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PREFACE.
THE " Fate of the Children of Tuireann "
is the second of the "Three Sorrows of
Story Telling " issued by the Society. Like
the " Fate of the Children of Lir " (already
published) the events which it narrates
date back to the time of the Tuatha De
Danann, whilst the third, the " Fate of the
Sons of Uisnech," belongs to the Milesian
period.
The story opens with an anecdote of the
skill of two leeches in high repute amongst
the Tuatha De Danann ; but it has no
direct bearing upon the text — at least in
its present form. Towards the close of
the story their names are introduced, when
their aid is invoked by Brian, one of the
Sons of Tuireann ; but unless we regard
Vlll
this as the sequel to the anecdote, its in-
troduction would seem altogether point-
less.
The legend then recounts the events that
led up to the murder of Cian, the father of
Lugh of the Long Arms, a warrior of high
renown and king in destiny. For this murder
Lugh imposed upon the Sons of Tuireann,
in the presence of the Monarch and Court
of Eire, an eric, so heavy, as to make its
fulfilment all but an impossible task. It
affords proof that the payment of the eric
was not so much what Lugh sought as to
try to compass the death of his adversaries
in some one of the many dangers to which
they would then be exposed. The eric con-
sisted of eight separate and distinct obliga-
tions, to fulfil any one of which would be
attended with extreme peril. The Battle of
the Second Moytura was then pending, and
Lugh, who planned it, included in the eric
anything that might help him in his last
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great struggle with the Fomorians. The
Sons of Tuireann were successful in obtain-
ing for him the prizes he coveted most,
sometimes by stratagem, sometimes by
diplomacy, at other times by force of arms.
Lugh, apprised of their success, makes them
oblivious of the balance of the eric on which
he had set little value, and induces their
return home. They present him with the
fruits of their adventures in many strange
and distant lands; but they are immediately
reminded that the full measure of their
debt is not yet discharged. They push out
their curach once more " from the blue-
streamed shores of Eire ; " again they are
successful, but in complying with the
last condition of the eric they are dan-
gerously wounded. They hasten swiftly
home, in the hope of getting from Lugh
one of the charmed trophies of their early
victories, which had the power of restoring
them to renewed life and vigour. But
Lugh is implacable; he refuses their re-
quest ; and they succumb to their injuries.
Tuireann, their father, overcome by grief,
falls dead beside the lifeless bodies of his
sons ; and in the language of the text, " they
were buried at once in the one grave."
Such is a brief outline of the present
text. "To the student of mere history,"
says O'Curry, " the value of such stories
consists in the records of ancient topog-
raphy, and in the glimpses of life, manners,
and customs which they contain," while,
he adds, " their chief claim, after all, to
attention would be found to lie in their
literary merits, and in the richly imagina-
tive language in which they are clothed."
MS. Materials, pp. 318-319.
Some few years ago, Dr. P. W. Joyce,
LL.D., M.R.I.A., published an entertaining
work, entitled, " Old Celtic Romances,"*
which contained a popular translation of
* Kegan Paul and Co.. London, 187^.
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this and other Irish stories, some of which
had not hitherto been given to the public
in an English dress.
The Irish text was once printed some
years ago in the Atlantis, vol. iv., a " Regis-
ter of Literature and Science of the Catholic
University." This text, with a translation,
was edited by Eugene O'Curry, M.R.I. A.
from a MS. in his possession. In an intro-
ductory notice to the " Three Sorrows of
Story Telling" (Atlantis, vol. in., pp. 377-
397), O'Curry noticed in detail whatever
reference he found, direct and otherwise, to
this story in the Books of Lecain, Leinster,
and Lismore. To the student desirous of
tracing the ancient and still existing foun-
dations of this story this information will
be found most useful and valuable.
Nov. 1901,
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ARGUMENT;
I. King Nuadh Airgiod Lamb and his one-eyed door-keeper. 2.
Door-keeper meets with doctors. Novel surgical operation. 3. They
are introduced to the king, whose arm, afflicted by a daol, they re-
move. 4. They procure and set another arm for the king. 5. The
king's political power ; the Fomorian tribute and penalty for its
non-payment. The assembly at Uisneach ; coming of Lugh Lamh-
fhada and his Fairy Cavalcade. 6. The Fomorians come to collect
the tribute. 7. Deference paid them by the king and his court
distasteful to Lugh, who annihilates almost the entire number of
Fomorians. He spares some to publish his prowess. 8. Departing
to Lochlainn, their native country, they t«ll the fate of their asso-
ciates, to Balar, their king. 9. Balar takes counsel. Breas, his son,
undertakes to avenge the insult. 10. Breas prepares to depart, n.
He arrives at Eas Dara, and devastates the territory of Bodhbh
Dearg, King of Connaught. 12. Lugh tries, but without success, to
secure Nuadh as an ally against Breas. 13. Lugh enlists the aid of
the three sons of Cainte, who undertake to concentrate the Fairy
Cavalcade. 14. They depart for this purpose, each his own way.
Cian, one of their number, and father of Lugh, sees the Children of
Tuireann, his deadly enemies. 15. Unwilling alone to meet them,
he, by magic, tries to evade them, as a Druidical pig. Brian, one
of the Children of Tuireann, meets this strategy by turning his
brothers into two Druidical hounds, and sets them on the trail. 16.
They overtake it, but previous to despatching it, Brian consents
to allow it to resume human form. 17. Cian's reason for this
request. His death, and the tragic circumstances of his burial.
18. Lugh's action in the interval. 19. He summons the Fomorians
to disgorge the cattle spoils. Their refusal. Arrival of the Fairy
Cavalcade and Bodhbh Dearg. 20. Lugh and his allies gird them-
selves for battle. 21. The battle. Success of Lugh, who, at the re-
quest of the Druids, gives a uar^er to Breas. Breas then departs to
his own country. 22. Lugh'« inquiries as to his father's (Cian's)
safety. 23. Lugh and tb» ¥airy Cavalcade go in search of Cian.
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The earth reveals the circumstances under which he was killed, and
the place of his burial. 24. Lugh has his father's body exhumed.
The dirge of Lugh. 25. Re-interment of Cian, and erection of his
monument, over which Lugh laments his father's fate. 26. Lugh's
mournful predictions. He leaves for Tara. 27. His arrival at Tara,
where he meets the Children of Tuireann. He suggests to the
minds of the king and his court the fate that had befallen his father,
and he elicits their views as to the punishment due to the crime.
28. The king tells the punishment he himself would inflict if Lugh's
case were his. The court express approval, in which the Children of
Tuireann join. Lugh determined to have eric. 29. The Children of
Tuireann take counsel as to the course they should now pursue,
and Brian, as the eldest, whilst denying their guilt, undertakes
payment of an eric. 30. Lugh names the fine ; its seeming smallness
surprises Brian, who cheerfully undertakes its payment. 31, 32, 33'
34. Lugh then particularises the eric, which he divides into eight
parts, and points out to Brian, one by one, the dangers and dif-
ficulties he will have to contend against in securing it. 35. Sur-
prise of the Children of Tuireann. They seek and receive advice
from their father. 36. Returning to Lugh, they ask a loan of the
Aonbharr Manannan, as a help to them. He refuses ic, but gives
• them a loan of the Curach of Manannain. They tell their father
and sister the result of their mission to Lugh. 37. Leaving Tuireann,
they set forward with their sister to the port where the curach was,
and entering it prepare to depart. Their sister's sorrow. 38.
They set sail for the Hesperides in search of the first portion of the
eric, viz., the magic apples. 39. They decide to transform them-
selves into hawks, swoop down upon the apples, and carry them
off, despite the vigilance of the guards. 40. They carry their de-
signs into execution ; but are pursued by the daughters of the King
of the Hesperides in the form of ospreys. The sufferings of the hawks
relieved by Brian, who transforms himself and them from hawks into
swans. The ospreys cease pursuing them. 41. The second portion
of the eric — the pig's magic skin. Plan of Brian and his brothers
to secure it. Their arrival at the court of the King of Greece, to
whom they introduce themselves as poets. 42. Their reception.
Brian's poem. 43. He explains its meaning and import, and its
connection with the object of their visit to the king. 44. The
king declines to give the pig's skin, but offers as a substitute thrice
its full in gold. Brian accepts the offer. 45. Brian, by force,
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seizes the skin, kills its bearer, and he and his brothers deal havoc
amongst the household of the king, whomBrian slays in single combat.
The brothers rest on the scene of the conflict. 46. The third portion of
the eric — the poisonedspear of Pisear, King ot Persia. 47. TheChildren
of Tuireann assume the garb of poets, and seek and get admittance
to the king. Brian's poem. 48. On Brian explaining the poem,
the king expresses his displeasure, whereupon Brian slays him with
a magic apple. Slaughter of the household. The brothers find the
spear, and bear it away. 49. The fourth portion of the eric—t\ie
two steeds and the chariot, in possession of Dobar, the King ot the
Island of Sigir. They resolve to present themselves before the
king as mercenary soldiers from Eire. 50. Their reception by the
king. They enter his service. Their hopes of seeing the steeds and
chariot disappointed. They determine on interviewing the king, and
signifying their resolve to depart. 51. The king dissuades them from
departing, promising to show them his steeds and chariot. The steeds
and chariot are brought before them. Brian dexterously springs into
the chariot, kills the charioteer and the king, and his brothers
slaughter the retainers. 52. The fifth portion of the eric — the seven
pigs of Easal, King of the Golden Pillars. On the shores of his
country Easal holds parley with the brothers, whose fame has pre-
ceded them. 53. Brian makes known the object of their mission. He
induces the king to comply with his wishes. 54. The brothers land;
Easal feasts them. Brian gracefully acknowledges, in a poem, the king's
action. 55. The sixth portion of theeric — Failinis, the whelp of the King
of loruaidhe. The brothers, accompanied by Easal, set sail towards
loruaidhe. 56. Easal goes ashore, interviews the king, his son-in-
law, and endeavours to disarm his hostility. His mission unavailing.
57. Conflict between the King of loruaidhe and the Children of
Tuireann. Brian vanquishes the king in single combat, and brings
him before Easal. Peace ensues ; the king surrenders the hound, and
the brothers, taking leave ofEasal, depart. 58. Lugh, apprised of the
success so far attending the Children of Tuireann, induces their re-
turn by a charm, and makes them forgetful of the remainderof the eric.
Lugh withdraws secretly from Beann Eadair. The brothers' arrival
there. 59. The brothers are welcomed by the king and the Tuatha
De Danann. Messengers are sent for Lugh. He refuses to return,
and instructs that the eric be paid to the king. 60. The brothers pay
the eric to the king, on which Lugh presents himself, and demands
the balance of the eric. 61. Dismay of the brothers. Taking counsel
with their father, they again leave their country. The lament of
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Eithne, their sister, on their departure. 62. The seventh portion ol
the eric — the cooking spit. Brian's marvellous adventures in search ol
it. His success. Returns to his ship. 63. The eighth portion of the
eric — the three shouts from the Hill of Miodhchaoin. Encounter
between the brothers and Miodhchaoin, its guardian. Brian slays
Miodhchaoin. Arrival of Miodhchaoin's three children, who attack
and wound the brothers, but are themselves slain. 64. The three
shouts. The return to Eire. 65. Arrival at Beann Eadair, whence
they journey to their father, whom they commission to see Lugh,
give him the cooking spit, and obtain from him the gifted skin to
restore their health. Brian's parting address to Tuireann. 66. The
meeting between Tuireann and Lugh. A fruitless mission. Brian
himself tries, but with no better result. He returns to his brothers.
Death of the Children of Tuireann. The grief of Tuireann ; his
death and burial with his sons.
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AC -OA n-ionn^Ai^e .1. HAOI nAonbAi]A •oo
iiiAO|\Aib nA b-"F6nio]\Ac t)o bi AJ CBACC
h-Gifte&nn. Ag -po26 AnmAnnA An ceAC|\Ai|A
bA btn]\be, A^U]' b& -6AnA]\x)A -oiob .1. dne,
A^tip 66-cpAic, Co)\on A^U^ CompAH ; ^5ur
ni leieAt) AH eAtA -oo ne^c t>o tuACA X)a
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AnpiiACC riA IDAOJ\ pn.
7. Agur1 CAiigA'OArt 50 h-Aon IACAIJ\ te
x)'ei|\i5^i5nd.h-6i]\eATin
tnte ]\6nip^.. Agu^
n -oumn pn -oo •eA.nA.ii A^
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pn A x)uAinc ug, 50
nit) -pm -oo cioc|-At) 50 h-otc
" 6i|\ x>o
•pn.
ACACAO1 fTAO1 All m-b|\OTO |" O,"
)'eini j A-5^ ii-ei | \1eAc, &5uy
A^A Tl-ACCUniAX), 11O 5U|\ IllApbAT) OCC 11A-
onbAi|\ -ofob, A-5"p "oo tei^eA-o AH nAon-
eiLe -:A CA-O
T)o riiuippnn pib," A.p t/uj, " A.CC
App tiom pb t)o t>utte pgeA-tA-ib -oocum
n-AtttTiupA-c VIA. mo ceA.ccA.ib pein, A
8. 1f A-nn -pn x)o j
pn -pomp^ no 50 -n^ng^yo.^ ^ t/ocl^n-
pne 'pd^io]\AC, A-^up
-ooib 6 cuif 50
&tria>it CAimg A-n mAc^om 65,
^ n-Gipinn, Agup gup mA-pbA-t) nt>.
utle leif, £.cc 1^-0 ]:em : " Aguf 1^ uime
•oo teig -pe pnne A>p," xsp pA.t), " cum32
•omnpn
A -oub^-ipc ^t^p, " An b-
CIA- h-e?"
" *O' peA-o^ppA," A-p Ceiclionn .1.
UA.tA.ip : *' if TTIAC m^me •ouicpe
e put) ;
•ome -oumn, 6 t>o ciocpA-x) put) ^ n-Gipmn
noA.pc ^g^inn A n Gipmn 50
9. 1p Ann pn x>o ouA.t)t)A.p triA-ice pne
|?omop&c Ag-coiiiA-iple, .1. G^.b UA-Tleit),
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A-gup Loipgmn lcni5luineA.c, Agur
8
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peA&p&ihn& p^iceAmlA pop ACA nAb-"pomo|AAc,
Aju-p t)At,Afi bAitc-b£imeAnnAC jrem ;
An -OA beAVbAnA -oeAg meic OAlAi|\
Ceicbon C&ipp&cl&c .1. beAn]AioJAi
1|" Ann pn -oo ^ATO bpeAf IUAC
•oo ITIANCJ\A pne "POITIOJIAC A n-6inmn,
xto beji CA^- "°o 1ol/OAnAC, A^U^ bAinp-o A
t>e, A^U]' t>o bep tiom cu^Aib^e e, AIJ\
nA t)einbe lyOctAnnAi^e."
" t)o bu-6 cuibe -ouic^e pn -oo t)eAnArTi,"
A 1AX)pn.
10. 1f Annpn A t)ubAittc b}\eA|' : " Coipi^-
mo longA A^up mo UiAic-bAjACA t)Am,
cuijAce^jA biA-6 Agup Ion ionncA."
1p Annpn -oo -pjiobAtJAiA A tongA,
LuA1C-bAttCA, 50 1.UA1C, AJUj' JO
t>o cuipeAX)A|A A te6px)oicin
•oie ionncA ; A^up -oo ctnneA'OAn
X)o cionot A
cui^e. Ajup mAn ^An^A^An 50 Vi-Aon
IACAIJ\, t>o jLeA-pA-OAp A n-eA]\^At)A, A^up A
n-eit)eAX)A, A^UJ' A n-Ainm JAifgit) ;
•oo jUiAipeA-oA-p ^ompA •o'lonn^Aije nA
eAnn.
' t)o leAn bAl,A\ 1A-O cum An
9
. « TVK« A^ CA£ -oo'n lott)An-
AC, Aguf bAinfo A ceAnn t>e ;
An c-oiteAn pn, j\if A
^0115, ^guj* 'b
-oo'n34 tne lotnAllciu ce&cu
f, Aguf ni
50 b|\uinn ATI li)}iAt:A Ann t. "
ii. 1]" Annpn t)o cui^eAX) A ton^A ^gtif A
o'n 5-cuAn ATTIAC, A^UJ" -oo tionA-
•OAjl t)O p1C,35 AgUf t)0 CU1f, ^-5UT^ t)O TT110}\ 1 At) ;
t>o ctnjieA'OAjA A -peot-bnei-oe pubtACA
CCAnnCACA A n-A1fAt) ; ^5^^ Ctlg^At)
m -pAnncAC o'n j-cuAn A^up o'n
5'CAtA'OpOHC, A1|A An t»-C1]A nAC 'O-CpeAbCA|1,
Ain AT» b-jTAi^ge im1eicm, Agu^ Aip An b-^u Aft-
Ai-obeij' longAncAig, A^up Ain -opuTictA-OAib
nA -oiteAnnA, Agup AIJA -pteibcib ^IIUC-AIA-OA
i"UAi|\neitiineACA nA irAipge pon-x>oiriine ;
^ nfop -p^uineA-OA]! -oe'n c-pe6l-|ieim ^in
)A]A CUAn A^ll^ CAtA-6pO|lC A n-GAf-
Aju^ -oo i^AoiteAt)A]\ ft-ti^j V^36
ConnACc, ^5ur •o'AmgeA'OA^ 50
tei|A e.
A^tif 1-p e bA ^15 A1|A ConnAcc An
pn bo-ob *OeA|\^, THAC An 'OAJ'OA.
12. Agup 1^ Ann -oo bi l/uj l/ATh^A-OA An
10
pn A •o-UeAmpAi5 A b-pocAip nij "^ h-6in-
eAnn. A^ur x>o poiLlpje^t) t>6 50
At)A|i pne "pom on AC A -o-cin A n-
A1C A1|A37 CU1C
-oo
e&t -pn -oo t/u j -oo •o
itlAnAnriAin A j-cow^&c
riA h-oit>ce; A^U^ -oo CUAIX)
A ]^ib JAIJ 6i|\eAnn, A^uf x>' inni|' x>6 50
A -o-ci A n-
' x)ob' Ail bom
An ye " •oocum CACA tDo CAbAi^c -ooib."
"11i ciubjiA," An An nit;, " oin An gnioiri
39 oprti ni nAc^At) *OA coynAiii."39a
13. O t)o ctiAt^it) Lu^ t/Atrij:At)A An t>noc-
pn, cee*o Ain tiiAncAijeAcc,
x)o uAiy eAuinAi pAn, A^uy -oo conn AI]\C
C|\iAn O^IAC A]uncA ei^ijce cin^e,40 .1. cni
line Aince; &5Uf t>o eAnnuieA-OAn "0.
" C]\euio An ttioic-e'inge pn one," An pAt>.
" 1y mo\\ mo cuiy," An ^115, ".1.,
t)O ceACC41 A n-Gi|Ainn, ^juy Dot>fo
niAC An "OA^-OA t>' An^Ain •ooib ; A^uy cneut)
AH cungiiAm t>o beA^yAi-6 yib -OATH ?"
" "Oion^nAm," Ap pAt), "ceu-o oglAc JACA
pn x)iocyA yAn 5-CAC."
II
"1f rriAic An cunpiArii fin," AJA -pe, "
ACA cungnAiti ij* jreAftiA bom mA pn -o
b, .1. AH niA-pqiA pox)A x>o cionot
JAC AIC ^ b-puitit)."
14. A5Uf x)'imcijCu ^Uf CeiceMin but)
"oo gtuM-p Ci^n Y^n Ai|\t) bux>
ni -oeApn^x) cotVinAToe, 50
rnin|Aceiirine A^u-p "oo bi ^5
iA mxM je Ajtif if 56A|\|1 "oo bi ^nn,
t)o connAinc C|AiA]i o^tAc A|\mcA
Ain A coniAijA44 AJ pubAt HA
1-p 1A-O -00 bi Ann .1. cni mic
1-p Aiiit,Ait> -oo bA"OAn45 cni true CAince
cni mic UtnneAnn, 'nA tucc ftiAnA A^U^
t)A ceile, lonnAf ^lube AIC A
JA ceiLe nAC JAACATO Af,
ACC An -ojAon^ bA c]\eife -oiob.
15. 1f Ann-pin -oo -pATO CiAn : '"OA m-beit)fp
mo -oiAf46 •oeA|\bnACA-p Ann^o, if cAtmA An
comnAC'oo t>eunjTAmAoif ; Aguf 6 nAC b-pnt,-
ix>, if mAic An coniAinte t)Am-fA ceiceAX)."
t)o connAipc mAti-cpcAt) muc ionA
A^up -oo btiAit e ^ein t>o -pleipg
t>|\Aoit)eAccA A -piocc mince47 x>o nA mucAib,
X)O JAb48 AJ COCAltc nA C Aim An ATT! Alt
muic "oo nA mucAib eiie.
13
1p Annpn A -oubAipc topiAn TTIAC
eAnn : " A •6eApb|AAic|\e," AJ\ pe, " An
b-pACAbAi|i ^n c-o^tAC t>o bi AJ pubAt nA
m^ije 6
'"Oo c
" C]\eut> "oo ]i«5 &p e,
" tlf
t)o
x)o |AUJ AJ" e ; i]i x»o
e e jrem t)o -ptei^c 6|\-oA, A^IOCC muice -oo
u-o ; AJU^ AC A -pe Ag cocAitc riA
muic t>o HA mucAib eite;
n50 CAJ\A -oiiinn e.
" 1]' olc AC A pn A^Ainne," A^ AH -01 Af
eite, " 6i|\ if te neAC eigin -oo UUACA T)e
"OAriArin nA mucA, AJUJ' t)A
inte 1 AX) t>o ceAn^tri At) t)o'n inuic
•out, AJ% ]:A t)ei|\e."
" 1|- olc •oo |\i5neAbAi|A-|'e
A 5-CACAijA nA yojlumcA," A]\ b|tiAH, " An
C AiceoncAO! beiceAt)AC'0|\AOi>6eACCA
C beiceAt>Ac AicioncA." Agup if com-
niAic82 t)o bi A$A nAt) pn Agup •oo buAit
A]\53 pem -oo54 leic x)oitbce
53
t)O
13
fiublACA -6iob, ^5«f "oo
50 jAibceAc Ain tong nA muice •onAoit>-
eACCA.56
16. Ajuf nion ciAn no jun ceic nA muc&
tnte &cc i |:ein ^niAin ; ^Uf -oo
•ooipe coitle, ^gu^ x)'ionnfM5 e ;
ftei^ -61, gup ctn^i r]ie comp&fi A> cteib i.58
-oo ^5|Ae^t) A-n riiuc ^guy A x)ub^i|\c :
otc -oo ^i^ne^b^i^ mo ceil^e^nn 6
tne."
bom,59 1^ u^l^b^^t) t>Aon^ pn
t>tJine me -oo
if me Ci&n ni^c C^«nce;
otc tmn61 Ap b^m le&c."
iye -pA62 HA -oeiab
-OA •o-ci^eAX) An c
onn^c, 50 m-bAinpnn-pe AJ^AC e."
" 1TlA1feAt>," A|A ClAn ; " C
t)Am."
'"Oo beAnAtn," An faniAH.
" l/ei^To -OAITI x)ut Am' -piocc fem,"
CiAn.
" A]\ Dpi An ; "
3
14
tiom-j:ein63 -oume -oo mA]\bAt> 50 mime 'nA
muc."
17. Aguf -oo cuAit) CiAn mA niocc pjin Ann-
pn, A^uf & -cubAi^c ;
TTIAIC t)Am ATI 01^," Ap -pe.
"1TI.M|'e.y6, -00 me^lt me pb," A
IIX-OA rn-bi^t) A -piocc muice x>o mui]\b-
me, ni biAX) ACC ei]\ic mince ionn&m,
6Y ^^^ -piece ^em muipbp^ce^ji me,
nio|\ m6^<vo ^\i^iii, A^U]' ni
coit)ce,64 neAC bu|' mo 6i|Aic iotiA me,
TIA h-Ai]\m,65 le A mui|\bj:i5Ce^|\ me,
&TO An ^niom t)om' liiAC."8
" Hi te h-A]imAib mui|tbp5ceA>|i cu,
ulATTIAI]' nA CAUilAn," &\\ b|\1A1l.
t)o 5AbAt)A]\67 Af A li-Aicte pn pNi]^-
Aip t>o ctocAib 50 h-ACJAnb, Agup 50
li-AinceAnn, 50 n -we Ann At) AN xDim
oil >oiAn-b]\uice x>o'n cu^At) ; A^up -oo
eAt)AN cubAC p]\ I:A tAtmAin e. -^5UT nio|\
JAb68 An cA^Am An ponJAt pn UACA ; A^uf
t)o ceitg Ain UACCAn nA CAliiiAn Aniop e. A
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nio|\ ^Ab An CA^Am lei]\
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An copp fe h-UAijie, A^uy -oo xmitc An
e; A^uy69 An yeAcciriA-o h-UAi]t -oo c
m e, t)O JAb An tup leij\ Aguy -oo
Cl^nn UtupeAnn pompA70 A
t) LAihyATDA, -o'loniif Aije An
CACA.
1 8. 1omcu-pA LUJATO ; Ain n.-oeAtuJAt) ten
n-A ACAI]\, t)o CAim^ jioniie 6
XDO §^i]ii>6, A^uf x)'1t JAini
mic Lu^Ait), A^U]' -oo t)ei|\n n A
•pif A ]AAit)ceAn Rof ComniAin An CAn
A^Uf CA^ 111A15 l.U1|\5, A^U]' -DO
HA SeAJfA, A^iij' t)o ceAnn
1\i^ A nATOceA^ Cei|" Cononn An
C|\e cpiocAib An Conomn cnucfotuii-
•pn 50 niA^ 1TI6p An AOIIAIJ, AIC A
Att-ITlUjAAIg, A^Uf C]\6ACA ConnACCA ^
19. 1-p Annpn t)'ei]Ai5 bpeAf ITIAC
Agti^ A -oulDAinc : "1f lon^nAt) tiom," AJI -pe,
" ^^ Sl11^11 ^5 ®1^5e ^ n-1^ ^ n-t)iu
n-oip JACA tAoi eite."
" T)ob' f eAnn 50 m-bu-o i," An nA
eite" AJ\ ye.
An
Annpn CAim^ An c-1olx>AnAc 'nA •o-cim-
-66ib.7a
i6
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"1]" mop At)bAji mo beAnnui^ce -oAoib,"78
Apt -pe; "6ij\ ni put ACC mo teAC t)o
*Oe T)AnAnn, AJUJ* mo LCAC "OAoibpe,
moc
50
"•put -oo ^e^b^in •peA.|'5^c no
•oo telj Lu^ bpiocc
•p.A75 n^ cpe^CMb, ^^ t>o ctnp
-pein ^ n-oo^uf j&c ^on ci je 6. n-6i|nnn,
', TIA -pe^fc^c^ ACA, 50 n&c
An -ponn fin no 50 m-beipeA.t)76
SIO-OA onnA. Agup t)o "bi Lug
loce 'n^. •o-cimciolt, no 50
SIOUA, Agup t>o
A •o-cimciott UOJA. Ajuf CAimg
t)ot)b 'OeAjAg ITIAC An DAJ-OA, Aguf nAOi cent)
pceAT) t)A n-ionnpAije, AJU^ -oo -pAit) :
" Cpeu-o At)bA]A bup moilte gAn An CAC t>o
j fiii]\eAC eACfA, An
20. 1f Annpn t>o ^Ab t/u^ ItiipeAc tt)
untie ; Aguf ni t)eAHj;cAoi fuice, nA
mtiie. AU" *oo
I?
ne&c JTA rn-bnvo p.
mine y&. c&ot & Triuimt, ;
"DO j&b & C^cbA
^511]" -oo bi
ct^oclo-6 AH
t)t)b-50]\m,78 •oAC-^tMnn, •oin-
c^n, x)Aot-coni]AAttiAc, 6^ -pcu^i^tei^g A
. x • • •%•
-oo -oion A cui|\p ; ^guf *oo 5^0 A
t>o
t)o
t)o
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1AX); A^UJ- -oo CAiceAt)A|A A
jAibceACA AI^ A ceile ; ^
5-coinib]\i^eA>6 A fle&j; -ooib -oo
2 Af A -o-c]AUAil,tib auriiAi'p-joiAtnA ;88
-oo JAb,<yo&p ^5 cpeun-ctiA.|\5Aiti A
ceite ; ^x1^ -o'eixeA-OAp -ooieA-OA t>orm-
i8
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p3&n pn. "f «s.nnpn -oo
conna.ij\c Luj &n c\\6 c&tt>.8* &.nn &p&ib t)pevp
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e ; ^511]- T>O 5^-b ^5 C|\eun-
-cpeinye^]A pn, no ju|\ co|\q\At)
A ce^-t) l^-oc Lei -oo luce coiriieutiA. mic
•oo'n coj\ fo *£Uf t>p %fe|\ fine
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yem.
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pn, t)o
-oiob,
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"An TAX) "POITIOJAAIJ -oo trmiiAtreAX) e," A|t
tug.
" Hi h'iAt>," An pAt>.
"Hi iriAijAeAnn -pe," AtttAijj; " A$up -oo
beijAinij~e tno b]AiACA|A
HA -oeoc ^m' "beut-p^ no 50 b-p-^jc&jA pop
bAf -oo piA-i|\ mVcMn."
23. A^u^ -oo gL
Sio-oA, AjAAon teif no 50
Aic m^n f5^-^ fe trein ^jup /x c-c^i|A te
ceite, ^^u^ A-p pn 511]* ^n ^ic & n-oe^c^ix)
i^e A> fuocc nA, rtituce AIJ\ n-Aicne Clomne
-06. 5°^^ ^nnpn *oo
tri le90 1,115, 50 n.-oubMiic:
" 1f mop .MI ce^nncA m^ i\A.i"b c'&c
Ctomne
•oo,91 6i|\ -oob' ei^e^n x>6 -out A -piocc muice,
), "oo rii^nbd.t)^]\ e id.|ipn mA. ]\iocc
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t)o cmn A,n AIC ^nn A jA^ib A.
Agu-p tug
]" 50
c|\eut> 6-
24. A^up "oo co^bvo ^n co^p A1^ An
Up t)O 5AbAt)A]\93 AJ •peACAin A toC,
2O
•oo j^ic *n& cof5Ai}\ cno94 e, 50 n-
Uinne&nn ,MN m'&c&ip ion-
mum. Aguj- cug ceop^ pos& -66,
•oub^ijAc: "1p otc 4vCAim |:ein o'n
fo, oip ni cttnmm &on m-6 cpem' c
A.^UI' ni f&icim o.on nit) cnem' -puilib, AJU^ ni
Aon cuifte beo ^m* cpoit)e, tDO cutii.M'6
'be5'6 -OA n-^6nA>im," ^n fe,
" 1f t)oiti5 bom ^^n me ^rein -oo cecxcc -oo
t>o bi &n gniorii ^o
n ^niom t)o
A Lug ; " .i. ponj^t 00 -oeAn^ni -oo UuA.c<
e T)A.n^nn &i]\ ^ ceite ; A^U^
t)ic -ooib; " ^5uf ^ x>ub&inc
um nom
t)o cio|\|\b^i5 mo cojip
An not) fe^-l foip, A.n pot)
tli bi^it) Gi|\e 50 b|\AC ACC 50 h-olc
U|ie m&j\b&t> Cem,
*Oo cpA-oc mo
t)o -oub mo t)
1Tlo ciA.lt A-CA cl^on
21
A teAcc ACA AJ\
1lop iiiAj\b ClAnn
Upeic beit) UUACA *Oe TDAn Ann t>o'n
neinc
25. TJo cui|\e^x>
pn, ^5"f *oo cogb^-o A UA. op A> leA.cc,
t)o yeA>|\^t) A> cLince c^omce, Aguf "oo
97
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I'o no 50 b-]roiltp5eA.io|'A. e," A.|\ f e ;
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O CiA-n AimnneocAn An cnoc,
5e 'CA A n-ionA-o popnocc ;
1TI6]A An ^nioTTi -oo |ionAX> Ann,
An UUAC *Oe
TTlic Uui}\eAnn -oo pinne An gniom,
1nmpm -OAOibpe cne p
A 'oeinim Lib, ni fg
ne A n-uA, ^gup An-iA|An-UA.
]*i nnc CAince, CJIO-OA ATI
ClAnn UuineAnn
1p -oe -oo jiALAX) bAp Cem,
A m-beic coriiAnt) A coniiceim.
22
"1p bpipce mo cpoit>e A™' cliAb,
O nAC niAipeAnn An cup At) CiAn ;
'Do Clomn "OeAlfeAoic100 ni p^eAl 56,
o rn-beit)
26. A h-Aicte nA LAOIT> pn A •oubAipc'Lu j:
" 1p otc t)o CIOC|:A|" AH gnioni po t>o Uu ACA 'Oe
tDAnAnn, AJU^ 1]" j.'At>A
x>eAnAiii A n-C-qnnn -OA ei|*;
6'n ngnioiii i"o -oo nmneAt>An ClAnn
A^U]' A •oubAi]\c Le n-A tiiuinn-
50 UeAiri|\Ai5 ITIA^ A b-puit ^15
-p UUACA T)e IDAnAnn ; Aguy HA
n A i^eAlcA -po Ann, no 50
27. i]\ poccAin -oo /u 50
•oo fuit) 50 h-UAi%At, on on AC, AIN
|\i5 nA h-GineAnn. ^5uf "o'yeuc Lu^ HIA
gtif t)O connAi]\c ye imc UinpeAnn »
-oob' iAt> pm cpni]\ -oob' yeAjip U'nc
tAiiiAC,102 -oob' AiLte A^up t>ob' u|\pAiii-
AIICA t)A |\Aib A -o-UeMripAi j An CAn pn ;
Aguj- •oob'peA]\p tAm103 A ^-CAC HA b-"p6iiiopAC.
