This is also from Niamh:

quote:

Agus d’á luathacht a deintí an teitheadh b’eadh b’fhearr é, dar leó, ó bhí sé le déanamh i n-aon chor.

My difficulty is b'ea b'fhearr. Are these both relative? ie, should it be spelled in the modern orthography "ab ea ab fhearr"? Or is only one relative?

I might as well add the translation:

quote:

and it seemed to them the quicker they could flee the better, since it had to be done anyway

(Message edited by corkirish on November 15, 2010)