- land
called Crete, in the
midst of the wine-dark sea, a fair, rich land,
begirt with water, and
therein are many men, past counting, and
ninety cities....
-
rough boulder, as if
there were
tossing by the s**** a
great ocean-reedbank
begirt with sand-dunes, so that
seamen imagine they are
gazing upon an island,...
-
followed his name.
Living in the
Lincolnshire fens, "among
reeds and mud,
begirt with dead
brown lakes", as he
reported in
verses sent to a friend, proved...
- O'Brien
reportedly marched on his way to
Corcomroe Abbey, "along the fortress-
begirt tracks"
between Leana and Crughwill. Hugh Roe O'Donnell's
troops plundered...