1]' Annpn t>' i.ni|\Ait Lu^ptAbpAt) eipceACCA104
nA cArpAC x)o bAin ;105 A^up -oo pmneAt)
AtiitMt), Agup T)'eipceAt)Ap uite. A t)ubAipc
^: " Cpeut) Aip A b-puit bup n-Aipe Aiioip,
UUACA T)e "OAiiAnn," Ap pe.
23
50 t>ennta, A
-oe buj\ iriAicib," AJA -pe;
cpeim An •oioJAtcAf t>o x>eAnpyo ^AC Aon
An n-t>|ion5 t)o iriuiubpe
!)?" X)o tui^ focc mo\\
clof pn x)6i"b ; A^up -o'pii
e, A^uy 1-p CAT)
ni Vi-e c'^CAie x>o
e, 50
n •0^0115 x>o iiiA|\b e;
A poy ACA fein An mAjiAt) -oo
A1|A, 'nA Ag^Tll^A." '
28. A -oubAijic jiig 6i|\eAiin : "Hi HI
Aon IAOI -oo beAAinn em AIA AH ce t)o
III'ACAIJA, ACC bAlt t)o bAin t)e,
C AOII LA A)' A ceite, no 50 TD-cuicyeAt) fe
iAX) ]"e AIJ» mo CUTTIA|\"
At)ubpAt)A|\ nA 1i-UAi|"le uite AH nit) ce6.t>-
ClAnn UuineAnn IDA]\ CAC.
•oeAnAiii An o^tuji^ie pn," AJA
^, " IIA x)AOine x)o riiA]\b m'ACAii^'e; A^U^
CAb|\AiT) ei|\ic •OAITI Ann, 6 CAIT) UUACA "Oc
'OAIIAHII A n-Aon €15; Agup IIIUHA •O-CU^ATO,
ni -pAn6cAX)^o |\eAcc pig 6i|\eAnn,109 'HA A
comAince ; gi-oeAt), ni IAIYIOCAI-Q UCAC liliot)-
CUA|\UA110 •o'yAtjbAit, no 50 peTOTO tiorn]"A."
24
"T)A m&n'bpMrm"1 trem C'ACAIIA," AJA
GiiACAnn, "-oo bux> ITIAIC bom cu -oo ^
&AJACA UAim Ann."
29. " 1f cu^Ainne A t>ei]A Lug f ut>," AJA CL^nn
UuineAnn eAConn^ fem, "
"b&x> A ACA-p -66," An 1uc&n
" 6i|\ i|' Ag lAnnAit) -pgeAtA A
gO •O-C|tAfC&, no 50 b-^UA1|t pOf A
" *Oob' eAglA "oumn," AJA bjAiAn,
Ag 1A|A|AA1X) AtlTTIAlA X)O blA'O ^6 A b-
CATC, A^UI' nAC ngeAbAt) -pe ei|\ic UAinn ionA
'"Do beA|AAm-ne," A]A nA mic eite; "
06 no cAbAi|A|'e i 6f ^nt), C'f cu if fine."
" "Oo be]A," A]A t)|AiAn.
Agup teif pn A t)ubAi|Ac DjMAn mAC
eAnn : "1f cugAinne A t>ein cu pn, A Lu^, An
CJUUJA -po ; 6i|A if -pnn -oo -pAoitip t>o
c6iiiiei|AJe cotrinAic te cl-Ainn CAince
f o ; Aguf nion iViAnbAmA|Ane C'ACAIJA;
i|nc Ann, t>uic]" e mAn 50 n-
f An gnioni."
30. "5^^^"°^ eiftic UAib Ann, jion 50
e," AJA Lug ; " Agup A -oeiiMm
i; Ajup mAY won bbfellaf, x>o jeAb-
CAIt) TTIAICeAtTI A|A CU1T) t)1."
" ClumeAm UAIC i," AJA
25
"Ag fo i," Ap t^u^ ; ".1. cpi h-tibtA,
cpoiceAnn muice Agup fleAJ; ^5^-p "OA CAC,
CApbAT) A^tif feAcc mucA &'£>ur ctnt-
con &5Uf biop ]?olA>cc^ ^5uf ^|\i
1]A cnoc ; A^uf if i pn AH
mop ipe i, mAirp-oueA-iA CUTO "01
tinpo "bib A-jup muriA. mop,
b f."
"Hi mop tirmi,"lla Ap bpi^n
e tmn pun peiU,e
^ce -oo beic &5&cf & ^A, n-Ap j-comAip
A tuJAt) mAp eipic ; A^up ni tmn cpi ceut)
mite ubAt/l A^u-p An oipeAt) ceAt>nA x>o cpoic-
mb muc ^up ceut> fteAJ ^jup ceu-o CAC
cent) niuc A^up ceuo cu, Agup ceti-o
otACCA A^Uf ceut) ^ApCA A1p CHOC t)O
•oetinAm."
"tli beAj tiom-pA111 Ap ftoinneA|' |rein
eipic," Ap Luj ; " A^up T>O bep
UUACA "Oe T)AnAnn t)ibpe ^An niop tno
te beic -oitip 50 bpAUxnb;
An c--tAnvneAcc ceAt)nA
" 1f cpuAij; pn," Ap CtAnn UmpeAnn;
"Hi beAj t>o flAnAib An -oomAin pnn |rein."
," ApLtij; "oip if mime -oo g
t>ujA teteiT) eifAice UACA IIIAJA fo A b-pAt>-
CAic A^U]" 50 ^AcpA-oAoif 'nA coi-p
CtAnn Uui]\eAnn IA^A pn
bot>b T)eAH5, ITIA-C
^c«> t)e 'OAti^nn -p. ice
pn -oo t/u^.
31. " 1-p -|:eAi\p -o&in
^ ut) t)o
t)," AJA Lug, "i]' lA.'O n^ cpi
.1. C]11 h-ubtA. T)O Q
h-1]"bei}Ane,113 ^ n-oi]\ceAH ATI
ni yojn^tpx) iibt& t)A.TTi ACC l
pn ubl^ 11" peA|\|\ buMt) ^511]" 1^- Ailte '
ty AiiitAi
ATI oip 6|\toi]'5ce O|\|iA, ^^uf ni
ce&nn mic niio|"A 'n<s j&c ub<stt -oiob,
ine,6.t,& bio|' OJIJIA te n-
ni yA^bATO JAOCA cj\6, HA Aicit)
Ai|i AomneAc -oo CAiceAnn IATJ ; At^uf ni
iAt> A m-beic X>A po|icAiceATh 50
5111-6 £AC Aon ceitgeAf ubAll
•oiob, A HO^A ^ACCA, AJUT" ci^ cin^e CAJA Aiy
pbfe, A cjiiAn IAOC,
-oo CUJHAI" AgAib,114
(nm, IIAC t>oiti5 bom), TIA h-ubtA pn t)o
bj\eic o'n tmnncip A^A b-pnti-o, 6i]i t>o -pin-
neA"6 yAiprme •ooib 50 pACpvoAoi-p cpi
6gA 6 iA]\CAp nA h-C6ppA -OA
teo Aip eige&n/' 114a
,n cpoice^nn mince t)'f 4kH|iA|* d|t-
mtnce ACAA.5Uuif,iAij
-pe
50
ir ^^^"o "oo bi An tiiuc pn,
) p c]Ait), -oo bfA-6
ponm 50 ceAnn nAOi C]\AC ; A^uf An
te rn-bAineA-o i, •oo biAt) j^lAn ; Agup -o'm-
•oo"bi An buAi-opn ACC AIJA A c]\oiceAiin; Ajuf
•oo -peAnnAX) f, ^511]' ACA A c|\oiceAnn ACA 6
pA|" xribp? A
-oeoin nA t)'AiiiT6e6in."
f An b-^eA-OAbAi^ qieino i An c-
•oo pop me op|\Aib ?
"Hi f>eAT3AmAi]\,"
ACA
Aip118 ^MpmceAp x>i ;
x)o jmcexyp ^AC po^A CACCA le ; A^tip
bix> coipe -o'uip^e y^ n-A ceAnn t)o ^nAC, 50
C toip5p3AX) An CACA1JA TOttA ITl-bfAX) ft;
A
28
33. jjUf ^ -peA-OAAin CIA An X>A eAC,
CAttbA-o, T>ob' Ait bom -o'^A^
UAlb?"
"Th j-eA-OAVnAfV' A|1
U>OA GAC UAifte, longAiiCACA," AN -pe,
"ACA A£ T)obA-p, -pfj; nA Si^le ; A^up 1^ coirii-
x)6ib mui|i Agu^ CIJA ; Ajiif 111 -ptnt eic if
lA 1AT) ;
A conimAic Ain cumAX) nA Ain
-OA rmoncA t>o mAibcA\ iAt) biAt) iom-
5-cntnr ceA-oiiA ACC 50
A 5-cnAiViA te nA •o-ciompugA'o; AJU^ 1^ -0015
nAC ti|iAf -oibpe A b-fA^AiL"
b-)?eAt)AbAin CIA h-iAt) nA -peAcc
TTIUCA o'iA|Ap me omiAib ; .1. mucA ACA AJ
, ^ij nA 5-CotomAn OJTOA," An Lu^ ;
6 TTIA|\bcAn gAC OTOCe 1AT), t)O
beo Ai|t n-A TTIA|AAC iAt>, AJU^ ni
beix) ^At/An nA eAftAince Ain neAC -oo ff \oniAf
cuit) -oiob." 119
34. "A^uf 1^ ecinleAn con >o'iAn|iA-p op-
]\Aib, .1. cuiteAn ACA A$ nfj nA
Ajti-p "pAilimy A h-Aintn Agup
An -ootTiAin -o'f-Aicpn -01, -oo cuicpt>if Af
A -peAfATTl ; AgUf Tp X)eACA1|l A ^AJAlt. An
bioji yolACCA •o'lAnnA]' o|\]\Aib, .1. bion x>o
TIA beAjAAib ACA A$ tiinAib 1nnpe
2Q
if i&t> nA cjii 5AJ1CA tMAtifiA-p ojt-
-oo -6euriA.nl AIJI cnoc, .1. cjif
•oo tei5eAn ATJI Cnoc tflfo-ocAom A -o
t)A cloitin 56.11 SAJAC^ •o'fnitA.ng -oo
-ip ATI 5-0100 pn ; Aguf rp ACAfAn
-oo iMgne mVcAip A -po^tinm ; ^511^ -OA niAic-
pnn^e -oAoil:) e, nf niAicp-ofp-pn -O'A n-t)eom
e ; A^uf -OA n -^ijije At> bun TD-CUJIU^ uite bb
50 -o-ci IAU, if -0615 tiomfA 50 n--
t)Aoif onnAib e. A5u^ 1^ i pn An
JIAf OjljlAlt)/' A|1 Lu^.
35. t)o tui-6 i^occ A5tlf •pfo]i->6u'bA>6
Cioinn Uui|teAnn te ^tomneAt) nA
pn ; A5u-p t>o cuA'6'OAn iA|i pn TTIAJI A jiAito A
n-ACAin A5Uf "o'lnnfeA-OAn An c-eut)cuAtAn5
pn -oo.
"1f otc nA f5eulA pn," AJI UuineAnn ;
•o'ltmnc onnAib A5 lAn^iAix) nA h-eAjicA pn,
pn uite, t)A tn-b'Ait te t/uj; ^m e, -oo
56AbAit) pb An einic te -pAOCHu^AX), A5Uf rrt
b-fTA^Ai-ofp pn An -ootiiAin f ACC te cuniAcc-
Aib itlAnAnnAin, no t^o^A -pem. A^u-p ei|i-
iAf ACCA An AonbA~i|in ttlAn-
ni ciub]iAit) ]*e pn -OAoib
4
30
ACC 1-p OAt> & •oeAHfAit) fe, nAc
A$U|- IIAC lo-ciobpAt) lA-pACC t)o'n
ATTIAC; A^up iA^]iAit> lAfACC cu]iAi5120 Ttl^n-
IJI, .1. S^UAbA Uumne, A^U^ "oo
-pe pn •o&oito, 6i|\
"oo
c-e&c.
36. 1f ^.nnpn -oo cu&x>-o&f\ Cl^nn
m&.\\ & |A.M1:> l/uj, A-gu]" -oo
•06, A^nf ^ tDub^^-o^x TIAC
pn,
" Hi put An c-eAC pn AJATTI fem, ACC A1]\
1Af ACC," A]A t/U^, " ^5uf O riAC b-fTUlt, nf
1A|'ACC t)o'n 1Af ACC UA11T1."
t) CAbA1|A 1A]"ACC
-oinnn" A\ b\iAn TTIAC
AJI
" CA h-Aic A b-pnt fe,"
5 nA bomne," AJA t^ug.
cne, injeAn Uui]\eAnn, A n-t)ei|\b-
pu|A, Agup innipt) -ooib 50 b-j:uAi\AX)A|A An
CU^AC.
3'
"Hi mop ^un peip^-oe pb & psj&il," AN
Uui}ieAnn, " ^ToeAX) if TTIAIC le Lut; ^AC
nf-6 Ain A Tn-biAX) -peTom Aije jrem x>ocum
CACA Triune Uuifiix) -oo c^b^ijic ctn^e T)o'n
£ijiic ut) ; •ft-^u-p bux) JAO-TTIAIC teif ^n nm
TIAC b-pitt ]:eix)Tn ^ige, .1. pbpe, x>o ctncim
A-^A h-iA.f,pMt) fA -oeoij;."123
37. ^^^P"0 ^omp^ i<sp -pn, A-5t>|\ -pAgbAit)
UuipeAnn 50 CUTTI&C, cA-oinceAC ; ^511^ -oo
cuA.it) Cicne teo 50 t)-ci
t)o
A •oub&i|ic : "Hi ^
AtiiAin eite
t)0
la4 -oo'n CU^AC An
pn -oo x>eunAiii Aip, A b]iAic|ie loniriume,"
A|i Gicne, "1]" CjiUA^ An jnfom x>o
.1. ACAI\ IXDXA LAni'A'OA x>o
t)iAij opnAib," Aguf t)o ^igne AH IAOI-O
Ann :
" Otc An 51110111 -oo iM^
A cuit>eAccA pAl, ponnf A ;
ACA1|\ LO^A
T)o TtiAnbAT3 if o
32
"A6icne, n& h-^b^ip pn,
1TleA|A &]\ mui|\n
1-p fe&pp linn A
h-eijnnn,
tloc A.n
38. -A h-Aicte ti6> 171-^1^6^ pn, x>o ctnp
^n cuToe^cc c^ctrnle^t) pn
6
O TIA n-ub^tt,"
. "Oiji if TAX) XD
t)-cui}\ "Oo |iei^ pn
>CA ^umn," &p -pe,
t^ tirm 50 5^5
.itte^'6 A.n fogp^ pn
but) n&c tei ; 6i|i -oo
-o-conn t)
33
39- ^5ur A1F fl-iout *nnpn t)6ib, t/
ntnj topiAn -O'A bnAicnib : " Cionnof x>ob'
Ait lib -out tj'ionnpjijje ^"P^^A h-lfbetjine
Anoip, oin if '0615 bom," AJA fe, " gu^^b
O blOf JIIO^-CU^AIX) A^U]" C^C-TTlltlt) 11 &
A coinieux), Aguj" AH fiij |:ein
" Cjieti-o t)o •oeunjTAmAOi]'," Afi An
eite, ' ACC t>tit -O'A ti-ionn^uije Aguj" niA'f
fuinn 'VIA t)6ib TIA h-ubtA pn -oo
UACA, no ptin ):ein -oo ctunni Ann
Ai-p A -pon, 6 nAC bnn -out 6'n
l^eo ACA lonA^A 5-cionn, gA
n-Aic eipn."
fin," An bniAn, "1^ ^reAnn tmn A
gu-p An n-An'ono-p t)o cup op
onnuinn A^u-p An ngbocAf Aguy An
•o'Aicnif ionA|A n-oiAit), 'nA
meACACc t>o "ou\, 6^ Ant) onninnn.
nein pn, 1-p i coniAinte 1]" int>euncA -oumn
•oo'n con fo, .1. -out A neAccAib
•peicneAC, -pAntuctTiAii, -o'lonn^uije An
u-o ; Aju-p ni ^uit A$ A coirtieuTJUTOCib <^cc A
n-Ainm eux)cnomA,ioncAicce ti'An tj-ceit^eAn ;
CAbpAixJ-pe t)A bun n-Aine iAx>-pAn -oo
Aib^o tuciriAn, tAn-CApATo, A^tip
An cnAC x>o ceitgp-o pA-o A ni-biAit) U]
34
ACA, t>iob pn, cpomAf-ofe Aip nA
h-ublAib &5up beifiit) ubAtt, ^ACA p|\ x>iob
Aj;uf rn A peu-OAimfe e, t>o be|\ t> A ubAtl tioni,
.1 tib&U, ^tn'm^mb ^^u^ubAtt Min mo beut."
40. *Oo itiotA.>OA|\-]^n AH coiii&i]\le pti ;
t)o buAvit bpi<sn -oo ^Lei-pg -ooitbce
^itle eA^fAml^ -oiob,
ige n^ n-ub^-Lt.
tucc coiiiieutDA. 1&T), ^5«|' t)o
b t)iob, ^511 1' x)o c&ir
niitieACA teo ; A^tif T>O
xyi|\ A ^-coimeu-o ^m^iL x>'<MCin
, no JUJA cuine^t)A>|A &n tucc coi
-oiob uit
50 -ui]uieifne4>.c; ^5«f t>o
ub^tt, tei" ^uubAll le ^c
•oo'n •oip cite, ^gu]" pttix) ft^n,
u^ ceix) A,n f^eut pn
A ^-coiccmne.
-pm ;
x>o ei5eAt)A|A -pAineAnA cmcie UIA
6-511]' ]\6mpA ; ^jup -oo bA"OA]A nA ^Aigne
pn -OA lof^At) 50 mop.
35
An inox> Aip A
An ClAnn UtnpeAnn, " oin ACATTIAOIT) -D'AN
lopgAt) -oo nA f Ai^neAiiAib fo, triune b-yAg-
AttiAoi-p cAbAin 615111."
"<oo
-DO buAit t)o ^teif^ -ooitbce <o]iAoi'6-
e ^em ^511]' AV t)iA-p 'oeA.pbpACA.p,
t)o une •OA e^-l^ -oiob Au- e^t<s eite
•pop;
Ann pn ; A-gtif ceix) Ct&nn
pn gup An g-Cup&c.
41. A|*A>h-^icte pn t>o cm tie At) corii
"Leo -out, -oo'n 5lA®15 t)'iA^|AAit) An cpoicmn,
A1|A Aip no Ain fei^eAn. £tu&ipx) nompA no
50 v-CAngA-oAp A j-conipogu-p CAC^AC ^15
" CA jtiocc A nACAtn Annpo," An
" CA -piocc A nAcpAmAoip Ann," A|\
niACAib eite, " ACC ionAj\ peACCAib pein."
"Hi h-AvhtAit) pn cix>ceAn
t)]11 An, " ACC t)Ut A ]A6ACCAlb pteAt)
t)AnA 6ineAnnAC Ann, 6i]\ 1^ AiiitAit) ip mo An
n-on6i|\ ^Jtif An j-CA-OAf TOI]\ frotAib UAiple
f ToeACAi]\ -ouinne pn t>o •oeunAiti,
t>&n A.5A.inn, A-gur1 TIA.C mo
if eol -ouinn A. -6euriA.nl."
5ToeA.t) cu5A.t)A.p ccA-rigA-l pt,eA>t> A.ip A.
b-jroU;A.ib, A-jur-buA-lit) -oopur1 DA. CA>cpA.c;12J
i5 A.n Io6ir»fe6i|\ CIA. -oo bi
pnn," A|\ p6.t), "c^img t
cum &n ^15."
V mnpnn -oo'n ^15 50
pn A-f A. -o-rrt jrein 50 -o-c fo.
A.n pij A.n C6.CA.ip -ao cop-
A.irt A. 5-ctonn ionnu]' 50 m-beic le
n-A. n-A-icpir- A.C6-, nA.c b-yA.CA.t>A.|\ A-on A.IC
"Oo
A.
-oo A.bA.-oA.A A- 6t
A. 5-ceut)6i|\,125'1 A-guf -oo
T1A-C |AA.l ^"11 "OOlA.11
•pein f\iA.rii, cotiimA.ic DA. CA.cpA.c pn, n
c6iriitionriiA.ine A. ceA-^tA-ij, TIA coriimoji A-
5-ceA.riA. fem.
42. 1f A.nnpn tD'eip^eA-tDA-n A.of -OATIA. A.TI
^15 T>O JA-bA-it A. n--ouA.n -oo CA.C. 1r- A-nn-
pn A. x)ubA.i]\c bpiA.n mAC Uui|\eA.nn le n-A.
Aicpib, t)A.n -oo 5A.bA.il -oo'n ]\ij.
37
"Hi put, -o&n ATj^uin," &f\ p&t>
nvpnf & o]An<vmn &cc &n x)An t>o
.1. 5&c nit> t>A ceA]~OMin UA-mn -oo
c te neA.|\c AiAl/AtTi, mAY'otJirm 1f
Tn^Y "ooitopn 1^ c|\ei|'e, pnne -oo
leo."
" tit ^e^f5<M|\ An -oeun^ni x>An^ pn,
pn -oenn jrem
50 n^^bA-t) -pem
50 n-
" A Uthf ni ceite^tn -oo ctu
tnoL^ni cu 6]
lomnocc
-oo
'"Oo cogA-x) coiri^-p^n fni& 6,
O ponn A com A-nfA-n f|U|' ;
An ce t>o "beiji -oumn A. cjiox)
Hi ceincToe UATO
50 n
lomnocc jreife ^eib g
1f f -014^1]' x»o cumgim
38
43- " 1f niAic An t>An pn,'' AN An JM j,
ACC nAC •o-cuigim Aon jrocAt t/A ceitt." m
A ciAtt -ouic,'' &]\
" A Utiif ni ceileATD t)o clu,
cti 6
".1. -Am Ait ceit) ATI
coitte, ir; ITIAIA pn ceit) CUT; A OT* nfo^Aib An
•OOTVlAin, A1|
oineAC :"
"lomnocc |:eiT;e peib gAti CJAUAT
.1. CpoiceAnn muice Uuif ACA AJ
' Alt tlOITlfA •o'TJ'AJAlt UA1C]"e A Tl-
mo •OATIA."
" 6 ponn A coriiAi\pMii p/»ip"
*' .1. lOTlATiri 6 AgU]" ctUAf, AJUp blA1t)
mip? AJUT; CUJ^A ctuAf A1|\ ctuAif,127" .1. Ai]»
A ceite T:A*n 5-c|AoiceAnn, TTIUTIA
UAIC ot) •oeoin e; Agu-p if x>o pn ACA
TTIO T)AT1A," A]\ D|\1AT1 TT1AC UuiTteATin.
44. " *Oo ThotfAinn x>o •OAII," AT^ An ni£,
"munA Tn-beic A liieut) ACA lomnAt) tno
p3in Ann ; AJUI; ni ciAtl -ouicfe, A
pp -OAnA, An p?, " ATI Accumje pn t> iAp-
piAix> opmi pem, A^up nAC •o-oubpvAinn t>o A
b-pjit128 typleA-OAib Ajup -D'AO^ t>AnA A^up
•oo mAicib, A^up'oo thop-t>d>i|'tib ATI •ooriiA.in e,
rnun& t)-cioct:AX) t)iob A li)Ain -010111 •oom' AITTI-
•oeoin ; A^u-p t)o "bep cpi IAITI ATI dpoicmn pn
x)o '6eA|\5-6t\ X)tiicp3 AIJA ceAnnAC t)o t>AnA."
" 5° "P^lb TT1A1C AJAC," A|l t)|A1An J " A^U]'
•oo bi A pop A^AtnpA p3in TIAJA yupu|'ia8a An
•o'iA]A]iAit), ACC ^ujA cui^eA-p 50
lAX) TT1A1C A|" : JTOeAt), ACA1TVI
pn, TIAC n^eAbA-o ^ATI ATI r-6]\
•oo COTTIA'P Ann mo pAX)nuipe 50 TTIAIC
•OUC^ACCAC Af An
*OO CU1]\eAt) AOp
An ^ijleo -oo coiiiAf An lonmupA 50 CGAC
"Uonrip'o t)A LAn An cjAoicinn Aip "o-cui-p
•o'lonnptn^e mo bpAicpeAc," AJI
AH lAn x>ei5eAnAC 50 -ouciiACCAC t>Am f
6 1|- me -co ttit;ne An -OAn."
45. Ace ceAnA, Aip X)-CCACC t)o lAc
b|\iAn pcpi-nncAC pD^AriiA-o Ain, len-A tAim
cli ; Agup -oo nocc A ctoTueAiii, A^up cug
bemi -oo'n peA|i bA IICA^A •66 -oiob, 50
n-x>eApnA t)A cin-o t)e in A tAji ; A^up T)O CUAIX)
A p3iUb An cuoicmn Agup t>o cuip uime pj
40
6; AT;tif XDO lei5eAt>Ap iAt> mAt>-rpiup AJ- An
5-cACAip ArnAc, Aguf iAt> AJ flAi£e nA fluA^
Ann JAC ionAt> A. •o-ceAngniA'OAoi'p potnpA,
nAC n--oeACAif) u&poA,
ciofin'b&'o, nA 615
' Annpn
te ceite ;
b'e cpioc A>n COTTIJAA-IC pn, ^u|\ cui
t)o mm130 tAinie Dpi^m, ttnc UtnneAnn.
n& -oi^e eite : X)o j&to&'o&i; ^5 mA^'bAt
in 5^0 leic,
no 50 n--oeACAit> ACA onpA.131
5-CAcnAi cpi oit>ce
cni lA,132 Ag cup A fgice -oiob CAp 61^
A -pAOCAlp AgU|" A -pAp-O1ptlj.
46. CotriAipbjceAp ACA Annpn -out, t>'iAp-
pAix) ctntte133 x>o'n eipic; AJII^ pA^ptnjit) A
bpAicpe x)o (3|\iAn CA pAC];AX)Aoip Aip -o-cuip
" HACATTI 50 pi]'eAp, pig nA peppA," Ap
t)pi6-n, "'o'iAppAi'6 nA -pteA^A ACA Aige."
A^up-oo jtuAifeA-oAp pompA -o'lonnptnge A
5-cupAi5, A^up •o'pS.gtoA'OAp oipeAp jopm-
•ppocAC HA 5l^15e- Aguf A -oubpATOAp
pn : " 1]' rn^ic ACACAP
A.n cnoiceA.nn t»o beic
nfoji fA.nA.'OA.n -oe'n nenn pn no 50
50 cniocA.ib nA. penpA..
CAniocc A.nA.CA.m 50 -Dun nij nA. penpA.,"
A piocc ^ •p^c^A.niA.oii* Ann, &cc
neA.ccA.ib |?ein," A.n nA. mA.CA.i'b eite.
" Hi h-e pn -oo cix>ceA.n •o&.m^ A.," A.n bniA.n,
" A.CC -out A. neA.ccA.it> A.of A. t)A.nA» A.nn, A.niA.it
•oo cuA.'oniA.n 50 nij Sr®15e«J>
"tTlotA.mA.oi'one pn," A.n pA."O, '<cnef*eA.t>A.'p
x>o cuA.1t> -oumn A.n UA.in fxx •oeineA.'o ctiA.t>-
mA.n te t)A.n jion 5tinA.b t>eA.cA.in -oumn beic
A>5 A.x>niA.it nA. ceint>e nA.c b-fuit A.5A.mn."
47. Aguf CugA'DAn ccA-n^A.!, p1eA.x> A.in ^
b-irotcA.it>; A-^UJ" cigio 50 -oonuf A.n "oiinA.,
A>5tif iA.nnA.TO O^IA-X). "piA.fnui5eA.fA.n t)6in-
l^eoifi CIA. h-iA.x>, no CA. ci|\ t)6it>.
-OA.nA. 6ineA.nnA.c pnn," A.n pA.-o,
te t)A.n cum A-n nij."
*Oo tei^eA-t) A/pceA.c IA.X), A-gu^ t>o ^eA-nA-x)
•pA.itce -pf-iti A-5 A.n nfj, A-guf A.J mA.icib A
niumcine; A-gUf -oo -pUToeA-x) 50 h-UA.fA.t ono-
nA.c IA.X) A.g A.n nij mA. cimciott ^em. Agu^
A.nnpn T)'6in5eA.x)A.n A-o-p t)A.nA. A.n nij x>o
5A.bA.it A. n-x>A.n A-^up A. n-t>neucc. Ajti-p
A. t>ubA.inc bniA.n ITIA.C Uu'ineA.nn te n-a.
42
"oo ^b^il t>o'n
"HA bi A$ iA]\|\Aix> An -OAnA nAc b-pnl
A^Ainn onpAinn,"An p^t>; "&cc m^Y^1^^e^c
pn oo •oeun^m An -o&n134 i|' eot -oumn ; .1.
"Oo bVnAni An -oeunAtn -o^nA pn," A]\
AgUp 6Y AgAITlj'A fem ACA All t>A11,
t)o'n ^'15 e : AJ;U|' A -oubAi|\c AH
r°rs r° :
" poill JAC
tleicib bio'obA'o
Hi ]:o|\lAnn t)o pif
^AC Aon A|\ A •o-t>eAp5Anf An.
"Co bu-6 h-AiLte -o'po-obAib,
\i^ 5 An
An c-omnA
CAC ionA n^AocAib cpo.
48. "1f TTIMC ATI t><sn pn," A|A An ^15;
ni cuigim cpeuo An tuAt) HA An
c-ioni|AAt> pn A1|\ mo fteA^ yem Ann, A pp
" ACA," A^ b|MAn TTIAC UuijieAnn "
t>ob' Ait tiomt^A -D'yAJAit Aip mo t>An
An C-fl-CAJ pn
43
" Olc AII ciA-ll tnucpe pn, An Aij~5it> pn
o|ATnps," AJ\ An nij;; " Agup j?6p nio|\
nA h-UAi^Le nA HA. h-AjA-o-triAice
comAijAce x>o A.on x)A.n AiA.ni but)
, HA. ^A.n 00 bA]" t>o
-oo CUA.IA. t)|\iA.n A.n coriiHA-o pn 6'n
, t)o cuiTTim^ A.ip An ubA-U, -oo "bi mA. tA.irri
|\CA}\ A-iceA^AC x>e, -oo'n
mncmn c]\e cut A cmn pA]A
nOCCA-)" A cloTOeATT), A^Uj" gAbAj' A^
je riA fluAJ 'nA cimceAll, Aguf nfo|A
^AilleA-6 pn teif An -ofAf eile, ACC t)o
At>A-p AJ cungnAiii leif 50 C^O'
50 tJ-cu^A-OA^ eipteAC AIJA A xj-CA-ntA teo -oo
Luce nA CACJAAC.
|\At)Ap An c--pleAJ, A^U^ COIJAC
A n-A ceAnn 50 nAc loi-pcyeA-6
Ant)un; AJUT^ A •oub]AA-OAp CLAnn
^u|\ lincit) Leo •ouLx>'iAH]AAi'6 cuiLLe *oo'n ei
iho]\ t)o bf OJ\]\A. 'pAgbAit) An CACAinAiinpn
i-o X)A ceiLe CA Lfe A
"TlACAtn 50 "DobA^, 1^5 miife Si^i^," A]\
b|\iAn, " 6i|i ip A^e ACA An -OA CAC A^up An
49.
44
J; te6, ACC CCAHA but) riieAnmnAC mon-
t»o bA-OAn An c]\iuj\ cunAX> fui
•OA eif ATI OACCA A^UJ- An Aicifoo
A^iif -oo jjluAifeAtJAn nompA 50
t)A|A 50 -oun |»ij mnfe Sijin.185
" CA IMOCC A -pACArn Ann -po," A-p t)niAn.
" CA -(A1OCC A nAC]TATT1AO1f Antl, ACC Ann A|A
|\eACCAi"b fem," An iAt>^An.
"tli h-£ iitAit) if coin," An bniAn, "ACC
ceit>Tni|" A neACCAib ATTIUJ' OineAnnAC Ann,
Ajuf •oeunAtn TntnnnceAn-OA-p teif An ni^,
oin if AthlAi-6 pn x>o ^eobAm pof CA h-Aic
ionA m-biAix> nA h-eic A^U^ An cAnbAt) Ai]i
coimeut)."
Agu]' Aip cmneA-6 An comAinte pn,
At>An notnpA Ain fTAicce bAite An nij.
50. Aguf -oo JA"b An ni^ AJU^ niAice
mon-UAi^te A iriuinncine mA g-comne AJUJ'
mA g-cotTTOAit, cjvTo An AonAC -oo bf t)A com-
6nA"6 ACA ; A^tif •oo nijneA-OAn utiitA t)o'n
CIA h-iAt> fem, no CA cfp t)6ib.
"Ariitii|' 6itteAnnAij pnn/' A
AJ cuitteAiri cuAnA-pOAit 6 nfojcAib An -ooni-
Ain."
" An Ait lib ^AnAtriAin AJAHI -pem -pe^t," An
An ni.
45
Alt," Ap pAt),
A^up -oo pigneA-OAp cop A^UJ* cunnpA-o leip
•fcti pij. 5° ceAnn coiccit>ipe cAp mi -ooib '
•oun pn , A^up ni pACAt>Ap nA h-eic teif
p&e pn.
1^ Annpn A t)tibMjAC t)|iiAn : "1|* otc
cop fo oppAinn, A toj\AiCjAe lonmume,
mo ACA t)'po^ -pgeutA n^ n-e^c
'HA AH ce^t) LA cAn5AmA|\
•po."
