“Blessing of Brigit” from Carmina Gadelica Volume III

 

BLESSING OF BRIGIT

Brigit daughter of Dugall the Brown, etc. 

 

  Each day and each night 

     That I say the Descent of Brigit, 

 

I shall not be slain, 

   I shall not be sworded, 

I shall not be put in cell, 

   I shall not be hewn, 

I shall not be riven, 

   I shall not be anguished, 

I shall not be wounded, 

   I shall not be ravaged, 

I shall not be blinded, 

   I shall not be made naked, 

I shall not be left bare. 

     Nor will Christ 

Leave me forgotten. 

 

Nor fire shall burn me, 

Nor sun shall burn me, 

Nor moon shall blanch me. 

 

Nor water shall drown me. 

Nor flood shall drown me, 

Nor brine shall drown me. 

 

Nor seed off airy host shall lift me, 

Nor seed of airy host shall lift me. 

Nor earthly being destroy me.

 

I am under the shielding

  Of good Brigit each day;

I am under the shielding

  Of good Brigit each night.

I am under the keeping

  Of the Nurse of Mary,       [of the Virgin

Each early and late,

  Every day, every light.

Brigit is my comrade-woman,

  Brigit is my maker of song,

Brigit is my helping-woman.

  My choicest of women, my woman of guidance,

Each choicest, each dearest, each. . . , each guidance.

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Credit: from “Supplication of the Saints,” “Blessing of Brigit” from Carmina Gadelica Volume III, #264, pp. 160 - 164. Showing only the English translations contained on pp. 161 and 163.