Celtic Stencil Design—K “Misty Bright Flower of the Young Women”

ANCIENT CELTIC POETRY*

Ní fhaghaim ógh ar a gruaidhse

gan a guidhe

go síntear brat ar mo bhuile

ó Mhac Muire.

Brighid Éireann agus Alban

ógh na n-oiléan

is í an blath braoingheal na mbanóg

caoilthreabh [coiréal].

Athrachta fhóireas na Luighnigh

lór a déine

is í an bhanóg bhoinnfhionn Bhúille*

coinneall chéire.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

In a cloak, that bright breast of yours–

The virgin with her cheeks will not be found

without my suit;

stretch your cloak over my madness,

son of Mary.*

Brigid of Ireland and Scotland,

the virgin of the islands—

she is the misty-bright flower of the young women,

coral-collared.

Athrachta, helper of Limerick—

speedy enough

is the white-soled young woman of the Boyle,

wax candle.