - no, maybe i will find it...thanks
how about Islands of Storm-Charles Roy
and
Irish Proverbs-Laurence Flanagan
A Book of Irish Quotations- Sean McMahon
Golden Treasury of Irish Poetry-Greene,David & O'Conner
more...]