-o t>o b'Ait le^cf A -oo -oeunAni tume
pn," A^ An "oi-p eite.
'"OeunAm," A|\bpiAn: "
Ai]~oip A^UI' imceACCA on^Ainn,
-oo IACAI^ An pij ^S^f
eAtn t), 50 b-fAjp Am An CAlAiii A^up An
ciji po munA t>-CAipbeAnAi-6 fe nA h-eic
•oumn."
51 UAnjA-OAp pomp A AmtAit)pn x>otACAip
An pijj Ajup x)'pApptJi5 An pij -oiob, cpeu-o
PA n--oeApA An c-mneAtt imceAccA pin l86
oo cup oppA pem.
" "Oo jjeAbAif) cupA A pop pn, A
Ap t)piAn ; ".1. nA h-Amuip G-ipeAnnACA
pnne, 511 pAb iAt> biop'nALucc c6imeut)A Ajup
•oiojpAipe A5 nA pijcib AJA m-bi-o peot)Aib13?
5
46
U]AAb 1A-0 1|' IUCC
p coriinum &g JA
m-bi-o, Agup nf t>eA]\nA cup& pn tinne 6
' 6ipv ACA T>A OAC
An *ooiii^n, -oo
t)eiiTiin AU" ni
otc
pn, A]^ ATI pi ;,
VIA 1i-ein n "oib ATI CGAX) LA X>A
n IA|\|\ATO t)o
ACA 1A|lpA1X) A^Alb O|\|1A, X)O C1t)pt)
pb TAX) ; 6ijA ni CAn5^•OA|^ -oo'n bAile ^o
cjMce 50 coicceAnn 'nA -pib."
Aguf t>o cui]i poj' Aip ceAnn HA n-eAC 1A|\
pn, A^uf t>o cui]\eAt)
•oo but) com t/UAic te
An ^emi ^o-i\eACA t)o bi -pucA Agup -oo but)
x>6ib A1]\ tnui]A A^UT^ AIJA ci|».
•oo bi b|\iAn AJ jreucAin HA n-eAC 50
h-Ai|\eAC, A^U]- -oo glAC An cA^bAt), A^up -oo
AH C-A]1A A1|A CAot COIj^e, A^U]" t)O
cloice
•60 e, ^un imi^ Af Am ; Aj^up n^eA]" |rem
A n-Aic 'p^11 5~cAnbAX) Agup cug UJICAJI t>o'n
47
•oo teij fe j?em A^uy A bfiAiqte |-A
nA cAcnAC, ju|\ cui]\eAX).vp A. n-x)eA|\5-Ap.
52. A^uf AI]\ s-quocnuJAX) An x>AlA pn
•ooib, pAfptnge^]" 1uc&ip ^5^p
Arm-pin.
50 h-Af^l r\ij TIA
138 A|l b|\1An, "
An c-1oit)AnAC
x>o -pe6tAt)A]\ ^o
conAipe 50 cjuoc UA^Ail pn
, ^5«f if AiiitAit) t>o '
tucc nA c]\ice pn, Agur-iAt) AJ conheux)
A g-cuAncAib A1]^ CA^LA CLomne
6i|\ x)ob' clop 50 f6i|\teACAn |.'A. cpiocAib
ootriAin -j^eutA 11 A ^-
pn A^UJ" A ni-beic A1|» n-A 5-cuj\ A/p
te li-eAXDCUAtAn^, Agup A m-beic A^
p3Ot) buAt>A An •ooiriAin leo.
50 h-imeAll An CUAUI X/A
f 50 h-Acriiupin-
AC x')iob, An leo -oo cuAtAitb jM^ce An -ooiiiAin
•oo cuiciin Ann ^AC ci-p A •pAb^'OA^. A •ou'b-
teo, 511) be nir> x>o b'Ait
f pn t)o xeunATii op^A cpit).
pn x>o t>eun-
48
eite Ajuf A AnbneAc •oo cinn cui^e iAt> •
Aguf x>'innip AiiiAit CAfttA •ooib;
t>o ctJA.1t) ACA Ain £AC -opon^ t
feAf Am teo 50 •o-ci pn.
53. " Cpeut) -pA •o-c^nj^'b^ t>o'n qiic
ce^nn n^ tnuc
•O'A m-bpeit tmn mA|\ CUTO -oo'ii
" Ci6.nnop -oo b'Ait te^-c A "
"HI A -AAtn Le
CAC TOO cAAijAC -ouicpe Ajup t>oc
tmn, Aguf tiA TDUCA x>o bpeic linn
fin."
pn c|tioc *oo
&p ^n ]MJ, "-oo b'otc •othnne An CAC -oo
cup."
"1p i 50 -oeiniin," AJI U|ti&fl.
1p Annpn -oo CUATO An nij A ^-cotiiAiple
A^up A 5-cojA]\ te n-A liiuinnnp tnte
^A'n 5-cui|- pn ; A^uf ip i c6th^i|tte Aip AN
cinneAt) teo, .1. nA TTIUCA x>o CAbAipc t)A
n-t)eom ^ein UACA t>o Ciointi UuineAnn, 6
nAcb-f.ACAt)Att jup -peAi'tijAX) leo A n-Aon AIC
50 t)-c'i pn.
49
54- Ace ceAnA, CU^A-OA^A Ct&nn
AtcuJAt) AgupbuiijeAcuf te h-ApAl,
mop A n-iongAncAf nA TTIUCA
pn, THAN TIAC b-^pit^|i^'D^ AOTI cui-o eite •oo'n
ei]iic 56,11 c&c ACC 1^-0; ^Jtif ni h-e&t>
50 -o-ci pn.
):ein, ^n oix>ce fin ; Aju-p -oo
n-^
1]^ n-A. TTIA^^C
-00 IAC&I^ ^n fuj; A^u
t>6ib.
t)o cu^ATp n^ TTIUCA -po
"oi ni b-JA\ATTiAi Aon
•oo'n ei]\ic g^n CAC ACC
tAoi-6 -po po-p : —
HA mucA fo, A A
*Oo t-eigif bnn 50
T!A peot)A eite
A lo cotritAnn
" CAC cug^Am t>o
*O'A|A cuicpeAC LAOIC tAUA;
116 50 •o-cu^AmAp UAX>A,
1ubAfi, An c-Apm AJA.
f< CAC ]M5 1nnp3
1f m6|«. nA
T)o cuicpmfp uile p
tlltm A m-beic cnoicoAnn HA inoj\ muice.
A A]'AiL TIA'
*OA n^i]\t)fp r.]\t line Utnjte&rm,
Do iii6it>e t)O bu/Mt) 1" -oo
11 MC
55.
cuitein con
t> ^ccuin^e -o^m fem, A Cl&nn
," &.]\ Af^t; " ^gup 1^ f
, me yem x>o bpei
buj\ j-cuToe^cc^m 50 1115 n& h
6i]\ 1|- inge^n •o&m 1|" be^n -oo, Agiif t>o
b'<sil Uom pj]\Ail A1]\, ATI cu t>o
•OAOibpe £An CAC, gAn coiiitAnn."
" 1]' TTIAIC bnne pn," AJ\ pAt>.
Agu]" -oo -oeA^uigeAt) A ^0115 t>o'n
ni h-Aic|\ipreAN A n-eACC]\AiT> ICAC Aijt teic,
50 ^An^A-OAiA 50 h-oipeA^ Aoibmn
h-1o|\UAit>e A5 couiieux)
ip A
"oo ^AipeA'OAjA •ooib JTA ceAX)6in, WAN x>o
) Leo IAXJ.
56. Ueit> AfAl A -D-CIK IAN pn 50 -pioc-
Cloinne Uui]\e^nn x>6, 6 cuip 50
" C)ieu-o t)o "beii\ "oo'n epic -peo IA.'O/'
con
otc /sn ci^tt •otncfe ce^cc teo *OA
•oee -oo roice -oo C|MA>]I I-AOC Y^" 'ooih&n 50
-oVi- no •o'eie&n mo cu-'d.
"Hi Vi-^iritMt) pn if coi]i," AJI A-p&l, "ACC
6 TDO clAOToe^t) tnopAn x>o pio JAib An -ooiiiAin
teo fut), An cu -oo CAtoAijAC t)6ib gAn cotti^AC,
CACU^AX)."
Ace ceAnA, ni nAib *oo Ap\l ACC -010111 Aoin-
ceit) CAji Ai]" mA|A A |\Aib C^Ann
^up -o'lnm-p nA -pgeulA pn •ooib.
5it> CJAA ACC, nio]\ yoilleA-6 n
fin teif nA femneAX)Aib, ACC
t) IAOC-OA Ain A n-A|imAib,
CAC Aip -pltiAi^ nA h-1onuAit>e ;
5*
-oon -o-cpeun-fti^igpn &, ^-
t>o fe&pf&t) coml&nn ^gup coriin&c
57. T)At& Clomne Uui]\e&nn ; t>o
no gii|A f5A|\ p^-o ]:ein te ceite Y^n
c l^e -oeine ^uf te -OAf^ccAije ^n
te aon A.n opmt^mn, 50
5tJ|" lUCAflW 100
leif ^em A -o-c^ob eile.
) bui-one
no 50
n^e^n
c pn cotrip^c AJt)]' comt&nn,
50
iom-
-oo but) c|iot)A ^n COITIJAAC e pn, 116
tug leif e q'.e t&]\ n^ -plu^ij no 50
Ar-6.1 ; ^guf if
-oo cli^niMn," A|i fe, "
50 tn
Uotn ^on u&in ^riiAin m^ fo
53
Ace &c<s nit> ce&n&, cu^xvo &r\ cu t>o
&oilcexvp t>o'n -pij
-pic ^up cxvijAt)
iocnuj&t) 5&c& neice
pn •ooi'b, but) tii6|A tneAntn^ ^gw
-o'Af^t •0-5^1' -oo c&c
58. 1omcup/s t/oJA. t/AtiijpA>x)^ : "oo
x)o, 50 b-piA|i&T>4>|i Cl^nn
nit) t>A ^^ib •o'tnne&f'b.Mt) ^in fem -oo'n
cum C&CA ttltuje Uinnit) ; A>5Wf t)O Lei^
Acc^ m& n-t)i^it) cum ^
5-cun AON 'oe^m^'o Agu^ ^in -oiocuimne &i|t
5^c nit) n6,c ^Mb &c& x)o'n feinic ; ^JWf t>o
cuin mexsnm^ d>5Uf m6p-miA.n ofij\& ce^cc 50
n feinic -o'lonnpuije
. Ylion cummin teo ^un c
cuit> "oo'n eipic UACA
•oo'n neim pn -oocum
Agup 1^ exvo Aic A |AMb Lug &n c^n pn
xs n-oine^cc
A m-bemn
t)6mne.
A5up •poiltpjce^ pn -ootu^;
•pe ^n c-A-on^c 50 poib^ce&c ^5«f t>o
50 C&c&in CnobxMng, nif d> nxsit)ceAn Ue&m-
54
AIJ\, A^up T»O <6]\uit) x)6i|\^e IIA
uime, .1.
^gup cocAtt m^me
Ai]MTi 5^1^51-6 6 -pri
59. Agu^ CAn5<yo&
]\&.\^o ^n |M^, A^U]" t)o
CA *Oe T)A.n^nn
'"Oo -pUAHAmA^," A|\ 1At)fAn, " A^Uf CA
^uit 1/115 50 -o-cu5]:AtTiAoi^ -06 i."
'"Oo bi |'e Atin^o 6 ciAnAib," A]i An ^15.
-oo poyiAt) An C-AOIIAC "66 &5tif n\o]\
e.
ATI A1C 'llA b-yUll, f6," A]l
eAX) t)6, pnne x
50 h-6i]\inn ^Ji'f tiA yeoi-oe fo
AJU^ -oo CUATO i^e 50 UeAtiifiAij TD'A^V -pe^c-
TIAt)."
A^Uf -DO CUI^GAt) C6ACCA UACA mA -OIATO
An CAn ym ; &5Uf ip e ypeA^HA'o tug A1|\ nA
ceACCAib,-oo CUATO X>'A nonn^ui^e, n AC -o-cioc-
An ei|\ic -oo CAbAi|\u *oo i\ij
A5U]' "oo |n j;neAT>Af\ CtAnn
uf AI]\ b-yA5Ait nA h-eiuc n -oo'n
55
Lug Af A h-Aicte AIIIAC Ain An
b-j?Aicce ;
eAt> A
An
T)6, Agup if
At) niArii ^^u]" n^c rnuijAbpce&|i
coit)ce,
^t),
, .1.
n^c
&tt eipce, A>5U|" CA "b-finL
no riA cni ^A^CA AI|\ cnoc,
" I42
60. TTlAn *oo c
pn, t)o ctnc CAi^e
' An c-AonAC A^U^-OO
50 CCAC A n-ACAn An OTOCC pn
t)6
t>6bnon
eAnn ; Agu^ -oo CAiceA'DAjA An oi-6ce pn A
b-f:ocAi]\ A ceite. ^511]" t>o cuAt>x)An AIJA n-A
iriA-pAC -o'lonnpnje A Unn^e ; AJU^ -oo CUATO
dene, m^eAn UuipeAnn, teo. A^iif x>o JAb
An
6AX)
CAom-
All tAO1t)
pn, A t)|MAin An
-oo CAJAtt 50
eif b-imneT* A n-Ginmn,
50 •o-ceij6im
56
" A eijne Ooinne
A HiAijne t/mne
O nAC freA'OAini c'-p
"A niAttCAij Uumne
A pp if bu^ine ^ n-
*OA t>-cf t)o ccA-c
Hi b-6. h-AOibinn -oot)
An c\u^ lib Ct^nn^
t>o
A n-imce^cc if cuif
t)u|\ m-beic ^nocc A. m-t)einn
A t>|Aed>m -oo Ttieu-OA-ij A
thAit)in moc cnotn.
"1j* CI^UAJ bun t)-coi^5 6 UeAmnAij
1f 6 T^AittceAn nA mAJ n-UAicne ;
1|* 6 tJi-pneAC Tiion, ttlitje —
gniotii if cnuAije."
61. A h-Aicle nA tAOToe pn -oo
muin "CoipiAn, AJU^ x>o
57
Ain An muijA pn ^An pof An oitein
- Annpn t>o gAb bniAn A eAj\nAX>
tnme Aguf A teAfbAinegloine148 um A
t>o nu leitn
50
pn t>o ^UAI^ i ; Ajuf -oo
AJUJ' AIJA n-'out t»o'n CAC
•66, ni pux\i|\ innce ACC bAnnc^Acc A^ cu]\
•opume A^u^ co]\cAifve. Agup AmeA|"5 JAG
nit) eile X>A |AAib IOHA b-pocAi|i, CA^IA An
blO|l |TolACCA ACA.
A^uf TTIA^ t)o connAi|ic D^lAll e, co^bA^
ionA LAIITI e, A^U]- t)ob'Ait tei|* A bf\eic
cum An -oonuip. *Oo triuij A geAn 5Ai]ie
JAC beAn t»o nA mnAib AIJA yAicpn An
pn ; Agiif 1^ eAt) A •oubjAA'OAtt.
" 1|"OAnA An nit) ^A tJ-cugAif IATTI, 6i|i t)A
rn-beit)i|' •oo -61 A^ t)eA|ib|\ArA|A At)'vocAi|i
An beAn if tugA jnioiii juite nA J^i^ge -oo'n
cni CAOCAC bAn ACAmAoit) Annfo, ni teispeAt)
An bio|\ teAc'nA teo; gi-oeAt), bei|\ ICAC bio|\
t>o nA beA|AAib, 6 bi cu
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OIJA x)O ctnpeAt>Aj\ &
yein Cjie co|ipAib Clomne
^ -oo cu ATDTOA^ jrem & t)-CAipb
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op cionn A ctomne: —
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TRANSLATION.
THE
FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF TUIREANN
HERE SET DOWN.
GRACIOUS freeborn king, who
was surnamed Nuadha Airgiod-
lamh, son of Eachtach, son of
Eadarlamh, son of Ordain, son
of Allaoi, took sovereignty and
possession over the beautiful-complexioned
Tuatha De Danann. And it so happened
that the king had one arm of silver, and his
doorkeeper one eye.
2. One day upon which that young man
went out from the ramparts of Tara, he saw
approaching him, on the plain, two hand-
some, young, and well-formed persons, and
they greeted him, and they got a similar
salutation. And the doorkeeper asked
tidings of them, " What place have you
come from, O ye young and noble-formed
persons."
"We are good physicians," they replied.
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*' If ye are," said he, " ye will put an eye
into the place of my own eye."
" I myself could put the eye of that cat in
your lap into the place of your eye," quoth
one of them.
" I would be glad of that," says the door-
keeper.
And forthwith they put the eye of the
cat into the place of the eye of the
young man That (substitute) was both
convenient and inconvenient to him, for
when he desired to take sleep or repose,
then the eye would start at the squeak-
ing of the mice, the flying of the birds, and
the motion of the reeds; but when he
desired to watch a host or an assembly,
then it is that it would be in deep repose
and sleep.
3. And he went in and told the king that
good physicians had come to Tara: "For,"
says he, " they have put the eye of a cat
into the place of my eye."
" Bring them in," says the king.
And as they came in, they heard a fear-
ful and piteous sigh. Said Miach, one of
the physicians, " I hear the sigh of a war-
rion"
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Said Otrmtach, the other : " See that it is
not the sigh of a warrior over a daol, which
is blackening him on one side. Then the
king was brought out of the place where he
was, and they examined him, and one of
them drew out the arm from his side, and
out of it there bounded throughout the for-
tress a daol ; and the household arose and
killed it.
4. And Miach sought another arm of
equal length and thickness to give to him,
and all the Tuatha De Danann were sought,
but there was not found (amongst them) an
arm which would suit him, but that of Mod-
han, the swineherd.
"Would the bones of his arm suit yer"
they inquired.
" That is what we would prefer," they
replied.
And accordingly a person set out for it,
and brought it (back) with him to Tara, and
it was given to Miach.
Miach said to Oirmiach : " Whether is it
your pleasure to set the arm, or to go in
search of herbs for the purpose of putting
flesh upon it."
He replied ; " I prefer to set the arm/'
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Thereupon Miach went to seek herbs, and
Drought them (back) with him, and then the
arm was set.
Here is how this king was situated. The
Fomorians had imposed, during his time,
upon the Tuatha De Danann a very heavy
rent tribute : that is to say, a tax upon the
kneading trough, a tax upon the quern, and
a tax upon the baking flags ; also an ounce
of gold for every nose of the Tuatha De
Danann upon the hill of Uisneach, upon the
west side of Tara. And they extorted that
tribute yearly, and the man who refused it,
his nose was cut off from his head. One day
that a fair was assembled by the king of
Eire upon the hill of Balar, which is now
called Uisneach, it so happened that they
were not long there when they saw an army
and a goodly host coming towards them di-
rectly from the East, and in the vanguard
there was one young man high in authority
over all ; and like to the setting sun was the
radiance of Lis face and forehead, and they
were unable to gaze upon his countenance
on account of its splendour. And this is
who it was — Lugh Lamhfhada Loinnbheim-
ionach and the fairy cavalcade from the
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Land of Promise, and his own foster brothers,
namely, the Clann Manannain, that is to
say, Scoith Gleigeal, the son of Manan-
nain, and Rabhach Slaitin, and Gleigeal
Garbh, and Goithne Gorm-suileach, and
Sine Sindearg, and Domhnall Donnruad,
and Aodh mac Eathaill. And Lughadh
Lamhf hada was thus accoutred : he had the
Aonbharr of Manannain under him, which
was as swift as thebleak,cold wind of spring,
and sea and land were equal to her, and
her rider was not killed off her back ; the
armour of Manannain encased him, by
which he could not be wounded under, over,
nor through it; and the breastplate of Man-
annain upon the ridge of his breast and
bosom, so that weapons would not take effect
on it; the Cathbarr around his head, protect-
ing it, having in the back a very beautiful
precious stone, and two of them in the front;
and when the Cathbarr was let off of him the
appearance of his face and forehead was as
brilliant as the sun on a dry summer's day ;
the Freagarthach, that is, the sword of Man-
annain over his left side, and one was never
wounded with it that would come alive from
it ; and that sword never was unsheathed
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in the place of battle or combat, in which
there would be (but) the strength of a woman
(left) in the person who saw it, or who was
opposed to it.
6. Then that troop came, where the King
of Eire was, and also the Tuatha De Danann,
and they welcomed one another. And
short was the time they were there, when
they saw a grim and ill-looking band ad-
vancing towards them (numbering), nine
times nine of the stewards of the Fomorians,
who were coming to seek the rent and
tribute of the men of Eire. Here are the
names of the four, who were the most fierce
and cruel of them, viz., Eine, Eathfaith,
Coron, and Compar ; and fear would not
permit one of the Tuatha De Danann to
beat his (own) son or his foster son, on ac-
count of the tyranny of these stewards.
7. And they came to the very spot (oc-
cupied) by the King of Eire and the Fairy
Cavalcade ; and the King of Eire and all
the Tuatha De Danann stood up before
them. And Lugh Lamhfada asked of them :
" Why did ye stand up before yonder grim
and ill-lookingband, andnot arise before //.y."
" We are obliged to do that," replied the
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King of Eire, " for if there were a child of
us, of but one month old, in a sitting pos-
ture before them, they would not deem it
cause too little for slaying us.'*
" I swear," said Lugh, " that a desire to
kill them has come upon me ; " and with
that Lugh (again) said that a desire to slay
them had come upon him.
"That is a thing that would result badly
for us," interposed the King of Eire, " for
through that (action) we would receive our
death and our destruction."
" Long is it," said Lugh, " you are under
this oppression ;" and he arose, slaughtered,
and disfigured them, until eight times nine
of them were slain, and the other nine were
allowed under the friendship and protection
of the King of Eire.
" I would also kill you," said Lugh, " but
that I prefer you to go with tidings to the
foreigners rather than my own ambassadors,
lest they should receive dishonour."
8. Then these nine went forward until they
arrived in Lochlainn, where the Fomorian
tribe were ; they told their news to them
from first to last, and how the young and
well -formed youth had come into Eire, and
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that all the stewards had been killed by him,
but themselves. " And the reason that he
allowed us away is, that we might relate the
tidings to you."
Balar said : " Do you know who he is ?"
" I know," replied Ceithlionn, the wife of
Balar, " that that person is a daughter's son
of yours and mine, and it is a sign and an
omen to us, that when that person would
come into Eire, that never again would we
have power in Eire."
9. Then the chiefs of the Fomorian tribe
went into council, namely, Eabh, the grand-
son of Neid and Seanchab, the grand-
son of Neid ; and Sotal Salmhor, and
Luaithleabharcham, and Tinemhor Tris-
chadal, and Loisginn Lomghluineach. and
Luath-Luaimneach, and Lobas, the Druid,
and Liathlabhar, the son of Lobas, together
with nine prophetic and learned poets and
philosophers of the Fomorians, and Balar
himself of the Stout Blows, and the twelve
white-mouthed sons of Balar, and Ceith-
lionn, of the twisted teeth, Balar's queen.
Then Breas, the son of Balar, said :
" I and seven valiant and immense bat-
talions of the horsemen of the Fomorian
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tribe will go into Eire, and I will give battle
to the loldbanach ; and I will cut off his
head, and I will bring it (back) with me
to you upon the plain of the Lochlann
Berbe."
" That would be a fitting thing for you
to do," they replied.
10. Then Breas said : " Let my ships and
my swift barques be made ready for me,
and let food and provisions be put into
them."
Then they quickly and actively handled
his ships and his swift barques, and they
put a full supply of food and drink into
them for themselves, and they despatched
Luaithlineach and Luaithleabharcam to as-
semble his host for him. And when they
had all assembled at the one spot, they pre-
pared their accoutrements, their armour,
and their weapons of valour; and they set
forward to Eire.
And Balar followed them to the harbour,
and he said : " Give battle to the loldanach,
and cut off his head ; and make fast that
island, which is called Eire, to your ships
and your good barques, and let the deep
surrounding water take its place, and put
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it to the north of Lochlann, and not one of
the Tuatha De Danann shall ever follow it
there."
1 1 . Then their ships and their swift
barques were pushed out from the harbour
and they filled them with pitch, frankin-
cense, and myrrh ; and they hoisted their
sliding and variegated sails, and they made
an united and eager stroke from the har-
bour and the shore- port, out upon that land
that is not ploughed, the expansive sea,
the wonderful and cheerless abyss, and the
ridge mounds of the flood, and over the
high-humid and very treacherous mountains
of the truly deep ocean, and they ceased not
from that sailing-course, until they made
port and harbour in Eas Dara. And they
let free their hosts upon West Connaught,
and they entirely devastated it.
And he who was then King of Connaught
was Bodhbh Dearg, son of the Daghda.
12. And Lugh Lamhfhada was at that
time in Tara with the King of Eire. And
it was manifested to him that the Fomorian
tribe had come ashore at Eas Dara, where
Dara Dearg, a Druid of the Fomorians, had
fallen by the hand of Lugh Lamhfhada.
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And when Lugh obtained these tidings, he
prepared the Aonbharr of Manannain, at
the junction of the day and the night, and
he went in where the King of Eire was,
and he related to him that the foreigners
had come ashore at Eas Dara ; that they
had plundered Bodhbh Dearg ; and, added
he, " I would like to get aid from you, that
I may give battle to them."
" I will not give you assistance/' said the
King, " for I will not go to avenge the deed
that has not been done upon me."
13. When Lugh Lamhfhada heard that
unfavourable reply, he mounted his steed,
and went west from Tara, and (soon) he
perceived three warriors — viz., the three
sons of Cainte — armed and accoutred, com-
ing towards him; and they greeted him:
" Why this early rising," they inquire.
" Great is the occasion I have for it,"
answered Lugh ; " foreigners have come
into Eire, and Bodhbh Dearg, the son of the
Daghda, has been plundered by them, and
what help will you extend to me."
"Each man of us," they replied, "will
ward off from thee in battle one hundred
men,"
"That is goodly help," said he; "but
there is (other) help that I prefer to get,
even than that from you, namely, to as-
semble the Fairy Cavalcade to me from out
every place where they are."
14. Cu and Ceitheann departed south-
wards, and Cian set out in a northerly
direction, and he rested not until he reached
the plain of Muirtheimhne, and he was
traversing it, and he was upon it but a short
time when he saw three warriors, armed
and equipped before him, moving along the
plain ; and these are the persons who were
there, namely, the three sons of Tuireann,
who were named Brian, lucharba, and
luchair.
The three sons of Cainte and the three
sons of Tuireann were, it appears, persons
whose relations to one another were those
of hatred and enmity, so much so that
in whatever place they might chance upon
each other, there would survive only that
party who was the stronger.
15. "Then," said Cian, "were my two
brothers here, the combat we would make
would indeed be brave ; but since they are
not, I would be well advised in flying."
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And he saw a great herd of swine near
him, and he struck himself with a Druidical
wand into the shape of one of the swine, and
he fell to. digging the earth, just as each of
the other pigs did.
Then Brian, the son of Tuireann, said:
" Brothers, did you see the warrior, who was
walking the plain awhile ago ?"
" We saw him/' they replied.
" What has taken him away r" said he.
" We do not know," they replied.
" It is unmindful on your part," he said,
" not to keep a good look out in time of
war over the plains and open countries;
but I know what has taken him away, for
he struck himself with a golden wand into
the shape of one of yonder swine, and he is
rooting the earth even as any of the other
swine ; and no friend is he to us."
" That is bad for us," said the other two,
" for the swine belong to a certain person
of the Tuatha De Danann, and should we
kill all of them, it might happen that the
Druidical pig would, in the end, escape."
" Badly have you acquired your learning
in the city of learning," said Brian, " when
you cannot distinguish a druidical beast
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from a natural beast." And just as he was
saying that, he struck his own two brothers
with a magic and Druidical wand, and he
made of them two slender, fleet hounds, and
they gave tongue ravenously upon the trail
of the Druidical pig.
1 6. It was not long until all the swine
fled, but her alone ; and she saw a wooded
grove, and made towards it, and as she went
through the wood Brian made a cast of his
spear at her, so that he put it through the
trunk of her chest. And the pig screamed,
and said : " Evil have you done to cast at
me, when you had known me.'*
Then Brian said : " Methinks that is
human speech."
"In origin," the pig said, "I am a man,
and (moreover) I am Cian, the son of Cainte,
and give me quarter."
"We will indeed," quoth lucharba and
luchar, " and we regret what has happened
to thee."
But Brian said : " I swear by the aerial
gods, if the life should come seven times
into thee, that I would deprive thee of it."
" Well," said Cian, " grant me a favour."
" We shall," said Brian,
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" Permit me to go into my own shape,"
said Cian.
" We will allow it," said Brian, '« for I
often think less of killing a man than a pig."
17. Cian then went into his own shape,
and said : " Now give me quarter."
4< We will not," answered Brian.
"Well," said Cian, "I have circumvented
you ; because had I been killed in the form
of a pig, there would only have been due upon
me the eric of a pig, but since it is in my
own shape I will be killed, never was there
killed, and never shall there be killed, one
whose eric will be greater than mine, and
even the arms with which I will be slain will
recount the deed to my son."
" It is not," said Brian, " with arms you
will be slain, but with the surface stones of
the earth." And after that they commenced
to pelt him, roughly and violently, with
stones, until they made a wretched and
fearfully crushed mass of the hero, and they
buried him the same depth as that of a man
in the ground. But the earth did not re-
ceive that fratricide from them, but cast him
up on the surface of the earth. Brian said
he should go again under earth, and he was
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buried a second time ; but still the earth did
not receive him.
However the Clann Tuireann buried the
body six times, and the earth refused it ; bui
the seventh time they put it under earth,
the earth took to it. And the Clann Tuir-
eann went forward after Lugh Lamhfhada
to the battle.
1 8. As regards Lugh; when he separated
from his father, he went forward westwards
from Tara to Gaireach and Ilghairech,
and to Ath-luain Mic Lughaidh, and to
Bearna na h-Eadargana, which is now
called Ros-Common, and across Magh
Luirgh, and to Corr-Shliabh na Seaghsa,
and to the head of Sean-Sliabh, which is
now called Ceis Choronn, and through the
territories of Coronn of the Bright Face,
and thence to Magh Mor-an-Aonaigh, where
the foreigners were and the spoils of Con-
naught in their possession.
19. Then Breas, the son of Balar, arose
and said : " I wonder that the sun is rising
in the west to-day, and in the east every
other day."
" It were better that it were so," said the
Druids.
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"What else is it?" (but the sun), said he.
"It is the radiance of the face of Lugh
Lamhfhada," they said.
Then the loldhanach came up to them,
and greeted them.
" What is the cause of your salutation,"
they said.
" Great is the cause of my greeting,"
answered he, " for there is only one portion
of me of Tuatha De Danann (extraction),
and the other half belongs to your (race) •
and restore to me now the milch-cows of
Eire."
One of them thus spoke in answer to him :
" That early morning may not come to }'ou,
until you obtain eitl.er a dry or a milch
cow here."
Then Lugh let a Druidical spell upon the
cattle spoils, cTnd sent to every house in
Eire its own milch cows, and he left the
dry cows with them, so that they should
not leave that territory until the Fairy
Cavalcade would overtake them.
Lugh was three days and three nights
about them until the Fairy Cavalcade ar-
rived, and encamped around Lugh. And
there came Bodhbh Dearg, son of the
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Daghda, with nine and twenty hundred to
them, and he said : " What is the cause of
your delay in not giving battle?"
" Awaiting you," said Lugh.
20. Then Lugh donned the armour of
Alanannain, and on whomsoever this armour
would be, he could not be wounded through
it, nor below it, nor above it. He put the
breast-plate of Manannain around the small
of his neck, and he took his helmet, called
the Cinnbheart ; and the radiance of the sun
was in his countenance from the reflection
of the helmet, and he slung his dark-blue
beautiful-coloured, wide-protecting, chafer-
marked shield across the dorsal armour
plate, as a protection to his body ; he took
his sheltering, very pretty, keen-edged
sword over his left side ; and he took his two
broad-socketed, thick-handled, very deadly
spears, that had been annealed in the blood
of serpents. The kings and heroes of the
men of Eire assumed their array of battle
and combat, they raised over their heads
pointed bulwarks of spears, and they made
firm, strong, and secure fences of their
shields completely around them.
21. They attacked Mag Mor an Aonaigh,
and the Foreigners took issue with them ;
they threw their wounding, ravenous spears
at one another, and when both sides had
broken their spears, they drew their wide-
grooved and golden-crossed swords from
their blue-bordered scabbards, and began
vigorously smiting one another ; and there
arose above them forests of brown flame
from the poison of the arms and the various
weapons of these brave men. Then Lugh
beheld the battle pen, where Breas, the son
of Balar was, and he attacked it violently
and powerfully; he fell to smiting these
brave men with vigour, until two hundred
warriors were slain by him of the body-
guard of the son of Balar, and he a witness
of it.
Then Breas besought protection from
Lugh. " Grant me my life," said he, "on this
occasion, and I will bring the Fomorian
tribe to you for the battle of Magh Tuireadh,
and I will give the sun and the moon, the
sea and land in guarantee for myself, for
coming to contend again with you, pro-
viding the Fomorian tribe do not desert
me."
And upon this guarantee, he gave him
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safety of his life. Then the Druids said th..t
Lugh ought to grant mercy to themselves.
" I swear," said Lugh, " that had the
entire Fomorian tribe gone tinder your pro-
tection, they would not have been destroyed
by me."
Then Breas, the son of Balar, and the
Druids departed towards their own country.
