The Truagh Welcome The McKenna family were the Lords of Truagh which is now part of County Monaghan. This is an adaption of The Truagh welcome given by the McKenna Family in A.D.1587 to show their respect for their friends. I dedicate this to my very dear friend Reinhardt Agust Reinhardtsson ( or Haddi as he was warmly known ) and to all his family , wherever in the World they may be. THE TRUAGH WELCOME FOR HADDI Shall a son of Reinhardt be cheerless and cold While McKenna's wide hearth has a faggot to spare ? While Reinhardt is poor , shall McKenna have gold ? Or be clothed , while a limb of Reinhardt is bare ? While sickness and hunger thy sinews assail, Shall McKenna unmoved , quaff his madder of mead ? On the haunch of a deer shall McKenna regale ? While a Chief of Mosfellsbaer is fainting for food ? No : enter my dwelling, my feast thou shalt share; On my pillow of rushes thy head shall recline; And bold is the heart and the hand that will dare To harm but one hair of a ringlet of thine. Then come to my home 'tis the home of a friend, In the green woods of Glasgow though art safe from thy foes: Six sons of McKenna's thy steps shall attend, And their six sheathless skeans shall protect thy repose.