Handwriting Gaelic to English please

[RedMystic]

Hi to all you great RootsChatters,

I'm not sure if I'm posting on the right board as this includes both a translation and deciphering hand-writing. Please let me know if it should be moved elsewhere.

I've attached a notation made in the front of my 3x great grandfather's Gaelic / English bible. The bible is c.1825 and came to Canada 1883. I'm not sure if my 3x or my 2x great grandfather made the note.

Can anyone tell me what it says. (I didn't do the tracing in black. It occurred sometimes before 1970 when the book came into my mother's possession.)

TX for any help that can be provided.

[GR2]

First two lines = I was young and I am now old.

Graham.

[dublin1850]

I think it's Scots Gaelic. It's in the wrong script to be Irish from the older date.
Up to the 50s or 60s people still used the old script.

[RedMystic]

I think it's Scots Gaelic. It's in the wrong script to be Irish from the older date.
Up to the 50s or 60s people still used the old script.

It's definitely Scots Gaelic. Both 2x & 3x grandfathers were from Benbecula.

First two lines = I was young and I am now old.

Graham.

Thanks for the start GR2.

[macintosh]

3rd. line chan fhaca- did you see
4th line sliochd means seed or descendant.

James

[Dulaigh]

when I see a farmer on a threeagossy and a descendent begging bread
( may be completely wrong as I did my bit of Irish in the 1940s/50s. )

[RedMystic]

TX Dulaigh.

It will be interesting to see what this says when all is pieced together.

Are Scottish & Irish Gaelic tremendously different?

[Dulaigh]

I did hear a native Irish speaker could converse fluently with a native Scots speaker though there are some differences in the endings and some basic words. They have a common structure and sound shape. Interestingly I met a Welsh speaker in the 70's who learnt English in the Royal Navy and on a courtesy visit to a French warship found he had no difficulty in having a fluent conversation with the Breton sailors in both their native languages; Welsh and Breton. They were both much surprised.

[apwright]

Piecing together the translations given above, it must be the Gaelic for Psalm 37, Verse 25: I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Adrian