22. Turning now to Lugh ; after the
^laughter and triumph of that battle, lip
saw two of his brethren, and he inquired of
them if they had seen his father in the
fight.
" We did not see him," said they.
" Could it be the Fomorians who kil)ed
him?" said Lugh.
" They have not," replied they.
" He lives not," said Lugh, " and I give
my word for it, that neither food nor drink
will enter my mouth until knowledge is ob-
tained what death has befallen my father."
23. Lugh, and the Fairy Cavalcade along
with him, went on until they reached the
place where he and his father had parted
from each other, and thence to the place
where his father had gone into the shape
of a pig, when perceived by the Children of
Tuireann. Thereupon the earth spoke to
Lugh, and said :
*' Great was the jeopardy in which your
father was here, O Lugh, when he saw the
Children of Tuireann, for he was obliged to
go into the shape of a pig ; nevertheless,
they subsequently killed him in his own
shape."
Lugh related that to his people, and he
determined on the place where his father
was, and he went towards it and caused it
to be dug, in order that he might see what
murder the Children of Tuireann had per-
petrated upon him.
24. The body was raised out of the grave,
and they began examining his wounds, and
he was found to be a litter of wounds, so
much so, that Lugh said :
" A vicious murder is this that the Chil-
dren of Tuireann have perpetrated upon
my beloved father." Then he gave him
three kisses, and he said :
" 111 am I, from this murder, for in my ears
I do not hear anything ; through my eyes
T do not see anything ; and a living vein
there is not in my heart for grief of my
father, and O God, whom I adore!" added
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he, " Grieved am I that I was not coming
to the spot when this deed was being done,
and the deed that was here perpetrated is
indeed great, namely, that a fratricide was
committed by the Tuatha De Danann, upon
one another ; and long shall be its loss to
them : " and he spoke the following lay ; —
" Great was the fate that befell Cian at
even,
The mangling of the hero has dismem-
bered my body ;
The road for a time eastward, the sod
for a time westward,
Eire shall never be but in evil.
" Through the killing of Cian, the cham-
pion of feats,
My vigour is overpowered —
My face has become black —
My sense is weakened —
" His grave is laid low.
The Children of Tuireann have killed
him ;
Disabled shall be the Tuatha De Dan-
ann from this deed,
In anguish of strength and debility.
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25. Cian was again placed in the grave
after that, his tombstone was erected over
his tomb, his dirge was sung, and his name
inscribed in ogham.
" From Cian shall this hill be named,"
said Lugh ; " and let not an individual
divulge this deed, until I have." And he
spoke the following lay : —
" From Cian this mound shall be named,
Though he is in a dismantled place ;
Great is the deed that here was done
A fratricide upon the Tuatha De Danann.
" The sons of Tuireann it was who com-
mitted the deed, —
I tell you in the interests of truth ;
I say it to you, it is not false news,
It shall come against their sons and male
successors.
" The three sons of Cainte, brave the party,
And the Children of Tuireann Begreann,
It is on account of this has come the
death of Cian,
From their both being equally high in
degree.
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"Crushed is my heart within my breast,
Since the champion, Cian, does not live;
For the sons of Dealbhaoith, it is not false
news
That they will all be in anguish.
26. After that lay, Lugh said : " It is evil,
will come of this action to the Tuatha De
Danann, and long shall fratricide be done
in Eire after it ; pitiful am I from this deed
which the Children of Tuireann have per
petrated." And he spoke thus to his people :
" Depart to Tara, where the King of Eire
and the Tuatha De Danann are, and let
not these tidings be there divulged, until
I have myself made them known.
27. Lugh having reached Tara., sat in a
noble and honourable position next the
King of Eire. Lugh looked around him,
and he saw the sons of Tuireann ; and
these three were the best (of all) in
agility and dexterity; they were the hand-
somest, as well as the most honoured,
of all who were then in Tara ; and
they were, moreover, the best of hand
in the battle against the Fomorians.
Then Lugh ordered the Chain of Atten-
tion of the Court to be shaken, and it was
-so done, and all listened. Lugh said : —
" What is your attention now upon, O
Tuatha De Danann?"
" It is upon thee, indeed," they said.
'' I now ask (this) of your chiefs," said
he, "what vengeance each one of you would
execute upon those who would have killed
the father of each one of you ?"
A great astoundment fell on all upon
their hearing this; and the King of Eire an-
swered him first, and what he said was :
"We know it is not your father who was
killed?"
"It is, indeed," said Lugh; "and here 1
see in the house the party who killed him,
and they know better than I the murder
they perpetrated on him."
28. The King of Eire said : " It is not
the killing of one day I myself would visit
upon the person who would have killed my
father; but it is, that a member should be
torn from him each succeeding day until he
would fall by me, if he were in my power."
All the nobles said the same thing, and
the Children of Tuireann sooke like the
rest.
" They are making this declaration," said
Lugh, " the persons who killed my father ;
and let them give me eric for him since the
Tuatha De Danann are in one house ; but
if they do not, I will not violate the law of
the King of Eire, nor his sanctuary ; never-
theless, they shall not dare to leave the house
of Miodhchuairt until they have settled
with me."
" If I should have killed your father,"
said the King of Eire, " I would deem it
well your acceptance from me of a fine for
him."
29. " It is to us Lugh says that," said the
Children of Tuireann among themselves,
"and let us confess to him his father's
murder," said luchar and lucharba ; " for it
is seeking news of his father he has re-
mained till now, until he has got knowledge
of his death."
" We may fear," said Brian, " that it is
seeking a confession he may be in the pres-
ence of all, and that then he would not
accept eric from us."
" We shall give him a confession of it,"
said the other sons, " or do you give it openly,
since you are the eldest/'
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" I will," said Brian.
Thereupon Brian, the son of Tuireann,
said : " It is to us three you say that, O
Lugh, for it is we whom you considered to
have made a rising in combat against the
children of Cainte before this, and (yet) we
have not killed your father ; nevertheless,
we shall give eric for him to thee, as though
we had done the act."
30. " I will take eric from you for him,
although you do not think so (now)," said
Lugh, " and I will say here what it is, and
if you consider it great, you shall receive
remission for a portion of it."
"Let us hear it from thee," said they.
" Here it is," said Lugh : " Namely, three
apples, the skin of a pig, a spear, two steeds,
a chariot, seven pigs, a whelp, a cooking
spit, and three shouts on a hill ; and that is
the eric I am asking from you, and if you
deem it heavy, a portion of it will be for-
given here upon the spot to you ; and if you
do not deem it heavy, pay it from you."
" We do not consider it heavy," said
Brian, the son of Tuireann, " and we deem
it the more probable for its smallness of an
eric, that you have a design of treachery
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and murder against us, and we would not
consider heavy (as an eric) three hundred
thousand apples, and the same number of
the skins of pigs, and a hundred spears, and
a hundred steeds, and a hundred swine,
and a hundred hounds, and a hundred cook-
ing spits, and a hundred shouts to give
upon a hill."
"I do not deem it little what I have
named as an eric," said Lugh, "and I will
give you the guarantee of the Tuatha De
Danann not to ask more, and to be faithful
to you for ever; and do you give the same
guarantee to me."
" That is a pity," said the Children of
Tuireann ; " for of the guarantees of the
world we ourselves are not little (insuf-
ficient)."
" I do consider it little," said Lugh ; " for
it is often your like thus promised eric from
them, in the presence of all, and would go
back of it again."
The Children of Tuireann then gave the
King of Eire, and Bodhbh Dearg, the son of
the Daghda, and the nobles of the Tuatha
De Danann, as guarantees for payment of
that eric to Lugh.
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31. "It is better for me now," said
Lugh, " to give you (detailed) knowledge
of that eric."
" It is," they replied.
*' Well," said Lugh, " these are the three
apples I have asked of you, namely, three
apples of the Garden of the Hesperides, in
the east of the world ; and only these apples
will satisfy me; for these are apples of attri-
butes the best; they are the most beautiful in
the world, and thus it is with these apples ; the
colour of burnished gold is upon them, and
the head of a month's old child is not larger
than each apple of them ; the taste of honey
is upon them whilst they are being eaten ;
they do not leave (i.e.) they remove) bloody
wounds nor malignant disease upon any-
one who eats them ; and they are not the
less from their being ever and always eaten ;
and everyone who casts one of them does
a choice feat, and the apple again returns
to him ; and though brave you be, O three
warriors, I think that you do not possess
the power (a matter that I do not feel regret
for) to take these apples from those who
have them ; for there was a prophecy made
to them that three young knights would go
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from the west of Europe to take these apples
from them by force.
32. "The skin of the pig, I have asked from
you, is the skin of the pig which Tuis, the
King of Greece, has ; and it will cure and
make whole the wounded and the infirm of
the world, however critical (their condition
be), provided it overtakes the life in them ;
and such was the nature of that pig that
every stream through which it would go
would be wine till the end of nine days, and
the wound with which it would come in
contact would become well. Now, the
Druids of Greece said that it was not
upon the pig, as such, that that virtue was,
but upon its skin, and it was flayed, and
they have its skin since that time; and I
likewise think that it is not easy to get it
from them, either by their good will or
despite them.
" And do you not know what is the spear
I have asked from you ? "
" We do not know," they replied.
" It is the well-poisoned spear which
Pisear, the King of Persia, has, and Aread-
bhar is the name given to it; and every
choice feat is done with it; and there is
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always a pot of water around its blade, so
that the court, in which it is, may not be
burnt; and difficult it is to get it.
33. " And do you know what are the two
steeds and the chariot I would like to get
from you?"
" We do not know," said they.
"They are two noble, wonderful steeds,"
said he, " which Dobar, the King of Sicily,
has, and sea and land are equally conve-
nient to them ; and there are not swifter nor
stronger steeds than these ; and there is not
a chariot of equal goodness in form or firm-
ness ; and though often they (the steeds) are
killed, they will be (become) entire in the
same form, provided their bones are found
to be collected (together) ; and I deem it will
not be easy for you to get them.
" And do you know what are the seven
pigs I have asked from you ; namely, the
pigs which Easal, the King of the Golden
Pillars, has ; " said Lugh, " and which, though
killed every night, are found alive on the
morrow ; and neither disease nor ill-health
will be on him who eats some of them.
34. " And the hound whelp I have asked
from you, is the whelp which the King of
loruaidh has, and Failinis is her name ;
and the beasts of the world, on seeing her,
would fall out of their standing ; and diffi-
cult is it to obtain her.
" The cooking spit I have asked of you
is one of the spits which the women of the
Island of Fianchaire have.
" And these are the three shouts I have
asked you to give upon a hill, namely,
three shouts upon the hill of Modhchaoin,
in the north of Lochlann; and Miodhchaoin
and his children are solemnly enjoined not
to permit shouts to be given upon that hill.
With them my father received his educa-
tion, and if I would forgive him (i.e., his
murder) to you, 'they would not willingly
forgive him, and if all your undertakings
should succeed with you so far, methinks
that they would avenge him on you. And
such is the eric I have asked from you,"
concluded Lugh.
35. Astoundment and utter despair settled
upon the Children of Tuireann upon the
naming of that eric ; and they then went
where their father was, and they related
this oppression to him.
" These are evil tidings," said Tuireann,
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" a«d you shall find that death and destruc-
tion will follow from seeking that eric, and
happening so to you is but right. And still,
if it should so please Lugh himself, you
would get the eric by working (though at
the same time) the men of the world would
not obtain it, except by the powers of Manan-
nain or Lugh himself. Now go and ask from
him a loan of the Aonbharr of Manannain ;
he will not give it to you ; for what he
will say is, that it does not belong to
him, and that he would not give a loan of
a loan away ; and then ask from him a loan
of the curach of Manannain — namely, the
Sguaba Tuinne, and that he will give to
you ; for he is solemnly obliged to comply
with the second request."
36. Then the Children of Tuireann went
where Lugh was and they greeted him ;
and they said that they were unable to get
that eric without his own assistance, and
that, therefore, they would like well to get
from him a loan of the Aonbharr of Manan-
nain.
"I have that steed myself," said Lugh,
" only on loan ; and since I do not own it,
I will not give from me a loan of a loan."
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" Well," said Brian, " give us a loan of
the curach of Manannain."
" I will give it," said Lugh.
Where is it?" said they.
" At Brugh na BoinneV answered Lugh.
And they came again where Tuireann
and Eithne, the daughter of Tuireann and
their own sister were ; and they told them
they had procured the curach.
" It is not much that you are the better
of getting it," said Tuireann ; " still Lugh
would deem it well that every portion of
that eric for which he would have use for
the battle of Magh Tuireadh should be
brought to him ; and he would deem it still
better that that for which he has no use —
namely, you yourselves, should fall at last
in seeking it."
37. They then went forward, leaving Tuir-
eann sad and sorrowful, and Eithne went
along with them to the harbour, in which
the curach was.
Brian went into the curach and said :
" There is but the room of another man here
along with me;" and he began grumbling
at the curach.
" It was prohibited to the curach, O
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beloved brothers," said Eithne, " to be thus
grumbled at. Sorrowful is the deed you
have done — namely, to kill the father of
Lugh Lamhfhada, and it is but just that
every other evil should come upon you after
it." And she gave utterance to this lay:
" Evil is the deed that you have done,
Ye party generous and fair :
The father of Lugh Lamhfhada
To kill, I feel it sorely.
" O Eithne, say not that,
Active is our cheerfulness, brave are our
deeds ;
We prefer to be killed a hundred times
Than (to die) the death of cowardly pol-
troons.
" Search ye lands and islands,
Till ye reach the border of the Red Sea.
Your banishing out of Erin, alas !
There is not a sadder deed."
38. After these words, that warrior band
put out from the beautiful and clearly-
defined borders of Eire
" What course shall we now first take,"
inquired they (of one another).
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"We shall go in search of the apples," said
Brian, '* for these were first demanded of us.
Accordingly we request of thee, O Curach of
Manannain, that art under us," added he, "to
sail with us to the Garden of the Hesperides."
And that command was not neglected by
the curach, as was its custom ; for it sailed
forward in its course on the bosom of the
green-crested waves, in the most direct sea
route, until it made port and harbour in
the territories of the Hesperides.
39. And as they were going there, Brian
thus questioned his brothers :
" How would you desire to go to the
Garden of the Hesperides now, for it seems
to me/' he continued, " that there are royal
champions and warriors guarding it, and
the king himself is their leader."
"What should we do," answered the other
children, "but go forward to attack them,
and if we are stronger than they, wrest
the apples from them, or fall ourselves
there on account of them, since we cannot
escape from the peril that impends over us
without dying in some place."
"Instead of that," said Brian, " it is pre-
ferable that our fame and high renown
should be promulgated about us, and our
ingenuity and our valour related after us,
rather than folly and cowardice should go
abroad respecting us. And, therefore, this
is the advice that is very fitting for us to
take on an occasion such as this — namely,
to go in the forms of strong and very
swift hawks towards yonder garden ; its
guards have only their light arms, capable
of being used for casting at us, and do you
take care that these shall go over you with
agility and great activity; and when they
shall have cast what they have at hand, and
fit to be cast, swoop down upon the apples,
and let each man of you carry off an apple ;
and if I can effect it, I will carry off two
apples with me — namely, an apple in my
talons and an apple in my beak."
40. They applauded that counsel, and
Brian struck the three of them with a magic
and Druidical wand, so that he made of
them beautiful and incomparable hawks ;
and they forthwith made towards the apples.
The guarding party perceived them, and
they raised an outcry upon every side of
them ; they threw fierce and very deadly
showers (of missiles) at them ; they (the
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brothers) were upon their guard, as Brian
had previously enjoined, until the guarding
party had thrown their hand- weapons from
all of them, and then they swooped down
upon the apples with very great courage.
Brian bore away with him two apples, and
each of the other two an apple, and they
returned safe without bleeding or blood-
shed. That news went about the court and
throughout the country in general. Now
the king had three cunning and skilful
daughters; and they transformed themselves
into three griffins, and they pursued the
hawks into the sea, and they threw darts
of lightning before and after them ; and
these darts were burning them intensely.
" Pitiful is the condition in which we now
are," said the Children of Tuireann, " for
we are being burnt by these darts, unless
we get some relief."
" If I myself were able," said Brian, " I
would give relief to you."
Then he struck himself and his two
brothers with a magic and Druidical wand,
and he made two swans of them and another
swan of himself, and they took a leap
into the sea. The griffins then went away
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from them, and the Children of Tuireann
went towards the curach.
41. After that they resolved to go to
Greece to seek the skin, either by con-
sent or (should that fail) by force. They
went forward, until they came into the
vicinity of the court of the Grecian king.
"In what form shall we go here?" said
Brian.
" In what other form should we go
here," said the other sons, " but in our own
forms?"
" Not so does it seem to me," said Brian,
" but to go there in the guise of poets and
learned men of Eire; for thus it is that our
honour and our esteem shall be highest
among the noble race of Greece."
"It is difficult for us to do that," said they,
"having no poem, and still less do we
know how to compose one."
Nevertheless, they put the tie of poets
upon their hair, and they knocked at the
door of the court; and the doorkeeper asked
who was there.
" We are professional men," they re-
sponded, " who have come with a poem to
the king."
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The doorkeeper went to make it known
to the king that professional men were at
the door.
*• Let them be admitted," said the king ;
" for it is in search of a good man (a patron)
they have come so far from their own country
to this."
Now the king commanded that the
court should be set in order for them, so
that they might have it to relate that they
had not seen any place where they had
travelled so grand. The Children of Tuir-
eann were admitted in the guise of poets,
and they began drinking and making them-
selves happy at once, and they considered
that there was not in the whole world and
that they themselves had never seen a
court so good as that, nor a household so
numerous, nor met with so much warm
affection.
42. Then the king's poets arose to sing
their lays for the people. Brian, the son of
Tuireann, then spoke to his brethren (de-
siring them) to sing a poem for the king.
"We have not a poem," they made an-
swer; "and ask not from us only the business
we have ever been inured to — namely, to
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take by force of our arms everything which
we want, if we be the stronger ; and if they
be more powerful, that we fall by them."
" That is not a happy method of compos-
ing a poem," Brian said.
Thereupon he arose up himself, and
asked attention whilst he sang a poem; and
he was listened to, and he said : —
" O Tuis, we do not conceal your fame,
We praise you, as the oak above the kings;
The skin of a pig, bounty without hard-
ness,
Is the reward I ask for it (i.e. the poem).
" The war of a neighbour against an ear,
The fair ear of his neighbour will be
against him ;
He who gives us his property,
His court shall not be the scarcer of il.
" A stormy host and raging sea
Are (as) a sharp sword that one would
oppose,
The skin of a pig, bounty without hard-
ness,
This is the reward I ask, O Tuis."
43. "That is a good poem," said the
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king, "but that I do not understand a word
of its meaning."
" I will interpret its meaning for you/
said Brian : —
" O Tuis, we do not conceal your fame;
We praise you as the oak above the
kings.
"That is, as the oak excels the royal
trees of the wood, thus do you excel the
kings of the world in worth, nobility, and
in generosity.
" The skin of a pig, bounty without hard-
ness.
" That is, the skin of the pig of Tuis, which
you have, I would like to get from you, in
reward for my poetry.
" The fair ear of his neighbour will be
against him.
" That is, 6 and cluas are the same, and
you and I will be ear to ear —that is, at
each other's ears about the skin, unless I
secure it with your consent ; and it is to
that the sense of my poem refers," said
Brian, the son of Tuireann.
44. " I would praise your poem," the
king then said, " if there were not so much
mention of my (pig's) skin in it ; and you
have no sense, O man of poetry," added he,
" to ask that request from me ; for I would not
give it to all the poets, the men of learning,
the chiefs and great nobles of the universe,
unless they might be able to snatch it from
me despite me ; but I will give to you thrice
the full of that skin of red gold in payment
of your poem."
"May all good be thine," said Brian, " and
f. I knew that it was not easy to ask the re-
quest I made, but that I knew that I would
get a good ransom out of it ; however, I
am so covetous that I shall not take it
without the gold being measured in my
presence, well and faithfully, out of the skin."
The servants and attendants of the king
were sent with them to the treasure-house
to measure the gold.
" Measure twice the full of the skin first
to my brothers," said Brian, " and the last
full to myself, for it is I who composed the
poem."
45. But, however, on coming to the spot
Brian made a covetous swift-handed snatch
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at the skin with his left hand; and he bared
his sword and made a stroke at the man
nearest to him of them, so that he made
two parts of him in his middle ; and
he took possession of the skin, and
wrapped himself in it ; and the three of
them left the court, hewing down the
hosts wherever they happened to be before
them, so that from them not a noble
escaped being slaughtered, nor a champion
being mutilated, nor a warrior being killed.
Then Brian came where the King of
Greece himself was, and the king himself
was not slower in attacking him, so that
they made a valiant, champion-like, close-
contested, and brave combat with one
another ; and the end of that combat was,
that the King of Greece fell by the destruc-
tiveness of the hand of Brian, the son of
Tuireann. As for the other two, they be-
gan killing and slaughtering the hcsts on
every side, until they dealt indescribable
slaughter upon the hosts of the court, and
until they had conquered all. They them-
selves remained in the court three nights and
three days taking their rest after their labour
and the great slaughter (they had made).
Ill
46. They then considered it advisable to go
in search of more eric; and his brothers
asked of Brian where they would first go.
" We shall go to Pisear, the King of
Persia," said Brian, " to seek the spear,
which he has."
They went forward to their curach, and
they left the blue-washed shore of Greece
They then said : " It is well off we are,
when we have the apple and the skin." And
they did not desist from that course until
they reached the territories of Persia.
" In what form shall we go to the court of
the King of Persia ? " said Brian.
" In what form would we go there except
in our own forms," replied the other sons.
" That is not what appears best to me,"
said Brian, " but to go there in the garb of
poets, as we went to the King of Greece."
"We approve of that," said they, "on
account of the success which attended us,
when last we took to poetry, although it is
difficult for us to be professing a calling
that we have not.
47. They put the tie of poets upon their
hair; and they came to the door of the
court, and they requested admission. The
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door-keeper asked who they were or what
was their country.
" We are Irish poets," they replied, " who
have come with a poem to the king."
They were then admitted, and a wel-
come was made for them by the king and
the chiefs of his people; and they were
seated with distinction and honour by the
king about himself. Then the king's poets
arose to sing their lays and their songs.
Brian, the son of Tuireann, said to his
brothers to arise and sing a poem for the
king.
" Seek not the art from us, which we have
not," they replied, " but if you wish it,
we shall exercise the art we do know,
namely, conflict, and mighty vigorous strik-
ing."
" That exercise of poetry would be rare,"
said Brian, " and since I have the poem
myself, I will sing it for the king ; " and he
spoke this poem :
" Pisear cares little for spears,
The battles of foes are broken.
No oppression to Pisear, —
Everyone whom he wounds.
"3
"A (yew) tree, the finest of the woods,
It is called king without opposition,
May the splendid shaft urge on
All into their wounds of death."
48. " That is a good poem," said the
king, " and yet I do not understand what is
the reference or the mention about my
spear in it for, O man of poetry from Eire."
" It is," said Brian, the son of Tuireann,
" that the reward I would like to get for my
poem is the spear, which you have."
" You were ill-advised to ask that gift
from me," said the king, " and, besides, the
nobles or the high personages never gave
a greater honour or protection for any poem,
than not to adjudge you (deserving of) death
upon that spot."
When Brian heard that discourse from
the king, he remembered about the apple,
which he had in his hand, and he made a
successful cast of it at the king, (thereby)
putting his brain back out through the poll
of his head ; he (then) unsheathed his sword
and began slaying the hosts around him ;
this was not neglected by the other two,
but (on the contrary) they fell to helping1
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him bravely and valiantly, until they in-
flicted slaughter upon all of the people of
the court whom they encountered.
They found the spear with a cauldron full
of water under its blade, so that it might
not burn the court ; then the Children of
Tuireann said that it was time for them to
go in search of more of the great eric which
they owed. They then left the court, and
they asked of each other what way they
should go.
" We shall go to Dobar, the King of the
Island of Siogair," said Brian, "for he has
the two steeds and the chariot, which Lugh
has asked from us."
49. They went forward after that and
they carried the spear along with them ;
now these three champions were elated and
high spirited after the exploit and destruc-
tion they had made, and they went on till
they arrived at the court of the King of the
Island of Siogair.
" In what form shall we go here," queried
Brian.
" In what form shall we go there, but in
our own forms," said they.
" Not thus would it be proper (for us),"
"5
said Brian, " but let us go there in the guise
of mercenary Irish soldiers and let us make
friendship with the king, for thus is it we
shall know where the steeds and chariot are
kept under guard."
And having determined upon that counsel,
they went forward upon the green before
the king's court.
50. The king, the chiefs, and great nobles
of his subjects went to meet them through
the fair assembly which was being held by
(his subjects), and the Children paid homage
to the king, and the king asked news of
them as to who they were, or where was
their country.
They replied : " We are Irish mercenary
soldiers, wTho are earning wages from the
kings of the world."
" Do you desire to remain with me a
while," said the king.
" We do desire it," said they.
And they made a covenant and compact
with the king. They were in that court for
a fortnight and a month, and they did not
see the steeds during that time. Then
Brian said : " This condition of affairs is bad
for us, O dear brothers ! that we have no
n6
more information of the steeds now than the
first day we came to this court."
"What do you wish to do therefore," said
the other two.
" Let us do this," said Brian, " Let us
gird on our arms and our many weapons,
and our marching array, and let us go be-
fore the king and tell him, that we shall
leave this land and country unless he shows
us the steeds."
51. They advanced, thus arrayed, before
the king, and the king asked them, what
caused them to don that marching array.
"You shall obtain that knowledge, O
high king," said Brian ; " it is that Irish
soldiers, such as we are, are wont to be the
guardians and confidants with the kings
who have gifted jewels, and they are the
counsellors, advisers, and persons of joint
design with every party with whom they
may be, and you did not act in that way
towards us, since we came to you, for you
have two steeds and a chariot, and they are
the best in the world, as we have truly got
word, and we have not yet seen them."
" It was ill you made a pretext of depart-
ing on that account," said the king, " and
I would have shown the steeds to you, the
first day, if I thought you had a desire for
them ; and since you now have a desire for
them, I will show them to you ; for there
never came to this court soldiers dearer to
me and to the chiefs of the country at large,
than you."
And he then sent word for the steeds ;
and the chariot was yoked to them, and
the career of running under them was
as swift as the raw cold wind of Spring ;
and they were equally dexterous on sea
and land. Now, Brian was carefully
watching the steeds, and he laid hold of
the chariot, and he seized the charioteer
by the small of the foot and struck him
against a rock of stone which was adjacent
to him, with the result that death ensued ;
he then bounded into the place in the
chariot, and he made a cast at the king, so
that he split his heart in his breast ; and he
let himself and his brothers upon the host
of the court, putting them all to slaughter.
52. Upon the termination of that under-
taking, luchair and lucharba asked, where
they would then go.
" We shall go to Asal, the King of the
Golden Pillars," said Brian, " to search for
the seven pigs, which the loldhanach asked
from us."
Then they sailed forward by the shortest
course, without hindrance ; in this wise
were the people of that country, they
were at guard upon their harbours for fear
of the Children of Tuireann ; for there was
heard far and wide throughout the countries
of the world the news of these skilful
champions, and of their being banished out
of Eire by oppression, and of their being
(engaged) in bearing away the gifted jewels
of the world with them.
Asal came to the verge of the harbour tc
them, and asked reproachfully of them,
whether it was by them, as he heard, that
the kings of the world had fallen in every
land in which they had been. Brian said
that it was by them, whatever he might
wish to inflict upon them for it.
" What caused you to do that r " said
Asal.
Brian said that it was the oppression
of another man and his unjust sentence
that obliged them to do it, and he related
how it had happened to them, and how they
had overcome every party who had offered
to stand against them until now.
53. "Why have you come to this country
now?" said the king.
" For the pigs, which you have," said
Brian, " to take them along with us as a
portion of that eric."
" How would you like to get them ? " said
the king.
" If," said Brian, " we get them with your
good-will, to take them thankfully with us ;
and if we do not get them (in this way) to give
battle to you and to your people for them,
your falling by us, and then to carry away
the pigs with us in spite of you in that way."
" If that were the end that would come of
it," said the king, " it would be unfortunate
for us to give battle."
"Such is indeed (the end)," said Brian.
Then the king went into counsel and con-
sultation with all his people in respect to
that matter ; and this is the counsel upon
which they decided, namely, to give the
pigs from their own free-will to the Children
of Tuireann, since they had not seen that
they were (successfully) withstood in any
place where they were up to that.
I2O
C4- Howbeit, the Children of Tuireann
gave gratitude and thanks to Asal; and
their wonder was great at thus getting the
pigs, since they had not got any other por-
tion of the eric without battle but them ; and
not only that, but that it was much they
had left of their blood in every place
whither they had hitherto gone.
Asal took them with him to his own
court and goodly residence that night ; and
they were provided for and served accord-
ing to their desires with food and drink and
good beds. They arose upon the morrow,
and they came into the presence of the
king ; and the pigs were given to them.
" It is well you have given us these pigs,"
said Brian, "for we have not got any por-
tion of the eric without battle except them ;"
and Brian composed this lay :
" These pigs, O Asal,
You have let us have with grace ;
The other jewels we have got
On account of hard-fought fights.
" We gave battle to Pisear,
In which fell many warriors,
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Until we took from him
lubhar, the gifted weapon.
" The battle of the King of the Island of
Sigir
It is scarcely possible to relate ;
We would all have fallen in that affray
Were it not for the skin of the great
swine.
"O Asal, who didst not design treachery!
If the three sons of Tuireann should
live,
Greater will be your triumph and your
renown
For the ir anner in which you have given
away the steeds."
55. " What journey do you now propose
to take, O Children of Tuireann," said
Asal.
" We shall go," said they, " to loruaidh,
for the whelp hound which is there."
" Grant me a request, O Children of Tuir-
eann," said Asal ; " and this is the request
I ask of you : to take me with you in your
company to the King of loruaidh; for my
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daughter is his wife, and I would like to
prevail upon him to give the hound to you
without battle, without conflict."
"We approve of that," they said.
And his ship was prepared for the king,
and their adventures on either side are not
related, until they reached the delightful,
wonderful coast of loruaidh. The entire
host and muster of loruaidh were guarding
their harbours and their shore-ports before
them ; and they at once shouted to them,
because they were known by them.
56. Asal then went ashore peacefully, and
he went where his son-in-law was — namely,
the King of loruaidh ; and he made known
to him the proceedings of the Children of
Tuireann, from beginning to end.
"What brought them to this country,"
said the King of loruaidh.
" To ask the hound which you have-,"
said Asal.
" Your discretion in coming along with
them to seek them is unfortunate," said the
king, "for the gods have not given, as a
right, to three warriors in the world, that
they would be able by will or by force to
take my hound."
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" Not so should it be," said A sal ; " but
since many of the kings of the world were
conquered by them (my advice is) to give
the hound to them without fighting and
without battle."
But still it was idleness for Asal (thus to
speak to the King of loruaidh) ; and he
went back where the Children of Tuireann
were, and he related these tidings to them.
However, these answers were not neglected
by the warriors, but they took a quick and
warlike grasp of their arms, and they pro-
claimed battle upon the host of loruaidh ;
and when that brave host met in opposi-
tion, they made on both sides a combat
and fight bravely and ardently.
57. As to the Children of Tuireann, they fell
to hewing down the champions and slaying
the warriors, until they separated themselves
from one another in the battle by the vehe-
mence and fury of the contest and the
ardour of the fray, so that luchar and
lucharba happened to be upon one side,
and Brian by himself, on the other side. It
was a gap of danger and a breach of ranks^
and a derout before Brian in every path in
which he went, until he reached the King of
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loruaidh in the very secure battle pen where
he was ; these two warriors made a fight
and combat stoutly, bloodily, and venom-
ously, and theirs was indeed a powerful and
very hardy striking of one another, and a
very fierce, destructive, and most powerful
sledging.
Valiant was that combat until Brian (van-
quished and) bound the King of loruaidh,
and brought him along with him through
the centre of the host, until he reached the
place where Asal was ; and this is what he
said : —
" There is your son-in-law for you," said
he ; " and I swear by my valorous arms
that I would deem it easier to kill him thrice
than to bring him with me but once in this
wise to you."
But there is still one matter (more to be
mentioned — namely,) ; the hound was sur-
rendered to the Children of Tuireann, and
the king released ; and peace and friend-
ship were mads fast between them. They
having thus terminated everything, their
spirits and mind were elated, and they bade
farewell to Asal and all the rest in like
manner.
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58. To return to Lugh Lamhfhada: it
was disclosed to him that the Children
of Tuireann had obtained every portion of
the eric of which he himself was in need for
the battle of Magh Tuireadh ; and he let a
spell of magic after them, so as to put them
in forgetfulness and obliviousness of every
portion of the eric that they had not; and
he put a desire and a great wish upon them
to come to Eire with the eric to Lugh
Lamhfhada. They did not remember that
they (still) wanted some of the eric, and
they came forward in that career to Eire.
Now, the place where Lugh then hap-
pened to be was in a fair and an assembly,
along with the King of Eire, in Beinn Eadair.
The Children of Tuireann came ashore at
Brugh-na-Boinne.
That fact was disclosed to Lugh, and he
left the fair secretly, and he went to Cathair
Crobhang, which is called Tara ; and he
closed the doors of Tara after him, and he
donned the attire and noble suit of Manan-
nain — namely, the smooth Grecian armour
of Manannain and the cloak of the daugh-
ter of Fleidheas, and his arms of valour
from that out.
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59- The Children of Tuireann came where
the King was, and a welcome was made for
them by the king and likewise by the Tuatha
De Danann. The king inquired of them
whether they had obtained the eric.
" We have got it," they replied ; " and
where is Lugh that we may give it to
him."
