This is from “An Odaisé” again:

B’fhéidir gur bán dá chnámhasan ag lobhadh faoi fhearthain na spéire, más ar an míntír dóibh, nó go mbogann an tonn leis i dtóin iad.

Go raibh maith agat!

What parts don't you get? I can only guess, so here are a few clarifications:

gur bán dá chnámha-san = that it is white for his bones = that the condition of his bones is white

míntír = mainland
más ar míntír dóibh = if it is on the mainland for them = if they are on land

tóin = tóin na farraige = bottom of the sea

Hi Dennis,

Thanks so much!

The thing that is killing me about this is “nó go mbogann an tonn leis i dtóin iad.” Which has been translated from the Greek as: “or the billow rolls them in the brine."

I appreciate you pointing out “tóin = tóin na farraige” .

Is “an tonn leis” roughly equivalent with “the billow rolls” ?

tonn - wave

leis an tonn - with the wave

go mbogann an tonn leis iad - that the wave moves them with itself

I'd translate
"nó go mbogann an tonn leis i dtóin iad."

as

"or that the wave moves them in the deep"

with the sense that the bones form part of the wave.

It's a good image overall. Yer man Homer knew his stuff!

Oh, that seems obvious now! Go raibh maith agat!