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222. Impetuousness and anger will be in the minds of every home, servants will not serve, Kings judgements will not be heard, leadership will be sought among those who perform trickery, the community will not pay tribute to the nobility of law, tricksters will ridicule those that pay their just debts, noble wives will suffer in childbirth, sons will ridicule and not honor their mothers, students will not honor their teachers.54 223. Each will learn his art from false instruction and among false understandings (intellect) in order to attack the distinguished teachers, putting himself in the chair while his senior stands55, it will not be shameful for a king or the nobles to become fat off of their subjects and ridicule the appearance of their followers, to provoke the soldiers into shaming the householder, to demand the skilled sell their arts to the assembly for his doom, to complain of the food, reproach the young companions who eat and drink with greed in each dun. Truly the prideful man (sells) his honor, his soul for a scruple.56 224. Modesty will be cast off and despised by the population. Lords will be destroyed. Rank will be despised, the days of the God will be dishonored, letters will be forgotten, Filidh will not be educated. 25. Justice will be disturbed. False judgement will illuminate the final depths, produce will be burned after seeing the flood of strangers and the payment of tribute. 226. The people will slander the hostels. 227. Boundaries will be extended into the uplands. 228. Parts of the plains will become forest. Parts of the forest will become plains. 229. Each labors along with his household. 230. Disease will bring its pain, sudden storms will bring lightening to batter the trees. 231. Leafy winter, gloomy summer, fall without nuts, spring without blossoms. 232. Death from famine. 233. Disease upon the herds and flocks, mage, murriens, dropsies, injury, lumps, agues. 234. Strays are found without profit.57 235. Decrease in the fine men. 237. Liars. 238. Judgement with anger. 239. Death in three days and three nights of the people from plague. 240. A third of the plague on the beasts of sea and forest. 241. Afterwards will come seven years of mourning. 242. Flowers will perish. 243. Weeping for food under each roof. 244. Strangers will disgrace the Plain of Erin. 245. Every man a servant of another. 246. Conflict can be expected from the hostility in the cells. 247. The fair speechless will be derided. 248. Daughters will conceive by paternal relatives.59 249. There will be conflict around famous (places?). 250. There will be desolation on the heights of the Isle of Meadowed Plains. 251. The sea will break over every land with the habitation of the Land of Promise. 252. Ireland will be left 7 years away from judgement. 253. There will be grieving following destruction. 254. The sign of the AntiChrist will return. 255. Deformities will be born in every tribe. 256. Pools (of streams) will turn against the streams. 257. Substance will appear golden. 258. Water will taste like wine. 259. Mountains will turn into glens. 260. Vile places will become blossoms of clover. 261. Swarms of bees will be burned in the mountains. 262. The tides of the sea will be irregular from one day to the next. 263. There will be seven years of gloom. 264. The lights of the heavens will be hidden. 265. At the destruction of the world, the living will be judged. 266. A piece of judgment, my son, a great story, a terrible story, an evil time." 267. Ferchertne spoke; "What is your knowledge, you small, great, son of Adnnai, who is the greater File?" |