" He was here a while ago," said the king.
And the fair was searched for him, but he
was not found.
" I know the place where he is," said
Brian, " for it was disclosed to him that we
were coming to Eire with these valuables,
and he has gone to Tara to avoid us."
Messengers were then despatched after
him from them ; and the answer he gave to
the messengers who went to him was, that
he would not come, and that the eric should
be given to the King of Eire.
The Children of Tuireann did that ; and
the king having got the eric, Lugh then
came out upon the lawn ; the eric was given
to him, and he said :
" Never was there killed, and never shall
there be killed, one whose (full) eric is not
here ; still there is a balance that it is not
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lawful to abandon ; it is the balance of an
eric, and where is the cooking spit, or the
three shouts upon the hill that you have not
yet given."
60. When the Children of Tuireann heard
that, a faint-heartedness and stupor fell
upon them ; they left the fair and they went
to the house of their father that night, and
they related their adventures to him, and
how Lugh had treated them.
A sadness and deep sorrow took posses-
sion of Tuireann; and they spent the night
along with one another. They went on
the morrow to their ship, and Eithne, the
daughter of Tuireann, went along with
them. The maiden fell to grief-crying and
keening, and she recited this poem, here set
down :
" Alas for this, O Brian of my soul !
That your progress leads not to Tara,
After all your troubles in Eire,
Although I go not to follow thee.
" O salmon of the dumb Boyne,
0 salmon of the stream of Liffey,
Since I am unable to retain thee,
1 am loth to part from you.
" O horsemen of the wave of Tuaidh,
O man, most lasting in combat,
If your return should come to pass, a;>
I hope,
It will not be pleasant for your foe.
*' Do ye pity the Children of Tuireann
Upon the elbows of their green shields
It is much they have disturbed my mind,
Their departure is a cause for pity.
"Your being co-night in Beinn Eadair,
O you who have increased our grief;
And O champions to whom valour has
done homage,
Till the early and melancholy morn
cometh.
" Sad is your expedition from Tara,
And fromTaillte of the green plains;
And from great Uisneach of Meath —
There is not an event more pitiful."
6 1. After that lay they went forward over the
loud-murmuring sea, and they were a quarter
of a year upon the sea without getting tidings
of the island. Then Brian put on his water-
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dress, and around his head his light-admitting
head-dress (made) of glass, and he took a
plunge into the water. It is said that he
was a fortnight walking in the salt water,
seeking the Island of Fianchaire, and after
that he discovered it ; and he went towards
it, and going into the court he only found
in it a troop of women engaged at needle-
work and embroidery And amongst other
things that they had along with them, they
happened to have the cooking-spit.
And when Brian saw it, he raised it in
his hand, and he fain would bring it with
him to the door. Each of the women burst
into a laugh upon seeing that act ; and this
was what they said :
" Bold is the deed that you have put your
hand to, for if your two brothers were along
with you, the least valorous in prowess or
valour of the three times fifty women here
would not let the spit go with either you or
them ; nevertheless, take one of the spits
with you, since you are so undaunted, so
courageous, and so brave, as to attempt to
carry it off with thee despite us."
Brian bade farewell to them, and he went
forward towards the place where he left his
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ship. And during the duration of that
period the other two considered it advisable
to draw anchor and set their sails, when
they saw Brian coming vigorously towards
them upon the bosom of the wave. They
were joyful at beholding him. Brian makes
known to them that he had found the spit
and the island where the troop of women
were.
62. They went to their ship, and they di-
rected their courseto the Hill of Miodhchaoin.
When they reached the hill, Miodhchaoin,
the guardian of the hill, came towards them ;
Brian, seeing him, attacked him, and
the fight of these two persons was only
comparable to the fury of two bears and
the laceration of two lions, until at length
Miodhchaoin fell in the fight.
Then the three sons of Miodhchaoin came
to fight against the Children of Tuireann,
after Miodhchaoin had previously fallen by
Brian ; and if one would come from the
territory of Hesperides, in the east of the
world, to see a battle or combat, it would be
worth his while to come to see the combat
of that party, on account of the greatness of
the blows given (on either side), the activity
of their courage, and the rrgour of their
minds. These were the names of Miodh-
chaoin's sons ; namely, Core, Conn, and
Aodh. And they put their three spears
through the bodies of the Children of
Tuireann. Still, neither in respect to fear
nor weakness, did that prevail over the
Children of Tuireann, for they put their
three spears through the bodies of the
Children of Miodchaoin ; and they them-
selves passed into the trance and faintness
of death.
63. After that exploit Brian said : " How
are you now, O brothers ? "
"We are dead," they replied. "Arise,"
said he, "for I perceive very terrible
symptoms of death coming upon us, and
do you give (beforehand) the shouts upon
the hill."
" We cannot," said they.
Then Brian arose and raised a man in
each of his hands, whilst he was copiously
losing his own blood, until they gave the
shouts. Then Brian took them with him
to the ship; and they were traversing
sea a long time, and one of them
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" I see Beinn Eadair and the Court of
Tuireann and Tara of the Kings."
" We would be full of health, were we to
see these," said the other men ; " and for
love of thy honour, O brother," said they,
"raise our heads on your breast, that we
may see Eire from us, and then we care not
which to receive — death or life." And they
spoke the lay :
"Take these heads on your breast, O
Brian,
O son of Tuireann, the generous and red-
armed,
O torch of valour without guile,
Until we see the land of Eire.
"Hold upon thy breast and upon thy
shoulder
These heads, O manly champion,
That we may see from off the water
Uisneach, Taillte, and Tara.
"Ath-cliath and the smooth Boyne with
thee,
Freamhainn, Tlachtgha, hard by Tara,
The plain of Meath, the dewy Magh
Breagh,
And the mountains around the fair green
of Taillte;
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"If I saw Beinn Eadair from me,
And Dun Tuireann in the north ;
Welcome death thence forward,
And though it should be a suffering death,"
Brian.
" A pity is that, O children of brave Tuir-
eann,
Birds could fly through my two sides,
But it is not my two sides that are sick,
But (to think of) you both having fallen.
"We would prefer death to take us,
O Brian, son of Tuireann, who fled not,
Than to see thee with wounds upon thy
body,
And no doctors to cure you.
" Since there is not here to cure our wounds,
Miach, Oirmhiach, nor Diancheacht,
Pitiful is it, O Brian! who designest not
guile,
To have given away from us the skin."
64. After that lay they went ashore at
Beinn Eadair, and thence they proceeded to
Dun Tuireann ; and they said to Tuireann :
" Proceed^ O dear father, to Tara, and
give this cooking spit to Lugh, and bring
the gifted skin to us to relieve us ; " and
Brian spoke the lay ; —
" O Tuireann, depart from us,
To speak to Lugh, the gifted ;
Overtake him asleep in the south,
Beg the skin for friendship's sa^.e.'*
Tuireann.
" For the world's jewels, south and north —
And all to be given to Lugh, the gifted ;
What would come of it would certainly be,
Your graves and your sepulchre."
Brian.
" Near are you related in blood and in flesh,
To the son of Cian, son of just Cainte,
Let him not deal to us wrath for wrath,
Although we have killed his father.
" O father, beloved, noble, swift,
Be not long upon thy visit,
For if thou art, thou shalt not find us,
Alive before thee."
65. After that lay, Tuireann went forward
to Tara, and he found Lugh Lamhfhada
there beforo him, and he gave the cooking
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spit to him ; and he asked the skin from him
to cure his children ; and Lugh said that he
would not give it. And he returned back
to his children and he made known to them
that he had not got the skin. Then said
Brian : " Bring me with you to Lugh, to see
whether I could get the skin from him."
That was accordingly done, and Brian went
to Lugh and asked the skin from him.
Lugh said that he would not give it, and if
they (the Children) were to give him the
breadth of the earth of gold, that he
would not accept it from them, unless he
thought their death would come of it, on
account of the deed they had done.
66. When Brian heard that, he departed
to where his two brothers were, and he lay
down between them ; and his soul went
forth from him and his two brothers at the
same time.
And Tuireann made the following lay
over his children : —
" Distressed is my heart over you,
You three fair youths, who fought many
fights ;
After your activity, and your feats,
It were well for me that you should liv««
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"Two kings elect over Banba
luchar and lucharba ;
Brian, that conquered Greece, —
It is a loss (it is the worst of it) that their
like are not alive.
"I am Tuireann without strength
Over your graves, you ardent champions ;
As long as ships shall live upon the sea,
I will not compose lay or song."
After that lay Tuireann fell upon his
children, and his soul left him ; and they
were interred at once in the same grave.
So far, then, the tragical fate of the
CHILDREN OF TUIREANN.
NOTES.
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NOTES.
1°. tlUA&A A1p51Ot>t,A1TI, ttlAC 6ACCA1J, 1T11C
tnic AU,AO1, "Nuadha of the Silver Hand, the son of Each-
tagh, the son of Ordain, the son of Allaoi." fflAC is nomin-
ative in apposition to TIUA&A Aip5iot>l&m ; and mic fur-
nishes instances of the genitive in apposition with the nouns
which respectively precede it.
2°. Aij\ has here a very idiomatic meaning, which is best
explained by the English words " trusting to " or depending
on. Armstrong, in his Gaelic Dictionary, translates A1|\ in
such a position by the present participle "having."
3°. t)o beAtinuigeAt>Ap -oo, " They greeted him," an
example of the dative of advantage. In Irish, as in Latin,
some verbs require a dative, answering to the English accu-
sative or objective without a preposition. Compare the
popular greeting " go tn-beAnnui§ X)1A t>uiG," of the modern
Irish.
4°. Do bVic Liom, " I would like ;" literally, "it would be
pleasing with me."
5°. 'Do b'Ail leif. " He would like ;" literally, " It
would be a pleasure with him."
6°. •o'mtiif t>o'n |\ij. "He related to the king." 1timp
is always followed by a dative of the person to whom the
communication is made. This dative is usually governed by
the preposition x>o.
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7°. The pieposition 50 follows verbs expressing motion
and governs the dative. Its place may be supplied by cum,
which, however, requires a genitive to follow it. In ancient
writings TJO was frequently used in this connection.
8°. t)o ftA-it) pt. tense $sg. off\Ait>im, "I say," a verb
which is now obsolete, except in the infinitive form t>o -pAt.
which the defective and irregular verb AbAip, say, employs
to supply that mood.
9°. A chafer (daol) , the chafer or cock-chafer, also known
by the names, "may-bug," tree-beetle," Jeffry cock," etc., is
the Melolontha vulgaris of naturalists, and is well known in
Gaedhelic as the •OAfxb-'OAeL
The dael is of a beautiful deep, shining-black colour. This
comparison still exists in the Gaedhelic language, and the
phrase, " cotri •cub j\et>AeL," "as black as a cock-chafer,0 is
quite common in the Gaedhelic-speaking districts of the
country. This beautiful little insect is persecuted in all parts of
Erinn by the natives, whilst the robin redbreast is held sacred,
from an old tradition which says, that when the Blessed Virgin
fled, with the Infant Jesus, her track was marked in the wood
by a stream of blood drawn from her feet by the thorns and
brambles ; that the robin followed, covering the blood with
the leaves of the forest, and pressing them down with her
breast, which thus became dyed with the precious blood,
whilst this little reptile came after the bird to remove the
leaves and expose the (rack to the pursuers.
The true reason of the popular dislike to the insect in
other countries, if not in this, is, however, to be found in its
injurious effects upon vegetation. Its larvae, in the form of a
white, worm-like creature, live several years under ground,
where they eat the tender rootlets of corn and other plants.
In their fully developed state, they are very destructive to
the tender foliage of trees, especially of fruit trees. Swarms
of them have often left the trees of a district as bare as if a
flight of locusts had passed over it. This destructive char-
acter is, no doubt, the origin of the tradition just mentioned.
The word •OAoL enters frequently into the names of men and
places. All the rivers bearing the name of Deel (black), are
so named in opposition to the rivers named Finn (fair) ; and
a district in Burren, in the county of Clare, is called Daelach
(the black) in opposition to the white limestone surface of
the neighbouring districts. The name of Daelghus, and that
of the celebrated Dubhthach Dael-tenga, or of the chafer-
tongue, a malignant chief of Ulster, are formed from this
word.
There are two instances on record of the connection of
this little animal with the gnawing or mortification of human
flesh. The first of these is found in the Tripartite Life of St.
Patrick, where we are told that St. Fiacc, bishop of Sleibhte
(now Sletty, county Carlow), had his leg gnawed by a dael
so seriously, that St. Patrick sent him from Ard Macha a
chariot and horses for his use. Again, in a note on the I5th
of January, the festival day of St. Ite, or Mide, of Cill
Mide (in the county of Limerick), as preserved in the Felire
or Festology of Aengus Ceile De (anglicised "Aengus the
Culdee "), we are told that this pious lady had her side so
gnawed by a dael, that the insect grew to the size of a young
pig, until it was at last killed by the sisterhood. It is
certain that, as far as our traditions and actual experience go,
the dael, or darbh-dael, of our times, shows no disposition to
come into contact with living human flesh ; but our satirical
post mortem elegies frequently represent the mortal remains
of the satirized person as being torn by daels in the earth.
For other interesting and curious information about the dael,
see "Transactions, Ossianic Soc., vol. v.,p. 26;" and "Sketches
in Ems and Tyrawly," p. 172, by Rev. Caesar Otway.
II
to0. O'n t>-CAOib, "From the side." Nouns beginning
with T> or c are very often uneclipsed, even when complying
with the necessary condition of being preceded by the articu-
lated dative. O'n UAOib would be equally correct.
11°. X)o, of, written for -oe, with which it has been long
confounded.
12°. 'Ppic, a form of the pt. passive of the irreg. verb f A§,
wh cli is met with frequently in old writings, but is now
obsolete.
13°. "It is it that we would prefer;" literally, "It is it
that would be better with us."
14°. Aip A ciorm, "On the head of it," i.e., "for it."
Aij\ or A jj-ceArm is used in the sense of '' to," or " for," after
verbsdenotingmotion, and governs the genitive. The governed
word, in this instance, being a pronoun, comes between the
two parts of the cpd. expression Aif\ cionn.
15°. te, following such verbs as AbAiji, l/AbAij\ and their
tenses, is translated " to."
16°. TJo cum is here translated "For the purpose of,"
i n conjunction with the verb -oo cup, though retaining its
government of -peoLA in the genitive. This mode of govern-
ment was considered objectionable by O'Donovan (Gr. p.
385), who approved of the noun being left under the govern-
ment of the infinitive. Don levy, in his Irish Catechism, how-
ever, invariably placed the noun, in such a position, under the
government of the preposition.
17°. Aif\ MA clocAib mij\eAbAi\CA, "Upon the baking
stones.7' This is the translation O'Cuny gives, but I can-
not determine the exact meaning of rmrveAbApCA.
18°. TJo bAiiit>i'r ATHAC, " They extorted." Whilst Nu-
adha of the Silver Hand was temporarily incapacitated, by
the loss of his hand, from ruling, Breas was chosen to fill his
place. Though the blood of both races mingled in his veins,
Brcas sided entirely with the Fomorians, whose encroach-
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Inents he encouraged. Their tyranny eventually goaded the
Tuatha De Dannan to revolt against them, with the result
that they were driven out of the country.
19°. "The nose was cut off his head." The employment
of the infinitive in a passive sense was a classical mode of ex-
pression with ancient writers, particularly in narration.
20°. Rip A i\Ait)ceA]\ ; literally, " With which is said,"
an expression equivalent to the modern phrase A1|\ A
tj-cugcA-p thfneAC A M-T>IU, " Which is now called Uis-
neach"; literally, " Upon which is now given Uisneach."
21°. JAC n-T>if.eAC = 50 •oipeAc, "Directly.'' t)i|AeAc,
when preceded by 5 AC or JACA, carries an adverbial force and
is the only adjective so influenced by JAC or JJACA.
22° and 23°. "As,5 introducing a comparison of equality
in English, is translated by Le in Irish.
24°. flioj\-oeA]\5At>teif Aif\neAC AJMAITI, "There was never
wounded by it upon anyone"; i.e., "it never wounded,"
etc.; an instance of the pt. passive used impersonally.
25°. " King of Eire ;" in the Text it will be found that the
genitive of Eire takes sometimes the article and is some-
times found without it. Both constructions are allowable.
26°. Aj; -po, at this (place) here ; so also AJ; pin, at that
(place), there ; both adverbial phrases. Sin is thus often
found introducing an ellipsis. Thus, in Gallagher's Irish
Sermons, pr, CU5AC, "There it is for you," "See that for
you,1' "Behold"; -pin cu miVlce, -pn cu CAiUlce, "Thus
thou art ruined,'' '• Thus thou art destroyed," and such like
phrases are of constant occurrence.
27°. C]\eAt) f?Af\, "Why,"*'.*?. " What under "; interro-
gative pronouns precede the prepositions by which they are
governed ; J?A]\ = £A, and po, the particle which accompa-
nies eif\jeAt>AH\, the pt. tense of eif\i§.
28°. 1f ei^eAii •otnrm, " We are obliged," " We must; "
literally, " It is a necessity to us."
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29°. 1TIAC miofA, literally " The son of a month,*' i.e., a
son one month old.
30°. tliojA beAg Leo -oo cuij- t>Aj\ rnA]\liAX>, " They would
not deem it little cause for slaying us ; " literally, " It would
not be little with them, as a cause, to slay us." This nega-
tive assertive phraseology is constantly found in Irish writ-
ings, particularly in places where the positive form would not
convey sufficient emphasis.
31°. XDo jtuAifeA'OAp An tiAOiibAf\ fin j\6tnpA, "These
nine persons went forward ; " literally, " before them," an
idiom in Irish expressive of forward motion,
32°. Cum, "In order to," " For the purpose of ;" see note
1 6.
33°. 50 bjAAC, "Forever;" literally, " to the Judgment
(last) " ; the phrase implies a future meaning and always ac-
companies the future tense.
34°. 1^1516 t>O'n uifge, "Let the water; " literally, "Let
or allow to the water." This verb requires a dative of the per-
son or thing, under the government of -oo, and an accusative
of the object. So also teig •OAtn, allow me.
35°. T)o pic, etc., " With pitch," etc. These are datives of
the instrument. In modem Irish the prep, ie is substituted
for -oo.
36°. £A, " About " or " Upon," a meaning which this pre-
position takes after verbs which, like f5AOiteAT>Aj\, express
motion.
37°. Aifv, " In which " ; A the relative is left understood.
The suppression of the relative allows of the aspiration of the
verb cuic which follows. Were the relative expressed the
sentence would read Aip A T>-CUIC, in which the relative, in
the dative, exerts an eclipsing influence on the following word.
38°. Aif\ placed be/ore the participle, instead of causing
aspiration, as it does with nouns, eclipsis it. This construc-
tion of A1]\ and the participle introduces what Irish Gram-
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marians term the dative absolute, of which many instances
occur in the text.
39°. tlAC tvoeAfMKyo, " That was not done." Observe
that the distinct form for the subjunctive mood, which some
of the irregular verbs alone have, ii here employed after TIAC,
one of the particles which require this mood after them.
3Qa. Literally, " To its avenging," i.e., the act or deed
(jniorh), which is masculine and through its pronoun A,
aspirates the initial of copiArh.
40°. " He saw three warriors, armed and equipped coming
towards him." The prep, cum (with which cuige is com-
bined) being used only after a verb implying motion, the
verb, as in the present instance, is often left understood. See
Voc. to "Diarmuid andGrainne ;" pt. I. in -voce cum ; Pub-
lications, Society Pres. Irish Lang.
41°. AVLrhujxfVAij t>o ceAcc, "That strangers had come ;"
this is considered a construction identical with the Latin
Ace. with the Infinitive.
42°. but>t>eA'p, "Southwards;" other form, -po-oeAr1. but)
is an adverbial sign which qualifies •oeAf, "south," and CUAI&,
"north," and is equivalent to the English suffix, "ward," in
southwards, northwards. It is also found written bA, -pA,
and px It is of the same force as teAC, in the compound
words teAC-f*iA-|\, westward, teAC-ceAf, southward, leAC-
CUAIX), northward, LeAC-foir>, eastward, but but) seems re-
stricted to the cardinal points CUAIJ and -oeA-p. In the
modern Irish this form has entirely disappeared and north-
wards, southwards, etc., are expressed 6 CUAIJ, 6 •oeA-p, etc.
43°. but) CUAT), "Northwards ; " see preceding note.
44°. Aif\ A coiriAir\, "Opposite him," " Over-against him,"
" before him." C6riiAifv is sb. fern, and indeclinable. It is,
however, nearly always used with the simple prepositions,
A1|\, TpA, of, to form prepositional phrases. It occurs in
sentences to denote relative time or position. Of the latter
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meaning the Text affords an instance ; and in reference to
time it translates such English words as " in store " "by,"
"against," in the sense of "in store for us," " by" or
" against such a time."
45°. Literally, " In their people of hatred and spite for
one another." This is an illustration of the substantive verb
CA ascribing a predicate to its subject by means of the pre-
position Ann ('r>A=Ann A), and the possessive pronoun.
46°. OiAf •oeAr»br>ACAj\, " Two brothers ;" literally, "Two
of brothers." Words put partitively govern a genitive
plural ; sometimes a dative plural governed by the preposi-
tion ne or -oo.
47°. O'Curry notes in the Atlantis, Vol. iv., p. 170, that
the taking of this form by Cian was owing simply to the pre.
sence of the pigs at this critical juncture. O'Curry, there,
condemned strongly the absurd fables about " pig worship,"
to which, he remarked, the editor of the 5th Volume of the
Ossianic Society's publications had given currency under the
title of an article entitled "Porcine Cultus," the author of
which had not referred to any ancient Irish MS. or native
authority for proof of the statements he put forward.
48°. X)o JAb, "(He) began;" when jjAb carries this
meaning it is always followed by the present participle. Dr.
Gallagher in his "Irish Sermons," uses buAiL in the same
sense as gAb is here used, as •oo buAil/ (rl) A$ CAomeAt),
" she began crying." In parts of Ireland at the present day
cr>om is the verb made use of, in the spoken language, to
carry an identical meaning.
49°. 6 ciAtiAib, adverbial phrase, "A while ago."
50°. Hi CA^A ftuinn e\ "He is not a friend to us." In
short negative sentences the verb is often elegantly omitted ;
but after ni, the present tense of the assertive verb, though
understood, is never expressed. The omission of the verb
is sometimes a matter of idiom, as at page 45, 50 ce&nn
coicci&ife CAJ\ nii &6ib fAtt -oun jin, " they spent or passed
(scil. their time) until the end of a fortnight over a month
in that residence." See note of similar import by O'Donovan
in the "Circuit of Ireland."
51°. "It is to no purpose (badly) you prosecuted your
studies in the city of learning."
52°. " And as good (as) he was saying it," i.e., suiting the
action to the word. See also " Children of Lir."
53°. See note 46.
54°. See note 35.
55°. The numeral adjective X>A requires its substantive in
the singular, but the adjective which qualifies and follows
the substantive, so influenced, must be in the plural.
56°. " Upon the track of the (druidical) pig of druidism."
The English adjective is, in Irish, frequently turned into the
substantive of kindred meaning under the government of the
English qualified noun.
57°. AS •out fA'n 5-coiLt xji, " As she went through the
wood; " literally, "At going thiough the wood to her" —
idiom of the dative absolute introduced by AJ;. The same
idiom is also introduced by AIJV, as pointed out in a previous
note.
58°. Note the position of the accusative case of the pro-
noun, at the end of the sentence.
59°. t)An tiom, "Methinks;" classed by O'Donovan
amongst the defective verbs. The prepositional pronouns
alone vary to express the persons ; TJA^ LeAC, it seems to
you, t>An leif, it seems to him, etc.
60°. Note the emphasis which the employment of the
assertive verb if carries with it; " tr1 •ouine me," "lam a
human being," (" even though for the moment I have as-
sumed the form of a pig").
61°. 1r-olc bun, "We grieve," "We are sorry," "We
regret;" literally, "It is evil with us;" not to us, which
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would be expressed by the preposition -oo, as if ot
"It is bad for us." So also if otc tioni, "I am sorry,"
if otc •OAm, "It is bad for me."
62°. £A, " By," equivalent to -OAf. (used in swearing),
pi'm JAifcet), by my valour, Battle of Magh Rath, p. 38, ed.
O' Donovan.
63°. 1f ufA tiom f.em, "I deem it easier," '« I think it
easier;" observe the idiomatic force of te in tiom. See
note 61.
64°. Coiftce, "Ever," like 50 b^AC, has always a future
meaning attached to it, whilst AfMAtii or JVIAITI refers always
to past time.
65°. "The arms shall relate." The ordi-
nary place of the verb is before its nominative. Here that
order is reversed, for the purpose of admitting the insertion
of a clause, explanatory of the subject, between the latter
and its verb.
66°. " Shall recount the deed to my son." The custom of
inscribing weapons — swords, at least, — is as old, we are told,
as the Battle of the Second Magh Tuireadh, and came down
to the time of King Cormac Mac Airt, in the third century.
O'Curry, Atlantis, Vol. iv., p. 172.
67°. 3o §AbAt>Af, Aip t>o ctocAib, "They pelted him
with stones." jAb Aip signifies " strike him,'' "beat him,''
whilst the change of the preposition in combination to te
varies the meaning. Thus gAb teiy, " Take him," " Re.
ceive him," «' Accept him."
673. CubAC (b aspirated in MS.) = coiii f ATD, which is the
reading in MS. 23, E. 16, p. 168, R.I.A. ; cubAC, as the
other MSS. have it, represents the equivalent sounds in
Irish characters of the correct orthography. We often find
many words thus disguised in Irish MSS. owing either to
the ignorance of the scribe of the proper spelling or his un-
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willingness to depart in any wa finm the MS. from which
he copied, thus retaining the i rror which he, in his turn,
transmitted to others.
68a nio]\ j;Ab, " Did not receive," or " take." This is the
first meaning of gAb. When use d in conjunction with cer-
tain prepositions, some example of which occur in the Te? t,
its meaning is greatly modified. See an example in il e
paragraph following in Text, where, with teif, it has the
meaning of " take to him."
69°. Here occurs an instance of the use of A^uf (and)
where in English the sense would require a disjunctive. Mr.
O'Grady points out a similar use of A^uf in the fourth vol.
of the Ossianic Society's Publications, containing the " Pur-
suit of Diarmuid and Grainne ": "An e po At>bAr» FA A
iriAfvbArm cur-A gAcneAC TJA m-beAjvfAnn cu ?' Aj\ SgACAn.
"Is this the reason that thou killest every one that shaves
thee ?" asked Sgathan. "1f ejooeitfim "AfvCiAti, "Aguf nf
bAOJA'l'ouicr-e me." " It surely is,'* said Cian, " and (yet)
thou needest not fear me." The use of A^UF in this case, Mr.
O'Grady ascribed to a carelessness of style in the writer, but
its frequent recurrence in Irish writings, in parallel instances,
would not support that contention.
70°. ft6tnpA (pi.) is used", because c^Atin, although singular
in form, has a plural signification.
71°. te, following verbs denoting " to part " or " separate
from," " release " etc., is translated " from."
72°. and 73°. See note 3.
74°. AS FpeA5|\A& t>o, "Answering him." Note the use
of the dative after p|\eA5Ain.
75°. £A- nA cpeACAib, "About or around the cattle
spoils ; " a meaning which attaches to f A after verbs of
motion.
76°. beip A1|\, " Overtake," " Bear upon." Compare the
Irish-English sayings, •'! bore up on him," "I caught up on
him," meaning " I overtook him."
77°. Literally ; " To put battle," i.e., to give battle.
78°. " Black blue." It would be useless to draw from
these words any inference as to what metal these weapons
were composed of. The text in its present shape is too
modern and too uncertain. — Q'CvLrry, Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 176.
79°. Of fcuAij teir\5 A •orvornA, " Over the projected
armour of his back." O'Brien's and O'Reilly's Dictionaries
give fcuAit), "A ridge," "A pinnacle." It is probable
that fcuAi-6-teij\5 means " An armour stud," i.e., a stud or
projection fixed upon the upper part of the back-piece from
winch to suspend the shield. As an example of a shield
carried in this manner, see the description of the armour of
Goliath, given in I. Samuel, c. xvii., v. 6 : "And he had a
target of brass between his shoulders. " A^ur- goijAr'eA'fl
p^Atf eit>ij\ A juAlA/ib." ScuA',x>t/ei-p5 occurs frequently in
Irish writings in describing the position in which a warrior
slung his shield, when he harnessed himself for battle. O'Curry
in the Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 176, translates this passage, " He
took his ....... shield upon the arch-slope of
his back," a meaning which could scarcely be attached to it,
when we remember that Lugh is described as every inch a
warrior. Again, in vol. 3, p. 74 of the Ossianic Society's
Publications, Mr. O'Grady makes Diarmuid carrying his
shield (p^iAc) " Upon the broad expansive arch of his
back" — " Aif\ •pcuAij teif\5 A •ojvornA," a translation utterly
irreconcilable with the impression that Diarmuid has made
upon us, as a soldier, whose make and build distinguished
him amongst the Fenian hosts of ancient Erin.
80°. See note 55.
8t°. " Annealed in the blood of poisonous adders." This
is a description of constant occurrence in modern Irish Tales.
It will be remembered that these were not Irish arms. I
have not, within my recollection, met with any reliable
authority for the use of poisoned weapons in ancient Erin.
Poisonous men, and poisonous or venomous weapons, are
spoken of, as in the Tain Bo Chuailgne, where, speaking of
Cailtin and his twenty-seven sons, who attacked Cuchulainn :
if AtnlAit) J\A OACAJ\ fATOe : neim Airi CAC pj\ •oib, octif
neirn Ap CAC A|\m T>A riA^triAib, "And thus they were :
venom upon every man of them, and venom upon every
weapon of their weapons." The word nennli (poison) can-
not be taken in its ordinary acceptation here, as, whatever
the arms might be, the men could not be poisonous — unless,
indeed, in the sense of deadly in the use of their arms, and
the wounds they inflicted. O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv.,
p. 176.
82°. O'Curry remarks in the volume just quoted that this
is an expression often met with in Irish tales of modern
date.
83°. O'Curry notes that this expression (blue-borderea
scabbards), is not intelligible to him, but that the term is
not an old one.
84°. Of A 5-ciorm ; literally, " Over their head," i.e.,
" above them." This is an adverbial phrase in which ciorm is
not subject to inflexion.
85°. " Battle-pen." These are words, says O'Curry, of
frequent occurrence in the oldest of our tales ; and he under-
stood them to signify "A pen, or circle, of brave men,
ranged around their chief in battle." The word cj\o means,
in fact, any enclosure within which men or cattle may be
placed for safety or defence.
86°. "Battle of Magh Tuireadh." This was the battle of
the Second, or Northern Magh Tuireadh. The engagement
of Breas to return again to fight tins battle, and the accept-
ance of the conditions by Lugh, can only be accounted for
by the hope of the latter to annihilate for ever in that battle
the Fomorian power, which had so long tormented this
country. Partings and engagements of this kind are not
quite unknown in our old tales. In the battle of the First,
or Southern, Magh Tuireadh, fought between the invading
Tuatha De Danann and the occupying Firbolgs, we are told
that, when the latter refused a peaceful partition of the
island, both parlies agreed to a postponement of the battle
for five score and seven days, to prepare their weapons of
offence and defence, and make their other arrangements.
87°. "As guarantee." This form of oath came down to
the latest pagan period. Instances of it are to be found in
the Irish version of Nennius, p. 126, and in notes to the
Appendix thereof, Ixx and Ixxiv, in Petrie's History and
Antiquities of 7ara Hill, and in the account of the Battle
of Magh Rath, p. I, note b.
88°. JTA ceAcc, " For coming," i.e., " that he would come."
£A, when put before the participial form, rnay be translated
" for," when it can be resolved by the conditional.
89°. gur\ coir\ T)o Lug, " That it was right for Lugh," i.e.,
that Lugh ought.
90°. te tug, " To Lugh ;" literally, " With Lugh." See
note 15.
91°. Aj; FAicpn cl/omne Uuij\eArm t>o, "When he saw
the Children of Tuireann;" literally, " At seeing the Children
of Tuireann to him."
92°. Cug J?A •oeAfiA A cocAitc, " He caused its digging."
This idiom of -pA T>eA]\A is also found with the verb CIUJA,
"put," in the sense of "causing," " requiring," " engaging,"
" getting ;" as, ctnr\it> fe yA -OCA^A neAc-oo L^AJA x>o, "he
causes one to read to him ;" •ooiLjiof •oo cup JTA t>eAfiA, " To
cause sorrow. " — MacCurtin's Eng-Trish Die., Paris, 1731.
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If c6tf\ -ouirm •oo'oetiriArh cum tiAm6if\-p-jvirme
•JTA x>eA|\A A munAft •oo'ti •o]unti5 AGA tiA ri-Ainftpof, " We
should be diligent in teaching this great truth or in getting
it taught to those who are ignorant thereof.'' Donlevy's
Catechism, tlo cuip mioT>Ac pi n-t>eArvA uir\ Innr-e CuiL
•oo cuj\ fuib, "Miodhach caused the mould of tnnis Tuil to
be put under ye ;" Diarmuid and Grainne, Soc. Ed. pt. 1 1,
p. 47. Cug with f A TjeA^A has also the signification of
"consider," " think ;" as, if jreix>if\ to A CAb~Air\c fAt)eAr»A,
" he can consider;'' t)obei)\ini -pAt>eAf\A, "I consider ^'Don-
levy's Catechism.
93°. t)o JAbAt)A]\ Ag peACAin A t/oc, " They began
examining his wounds."
