Trecheng Breth Féne
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Trí nóill doná dlegar frithnóill: nóill mná fri húaitni, nóill fir mairb, nóill díthir. Three oaths that do not require fulfilment1: the oath of a woman in birth-pangs, the oath of a dead man, the oath of a landless man.

1 Literally, ‘a counter-oath, a second oath’.

2008-06-24 CPD