Streng, Champion of the Fir Bolg: Now the time of battle has come With axes and swords we shall smite The invader’s heads shall litter the field For our deity and Eireann we fight
The voice of Tuan: With dragon - hearts inside their breast The Fir Bolg braved the wave of steel Effortlessly invaders fought Against the iron wall of shields Upon the bloody fields Of Cairns
Streng: I will drive them back to the sea No Tuatha de Danann shall be spared Except for the one, they call Breas the Fair For he is the one, whose blood I have shared
Tuan: But suddenly above the field A dreadful apparition stands The Harvester of Souls appeared To reap, what Crom Cruach demands
The daemon swept the Badb away But Nuada grabbed the Sun God’s sword And with a blinding glare of light He drove it through the fiend’s black heart Thus Crom was denied of his prize And so he took the druid instead Dragged him screaming to Cythraul And left the Fir Bolg to their fate
Moy Tura!
Streng (recognizes his failure): All for what we lived and fought Is lost, like our blood in the sand What is left ist bow to the conqueror’s gods And to go back to Earth in the end
The voice of Tuan: Dusk fell upon the fields of gore Victorious stood the Tuatha de Danann And silence fell upon the shores Of the green island, Eireann Upon the bloody fields Of Cairns