CaoimhínSF wrote:
I'm no expert either, but I think the preposition air comes into play when there is mention of the thing of which one is worthy,
Yes, but if you have a look at the usages in the Faclair Beag, the "tha" variants all have a focus on the thing one is worth of, and the "is" variants are more about the worthiness or the worthy party.
CaoimhínSF wrote:
but your suggestion still makes sense, and I like the na tha approach (I hadn't thought of that):
Èirichidh dhomh na tha mi airidh air
It will befall me as I am worthy of it [befalling me]
Yeah, my only problem is that I'm much happier with the "air" before the verb (as occurs in most Scottish dialects) but I don't think this works with the relative pronoun "na" (=what), only noun+relative conjunction "a" (=that).
I suspect that doubling the pronoun "na ... air" is acceptable, but I wouldn't stake my life on it. If writing an essay to be marked, I'd possibly hedge it and go for an explicit noun + "air a": "..an rud air a tha mi airidh", but recognising that that looks really quite unpoetic, I'd change "an rud" to "a h-uile sion". But then that's starting to move further from the original meaning.