[{"node":{"title":"Ferg002","Collections":"Conary","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1880","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Saturday, March 12, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Ferg002","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Conary, Fraternal","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/ferg002","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Ferg002_2.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffFull peace was Erin's under Conary,\nTill \u2014 though his brethren by the tender tie\nOf fosterage \u2014 Don Dessa's lawless sons,\nFer-ger, Fer-gel, and vengeful Fergobar,\nFor crimes that justly had demanded death,\nBy judgment mild he sent in banishment ;\nYet wrung his own fraternal heart the while,\nWhose brothers, Ferragon and Lomna Druth,\nDrawn by affection's ties, and thinking scorn\nTo stay behind while others led the way\nTo brave adventure, in their exile joined. \n\nBanished the land of Erin, on the sea\nThey roamed, and, roaming, with the pirate -hordes\nOf British Ingcel leagued ; and this their pact :\nThe spoil of Britain's and of Alba's coasts\nTo fall to them ; and Erin's counter-spoil\nTo fall to Ingcel. Britain's borders first\nThey ravaged ; and in one pernicious raid\nOf sack and slaughter indiscriminate,\nIngcel's own father and his brethren seven\nBy chance sojourning with the victims, slew.\nThen, Alba sack'd, said Ingcel, \"Steer we now\nFor Erin, and the promised counter-spoil.\" \n","Type":"Text"}}]