n
o, m.
raven. Very freq. associated with battles,
slaughter, carnage, etc. :
b.¤ .i. fīach .i. brancos (βρόγκος,
ed.) graece, gut[t]ur latine, ┐ is de isberar din eōn ar mēt
slugaite,
Corm. Y 177
,
O'Mulc. 122.
bran dubh .i. fiach
dubh,
O'Cl.
Cf.
brandub .i. fīachdub,
Corm. Y 105.
b.¤ .i.
fiach an fuigill breith brangaire catha,
O'Dav. 292
, cf. anfuigell
breath (leg. breitheman, ed.) bran-gaire catha (H. 5.15,
8),
Ériu ix 29.3
. sásad fiach / fothath mb.¤
i.e. carnage,
BDD² 331.
forbrit brain crows (?) multiply,
Four Songs
22 § 7.
dubidir ri b.¤ a brae,
LL 6390.
cia nobeth fo dathaib
b.¤
`of the ravens' hue' (sc. a hood),
MacCongl. 111.5
. messi ┐
Mac Con / dín bat budig brain vultures will be grateful to us,
LU 9872.
ac[h]t is fálid brain berna / i llongphurt Aililla ┐
Medba,
TBC-LL² 2084
.
suidfit bruin for bernadaib,
SG 373.16
.
curad cróda ro biath b.¤
`who fed ravens' (
RC xlvii 309.13
),
LL 17190.
le mbiathtaoi broin,
O'Hara 3059.
L. ┐ L. / fersat
debaid dar dā b.¤
(more fiercely) than two ravens,
ZCP iii 45
§ 26
.
don b.¤ mor,
Auraic. 5598.
Fig. is b.¤ carna comramaig (in rhet.
of Cú Ch.),
LU 8892
(
FB 68
). Note also: (B. na f.)
is orc ind
aduo braine .i. fiaich,
ACL iii 310 § 5.
Cf. B. na f. ex.
cited s. 1 branda.
As n. pr. m. :
do B. mac Febail,
Imr. Brain 1.
B.¤
,
Metr. Dinds.
iv 38.15
. B.¤
(name of Finn's hound),
Acall. 179.
In nn. loc. :
co rānic srub Broin . . . .i. a cend tall-som dond
eōn dub, is de dogairther Srub Broin,
Ériu ii 22.7
,
Srub
Brain,
Dinds. 54.
See
Hog. Onom. s.v. ? Bran-
,
Srub
.
Compds. With nouns. ? e ni dalbh gan bhrandhal (-dul,
FM)
brath, / ro mharbh Brandubh mac Eachach,
AU i 82.23
,
AFM i 230.2
=
bandul,
CS 70.7
. gusin mbranen déidenach
`to the last raven',
Dinds. 54.
in ní ara tairissed in branén
ar in ḟai[th]chi don ár-sin,
Acall. 5191.
re brainéan Bréifneach (of a chief),
O'R. Poems 1138.
do bhrainfhiachaibh,
128
. biait brain for branfossaib (i.e. field of carnage?),
LU
6612
=
. . . buind fri brannusa,
TBC-LL² 2427
, cf.
betit brain ri
brainessu,
2384
. branorgain .i. nī oirges fīach carrion for
ravens (?),
Corm. Y 105.
With adj. formed from noun.
bruastar buidhne branendai
raven-like
,
KZ xxxiii 83.11
.