94°. t)o ffvic 'riA cof AIJ\ C]\o 6, " He was iound in
his litter of wounds." This word (cor"Air\) occurs
very frequently in Irish writings to denote a mass of
wounds which a warrior received in battle. In the
account of the Battle of Magh Leana, it is related,
that Conn of the Hundred Battles "fell into a litter of
wounds," i.e., that he was most seriously injured, from
which, however, he recovered, as though he were in a trance.
In the Battle of Magh Rath, p. 272, Cellach is attacked by
three warriors, whom the former worsts, and "he afterwards
made a gorey heap of carnage of these heroes," " ocufoo
•jvmtn cof AIJ\ c|\6 TJO tiA cujAA&Aib T/A eij*." (^Donovan's
translation.
95°. 1fnAiTiroeArhuiL An niAjAbAT) ]"O, "This is a vicious
murder." This is the order of the adjective (before its sub-
stantive), when the assertive verb ip is used.
96°. O'Curry remarks in the Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 180,
that he does not remember any instance of apostrophising
the gods among the pagan Irish.
97°. " His name written in Ogham." This phrase occurs
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in all the oldest of our tales except the battles of the Magh
Tuireadh ; and the inscribing of Ogham, under various cir-
cumstances, is frequent in the Tain B6 Chuailgne, a tale
which is referred to a peiiod immediately touching on the
Incarnation, or 432 years before our Irish Christian era. I
have put on record my belief in the pre-Christian origin of
the Ogham, or some such writing, among the Gaedhils of
Erin, in the first volume of my Lectures (p. 463, Appendix
No. II) ; O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 182.
98°. " It is from Cian the mound shall be named." From
this we may fairly infer that the mound, or hiil, as it is
called in the original, would, in after ages, be called Cnoc
Cem, that is, Cian's Hill ; or AJYO cTiem, that is, Cian's
Height or Mound. The plain of tnuipceirhne, in which
Cian was killed and buried, is that great plain of the county
Louth stretching from Drogheda to Dundalk. From
historicnl a1! isions in the ancient account of the battle of
Crinna, fought in Meath, but not far irom the present ruined
abbey of Mellifont, in Louth, there is some reason to think
that the Ajvo Chem, mentioned in that tract, and which
might have been situated at the present hill of Dromslian,
was the height or mound of Cian's sepulchre. The battle of
Crinna was fought in the year 226, by CA-QJ (Teige), the
son of Cian, son of OiLill oluin, King of Munster, and his
followers, on the part of the monarch Cormac, the son of
Art, against the three Ferguses, brothers, princes of Ulster,
who rebelled against Cormac, and attempted to depose him.
The Munstermen defeated the Ulstermen in seven pitched
battles in one day ; the first at Crinna, and the last " at
Aid Cein by the side of Druim Inisclainn," or the hill of
Inisclainn. The only Druim Inisrlainn known in our ancient
writings, as far as I have been able to ascertain, is the
site of the old church and round tower of Dromiskin, still
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called by the Irish speakers of the country Druim Inisclainn,
situated between Castlebellingham and the town of Dun-
dalk. Teige had agreed to received from his cousin, the
monarch Cormac, as much land in Bregia — the east side of
Meath — as his chariot could pass over on the day of the
battle, should he be victorious ; and we are told that after
the victory he entered the chariot, which stood waiting for
him, and gave orders to the driver to drive around CAiLL-
cearm (Telltown) and Tara. The driver, however, having
been bribed by the wise monarch, took advantage of Teige's
state of exhaustion and slumber after his wound, turned the
heads of his horses to the east, and did not stop until he
reached the river Liffey. His life paid for his treachery.
Teige returned to Tara, and received from Cormac the tract
of country reaching from Glais Nera (Nera's stream), at
Druim Inisclainn, to the Liffey. O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv. ,
p. 182, note(]88).
99°. " A fratricide." The term thus translated, Finghail
(a word compounded of ptie, a family, and gAib, a deed)
was the ancient ordinary as well as legal term for the slay-
ing of a relative of any appreciable degree of consanguinity ;
and pnJALAc was the term for the perpetrator of the foul
deed. O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 183, note (189).
100°. "The sons of Dealbhaeth." That is, the sons of
Tuireann, who were those who had committed the fratricide.
Dealbhaeth was another name for Tuireann. O'Curry,
Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 183.
101°. "When Lugh reached Tara."
1 02° and 103*. "And these were the three who were best
in agility and hand exercise (dexterity);" -peAf\j\ LAIN, "best
of hand*' — examples of the nominative of description.
104°. " The chain of Attention." This was a chain which
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the lord or chief of the house was supposed to shake, in the
same way that bells are now rung, to call silence and atten-
tion. I am not aware that such a chain is mentioned in any
really ancient tract or tale, but I have met it in some modern
ones. They had (according to the ancient tales), how-
ever, a branch, with small silver bells, with which they called
attention ; such as Senchas, the poet's, branch in the tale of
Bricrenn's Feast ; and they had a silver gong, which was
struck with a silver wand, such as King Connor MacNessa
had in the house of the Royal Branch of Emania, as told in
the Courtship of the Lady Kimer.
This chain is probably what Moore alludes to in the cele-
brated line : " The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee
long. " O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 184.
105°. "Do bAin, " to be rung ; " infinitive active translated
passively. This style is very generally adopted after verbs of
commanding and prohibiting.
106°. ~5&c Aon AjAib, "Each one of you." O'Donovan
remarks that in some situations the preposition A 5 in com-
position with the pronouns is rendered " of," a meaning it
never has of itself.
107°. peAOAniAjv "we know." This knowledge on the part
of the Tuatha De Danann was purely speculative, their sur-
prise and grief was consequently the greater on Lugh ac-
quainting them of the murder of Cian, of whose fate, till
now, they were unaware.
ic8*. A5Uf, etc. "And better is its knowledge (i.e. the
murder of Cian) at themselves, the killing they gave upon
him than at myself," i.e. " They know better than I," etc.
109°. ReACC i\i§ eijveArm, " The law of the King of
Eire," was a privilege that no fighting or slaying snould take
place in his house or in his presence, nor within tiie precincts
of Tara. His sanctuary or protection extended oeyond the
precincts of his palace ; but both words are put in the same
sense here. O'Curry's note, Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 185.
110°. CCAC rniot>cuAr\CA ; literally, "the house of
Mead-circling." This was the famous banquetting hall of
Tara, of which the shape and dimensions are still traceable.
1 1 iw. OA m Aj\bp Ainn, " If I had killed." Observe the use
of the conditional after -OA. Whether the verb that follows
it is to be regarded as equivalent to the English present or
past conditional, must be left entirely to the context to de-
termine.
II2Q. tttA'r* rnor\ Libfe i, "If it is great with you," i.e.,
" If ye consider it great ;" ni moj\ l/irm i, " We do not con-
sider it great;" tii beAj; tiomr-A, "We do not deem it
little."
1130. "Apples from the garden of the Hesperides." The
old Irish, from our Christian era at least, appear to have been
well acquainted with classical mythology. In the Book of
Lismore, a MS. of the middle of the fifteenth century, CAiLce,
in speaking of a certain woman, one of Finn MacCumhaill's
favourites, says that there was not a better woman than her
from the island of Teprofane to the garden of the Hespe-
rides. O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv. p. 188.
1 14°. SAOitimr-e, etc. "I think you ha\e not the power."
This is simply an expression of Lugh's opinion as to the
result that may attend their efforts, and not, as the transla-
tion in the Atlantis has it, " You have not the power."
i!4a In MS. 23 E., 16 R.I. A., the following additional
passage occurs here : ip AmtAit> bit) Aju-p crti ceAt) LAOC
t,Ait>r\e LAticAlmA Ag coiirieuo ATI §A|\uix>e 'f At1 ^°> f^
ceuT) fAti onbce. Th'L Aon •oon LAOCAib pn HAG ion-
corhr\Aic e te C]\1 ceut> feA|\ poipaLL por\ACCAC, " thus
it was, three hundred strong and valorous heroes guarded
the garden by day, six hundred by night. Not one of those
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•warriors but was fully equal for three hundred powerful deed-
doing men."
115*. Aop cneAt) Ajuf jAlAi^, " The party of wounds and
disease," i.e., " The wounded and infirm." In this way are
translated into Irish, English adjectival nouns ; as also, sub-
stantives denoting the followers of any profession, occupa-
tion, or calling.
116°. beif\ Aif\, "Overtake."
117°. "Would be in its wine," i.e., " Would be wine ;
see note, 45-6.
1 1 8°. See O'Curry's Lectures on " Ancient Irish weapons
of Offence," in " Manners and Customs of the Irish People."
119°. Such virtues, as are here attributed to the eating of
the flesh of pigs, were possessed in an equal degree by the
berries of the quicken-tree in the "Pursuit of Diarmuid and
Grainne : " Publications of the Soc. Pres. Irish Lang.
120°. CU|\AC to the present day continues to be the name
for a skin or canvas-covered boat, on the south and west coasts
of Ireland, without regard to their size or other peculiarities.
121°. 5eif, a conjuration or solemn vow (i) ; an injunction
enforced by a charm or bpell (2) ; a restriction (3) ; a spell
or charm (4); anything or act forbidden because of the ill-
luck which would result from its doing (5). In Text (p. 30) it
is used in the sense of an injunction, Tuireann informing his
sons that Lugh must comply with their second request, "if
geif •oo," " he is solemnly enjoined-" Further on in the text
(p. 31), the sons of Tuireann are prohibited from grumbling
at the narrowness of thecurach, which they had received from
Lugh, and jeir1 is employed to denote this restriction. The
mention of geif is of frequent occurrence in our Irish tales. In
the "Pursuit of Diarmuid and Grainne," the heroine imposed
the " Geasa " (or obligations) upon Diarmuid under pain of
danger and destruction to him, to accompany her from Tara
Ln her flight from Fionn MacCumhaill. In the "Fate of the
Children of Lir," Fionnghuala bewails the hardships she and
aer companions endure from the sea-water; but adds, ip
geif •oumn beic HIA eAjniAif, " We are prohibited from
being absent from it." For some interesting notes on re-
strictions of modern days, see introduction to Book of
Rights, Dublin, 1847 ; see also Tale of Deirdre in the
Trans. Gaelic Society, Dublin, 1808, and Trans. Oss. Soc.
Vol. v., p. 106 ; Dublin, 1860.
122°. AonbAipp; for derivation see Glossary.
123°. Literally, " And it would be very good with him
the thing that is not a use to him, i.e. , yourselves to fall
seeking it at last."
124°. See note 121.
125°. t)oi\ur' HA CAC^AC, "The door of the Court."
CACAip, in modern Irish, signifies a city, but in text it is used
to denote a court or residence of a monarch, and some modern
copies of the story have cuipn instead.
1253. A 5-ceut>6i-j\, "Forthwith ; '' literally, "In the first
hour." Here is where another scribe would enlarge on his
subject, introducing the visitors to the court with such prelim-
inary ceremony, as would impress them with a greatness of
the sovereign to whose court they were about to be presented.
126°. Observe the double meaning attached to the word
x>An in this conversation, both parties using the word, with,
however, a totally different application of its meaning.
I27a. This appears to have been a mere piece of politeness
on the part of his majesty, when he did not understand a word
of its sense. O'Curry, note, Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 198.
127." " By the ears, or ear to ear." This is the literal mean-
ing, but the idea is not ancient, as far as I know. O'Curry,
Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 200.
128°. Vujvur-, "easy." In the copy of the story edited by
i6o
O'Curry, and in other MSS. this was foinceAf, an obvious
phonetic reading of pinup.
129°. " So that a noble did not go (escape) without de-
struction," etc. This mode of expression, writes O'Grady,
reads strangely enough in English, making it appear that
none escaped but those who were killed. This, however, is
the Gaelic idiom, and in Irish expresses clearly, that not one
man being without (i.e., having escaped) destruction, departed
to tell his tale. See Trans. Oss. Soc.t vol. iii., p. 92. ed.
Mr. O'Grady.
130°. nim, poison, venom ; but here used figuratively co
express the deadly effect of Brian's onslaught.
131°. Literally ; " Until it went at them over them," *>.,
" Until they had overcome them."
132°. " Three nights and three days." This was a
favourite mystic number with ancient Irish writers.
133°. Anglicised tilly, and denoting in this form a very
small addition, though in Irish it has not this restricted
meaning.
134°. Remark the play on the word -oAn.
135°. Sicil, and also, but apparently by mistake in other
parts of the story, Siogair and Sigir, which are probably put for
Sicily. Of this Dobar I know nothing. O'Curry, Atlantis,
vol. iv., p. 205.
136°. An c-mneAll, itnceACCA fin, " That travelling
array." Observe that the demonstrative pronoun is separated
from its substantive by the governed word imceACCA.
137°. The termination ib of the dative plural, as in
•peo-OAib, is frequently found in MSS. for the termination of the
nominative plural. O'Donovan remarks that this termination
ib of the dative plural is very seldom used in the spoken Irish
of the present day, except in the County of Kerry, where, hov.
ever, it is as often made the termination of the nominative
plural. "Ap iiAtnACAib eiLe," " the other sons say," Text,
p. 35 and 41.
138°. " Asal, King of the Golden Pillars." He is called
Easal elsewhere ; but both being fanciful forms, the writer
was not particular. Asal was the name of a celebrated
champion in Westmeath, at the time of the birth of Conn of
the Hundred Battles ; but it is not probable that it was his
name suggested the present one. O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv.
p. 208.
139°. CfAeuT) fA t>eA]\A •OAOibpe, "what caused ye."
O'Donovan, Gr. p 257, gives -po OCAJAA amongst a list of
impersonal, defective and obsolete verbs. This verb is not
to be confounded with the expression -po •oeA|\A, "under
notice,'1 which, as the translation denotes, is made up of the
preposition and the noun. See note 92° ; and Battle of Magh
Rath, p. 306, ed. O'Donovan.
140°. t>eAf\nA bAoJAiL, "a gap of danger,'' denoted a
narrow gorge communicating between two territories, through
which an invading party might gain access to his enemies'
dominions. It was, therefore, the post of danger, as well as
honour, and the chiefs usually told off their bravest and
most trusty followers to guard it against the incursions of
their enemies. Sir Walter Scott, in Waverley, vol. i.,c. 16,
has given us a vivid description of the Pass of Bally-Brough,
" which was kept in former times by ten of the Clann Don-
nochie against a hundred of the Low Country carles," where
the graves of the slain were still to be seen in the little corri,
or bottom, on the opposite side of the burn. It is often
figuratively used to denote any place where great danger is
to be encountered and " the man in the gap" became con-
sequently the designation for anyone who selected such a
post of difficulty and peril.
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141*. "In Beinn Eadair;" not CeArtiAifi, as erroneously
given by O'Curry, in Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 214. Lugh set
out to Tara only when he learned of the approach of the
Children of Tuireann.
142°. Literally; " That there never was killed, and that
there never shall be killed, one that is not (at him) here his
eric, (that has not his eric here) ; still, there is a remnant that
it is not lawful to abandon, i.e. a balance of eric, and where
is the cooking spit, or the three shouts upon the hill that ye
have not yet given." Lugh, whilst admitting fully that suf-
ficient eric had been given for his father's murder, is im-
pelled by his hostility to the Children to demand from them
the remainder of the eric, that they may be subjected to still
further dangers in endeavouring to comply with his require-
ments.
143°. "The transparency of glass." Glass, or gloint, is fre-
quently mentioned in our old tales ; but I am unable to say
whether the word gloine, which now means glass, did not
in the olden times mean crystal. O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv.
P- 219-
144°. The portion of the story commencing " A^uf t>o
Leip, etc., page 57, par. 2, and terminating with bAtmc-
on page 58, is taken from MS. 23 E., 16 R.I. A., all
the other copies of the story, to which I had access, being
incomplete in this portion.
145°. A CUIT) jroLA ; "his portion of blood." In Irish the
word cuit>, a portion, is required, whilst the English idiom
omits it. This construction, corresponding somewhat to the
French " du" or^de la" ''some" is faithfully observed by the
Irish speaking people. Here are some examples of itsuse taken
from standard works : A •oeAfxbuijeAr- rib le rmoiitiA 5«r\
<iopAiti bun 5-curo eAnAtt) An oineAt) J-Q t>AOib, "youhava
sworn that your wares cost you this much ;" bAicce Ann A
CUTO fot,A, " drowned in his blood "; "ip mop An buAro Aguf
An bnij |*obi Ann A CUTO utfge, "great was the healing power
and efficacy which was in its water"; TOO mj fi A copAte
TI-A cum t»eo|\, " she washed His feet with her tears ; T>O
•66inc (PAT>) A j-curo jrotA Ain fon A jj-cneiTnm, " they
spilt their blood for their religion."
146°. Aintnum, cpd. prep., "over, above." tTluin denotes
a back ; hence, figuratively, in the prepositional phrase AIJ\
mum, over, above, on top of, upon ; ex. ni fAgf Ait) pAt) cLoc
Ain. mum cloice m, " they shall not leave a stone of it upon
a stone." Luke, xix. 44.
We sometimes find the nominative plural used instead of
the dative plural, and vice versa. Thus at page 3 of text
AJ V°™°nA15 occurs for Ag t 6™on^dAib. In MSS. 23 G.
i o and 23 E. 16. R.I.A. Ag toclAnnAib is the reading in
this passage. The text arfo;ds numerous instances of the
use of the dative plurai for nominative plural; and even in
the spoken Irish of the present day its use is by no means
confined, as O'Donovan considered it was. to the county of
Kerry (see note 137°). A correspondent (Mr. Thomas
Devine, of Youghal) informs me that in the counties of
Waterford and Cork Insh speakers, instead of saying, " CA
HA 'pt\' AntifO," prefer " c \ nA 'feAfVAib' (pronounced
farr-iv) Annj-o." Again, "cAimgnA 'feAnAib' AfceAC
cuJAm ; tli'L nA 'peAn.Aib' Le tjuL Ann; CA *6-paiL nA
'^rcAnAib ?' " are instances of its use of daily occurrence in
the spoken language. The same correspondent has referred
me to a stanza of a poem from a manuscript in his posses-
sion, written over fifty years ago by Patrick Condon, of
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Curriheen, near Ballymacoda, in which Condon, writing
home to a neighbour of his, gives a description of America,
in which he makes frequeat use of the dative plural for the
nominative plural. He says, stanza II : —
"Tlt'L 'mAgAib' tninecAOin tiA coin Ann,
Ace coittce A'f 'cnAnnAib' A'f gAnb-cin
teACGAin lomAncA 'f cunnAi£ce cj\6nA,
Cnoic A'f gleAnncA A*f ceAimcAin.
And James Fitzgerald, a brother-poet of Condon's, says, in
his letter of 52 stanzas to Condon in America, stanza 30,
verse 4 : —
" A'p •oeAiiCAn ' neAccAib' Le gAngum no-nion Leo."
The fine which the Fomorians placed upon the Tuatha
De Danann is given thus in M ->. 23. E. 16. R.I.A. "Ciof
Af ATI tic Aguf cio]- Af An lofAit»
It is worthy of remark, that, in some manuscripts, when
the past tense of the verb, in short negative sentences, is
omitted, its sign exercises an influence over the initial letter
of the adjective that immediately follows, by aspirating the
initial letter of Ihe adjective, thus: T1Toj\ ciAn t>o bAX>A]\
Ann (Text p. 4) ; nion mottle An nfj T>A lonnpnge (Text
p. 40) ; so also " nion eionncAC nupe nif pn, A phmn," " I
was not guilty of that, O Fionn," Oss. Soc., vol. iii., p. 186 ;
" nfon ftlfgceAC A b-puiL t>o t>oj\CAt>," "It was unjust that
their blood should be spilt " — Halliday's Edition of Keating,
p. Ixxxiv. We sometimes find that the sign of the sup-
pressed verb, in a positive or negative sentence, aspirates
the initial of the word that follows, whether it bi a noun or
an adjective. Thus, in Keating's preface, the passage oc-
curs : "tM'wernn rneAruim gup bpeAj; bAOCAncA." Mr.
Daniel Lynch, of Dunleer, who is well acquainted with the
Irish as spoken in Kerry, informs me that the aspiration of
the adjective in the instance here mentioned is of common
occuirence in th^t county.
In the Text, at p. 5, there occurs the following: "Ag
ceAcc Tj'iAfVfVAro ciofA Ajup CAII A b-jreAp MA h-&i]AeAnn."
In Casey's copy, and in 23. G. 10 R.I. A. b-jreAp also
occurs, though this eclipsing of the genitive plural is not
general, except when it is preceded by the article. Keat-
ing, however, eclipsed the noun in the absence of the
article; and O'Donovan considered "the adoption of it
would tend to clearness and distinctness in the language."
In O'Brien's Die. in voce c6tr)Aij\Le we find " cotriAiple
b-jreAt\ n-eif\iotin," "the general council of the Irish nation."
In all the copies of the story I have seen I find |\ij, a king*
to be the general form for this substantiv in all the cases of
the singular number. It is printed so in the Text. It is
now coming to b-i printed ]\i, in the nom. sg. ; ^105, in the
gen. sg. ; and |\vj in the dative and ace. sg. ; and the adop-
tion of these1 forms would tend to secure uniformity in a
noun which, O'Donovan remarked, " had been inflected dif-
ferently by the best Irish writers." — Ir. Grammar, p. 106.
T3o cuAot>Af\ ClAiin CuipeAiin, etc. ; cLAnn is here to
be regarded as a collective substantive plural, but in other
copies of the story we have 00 CUAIO, the singular form of
the verb (Text, p. 30;, which is also the form made use of
in the spoken Irish.
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CeAnn-poj\G, a leader (Text, p. 33). O'Reilly gives
ceATiriAfvc, a principal, chief, commander ; fr. A-JAC, a chief,
and ceAiiti, a head, a principal, of which, probably, ceArm-
porvc is a corruption.
When the personal pronouns j*6 or p can be omitted
without leaving the sense in any way doubtful, they are
omitted. Thus, at p. 2, par. 3, of Text, the nominative
pe of the two verbs, x>o CUATO and •o'lnnif, which the con-
text easily and readily determines, is left understood ; and
this is so in almost every line of the present Text, where the
construction of the sentence permits an ellipsis of the pro-
noun.
VOCABULABY.
ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE VOCABULARY.
ace. accusative case.
adj. adjective.
adv. adverb.
art. article.
asp. aspirated.
card, cardinal.
comp. compound.
cnmp. (after an adj.) compa-
rative degree.
comp. adj. compound adjec-
tive.
cond. conditional mood.
contr. contraction.
c. s. compound substantive.
conj. conjuntion.
consued. consuetudinal tense.
emph. emphatic.
dat. dative case.
def. defective.
def. art. definite article.
detn. or demons, demonstra-
tive.
die. dictionary.
f. feminine.
fern, ditto.
fr. (derived) from.
fut. future tense.
gen. genitive case.
gr. grammar.
hdb. habitual sense.
hist, historical tense.
id. the same(abbrev. of idem.)
i.t. that is or equivalent to.
imp. imperative mood.
indie, indicative mood.
ind. (with nouns, pronouns
or adj.) indeclinable.
infin. infinitive mood.
indef. indefinite.
insep. inseparable.
intens. intensitive.
interj. interjection.
interrog. interrogative.
/r. Irish.
*.r* 1 irregular.
irreg, )
lit. literally.
mas. masculine,
neg. negative.
num. numeral.
obs. obsolete.
ord. ordinal.
p. page.
part, participle.
pass, passive voice.
pi. plural number.
pers. person.
per1;, pron. personal pro-
noun.
pass, possessive.
prep, preposition.
prep, case, prepositional case
prep. pron. prepositional pro-
noun.
fres. present tense.
pron. pronoun.
pt. past tense.
recte, properly.
rel. relative.
sb. substantive.
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s. f. substantive feminine. v. n. verb neuter.
s. m. substantive masculine. v. s. verbal substantive.
sing: singular number. q. v. quid -vide, which see or
subj. subjunctive mood. refer to.
sub. v. the substantive verb. voc. vocative case.
v. a. verb active.
N.B. — The figures i, 2, 3, denote the first, second, and
third person of the verb, and the mark = an abridgment
of the word or words that follow. The numbers within
brackets thus (24) refer to pages of text where extract will
be found.
A, interj. the sign of the Voc. O.
A, /W.T. -pron. his, her, its, their.
A, rf/. pron. who, which, that ; all who, all that, that which,
what, in which signification the relative A eclipses the
initial of a verb (33).
A, prep, in, into (causes eclipsis) ; A b-piAX>nuife, comp. prep.
in the presence of; A h-Aicl,e, comp. prep, after; A
t>-cimcioLl, comp. prep, around, about ; A TI-AJATO,
comp. prep, in the face of, against, in opposition to ;
A n-r>iAit>, comp. prep, after ; A b--|:ocAif\, comp. prep.
with, together with, along with; A TI-AITVO, adv. on
high; A g-ceuboip, adv. forthwith, lit. in (tne) first hour
(after) ; A n-t>iu and Atnu.twfo. to-day.
A. rel.pron. (with prep, understood), in whom, in which.
A, prep, out, out of; used in the same sense as 6, from, or
Af, OUt Of.
A, a particle, sometimes used with the in/in, mood ; it is gene-
rally associated with the pres. and past tense of the
verb T>ei-|\, as A x>eij\ f6, he says, A •oubAifvc f6, he
said, and with the pres. tense of the substantive -verb
CAitn, I am, for the sake of euphony or emphasis.
v. a. and n. ir. say ; pres. -oeip ; pt. tense, A •oubAipc ;
and sometimes T>O f\Aix> ; fut. x>6A^fATO; infin. •oo
1\At>.
ACA, prep. pron. at or with them : emph. ACAfAri.
Acmuf AiiAC, adj. reproachful, reprehensive : 50 n-Acniu-
•pAttAC, adv. reprovingly, rebukingly ; fr. Actiiur'An, a
reproof, reproach, rebuke.
ACC, conj. but, save, except ; ACC 50, provided that, on con-
dition that.
AT/, prep. A and T>' for pass. pron. t>o ; in thy.
*X), an intens. inseparable prefix ; written AIX>, before a
*ord whose first vowel is slenden
adj. great, mighty, vast ; awful, huge, terrible ;
p, exceeding great.
, s. m. cause, reason, occasion, account ; gen. -AII\ ;
also a subject or matter which may be shaped or con-
verted to another form ; hence, xvobA^ •OA r\ij (63) two
royal heirs apparent, or two heirs presumptive : Air» AM
AX>bAj\ fin, for that reason ; therefore.
At>F«Air\, comp. adj. dat.fem. of At>pJAr\, intensely cold, ex-
cessively cold (46).
AT>LAicce, pt. part, of At>l,Aic, bury, inter ; infin. -tACAt).
At>LAicce, s. m. and f. gen, and pi. of At>l/ACA&, a burial, in-
terment.
, s.f. a confession, an acknowledgment ; gen. -AlA,
pi. id.
, s.f, gen. of At>triAiL
A-otriAtn, v. a. imp. pi. let us confess, acknowledge.
A'omuig, -v. a. imp. confess, acknowledge ; infin.
At>nACAt>, v. a. ft. pass, of AOTIAIC, bury, inter.
At)HAiTn, -v. a. pres. ten;e, I adore ; imp. ATJAI^ ; inf. AX>r»A'6.
AetJA-jYOA, ind. adj. aerial.
Ag, prep, at ; with, by ; sign of the pres. part ; AJ ro, here,
Ag pn, there, A£ rnaT), yonder.
AJA, prep. AJ, with which is combined the pronouns', posses-
sive or relative, — AJ A, at his, her, its, their ; at whose
whom, or which.
AJA, ind. adj. lucky, successful; conquering.
A£Aib, prep. pron. at or with ye or you ; emph. AgAibfe ;
SAC Aon AgAib, each one of you ;fr. AJ, and ib.
AJATO, s. f. a face, front; gen. and pi. Aijce; gen. also
AJAit)e ; loriA AJAit), in the front of it (5); TIA AJATO
(mas.) against it : A TI-AJJAI'O, comp. prep, in the face
of, against, in opposition to (governs gen.).
, prep, pron. at us, with us ; emph. AgAinne ; fr. AJJ
and inn.
v. a. fres. tense, I speak or converse with.
, prep. pron. at me, with me; emph. AgAtnr'A, Aj&m
fein, at myself ; fr. A£ and me.
AJAC, prep. pron. at thee , with thee ; emph. AgACf A : fr.
AJ and cu.
Agtif , conj. and ; as : frequently contracted to if, A*f and 'r\
Aicit), s. ft disease, sickness ; JVM, -•oe, pi. -T>eACA.
AicioncA, s.f. gen. of Aicne, nature.
1, s. f. the ocean ; gen. -re.
prep. pron. at him; with him; emph. Aigere,
, at himself;/)-. AJ; and e.
, s.f. the mind, inclination, intention; gen.
Aigce, s.f. gen. and pi. of AJATO.
Ait, s. f. pleasure, will ; gen. AilLe : •oob* AiL iiotn, I
would like.
Aill, adj. noble, pleasant, agreeable ; comp. Ailie, pi. id.
AiVle, adj. comp. and pi. of Atumti, handsome, fair, beauti-
ful ; if AiVle, most beautiful.
Aim or AiTi, a negative particle, having the same force as in
or un, in the English.
Ainv6e6iTi, sr f. unwillingness, reluctance: -com' Ainroeom,
despite me, -o' Aft Ti-Aithi>e6iri, despite us.
Aiinpp, s.f. a time, a season; gen. -ij\e.
AUI, a privative or negative particle, as A-mirmi, rough; an
intensitive particle, as AinceArm very violently; also AH.
Aingcir1, s. f. malice; gen. -cife.
AingiTje, ind. adj. malignant.
AiniAjvniAj\CAC, c. adj. very powerful, most furious.
Ainm, «. m. a name ; gen. &nm&,pl. AnmArmA.
AintrmeocAf\, v. a. Jut pass, shall be called or named ; imp.
act. Ainmni g, inf. AinmniuJAt).
Ainniin, c. adj. unsmooth, rough, passionate ; 50 Ti-AinirHn,
adv. passionately ; fr. An, negative, and min, soft, mild.
AinceAiin ({,0 li-) adv. very violently ; fr. Ain, intensi-
tive and ceAtin.
Aifv, prep. pron. upon or on him or it; from him or it.
A1|\, prep, (governing the dative} on, upon ; lor, concern-
ing, on account of ; in exchange or return for ; over,
upon ; trusting to, depending on, having ; Aifv LACAI|\,
adv, on the spot, immediately ; Ai^tD-cuifor ATJ-COT'AC,
adv. at first, in the beginning ; AIJ\ CBAHA, adv.
in like manner, likewise ; Aip AIJ\T>, adv. on high ;
AIJ\ Aif, or CAfv Aif, adv. back ; ATJ\ Aif, adv. will-
ingly ; A1|\ 615111, adv. with difficulty, unwillingly;
A1J\ TI-A niA|AAC, adv. on the morrow ; A1|\ ceAiin, comp.
prep, for, to, used after verbs denoting motion, as •oo
gl/UAi]" "ouine A1|\ A cionn, a man went for it ; Aifv fAX),
comp. prep, throughout, fr. A1|\, prep, and fAT), length ;
A1|\ -peAt), throughout, during, fr. A1|\, on, and peAt),
space; AIJ\ eAgLA 50, comp. conj.t lest that, for fear
that. Ai|\, with the verb beip, signifies overtake. A-p
and f?o]\ are the original forms of this preposition.
Ai]\t>, adj. often prefixed to words whose first vowel is
slender ; but AJVO, when the first vowel is broad, hav-
ing the effect of an intensitive particle.
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>, s.f. a quarter of the heavens, a point of the compass,
a cardinal point ; a direction ; gen. Ai-|voe.
Aijvor\ij, c. s. m. a supreme king or ruler ; fr. AJVO and
t«5'
Aij\e, s. f. notice, heed, care, attention ; gen. td.
Aif\eAC, adj. attentive, heedful, careful ; 50 h-Ai]\eAC, adv.
attentively ; fr. Aif\e.
\, -v. a. pt. tense of Aif\5, despoil, rob, plunder;
inf. (tr.) -o'Ar\5Aiti.
jeAn, s. m. a symptom, a sign, an indication.
), s. m. silver ; gen. -JTO.
Aij\ijim, v. a. pres. tense first pers. sing, of Aifug, heed,
notice, mind, perceive ; inf. AI]MUJA-O.
Aifvtn, s. m. pi. of Af\m.
Ainni-juiATO, c. adj. red-armed.
Aif, adv. back, backwards ; as CAJ\ Atf, backwards, AIJ\
Aif% id.
Aif, adj. free, willing ; AIJ\ Air- no AIJA eij;eAn, willingly or
unwillingly, nolens, volens.
AifoeA]A, s. m. a journey, a peregrination; gen. --Dip,
pi. id.
Aif git), s. f. a present, a gift, a favour.
Airioc, i.e. AIT--IOC, s. m. or f. restitution, repayment ; gen.
-rig, and pgre, feA^cA, pi. id. ; fr. Aif, a reiterative
participle, and ioc.
Aifce, prep. pron. out of her, out of it ; fr. Af, prep.
and 1.
Aic, s.f. a place, a locality ; gen. Aice.
Aic, adj. pleasant, pleasing, agreeable.
AIC, a prefix. See AC.
AiceAfAC, adj. valorous, victorious ; fr. ACAf, victory.
AlceoncAoi, v. a. hob. pres. ye or you know, distinguish;
imp. Aicm.
AicjeA^jAA, c. s. m. an abridgment ; a short way, a short
cut.
A1C1M, v. a. order, command, enjoin, direct ; •o'Aicin, ft.
tense ; fr. Aicne s.f. an order, command, injunction,
mandate.
A1C1M, v. a. know, discern, distinguish ; fut. AiceoviAit) ;
pres. Aicnim.
