"God be with me"

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy,
MS 23 N 10 (16th cent.), p. 19 | ISOS

16 From here may they all protect me against the fog-surrounded demons, these companions of the King's Son from the lands of the living.

18 May my King guard me; may he aid me always; may I be at every need beneath the protection of God's hand.

     Anonymous (c. 900), "God be with me" ("Día lim fri cach sním").  In Early Irish lyrics eighth to twelfth century, ed. and trans. Gerard Murphy (Oxford:  The Clarendon Press, 1956), 27 (22-27), 180-183.  CODECS.  Royal Irish Academy.