Verses on St. Moling
Codex S. Pauli (the Reichenau Primer)
Stift St. Paul Cod. 86a/1
9th C.
Maling.
Is �n immoniada s�s � is nau tholl dianteslinn guas
is lestar f�s is crann cr�n � nad d�ni thoil ind r�g thuas.
Is �r nglan is nem im grein � is lestar narggit cu f�n
is son is alaind is noeb � cach oen dugn� toil ind r�g.
Translation
Maling.
He is a bird round which a trap closes, he is a leaky ship to which peril is dangerous,
he is an empty vessel, he is a withered tree, whoso doth not the will of the King above.
He is pure gold, he is the sky round the sun, he is a vessel of silver with wine,
he is happy, is beautiful, is holy, whoso doth the will of the King.
SOURCE
Stokes, Whitley, & Strachan, John. Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus: a Collection of Old-Irish Glosses Scholia Prose and Verse, vol. II: Non-Biblical Glosses and Scholia. Cambridge: University Press, 1903. p. 294