Regarding the legend that the Vikings collected tax from the Irish they called "nose tax", what is the Irish equivalent of that expression?

The story tells that if the localers couldn't pay, the cruel Vikings slit their nosetips off...


With regards
Roy

A word-for-word literal translation would be:

cáin shróine

cáin sróine (without séimhiú on s in such case). Cáin ghaosáin in Donegal.

Cén fáth nach séimhítear "sróine"... 'sé mo thuiscint ná go séimhítear "d t s" tar éis "d t s l n" nuair a bhíonn an focal tar éis ainmfhocail -- mar shampla:

bean dheas
cáin shróine

Bean dheas in the standard, most of the time "bean deas" in Gaeltacht speech. Séimhiú in the standard on adjectives

Sróine is a noun in the genitive. In speech, a noun in the genitive and that begins with d, t, s is not lenited most of the time if the preceding noun ends in d n t l s. In New Irish Grammar they they it can (they give the example "maidin shamhraidh", but except such examples, i've never seen or heard lenition in such case). Another example that illustrates what i say, in a song from an Rinn (Co. Waterford):

Maidin Domhnaigh 's mé ag dul go hEochaill...

So could you have "Scéal Seáin" in place of "Scéal Sheáin"?