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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown])
- Dubthir Guairethat ye may know the cause whence springs its true story: there was a time when it was no thicket of bushes but a region brilliant and bright in beauty.
- Two sons did Dall Dess leave, grasping Guaire and the rightful Daire: they were not agreed in partnership as to the domainthereof came dissension.
- Guaire turneda deed unprofitableagainst keen Dáire, solver of dark riddles, and the warrior Dáire fell by his hand without show of quarter or mercy.
- From the day that stout Dáire was slain in crime-stained Daminis, Guaire's domain for that cause has been a land of briars perpetually.
- Woe to him that cruelly sheds kindly blood, a deed whereof he reaps no fruit! Guaire's domain, indisputably, is now a plain with thickets overgrown.
- Preserve me from treachery and harm O Christ, that didst fashion my fair body! O joyous King of the firmament, let me not be downcast in a dark land!