Aicif, s. m. gen. of AiceAf, woe, desolation, destruc-
tion.
Aicle, (A h-) comp.prep. (governs the gen. case) after.
Aicne, s.f. knowledge, discernment, acquaintance,
v, v. a. pt. tense, y«>". knew.
Aicnit>eA'O,\ v. a. pt. pass, of Aicmj; of the same meaning
AicnieAt), / as the imp. Aicm, which see.
v. a. know, discern, distinguish, ; fr. sb. Aicnc,
knowledge, this verb in -15 is formed, whence the pre-
ceding two forms ; from AI en e is also formed Aicmm,
whence its tenses are regularly formed like those of avert
in -itn, the penultimate of the future being, however,
formed in eo. See Aicin.
ngeADAp, v. a. pt. tense, pi. 2. ye recognised, knew;
imp. Aicnij.
1, v. a. relate, report, recount ; fr. AIC, the reiterative
and rur1, intelligence, knowledge ; fut. Aicpeof AID.
ceAn, v. a. pres. pass, of Aicnif.
, \adj. handsome, elegant, lovely ; comp. AiLne, by
Al/umn,/ syncope for AlAinne.
A1A/A&, s. m. fame, renown.
AU,mur\AC, s. m. a foreigner ; gen. -A1§, pi. id.
ALcuJAt), v. s. in. thanksgiving, thanks; gen. -tnjce,
pi. id.
Am', for Ann mo, in my ; Am' j?Attr\At>r'A, along with me.
Am, a negative particle. See Aim.
Am, adv. even, also, but ; t>oi5 Am, for even.
AITIAC, adv. out, without ; only used with a verb denoting
motion.
, adv. as, like, how.
, adv. only ; ACC AtriAm, but only.
, s. m. a hireling soldier, a mercenary ; gen. -Aif,
pi. id. ; the derivation as given in Cormac's Glossary is
Am-for1, restless, " because he is never at rest or station-
ary, but going from place to place, or from one lord to
another."
, comp. prep, among, amongst, amid, (governs the
gen. case) ; fr A prep, in, and meAfc, mix.
&mj;Af\, s. m. a disadvantage, an inconvenience, an afflic-
tion; gen. -A1|\; fr. Am, a negative particle, and JAJA,
an advantage, a convenience.
, adv. thus, so, in like manner.
, adj. severe, difficult, sharp.
g, adv. without, outside ; only used when a state of rest
is implied by the verb; fr. A, in, and muig, a plain, field
Amur*, s. m. a form of AtriA-p.
An, def. article, the; gen. sing. fern. tiA, of the; gen. sing,
mas. ATI ; pi. mas. and fern. TIA; ATI -pij jin, that king ;
An cr\AC, adv. when ; An CATI, or ATI UAIT\, adv. when ;
An CAn pin, adv. then ; AH CAn T-O, adv. now.
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An, interrog. particle, whether (causes eclipsis).
An, intensitive prefix ; as AnrnnACC, excessive authority,
tyranny.
, s. m. mercy, quarter ; preservation, safety ; gen.
-AlU
, s. m. the life or soul; gen. AIHTIA, pi. AntnAnnA.
th, adv. seldom, rare.
AnbneAG, c. s. m. a tyrannical or unjust sentence ; fr. AH,
intensitive, and bneAC, s. m. judgment, sentence, de-
cision.
A n-t>iu, comp. adv. to-day.
AntnA, s. m. gen. of ATIAITI.
AntnAnnA, s. m. pi. of Aitim.
Ann, prep, in ; prep. pron. in him or it, for it : adv. there.
Ann]*, prep, in ; form of Ann before An, the article.
AnnfA, adj. comp. ir. of lonrhmn, dear, beloved.
Annpn, adv. there.
Annpo, adv. here.
Anocc, adv. to-night.
Anoin, adv. from the east ; generally connected with a verb
denoting motion.
Anoif, adv. now.
AnfniAcc, c. s. m. excessive authority, tyranny; fr. An, in-
tensitive and priACC.
AnuAcbAfAC, c. adj. very terrible, dreadful, awful ; fr. An,
intensitive, and uAcbAfAC, fr. UAcbAj*, terror, dread.
AOibmn, adj. delightful, pleasant; comp. AOibne.
AOibneAf, s. wz.delight, gladnessjoy ; gen. -nip, and -neAfA.
AoineAcc, (A n-) adv. phr. in unity, together.
AomneAc, c. s. one person, anyone.
Aon, adj. one, same, single, any; 50 h-Aon tACAin, to the
one spot ; JAC Aon COAC, every single house ; Aon
nit), anythuig ; Aon UAin, once ; sub. one individual or
person; as JAC Aon AgAib each one of you. Aon is
very often written em, when it enters into composition
with a word whose first vowel is slender.
c, J. m. an assemblage of the people ; gen. -A1§, pi.
, s. the one or unrivalled mane ; the name of
Manannan's steed; from Aon, sole — Latin unicus,
and banp, the unrivalled head or animal (of all
animals).
f, j. m.&f. folk, people; gen. AOfA; Aor cneAt), the
wounded; AOf •OAnA, (Aor eAtAt)Ain MS. 23 E. 16),
tee under tJAnA : luce ana AOf signify the same ; see
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O'Donovan's Supp. to O'Reilly's Die. ; AOJ* f.eA'omA,
attendants (tucc f eAt>niA, MS. 23, E. 16).
Af«, interrog. particle, whether; of the same signification as
AM, but used with/£. tense (causes aspiration).
Af\, def. v. says, quoth ; used only in introducing a quo-
tation, and having the same meaning as A -oeif..
Af\, prep, an original form of Aif..
Af\, s. m. slaughter, destruction ; gen. Aif,.
Af\, pass. pron. our (causes tclipsis).
AJ\A, s. m. a charioteer; gen. id. or A^Ati, dat AfVAiti.
Af.Aon, adv. at one, both, together ; Af.Aon teif, along
with him.
AJVO, adj. high, mighty, great, noble ; 6f Af.t>, on high,
publicly, aloud ; see AIJYO.
Ajvo-nof, c. s. m. high renown, reputalion or fame, gen.
-noif.
A|vo-rnAice, c. s. m. the principal or arch chiefs: found only
in the plural.
Af\if, adv. again.
Af.m, s. m. a weapon, an arm ; gen. Aij\m, pi. zVf.and AJMTIA.
Af.mAib, J. m. dat. pi. of A-JMTI.
Af,tncA, pt. part, armed.
Af,f\AccAc, adj. powerful, vigorous, brave ; comp. -CAije ;
50 ri-Af.f.ACCAC, adv. vigorously : fr. A-^AC, strength,
vigour, power.
f, s. m. vigour, strength, valour, courage ; gen.
, adj. gen. f em. of A|\|\ACCAC ; comp. id.
AT*» PreP- out of, from ; Af pn, adv. from that, thence; Af
A 1i-AicLe -pn, or A h-Aiclepn, from the day after, after
that, thereafter.
Af, prep. pron. out of him, out of it ; from him or it.
Af, or if, assertive verb, pres. is or are ; Af eAt>, it is.
Af, conj. for Aguf , and.
Af CCAC, adv. in, into ; more properly if CCAC, in (the) house ;
it is always used with a verb expressive of motion.
AC, an intensitive particle ; as in AUJAjVb, comp. adj. very
rough; it has also a negative p >wer ; as in ACCUITIA'D,
deforming. Ac is written AIC before a word, whose
first vowel is slender.
ACA, sub. verb. ir. pres. tense, am, art, is, are ; A emphatic,
and CA ; imp. bi,
., s. m. a father ; gen. ACAJV pi. Aicf.eACA and con-
tractedly Aicf.e, gen. pi. Aicj\eAC, and, by syncope,
ACfiAC.
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ACACAf\, sub. verb used impersonally; as ip IHAIC ACACAJI
AjAHin, it is well it is with us, it is well oft' we are (40);
CACATI 50 rtiAic teif, it is well with him, he is treated
well ; ex. O } Donovan 'j Irish Gr. p. 254.
Acctnnje, s.f. a petition, a request, entreaty; gen. id.pl.
-eAt>A.
Accum&t), pres. part, and inf. of Accum, deform, disfigure.
Ac§&rib, c. adj. very rough or rude ; fr. AC and gArxb.
ACJXAC, see under ACAIJ\.
b', for bA or bu'o. pt. tense of if ; used before an initial
vowel or aspirated -p.
bA, assertive -verb, pt. tense ; sometimes used for the fut.
(56).
bAt>, (50 m-) pres. subj. of it1.
bAt>Af\, v. sub.pt. tense , pi 3. they were ; modern form, bix>e-
l>AiUie, adj. gen. fern, of bAtb, dumb, mute; silent, quiet.
bAilc-beimeAmiAC, c. adj. of the great blows ; fr. bAil/c,
great, mighty, strong, stout, and beimeAnnAC, adj. fr.
benn, a stroke, a blow.
bAit,e, s. m. a residence of a chieftain, a castle, a military
station ; gen. id. pi. bAitce.
b&m, v. s. a taking, an extracting, a plucking; gen. bAince.
, v. a. pluck, tear-out, cut, take from ; extort, extract;
touch, occur, appertain or refer to ; ring; fut. bAinpo ;
inf. t>o bAin.
bAinceil/e, s.f. a wife, a spouse ; gen. id. recte, beAviceiLe.
s. m. a limb, a member ; gen, -AlUl, pi. id.
cc, s.f. a company of women ; gen. -AC'CA.
-, s. m. danger, apprehension ; gen. -AiL, pi. id,
\>AI\C, s.f. a ship, gen. bAipce; pi. bArvcA.
bA]\ri, s. m. the top, the uppermost part of anything ; gen.
bAir\|\, pi. id; Aip bA|\r\ VIA t»-conn,on the crest of the
waves.
bAf, s. m. death ; gen, -Aif,^/. id.
;, adj. little, small; trifling, insignificant; comp. (ir.)
nior1 LU§A.
, s. m. a mouth ; see beut.
bAtiA, c. adj.pl. ofbeAL-bAti, white-mouthed.
s.f. a woman, a wife; gen. rrmA, dat. mriAOi ; pi.
mtiA, gen.pl. bAn ; dat.pl. mtiAib.
beAtinuij. v. a. bless, greet, salute; inf. -UJAT).
beAnnuijce, v, s. m, gen, of beAnnugAt), a salutation, a
greeting.
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beAn-f\io§Airi, c. s.f. a queen; gen. -
beAj\A, s. m. gen. of bioj\, a spit.
beAj\Aib, dat.pl. of biop.
beAj\ATn, (t>o) v. a. ir. fut. we shall give ; imp. bei|\.
beAj\-pAit>, (•oo) v. a. ir.fut. shall or will give.
beAfuiA, S.f. a breach ; a gap ; gen. id.pl. -tiATOe.
beACA, s. f. the life, the world ; gen. id. and sometimes
beACAX) ; dot. is also found written beACATO : beACA is,
however, found written for all cases of the sing.
O' Donovan' ~ Ir. Gr. p. 106.
beACAT>Ac, ( s- m- * beast- .an animal ;Tf ;z-/A1F LberHA;
beiceA&Ac, ^ ^A°™e-?£CA> a Druidical beast, ht.
a beast of Druidism.
beit>, ("oo) v. n. ir. shall or will be ; imp, bi.
beim, s.f. a stroke, a blow, a cut ', gen. -eitne, pi. -meAnriA.
beimeArm, s.f. gen. pi. of beim.
beirmormAc, or -ineAnnAC, adj. effective, vigorous,
benni, s.f. the top or summit of a mountain; any steep or
high hill ; also a promontory or headland towards the
sea ; as beinn eAT>Ai]A, the HOI of Howth ; gen. beinne.
, -v. a. ir. bring, bear, take, carry, seiae; obtain, get;
pt. tense, fvu^, sometimes •DO beij\; fut. beAf\fAi& ; inf.
•oo brveic : beirx Aip, overtake.
bei]A, v. a. ir. give, grant, present, bestow, confer ; pres. tense
•oo b~ir> (37) ; pt. tense cug ; fut. beA|\f AID ; inf. fr.
CAbA1|\ is -00 CAbA1|AC.
bei|\ (00) v. a. ir. pt. tense of bein, bring ; as c^eut) t)o
bei]\ •oo'n cr\ic r-eo IAT), what has brought them to this
country (51).
beij\ce, -v. s. gen. of bei)\eAt>, a taking, a bringing away,
a carrying away (57).
beic (t>o), sub. verb. .inf. to be ; v. sub. a being, an existing :
cond. would be, for the modern no bei6eAt> (38).
beo, ind. adj. living, alive.
beox)Acc, s. f. liveliness, sprightliness, vigorousness.
be]\ (•oo), •v. a. ir. fut. I will give, bring, or take away;
imp. beip ; TOO be-p CAC, I will give battle,
beul, s. m. a mouth ; emph. beulfA ; gen. belt, pi. id.
bi, sub. -v. n. ir. be ; pres. tense, CA or ACA ; hab. pres.
bix>eAnn or bionn ; pt. tense, TJO bi, was ; fut. biAi6 or
beit> ; cond. bei-oeAT) ; pres. subj. 50 b-puiL ; pt. subj.
50 -pAib ; inf. -oo beic.
biAO sub. v. ir. cond. ancient form of beit>eAT>.
biAt>, s. m. food, sustenance ; gen. bit).
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5iAt>, sub. v. ir.fut. tense, put for biAt)Ait> or bei-oit), they
will be (28).
biAit>, sub. -verb, ir.fut. indie, and subj. shall or will be.
biAit), sub. verb. pres. hab. they are wont to be ; this form
is used as a. pres. subj. where in modern Irish b--pui1iT>
would be used ; ex. -oo geobAtn flop CA VI-AIC tonA
m-biAit> nAh-eic Agup An CA-pbAt) Aif\ coiirie-ut), we
shall ascertain in what place are the steeds and the
chariot under guard (44).
biAf, sub. verb.fut. shall or will be (20 and 22).
bit), s. v. ir. pres. hab. is or are usually (27).
,!? > sub. v. ir. hab. pres. they usually are.
bit), s. m. gen. of biAt).
bft>eAf , sub. "v. ir. pt. tense, I was.
bf ot> (t>o), s. v. ir. pt. hab. used to be ; also bfoe&t).
Is. m. an enemy ; gen. -bit). The derivation, as
given in Cortnac's Gloss, is ; " bft)bA Greece"
bi-ACAnACOf, i. e. bis-mortuus, 1. At) poiile
bAf fo -01, he deserves death twice."
bfot>5At> (t>o), v. a. and n. pt. hab. used to start ; imp.
bfotg, start, rouse, startle ; inf. t)O bfot)5At).
bio|\, s. m. a spit ; gen. beAjAA, //. bio^ACA.
biojAAc, adj. pointed; pi. -ACA ; fr. biop, a sharp point, a
spear.
biof, s. v. ir. pres. hist, is or are (26).
bic (AIJV) comp. adv. in existence; at all.
s. m. fame, renown, reputation ; also blAc, gen.
, s. m. taste, savour, flavour ; gen.
bteACCAc, s. f. a milch cow ; gen. -Aije, pi. -ACA :
a dry or barren cow.
, s.f. gen. and pi. of bt/iA&Ain, a year : as pi. it is
syncopated for bl.iAt>AnriA.
, c. s.f. an united stroke ; fr. bt-ofc, a congre-
gation, and beim.
bo, put for bA, or but), pt. tense of if , the assertive verb.
bj\Aicf\e, s. m. pi. ofbf\ACAif\; contracted fr. bfVAicpeACA.
bf\Aic|\eAC, s. m. gen. pi. of bj\ACAi]\.
, s. m. dat. pi. of b|\ACAip.
i, adj. dewy;_/r. bj\Aon, a drop; dew.
), adv. for ever ; lit. to judgment (last).
\, s. m. a brother; gen. -A|\, pi. bpAicpeACA, and by
contraction b|\Aicne ; gen. pi. bpAic|\eAC.
bj\ACAfi, s. m. gen. of b
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bpeic, (T>O), -v. a. ir. inf. of bei j\.
bj\eic, v . s. a bringing or bearing away, a seizing, a taking.
bj\iACA]A, s. m. a word of honour ; gen, b|Aeicj\e, pi. bpiA-
CJAA.
b|\iocc, s. m. a spell, an incantation; gen, -CA, pi, id.
bf\ifeAO, v. s. a breaking, a breach ; gen. b]\ir-ce.
bj\irce, pt, part, broken.
bpoit>, s.f. bondage, captivity: gen. -t>e.
bpom, s.f. dat. of bpo, a quern, a handmill ; gen, br\6ti,/7.
b|\6ince.
bj\u 5, s. m. a palace, a distinguished house ; notably that on
the Boyne, known as bpuj HA boinne ; gen. bpuij, pi.
bj\uitin, s. f. dat. of bj\onn, a limit, a time; 50 br>uirm AH
b]\ACA, to the brink of judgment.
&A, ind. adj. precious, valuable.
t), s. f, victory, conquest, success; excellence, virtue,
an attribute, a good quality ; gen. -Ait>e ; //. -A&A.
/, v. a. strike, beat; pt. tense, t>o buAit; fut. buA>L-
&; inf. t»o buALAT).
, adj. comp. of b«An, lasting ; more lasting ; super, vf
btiAine, most lasting.
buAl/A& (•oo), v. a. inf. of buAiL
buAti, adj. lasting, long, durable.
buAti-oit>e, s. a tragic and hopeless fate.
bA, "i assertive verb, pt. tense of ir, is; was ; buft is also found
but), | as a fut. tense, instead of buf.
buToe, s.f. thanks; gen. id.
buit)eAC, adj. (fr. btnx>e) thankful; 50 buioeAC, adv.
thankfully.
buTOeAcur1, s. m. thanks, gratitude; gen. -Air1;//1. btMt>eAc,
thankful.
buit)Tie, s.f. gen. of buit>eAn, a company, a troop, a band,
a party.
buifvbe, adj. comp, of bo]\b, haughty, severe.
bunAt), s, m. origin, stock, root, foundation ; gen. -Aif>,
pi. id.
bti|\, pass. pron. your (causes eclipsis').
buf, v. ir. fut. of if.
CA, interrog. pron. what, or where.
CAbAifv, s. f. help, relief, succour; gen. cAb|\A, and
-DAt\CA.
CAC, indef. pron. all, all in general ; gen. CAIC.
i8o
CAT)Af, s. m. honour, friendship, respect ; gen. -AIJ\
CAin, s.f. tribute, tax ; gen. CAHA, and also CAM AC.
CAijvoeAr, s. m. friendship, amity ; gen. -•Dip.
CAir-pAclAc, c. adj. of the twisted teeth ; Jr. CAJ% twisted,
and -pAcLAc.yir -pACAil, a tooth.
CAIC, s. m. gen. of CAC, a cat.
CAIC, -v. a. spend, use, consume, exhaust ; throw, cast ; inf.
•oo CAiceArh.
CAiceArh, v. a. inf. of c&ii ; v. s. m, spending, consuming,
wasting ; gen. CAicce.
CAl/A-oporxC, c.s.m. a harbour, port, haven; gen. -jbuij\c,
pi. id.
CALrriA, ind. adj. brave, valiant, stout
CAM A, s.f. gen. of CAin.
CAOCAC, num. adj. fifty.
CAOineAt), v s. m. a wailing, a lamenting, a crying; gen.
CAOince : anglicised, keening.
CAomce, v. s.gen. of CAOineAt).
CAomceAc, adj. sad, sorrowful, mournful, melancholy.
CAot, adj. slender; s. m. the smaller part, the narrow part
of anything; cAoL coir-e, the small of the foot (46),
CAoL A 1111111111, the small of his neck ( 1 7).
CA|\A, s. m. a friend; gen. CA]\AT>, dat. cAj\Ait>; pi.
CA]\bAt>, s. m. a chariot, a carriage, a waggon, a litter ;
gen. -Ait), pi. id.
CAj\r»Aij;, s.f. a rock ; gen. cAfVjAAige, syncopated, cAipge.
CAf, adj. twisted.
CAC, s. m. a cat ; gen. CAIC, pi. id.
CAC, s. m. a battle ; gen. CACA, pi. id.
CACAip, s.f. a fortress, a court ; gen. CACJ\AC, dat.
pi. -f\ACA.
CAcb&f\t\. c. s. m. a helmet, a head-piece ; gen. -
CAC-rnileAX), c. s. m. a hero, a battle champion; gen. -rinlro.
CAcpAC, s.f. gen. of CACAIJV.
CACfiAlj, S. f. dat. Of CACA1 j\.
CACuJAt>, •v.s.m. a fighting, battling; gen. -mjce.
1 num. adj. a hundred ; •OA CCAT), two hundred.
CGUT) _)
ceAt>, num. adj. first.
C, adj. sensible, intelligent, discreet.
adj. same, similar; trtAfv An g-ceunnA, like the
same, likewise, also ; s. the same thing.
c6A-ooip, | adj. immediate ; A g-ceAnoi^, or ^A ceAnoiri,
ceut»6ir» ) adv. at the first hour, immediately, at once.
ceAtiA, s. m. gen. of cion, love, affection, desire.
, adv. already, however, howbeit; AccceAiiA, but (all)
the same, nevertheless, howbeit ; AIJ\ ceAtiA, in like
manner, likewise; ACC ACA tiro CCAIIA, but there is one
thing, however,
, v. a. bind, fasten, fetter, tie, secure, inf. -At.
igAt,, s. m. a knot, a tie ; gen. -AiL, pi. id.
ceArm (or cionn) s. m. a head, a point (27) ; end, limit, ter-
mination (27) ; gen. and pi. cirm : IOMA]\ g-cionrt,
ahead of us, before us, impending over us ; CAJ\ A
g-ceAtin (or- A g-ceAnn MS. 23 E. 16), over them, for
them ; AIJ\ ceArm, or A g-ceArm, comp.prep. to, or for,
in which sense it is used after a verb expressive of
motion.
ceAntiAC, s. m. a buying, a purchasing ; a reward.
ceAtinAtb, s. m. dat.pl, of ceArm.
ceAtiripojAC, c. s. m. a chief, a leader, a ruler, a governor ;
gen. cinnpmpc, pi. id.
ceAfAcc, s. j. fault-finding, grumbling, murmuring ; gen.
-ACCA.
ceACf\Af\, s.f. four persons, men or women.
ceil-, v. a. conceal, hide ; inf. t>o ceiLc.
ceile, s. m. &°f. a spouse, a husband ; gen. id. ; indef.pron.
each other ; 1e ceiLe, adv. phr. together.
, v. n. bid farewell, take leave ; inf.
), s. m. leave, farewell; gen. -AIT>.
ceiVL, s f. dat. of ciAVL.
cei]\t>e, s. f, gen. of ce~A|vo, science, art ; trade, profession,
or calling.
cent), num. adj. a hundred ; tiAoi ceut), nine hundred.
CIA, interrog. pron. who, which, what.
ciAlX, s. f. sense, reason, meaning; discretion, prudence ;
gen. c6itl,e, dat. ceiLl/.
ciAti, adv. long, lasting, tedious ; comp. ceine.
ciAtiAib (6) adv. a little while ago.
cm,\conj. although, even ; eft) or git) q\A ACC, comp. conj.
git),/ howbeit, albeit, however.
git) be, cibe, or gibe, indef.pron. whoever, whatever.
cit>jreAt>, v. a. ir.fut. of cim, I see ; I shall or will see.
cit>ceAj\, v. a. ir.pres.pass. used impersonally; as cit>ceA|\,
•OAtnr'A, it appears to me ; mihi videtur.
<Mrn, (t>o) v. a. ir. pres. tense, I see; pt. tense, cormAi|\c;
fut. citipt) ; cond. cf-opeAt) ; imp. |:eic.
c (f A01|\) c. adj. (free) clansman, free-born.
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Cinn, v. a. determine, decide, resolve on; pt. tense, T>O
cinn ; inf. t>o cinneAiriAin.
cinn, s. m. gen. and pi. of ceAnn.
cinnbeAnc, c. s. f. a helmet, head-dress ; gen. -beince,
pi. id.
cmneAt), v. s. a. a deciding, determining, resolving on ; gen.
cm nee.
cmneAt) (T)O), v. a. pt. pass, was resolved, decided ; imp.
ac. citin.
don, s. m. a desire, fondness; gen. ceAnA.
ciotin, s. m. a form of ceAtm, q. v. ; 6f A 5-01 onn, over,
or above them ; 6f bun g-cionn, over ye or you; ion An
g-cionti, ahead of us, before us, awaiting us; Ain A
5>cionn, for them, before them ; 6f ciotin, cotnp. prep.
over, above.
cionnop, interrog. pron. in what way, how, what.
ctonnbAt), s. m. a slaughtering, maiming, mangling ; gen.
-AID, pi. id.
. «, . Tor -AIJ, v. a. take away, waste, consume ;
. ^ ,. *'. -! shed, mutilate, mangle, mortify ; pt. tense,
'1 ^ U1*' ^ t>o cioripbAij,
ciof, s.f. rent, tax ; gen. ciofA ; <Hof-CAin, a rent-tribute.
ciuriiAif, s.f. a selvage, edge, borders or limits of a country ;
gen. -f e, pi. -f OACA ; ciuthAif-jorxniA, c. adj. pi.
blue-bordered.
clAif-teAcnA, c. adj. pi. of -LeACAn, wide-grooved; fr.
clAf, a furrow, a trench ; a hollow, a groove.
ciAnn, s.f. a tribe, a clan, children ; gen. ciomne ; dot.
cLoirm,^/. cl/AtinA.
t), s. m. a change, an alteration ; a reflection (17) ;
gen. -oit>, pi. id.
v. a. defeat, subdue, conquer ; inf. (ir) T>O cT/Aoi-oe.
f). (t)o), v. a. pt. pass, of clAoro.
i, adj. bent, inclined.
s. m. a. board, a table ; a plain ; gen. -Ain, pi. id. and
c\A, ind. adj. left, left-handed.
cteAcc, w. a. and n. accuscom, habituate, inure, practise,
use ; inf. cieACCAt).
cteAf , s. m. a feat, a feat in legerdemain ; a play, a trick ;
gen. cLeAf A, pi. id. and -feAtiA.
c'le'ib, s. m. gen. of cl/iAb.
cieicm, s.f. a breast, a chest ; £*«. -me.
cU. ind. adj. left ; also cLe".
ct,iAb, f. m. a breast, a chest, bosom; gen. cl£ib, 0£ (iA
cliAifiAiti, s. m. a son-in-law: gen. cleAtfmA.^/.c'leArhriACA.
doc, s.f. a stone : gen. cloice, pi. clocA, dat. pi. clocAib.
cloic, s.f. dat. of cloc.
cLoTorrie, s. m. pi.
cLomn, s.f. dat. of cl/Ann ; gen. cloirme.
clop, v. a. ir. pt. pass, was heard ; pt. part, having heard ;
imp. ac. ctuin.
clu, J. m. fame, renown ; gen. id.
cltiAf, s. f. an ear ; gen. cluAipe, pi. cluAfA, dat. pi. cltiAf-
Aib.
cltncce, s. m. pi. of cluice, a game ; also funeral games, or
solemnities.
cltim, v. a. ir. hear; pt. tense, cuAl/ATo; inf. -oo clop and
cloifdn ; pt. pass, •oo clop, was or were heard.
CIIATJI, s. m. a bone; gen. ctiAirii, pi. cnAtiiA.
cnArciAjVlAc, s.f. a skeleton.
ctieAt), s.f. a wound ; gen. cne'iue, pi. -eAt)A ; Aor1 cneAt),
the wounded.
cnoc, s. m. a hill; gen. cnuic, pi. id. and en OCA ; anglicised,
knock.
cnoc An, s. m. a little hill ; ATI diminutive ; gen. -Ain, pi. id.
cnuic, s. m. gen. of cnoc.
, s. m. a cloak, a mantle; gen. -AiLt, pi. id.
), s. m. sleep ; gen. COT>ALCA.
, s. m. war; gen. COJCA, in text, cogAit) (12); pi.
TO, -gcuToe and -JCA.
"v. a. whisper; pt. tense, t>o COJAITV.
COJATV, s. m. a whisper ; a conspiracy ; gen. -A1]\.
coiccttir1, s.f. a fortnight ; gen. -ipe, //. --peACA.
coitice, adv. ever; always.
coiVl, s.f. a wood, a grove ; gen. coilA-e ; //. coiLlce, gen.
pi. -ceAt).
COIITI, see com.
coimbiMfCAt), v. a. inf. to break utterly, or completely.
coitiiceim, c. s.f. equal degree or dignity; gen. -ceime, //.
-ceimeAnnA, gen. pi. -ceimeAnn.
coinroeAr1, c. adj. convenient, suitable ; well adapted.
c6itiT6ioc|\A, c. adj. ardent, diligent; 50 coitiroioc-pA, very
ardently.
coimeipje, c. s.f. a combined rising, an insurrection.
coirheux), v. a. watch, guard, keep, preserve; inf. id ; A£
conTieut), pres. part, guarding.
coirheu'o, s. m. a guarding, watching, observing: inspection ;
gen. -euxjA ; luce c6imeuT>A, a body of guard, a guard.
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c6irheut>A, v. s. gen. of coitiieut).
coiifieuoui6e, s. m. a guardian, a protector ; gen. id.
coiriippcit, c. adj. courageous.
coiTTii/iontriAipe, c. adj. comp. of coimLiontfiAr*, numerous,
plentiful, populous.
coirhneAfA, c. adj. comp. of corfipogur1, near; next.
coirhpeAiiiAri, c. adj. equally thick.
comtie, s. f. a meeting; gen. id ; ionAt> coitine, a place of
meeting, a rendezvous: A 5-coirme,£w«/>. prep, against.
comneAUl, s.f. a torch ; gen. -nnLe, pi. -nnU.
coip, adj. right, just ; comp. copA : j;uf\ coip TJO Luj, that
it was right for Lugh, that Lugh ought.
coipe, s.f. a cauldron, a boiler; gen. id. pi. -CATJA ; ex-
plained by ycAbALL, in Cormac's Gloss.
j, -v. a. prepare, arrange, dress out, rig ; inf. oo cop-
T), v. a. pt. pass, of COIJMJ ; was or were prepared,
or made ready.
coif, s.f. dot. of cop.
coicceAtiti, adj. vulgar, common, public ; 50 coicceAnn,
adv. in common, in general.
coiccinne, adj. gen. fern, and pi. of coicceAnn ; A jj-coic-
cmne, adv. in common, in general.
cotoiriAti, s. m. a pillar, a prop, pedestal; gen. -AIM,
//. id.
corii, inseparable prefix ; usually prefixed to words
whose first vowel is broad, and coirh to words whose
first vowel is slender. It sometimes signifies equal,
mutual, corresponding ; it is also used in the same
sense as the prefix cnn or com in the English, as cotfi-
.t>AiL, a convention ; whilst in many places it is a simple
intensitive.
, s. m. a surname, an additional name, the peculiar
name by which one is known.
s. f. presence; gen. -jve : £ij\ A cotiiAip, before
him (u); JTA n-A]\ g-coriiAip, against us (25); pi
cotriAip, comp. prep, for, against.
cotriAipce, s.f. mercy, protection ; gen. id.
corfiAijVLe, s.f. counsel, advice ; decision; gen. id.
coiri4i]\li5, v. a. counsel, advise, consult; coniAijVlijceAp
ACA (impersonal), they advise with each other ; inf.
.
A, s. m. pi. of cori.AtcA, a foster brother; recte
LcA.
com Apt), c. adj. equally high, exalted.
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A]\fA, s. f. a neighbour; gen. -fAti, dat. -fAin, pi. -fAn-
tiA : phonetic form of old Ir. irreg. superlative com-
, J. m. strength, power; gen. -Aif.
, s.f. a convention, a meeting, an interview ; oppo-
sition ; gen. -t>AlA, when used in government with the
prep. A, it very often denotes hostile opposition ; ex.
(52) ; hence the comp. prep. A g-coirroAit, in the ren-
counter of; \kzprep. A does not, however, always re-
strict it to this meaning ; as t>o rAb ATI j\ij itiA j-coinne
Aguf inA 5-coTht>AiL (44), the king went to meet and
interview them.
c6rhioAiTi5eAn, c. adj. very strong, secure,
e, c. adj.pl. of preceding.
, recte coirii-feArvoA, c. adj. very manly ; fr.
com, intensitive, and }?eAj\&A, fr. feA^, a man.
pc.a^'. equally or verynear; s.m. proximity, vicinity.
, s. m. a combat ; gen. -lAinn ; fr. com and Lonti,
angry.
corhl/UAC, c. adj. as swift, equally swift.
comiriAic, c. adj. so good, so excellent, equally good.
cotTitnop, c. adj. so great, equally great.
cotrmuige, s.f. a dwelling, a habitation; gen. id.
com6r\At>, v. a. inf. to gather together, or assemble ; imp.
comoj\.
compArv, s.f. the body, chest, trunk.
coiri|\AC, s. m. a meeting, a junction ; a fight, a combat; also
inf. of the verb corii|\Aic.
cotrifiAt), s. m. a conversation, a dialogue ; gen. -AIX>, pi.
