Modaina

The dirges of Mantayit [which s/te sang] of Elos, the son of ^Edr'is.

Elos was fighting against the army of Kabasa, mounted on a mule; at that time his sword slipped from the scabbard and cut the thick of his thigh. And the army of Kabasa came and killed him. Mantayit was the slave of the son of his brother; and she sang of him in this way.

The consort of Nor's daughter, the husband of the daughter of Ab-Ali:
In thunderstorms roars the and in morning-showers. son of Edris,
Garo is bountiful like unto God, (1)
He has a hundred slaves on his floors. (2)
Who is it, if not Garo, that went his own ways of glory ?
His cattle was never tithed, his silver never measured. (3)
Strong were by your strength, even your followers:
They did not eat from small nor sew cheap night-gowns, plates,
His sword is a flash of lightning, [striking like] miracles.
He has a thousand soldiers, praying on his floor.
He has a thousand robbers, from whom he takes tribute.
He has a thousand slave-girls, carrying scores of children. (4)








Nor, the father of c Ali, was the father of the wife of Elos, whose seqrat was Garo (1), the son of Edris : the latter was of noble descent from his mother's side also. He roars, viz. shouts his war-cry, at all times: the thunderstorms come generally in the afternoon, seldom in the morning. (2) His slave-girls go about on his floors and do the house-work. (3) He was very rich, but did not pay taxes, like a rebel. (4) On his account even the slave-girls, who were his clients, were honoured and received from him plenty of food and of clothing.