
| Trí bróin ata ferr fáilti: brón treóit oc ithe messa, brón guirt apaig, brón feda fo mess. | Three sorrows that are better than joy: the heaviness of a herd feeding on mast, the heaviness of a ripe field1, the heaviness of a wood under mast. |
1 ‘Of a ripening field’, BM.