Fierce is the wind tonight,
It ploughs up the white hair of the sea
I have no fear that the Viking hosts
Will come over the water to me.
From: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/IrelandGenWeb/2002-12/1041140151
Date: 7th or 8th century (original in Gaelic); 1949 (translation in English)
By: Anonymous
Translated by: Fred Norris Robinson (1871-1966)
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