•j\Aice ; i.e. corn (con) together, and JAA-O, to speak.
cotiirvAic, v. a. fight, battle, combat; pt. tense, -DO corh-
fiAic, inf. no coni|\AC.
corhjvuti, s. m. a conspiracy, a joint design ; gen. -rutui, pi.
id. Luce cotri]Auin, conspirators.
cottirvAtiiAC, adj. marked, indented, (17). O'Curry.
corhfAHAT), recte comrnjAtiAT), quietness, lest, tranquillity;
fr. com, intensitive, and pUAnAt) or jniAii, rest, repose ;
cutiifAriAT), in O'Reilly's Die.
cotfifAnncAC, c. adj. so desirous, covetous, greedy.
coriifoitl/peAC, c. adj. equally bright, or luminous.
coriiu]\f\AncA, c. adj. so intrepid, daring, or dauntless.
con, s.f. gen. of cu, a hound.
conAt-p, s. f. a way, a path ; gen. -Air»e.
concAt>Afv (t)o), v. a. ir. pt. tense, they saw. \ .
concAmA|\ (t>o), v. a. ir. pt. tense, we saw. / imf- Teic-
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, s. m. help, succour ; gen. congAriCA ; also cung-
(•oo), v. a. ir. pt. tense, he or she saw.
cop, s. m. a turn, occasion ; engagement, pledge, surety ;
t>o'n cop f o, upon this turn ; gen. coij\, pi. id. ; also
cup, gen. and pi. cuij\.
copp, J. m. a body, a corpse ; gen. ctnp p, //. wf.
CO]\CAI]\, J./. a border, fringe, embroidery ; gen. -CAi]\e.
cofuaJAt), v. a. inf. of 001^15, arrange, dress out, rig; used
passively at p. 36.
cojvmjeAcc. s. f. a surety, guarantee, recognisance ; gen.
-6ACCA.
cof, s. f. a foot ; gen. coif e, pi. cop A.
cofAiti, w. a. defend, contend; iw/1 t>o cofAitic, or x>o
.
co^p Atii Ail, a^/. ^e> ah'ke, resembling.
cof5Aj\, s. m. slaughter, havoc ; gen. -AIJ\.
copiAt), v. a. inf. of copAin.
copiAiii, s. m. defence, protection ; g>.n. co
ci\Ann-i\eAifi|\A, c. adj.pl. of -peAriiAip, thick-shafted.
q\eAc, s. f. a cattle prey, plunder, booty, spoil ; gen.
cj\eice;^>/. CLOACA, dat.pl. -CAib.
c, s.f. a sore, scar ; gen. CJVCACCA, pi. id.
interr°S- Pron- what'
e, s.f. gen. of cpioc.
c]\ioc, s.f. a region, country, territory; end, limit, conclu-
sion; gen. cpice, pi. CJM'OCA, dat.pl. -Aib.
CfioctiuJAb, v. s. an ending, finishing, accomplishing;
gen. -uijce ',fr. cplocnuij, end, finish, accomplish.
cpo, s. f. a fortress, a fortified place ; a pen or circle of
brave men ranged round their chief in battle — O'Curry ;
blood, gore ; an eye or socket, as in cpo-f Aiffinje, c.
adj.pl. of -f Aipptige, wide socketed.
cp o&, s. m. property, chattels ; gen. id.
CJ\O&A, adj. valiant, brave, heroic ; 50 GJ\OOA, valiantly.
c-poiceAnn, s. m. a skin, a hide ; gen. q\oicinn, pi. cjioicne.
choice, j.wz.aheart; gen. id.pl. cnomte,gen.pt. cpoi-oceAt).
cpomAit), v. a. and n. imp. pi. of cpom. bend, swoop ; inf.
•oo cf\omA&.
cpof -6|\x)A, c. adj. golden crossed, gold-guarded.
cjmAt), adj. hard, firm, difficult ; severe, stiff, stubborn ;
cjwiAt>-niiTineAC, very deadly.
c|MJAf, \ hardness, rigour, strength ; gen. -Air1.
C]\UAT)Af, )
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cnuc, s.f. form, shape, appearance; gen. cnocA.
cu, s.f. a hound ; gen. con ; dat, com ; pi. comce.
cuAtTOA-p (•oo) v. n. ir. pt. tense, they went \ .
cuAt>mAn (-00) v.n n, ir. pt. tense, we went jtmP- l •1'°> &°-
cuAit) (•oo) v. n. ir. pt. tense, he or she went ; rnAn -oo
cuAit> ACA Aif\ JJAC >on.on£, how they had overcome
every people (48) ; lit. how it went with them over every
people.
CUAIJAG, s.f. a visit, a visitation, a tour; gen. -AJVCA.
cuAtA \("oo) v. a. ir. pt. tense, he or she~l
cuAtAit)/ heard, or did hear. I . ,
cuAlA'OAj\ (•oo) v. a. ir. pt. tense, they j imp' cl
heard, or did hear. J
cuAn, s. m. a bay, a haven, a harbour ; gen. -Am, pi. -AUCA.
cubAG, i.e. coth-pAT), an equal or corresponding depth. See
note tja.
Used after
verbs expres-
CUCA prep. pron. to them; emph.
cujjAib. prep. pron. to ye, emph. cugAib]"e
cugAinn prep. pron. to us ; emph. cugAinne
cugAG prep. pron. to thee ; emph.
sive of motion)
like the prep.
cum, to or for,
which,withthe
personal pro-
nouns unites
to form these
.combinations,
cuibe, ind. adj. meet, seemly, proper, fitting.
CUIT), s f. a part, a portion ; gen. CODA.
cuit>eAcc, s.f. a party, a company ; gen. -CACCA.
cuit>eAccAin, s.f. company, society,
cuige, p rep. pron. to him, to it ; fr. cum, prep, and 6.
cuiteAn, s. m. a whelp ; gen. -em, pi. id.
cumgirn, v. a. pres. tense, I request ; imp. cumig.
cumig, i>. a. request, desire, solicit, require, demand ; inf.
(ir.~) •oo cumgiT).
cvnn, v. a. put, place, send, despatch; oblige, force, com-
pel, constrain : b>A eAtJCUALAng T>uine eiLe Ajjup A
AnbneAG -oo cuin cuige IA-O, it was the oppression of
another man and his unjust sentence that forced them
to it (48) ; cuif\ Aip, put on, yoke, as t>o cuin.eAt> An
CAnbAtJ onf\A, the chariot was yoked to them ; fight,
as, A cj\iAf\ -ponn T>O cuij\ mon njLeo, O ye three fair
ones, who fought many tights (63) ; An CAG T>O cun,
to give the battle ; cast, fling, throw (with the prep. r)e),
as, t>o cuineAtJA-fx An Luce c6itiieut>A A LA
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•oiob, the guarding party cast all their hand-
weapons from them (34) ; try, attempt, endeavour, as,
beijv leAC biojv, 6 bi cu comum\,yncA fin, Aguf cun
cum A beipce •O'AJA ti-AimT>e6in teAC,, take a ^pit with
thee, since you were that brave as to attempt to
carry it off with thee despite us (57) ; employ or en-
gage at, as, nioj\ -puAif\ (pe') innce ACG bAnncjvAcc AJ
cup •oritnne Agup cur\CAij\e, he only found in it (the
island) a body of women engaged at needle-work and
embroidery; t)o cup 6f Arvo, to proclaim publicly ; pt.
tgnse, -oo cuif\ ; fut. -oo cuippiT), cond. •oo cuif\f.eAt> ;
inf.no cup \pt, pass.-oo cuij\eAt>.
cuijvp, s. m. gen. of cor\p.
c"1r» s- f- a cause> circumstance, affair ; gen. cuipe ; pi.
cuifeAnriA, gen. pi. cuifeAtin.
cuifte, s. f. a pulse, a vein ; gen. cuifleAti, dat. cuifLeAin,
pi. -LeAtiriA.
cut, s. m. the back part of anything ; gen. cvnL : cuL A
cinn, the back part of his head.
curh, also written -oo cutn, comp. prep, (governs the gen.
case) to, unto ; used after verbs denotingmotion, whether
the verb be expressed or understood (10) ; for the pur-
pose of, in order to ; as, t>o teijj ye pnne Ar, cum
•pgeA^A •o'mnriti •OAOibfe, he let us away from tnere in
order to tell the tidings to ye (7).
CUTTIAC, adj. sorrowful, mournful.
curiiACC, s. f. power, might, ability ; gen. -ACCA.
cuiriAT), s. f. mourning, sorrd\v, grief ; gen. -Aii>e, dat. -AIU.
cum AX), s. m. form, model, pattern ; cum A, id.
curhAin, v. a. remember; niop cumAin Leo, they did not
remember.
cutriA-p, s. m. strength, power ; gen. -Aif.
, v. a. help, assist, succour ; inf. -oo cuti5tiAtfi.
i, v. s. m. help, assistance, succour, aid ; gen. cung-
; inf. of cung-MH ; Ag cun^nAm, pres. part.
helping, assisting.
njVAt), s. m. a covenant, an agreement, a league ; gen.
CtHltlAjACA, pi. id.
cuiiCAbAi|\c, s. f. danger, jeopardy, peril, venture ; gen.
-ce.
cuj\ (ioo), inf. and pres. part, of cuip; sb. a putting away, a
banishing.
cupA'o, s. m. a champion, a warrior ; gen. and pi. -AIT) ; fr.
the obs. subs, cup, power, manliness.
cur\AC, s. m. a coracle, a boat of wickerwork, covered with
skins in olden times, for which is now substituted tarred
calico ; gen. -Aij.
^A" A \ind. adj. heroic, brave, courageous, gallant.
cu|\ACAcc, s. f. heroism, bravery ; gen. -ACCA.
cu-fA, cu, a hound, with the emphatic particle fA.
•o', contr. for -Qo,poss. pron. ; used before words beginning
with a vowel or -p aspirate. The T>' of t>o is also some-
times changed into c' before a vowel.
•o', contr. for -oo, sign of the past, fut. cond. and infinitive
of verbs. See •oo.
•o', contr. for the prep. t>o or -oe, which see.
•O'A, contr. for the^>r<?^. •oe and the pass. pron. A ; of his,
her, its, their; for the prep. t>o, in its signification of to,
of, by, or with ; of, to, by, or with his, her. its, their ;
and of these prepositions and A, the relative ; to or
of whom, which, all that, what. T>'Ais also written T>A.
T)A, sometimes used for AJ;, sign of the pres. part. ; as t>A
lofgA-o, burning them (34).
•OA, rel. pron. who, which, that ; all who, all that, what.
TJA, num. adj. two.
t>A, conj. if (causes ecltpsis) ; requires always to be followed
by the cond. mood.
T>A, conj, though, however; -OA rmoncA, however often.
•oAii, s. f. a meeting, convention; a hostile meeting (21);
gen. •oAlA.
•OAiL, s. f. news ; gen. t>AlA (21.)
t>Ain§ne, adj.pl. of -OAinjeAti, fast, close, secure ; strong,
firm ; comp. id.
•oAl/A, comp. prep, (governs the gen. case), as to, as for, con-
cerning, as regards.
•OA^A, gen. of -OAii.
•OAl/CA, s. m. a foster son ; gen. id. pi. -CATOA.
•oAtn , prep. pron. to or for me ; compounded of •oo and me ;
emph. •OAtrrpA.
t>Ati, s. m. a poem, a song ; art, science, trade, a calling,
profession; gen. •o&n^,pl. •OAIICA.
•OAnAfvoA, ind. adj. cruel.
•OAOib, prep. pron. to ye, for ye ; fr. t>o and ib ; emph.
t>Aoibr-e.
•oAome, r. m. pl.(ir.~) of •ouine.
x>Aot, J. m. a chafer, a leech ; gen. •OAOiU
i go
TjAotiA, \indadjm human.
•OAOntlA, }
•OAJ\, contr. of prep, •oo or •oe, and AJ\ pass. pron. ; of, to,
by, or with our.
•OAp, contr. of tJA, the rel. pr. and jio, sign of the pt. tense,
before which it is used.
T>AJ\, prep, by, through; used in swearing.
t>Af\A, num. adj. second.
•OAC, s. tn. a colour, a complexion ; gen. T>ACA, pi. -CAHTIA,
gen. pi. -cATin.
•OAC-AiULe c. adj ', pi. of T>AC-Al,Airm, beautifully coloured or
complexioned ; AiLLe^>/. of ALtnrm.
•OAC-AlAitin, adj. beautifully-complexioned.
•oe, prep. pron. of him, of it ; •oe fern, of himself : prep, of,
off, from, by, contracted to t>' before an initial vowel or
j? aspirate. t)o is often used for this prep.
O, v. n. ir. pt. subj. of ceit>, go : no 50 rs-'oeACATO
ACA ojvpA, until they had subdued them (40).
, adj. difficult, hard ; comp. -CJVA.
, or •oeACAT>Aoi-p (-OA n-) v . n. ir. cond. of ceit> ;
they would go or would have gone ; t\AcpAit)if is
the usual form of the cond. of this verb, but •oeACAim,
which supplies ceit> with the pt. subj., and in some
cases, according to O 'Donovan, with the past tense of
the indie, mood, furnishes in this instance also a condi-
tional form of the verb (18).
T>eAJ, adj. good, excellent ; written •oei 5 before a word
whose first vowel is slender. It is always used in com-
position.
T)eAg, I num. adj. ten; used only in composition, as t>A
•oeuj, ) "OCAJ;, twelve.
, c. s. m. a noble residence.
Ag-OAnc, c. s.f. a good or well-made ship ; gen. -bAipce,
pi. -DAfVCA.
O, c. s. m. or f. suitable,, good, or becoming ac-
coutrements, armour.
AJ-'OAti, c. s. m. an excellent poem.
, c. s. m. a patron. O' Curry.
•OCA j-tAoc, c. s. m. a trained or expert warrior.
•oeAgfLuAJ, c. s. m. and f. a well-equipped host or army ;
gen. -Aij, and -Aije, pi. -Aijce.
•oeijcApA, c. adv. very quick, active, or expeditious.
loeAlb, s. m. frame, figure, form, shape ; face, appearance ;
gen. -DA, pi. id.
), s. m. splendour, illumination, brightness ; gen.
-Alt).
), v. s. m. a parting, separating ; a separation ; gen.
-injce : inf. and pres. part, of -oeAUng, part, sepa-
rate,
t, v. a. ir. do, make, act, perform : see •oeun.
•oeAriAtri, v. s. a making, doing ; gen. -oeAntriA.
•oeAtiAni, v. a. ir. inf. and pres. part, of t>eAn, or -oeun.
0, v. a. ir. fut. shall or will do ; imp. T>eAn, or
•oeun.
A) (under) notice ; t>eAj\A, sb. notice, cognizance ;
cug fAt>eAf\A A cocAiLc, (he) caused its digging or it
to be dug (19) ; under this idiomatic use of -pA -oeA|\A
come the examples given in O'Brien's Dictionary; cug j*e
t-A •oeAjxA OUCA, he commanded or obliged them ; x>o
b6A-p pA •oeAfiA, I will cause, or bring to pass ; also I
shall take notice."
•oeA-pb, adj. sure, certain, true, real ; 50 •oeAjvb, adv. of a
certainty.
•oeA]\b]AACAif\, c. s. m. a real brother ; fr. •oeAjvb, and
b]AACAifi, which see.
•oeAf\FAi&, v. a. ir. fut of AbAi-p ; will say.
, adj. red ; real : tieA-pg is very often used as a first
factor of compounds to denote intensity ; metaphor
taken from heated metal.
'o, v. a. pt. pass, was or were wounded ; imp. •oeAfvj,
wound, hurt.
•oeA|\5-At\, c. s. m. great slaughter ; fr. t>eAj\5, red, which
may be here regarded as an intensitive, and AJX,
slaughter.
•oeA]\5-6j\, c. s. m. red or brilliant gold.
01, "v. a. hab. pt. pass, used to be wounded.
), s. m. forgetfulness, oVersight ; gen. -ATO.
, v. a. ir. pt. subj. made, acted, or did act.
t), v. a. pt. pass. subj. of x>6An.
, adj. poor, wretched, miserable.
s. the south ; adj. pretty, handsome ; ready, dex-
terous, expert, proper, rit ; comp. t>eij"e.
j, i>. a. prepare, get or make ready; pt. tense,
•oo •oeAjnng ; inf. -tt JAt).
•oeAftnjeAt), i1. a. pt. pass, was or were prepared.
t>ee, s. m.pl. ir. of t>iA, a god.
•oeij, adj. see t>eAJ.
d, adj. last, hindermoit, hindmost
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c. s. f. a good, or comfortable bed : gen.
, pi. -LeAjDCACA.
•oeiriim, s. f. assurance, certainty; gen. -trine.
•oeme, s. ardour, vehemence.
- a- imf- 3- let <him) d° ; im
bei JA, (A) v. a. ir. press, tense of AbAifi.
•oeijAbpufv, c.s.f. a real sister; gen. -fiu]\A ; fr.
real, and pup, a sister,
•6eif\e, (JTA) comp. adv. at last.
s. m. the end or conclusion; fA t>ei[\eAT>, at
last.
, (A) v. a. ir. pres. pass, of AbAtp ; (it) is said.
•oeipe, s.f. dress, accoutrements; gen. id.
•oeicib, s. m. dat. pi. of t)iA, a god.
•oeoc, s. f. drink ; gen. ir. tuge, pi. •OCOCA.
x>e6ij, (PA) adv. finally, at length.
•oeom, s.f. will, consent, accord; gen. -ne; bo oeoiti, adv.
willingly.
neun, v. a. ir. do, make, act, perform ; also be^An and •oem ;
pt. tense •oo iMgne ; hob. past, gtiTOeAft ; fut. t>eunpAiT) ;
•oeuriAtfi, v. s. making, doing, composing; gen. t>eunniA;
inf. and f res. part, of -oeAn orT>eun.
01, prep. pron. of her, of it ; a negative particle ; see bio.
•OTA, s. tn. a god ; gen. b6, pi. nee, or •oe'ice.
•oiAii ( ^A "") comP- PreP- after ! 1t1A fiiAJ, after him or it ;
j?' < iriA biAij, after her or it; inAf\ or iotiAp n-t)iAi5,
*' ( after us ; IHA ti'-oiAiT), after them.
t)iAn-bpuice, pt. part, fearfully or dreadfully bruised
crushed, broken ; fr. THATI, intensitive, and bjvuice,
pt.part. of bpuic, bruise, crush.
•01 Af, or -oif, coll. sub. f. two persons or personified objects ;
gen. •ofre or t)eife.
•oib, prep. pron. to ye or you ; emph. •oibfe ; also t»AOib ;
fr. bo and ib.
•oij, s.f. dat. of -oeoc ; gen. tDije.
s. f. a flood, deluge; gen. tjfbnne, in Text
, adj. faithful, trusty, friendly ; comp. •
AtL, c. s. m. an insignificant or little mass; fr.
a negative prefix, and meAl-L, a heap, a lump.
eACAn, comp. adj. wide protecting or sheltering;
•oion, shelter, protection, and teACAn, wide.
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oinne, prep. pron. emph. of -oitin, from us, of us, off us.
l)i o, privative particle, like the English prefix in or un, and
used in composition with words, whose first vowel is.
broad : -oi is used before words whose first vowel is
slender.
•oiob, prep. pron. of them, off them, from them ; fr. •oe,prep.
and 1AT>.
titocuirhne, c. s.f. want of memory, forgetfulness , fr. bio,
privative, and cunrme, memory, remembrance.
v. a. avenge, revenge ; fut. •oioJALfAit), cond.
s. m. revenge, vengeance ; gen. -Aip
, s.f. a secret, gen. -fiAife; Luce •otogfVAife, con-
fidants.
•oiorn, prep. pron. of me, off me, from me ; from be, prep.
and me, me.
•oioThAoineAT, s- m- idleness: gen. -nip.
•oion, s. m. shelter, protection ; gen. -oioriA.
, v. a. fut. pi., we shall or will ward off; syn-
copated y"r. •oinjeobAtn ; imp. •oiongAb, repress, repel,
ward off, drive off, repulse.
•oio]\tiiA, s. m. and f. a troop, a crowd, a multitude ; gen.
id. pi. -AC A.
•oioc, prep. pron. off thee, from thee ; fr. be, of, off, or from,
and cu.
•ofpeAC, adj. straight, direct; JACA n-bipeAc, adv. directly.
•oife, coll. sub. gen. of Oijyp
•oij'Le, adj. comp. and^>/. of WLi|*, reliable, secure, firm (17);
faithful, beloved (46).
•oic, s.f. want, defect ; destruction, injury, loss, detriment;
gen. -ofce.
•oiu (A n-) adv. to-day; also AHIU.
x)iuLc, v. a. deny, refuse ; pt. tense, t>o t)iuLr, inf. t)o
\, v. a. pres. pass, is or are legalised, made lawful ;
imp. act. "oLij.
•oLvhce, adj. pi. of -oluc, near, close to, thickly set, close,
tight ; comp. id.
•oo, pass. pron. thy (causes aspiration).
•oo, prep, of, off, from, by ; often written for the prep. t>e.
•oo, frep. pron. to him or it ; for him or it f'emph. •OOJ*ATI.
•oo, frep. to, for; by, with, denoting the manner, means,
or instrument ; towards, at; as cug (fii) U]\CA|\ x>e, t)o'n
l\i§, he made a cast from him at the king (43) ; in, on,
IQ4
at; as, t>o'n cop p o, upon this occasion, -oo'n CAob eile
on the other side ; t>o j\eij\, comp. prep, according
to; •o'eip, comp. prep, after; •o'lonnpyigro, comp. prep.
to, towards.
t>o (causes aspiration) sign of the ^>aj/ tense, as •oo CUAT>-
•OAfv, they went ; of the fut. as roo ^AC^ATO pe, he will
go; of the cond. as -oo •oeunpArnAOip, we would do;
of the inf. as TDO cuicim, to fall ; and it is sometimes
found accompanying the pres. tense, as no beij\im, I
give,
bo, negative inseparable prefix, and often an augmentative,
implying difficulty, and sometimes impossibility.
•oob', contr. of t>o bAt> or but), it was, it would be, the
pt. tense and cond. respectively of the assertive verb ip.
bobj\6n, c. s. m. grief, sorrow, concern; gen. -bj\6in.
bocAi-oe, adj. comp. degree with tie, postfixed ; the more
likely, the more probable,
bocum, comp. prep, to, unto ; follows verbs of motion, and
is very often written simply cum, which see.
bofAipieife, c. adj. indescribable, unspeakable ; fr. T>O and
j? Aipieif, tell, prove.
bojj\A, s. sorrow, sadness,
boib, prep, pi-on. to them ; fr. t»o and ib.
t»6ij, adj. likely, probable ; ir1 '0615 Liotn, it is probable to
me, methinks, I suppose,
boil-bee, s. f. gen. of •ooUb, sorcery,
boil/ij, adj. sorrowful, sad, sorry; comp. •ooit,§e.
boij\e, s. a grove, a wood, a thicket ; gen. id. pi. -eAT>A.
boipeAt)A, s. pi. of -ooif\e.
boifvfe, s. m. pi. of t)onuf.
b6i|\fe6ir\, s. m. a doorkeeper; gen. -eor\A, pi. -6ir\roe.
botn', for'oo tno, to my, used before a vowel or ^ aspirate,
born ATI, s. m. the world, the universe, the earth; gen. -AITI.
. t1' r conir' f°r prep. T)O or "oe and Ati, the article.
botin, adj. brown; •oonn-tAffVAC, c. adj. brown naming.
O 'Curry.
bopuf , s. m. a door; gen. •oofvuir', pi. -ooipye.
bOfAii, prep.pron. emph, of •oo.
boc', prep. t>o and c' euphonic for bo, poss. pron. thy.
bi\AOi, s. ?n. a druid ; gen. id. pi. -ojxAoice, gen. pi. UJVAOI-
ceAt), and •OJAUA'O.
br»AOit>eAc'c, s.f. druidism, mayic, spell, enchantment ; gent
»95
' m' a poem ' Zen" Dt^AccA, pi. id.
, s. m. a tribe, a people, company, a band; gen.-m&.
b]\oc, prepositive particle, and is generally written bpoic
before words whose first vowel is slender. It is never
used except in composition, and signifies bad, evil,
wicked, mischievous, sad, calamitous ; but its shades of
meaning are best determined by the context ; as t)|\oic
•pfieAgpAT), an unfavourable reply.
•Ofxom, s. m. a back; gen. •ojxotnA, pi, •opomAtitiA.
bpong, s. m. or/1 a people, a multitude; party, persons;
gen. t>j\uin5e and -oinge.
bpongbtntnie, c. s.f. gen. of ojvong-buroeAti, a vast mul-
titude.
bjunb, v. a. close, shut ; pt. tense, bo t>j\uib.
br\uim-clAt>Aib, c. s. dat. pi. of bjAuim-clAt>, a ridge mound ;
bfuiim is also written O^im.
bfvuin, s.f. needle-work, embroidery ; gen. -ne.
buAip, s.f. a reward, present, prize ; gen. -fe, pi. -•peAnnA.
buAn, s. m. a song, poem ; gen. t>UAtiA, pi. -ncA.
bub, v. a. blacken ; pt. tense, id. ; inf. t>o 6ubA&.
tmb, adj. black, dark ; t>ub-jof\m, dark-blue.
p s. m. sadness, sorrow, melancholy ; fr. t>ubAC,
melancholy, grieved. ^
t), s. mourning, sorrowfulness, cheerlessness ; fiop-
T)ubAt>, utter cheerlessness ; also inf. of verb bub.
OubAif\c, (A) v. a. ir. pt. tense of AbAi|\ ; he or she said.
bub-jofVTn, c. adj. dark-biue ; comp. -jtn^tne.
bubl/A, s. m. a challenge, defiance ; bublAn, O' Reilly.
bub]AADA]A, (A) v. a. ir. pt. tense of AbAif\ ; they said.
buine, s. m. and f. a person (man or woman) ; gen. id. pi.
•OAOine, people, mankind.
buirm, prep. pron. to us ; emph. bumtie; fr. the prep, bo
and inn.
buic, prep. pron. to thee; emph. buicfe; fr. the prep, bo
and cu.
buL, v. n. ir. inf. and pres. part, of ceii>.
bun, .r. m. a fortified residence, a fort ; gen. butiA or num.
buc]\AccAc, adj. diligent, assiduous, zealous; jobucjVAccAC,
adv. diligently ; fr. buc]\ACC, diligence, assiduity, zeal.
e, pers. pron. ace. case, him, it; e fem, himself; it is used
proleptically with the assertive verb ij*, and passiv«
verbs,
eA6, s. m. a steed, horse ; gen. ei<5, pi. id.
CACC, s. m. an achievement, exploit, feat ; gen. eAC"cA.
eACC]\Ait>, coll. sub. cavalry, a stud of horses.
eA-6, indef. pron. it ; used proleptically with the verb if ;
as ir> eAt> A t>eA]\j:Aii> r"e tiAC Leif i, what he will say is,
that he does not possess it.
i, s. m. the forehead ; face, countenance ; gen. -&in,
pi. id.
g, s. m. see
eAg, J. »*. death ; see eug.
(negative prefix, signifying not, and having the same
cAg, I effect as the English negative un or in. d is sub
eug, | stituted for it before a word whose first vowel is
J. slender.
e AJA, s. m. gen. of BAJ.
eAjlA, s. f. fear, timidity, fright ; gen. id. : AIJ\ eAglA, foi
tear, lest, Aip eAgl-A 50. foi fear that, lest that.
eAgfAiTiiA, c adj. pi. of eAgfAiiiAil, incomparable, match-
less ; fr. CAJ, in or un, and -pAriiAiL.
&Al,A, s. f. a swan ; gen. id. pi. -Ait>e.
CAtAt)A, s.f. learnitig, skill, art, scitnce ; gen. -At)An, dat.
-AT)Ain, pi. -ADtlA.
^AM, s. m. a bird ; see eun.
*Apc, s.f. a tax, a tribute ; gen. -CA.
eApj\AO, s. m. dress, armour, accoutrements ; a military
suit, a complete armour ; gen. -Ait>, pi. -Ait>e, and
-AX>A.
f, negative particle.
, s. the moon.
, c.s.f. sickness, infirmity; gen. id. ; fr. eAf
negative, and fL-Miice.
, c. s.f. dishonour; gen. -onopA ; fr. eAf, negatire
and oiioip.
eACOj\j\A, prep. pron. between them; eACoj\j\A fein, be-
tween themselves ; fr. eit>ifvor eAbAijx, between, and
1A-0, them.
cid, s. m. pi. of CAC, a steed.
), s. m. apparel, raiment ; gen -bi6, pi. eit>eAt>A.
e./^./a?'/. armed, accoutred ;fr. eibig, arm, accoutre ;
root eit)e, armour.
, «. m. force, violence, compulsion, gen. -gin ; AIJ\
), adv. by force.
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etgin, indef. fron. certain, some.
eij^ne, s. f. a salmon ; gen. id.
eiie, adj. other, another, else.
ein, s. m. gen. and pi. of eun.
, (AS) pres. part, of eijMC ; inftn. id.
, v. s.f. a rising; gen. id.
J, 7j. a. and n. rise, arise ; proceed, go ; succeed ; as, -OA
n-^inJeAt) bun •o-rufuif uil/e lib 50 t>-ci. iAt>, if
t>6ij LionirA 50 n-uioJAlf A'OAOif oj\|\Aib e, should all
your expeditions succeed with you unto them, I am of
opinion that they will (in the end) avenge him upon ye ;
ft. tense -o'e^ifMJ ; fut. eipeocATO ; cond.
inf. (ir) t>' 61^151-6, and £if.§e.
LeAC, pres. part. ; see oi]VleAC.
(T)') or CA|\eif , comp. prep, after.
eif eAn I 0ers pron. etnph. of e ; he himself.
eipon } r
eirc, v. a. and «. hear, hearken, listen ; inf.
ei]"ceAcc, v. s. a listening, hearing ; gen. -ACCA ; fr.
listen, hear.
v. a. pt. pass, of eij*c; t)o h-ei^ceAt) Leip (im-
personal], he was listened to.
, s. m. flight ; gen. eicill.
eo, s.f. a yew tree.
eocA^gLAii, c. adj. clear-defined ; fr. eocAip, a brim, brink,
edge, and gtAn.
eot, s. m. knowledge, discernment; gen. id.
eut>qAOm, c. adj. light ; fr. eu, negative and cpom.
eut)CUAl,Ati5, s. m. injury, intolerance, harshness ; 29, 45,
and 47. See also the Society's Ed. of the " Fate of
the Children of Lir."
eug, s. m. death ; gen. OUJJA ; also eAg.
eun, s. m. a bird ; gen. ein. pi. id.
A, prep, (governs the dative) under, as, JTA CAl/tfiAin, under
the earth ; for, as, cug&xJAp clAiin pit eipe&nn yi ioc
tiA h-eAfCA pti, The Children gave the King of Eire
(as guarantee) for payment of that eric (26) ; about,
concerning, after a verb expressive of motion, as, ceit>
ATI fgeul fin -p-'n g-CACpAig, that news spread about
the fortress (34) ; •oo CUAIT> An ]\i§ A c-coiiiAipLe JTA'II
5-cuif fin, the king went into council about that matter
(48) ; against, as, T>O buAit (f e) f A'n J-CA^IAAI^ cloic*
6, he struck him against the rock of stone (46) ; ac-
cording to, as, pj\iceol,At> JTA MA miAiiAib pem IAT>,
they were attended to according to their •wishes ; by (in
swearing), as, tuijimf e pA MA neicib ACJVOA, I swear by
the aerial gods (13). When used in connection with a
numeral adjective, pi lends to it an adverbial force, as,
pi cn,i, thrice. Old form of this preposition is -po ;
another modern form is PA 01.
p*CAt>An, v. a. ir. subj.pt. of p3ic ; they saw.
PAT), s. m. length, the extent of anything, distance : Ain pvo,
comp. prep, throughout, about.
pAt>A, adj. long ; of long continuance, for a long time ;
comp. (ir.) Miof p At)A, JIA, or p'ne.
p AJ, v. a. leave, quit ; abandon, forsake ; pt. tense, •o'p Ag ;
y~M/. PAJP Aix> ; £o«<f. pA^pAT) ; inf. •o'pisbAiL pAg is
a contracted form of pAjAib, which is also used.
pig, "v. a. ir. find, get. obtain, procure ; pt. tense, piAif\ ;
fut. jeAbAi6 : cond. geAbAft, f AJA& and puijeAt) ; inf.
, v. a. ir. fut. subj. of JTAJ ; I shall get ;
v. s. finding, getting, obtaining, procuring ; inf. o'
, v. a. inf. of pA
, v. a. ir. cond. of -peic.
f AiceAtn i •v. a. ir. pres. subj. of perc ; MO 50 b-pAiciom,
•pAiciom f until we see.
ij* syncopated fr. -pAicpmip, v. a. pi. i. cond. of peic;
we might or would see.
n v. a. ir. inf. of peic.
• a-lf-fass- of rA1^» fail. neglect-
, s. f. a. welcome, salutation, greeting ; gen. id.
j, -v. a. welcome, greet, salute; inf. pAi1ciugA&; pt
tense pAitdj.
( j. f the sea ; gen. id. pi. -CA&A.
) J
, s.f. prophecy, omen; gen. id.
pAicce, s.f. a field, plain , a lawn, a green; gen. id.
pAiceAirilA, adj.pl. of piiceAtiiAit, like a prophet, prophetic;
fr. pAic, a prophet.
pAti, v. a. and n. stay, remain, stop, desist ; pt. tense •o'pAn ;
inf. •o'pAMAniAni or -o'puineAc; fut. pAMpAix) ; cond.
'ti for yj>, prep, and *ti, the articl* ; alto written
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i, v. a. pres. part, and inf. of pan.
j?Aob--6l.uG, c. adj. keen edged, close edged ; fr. p-Aob, an
edge (of a weapon) and -oluc.
i, prep, a form of -pA ; />r<?/. pron. under him or it.
t\AX>, s. m. company, gen.-&m; A b-fA^XAT), comp.
prep, (governs the gen. case), together with, along with;
Am' jrAfvj\Ai6r'A (emph.) along with me.
\, rectius pAf\AOir\, interj. alas.
^Au A^ f s. m. superiority ; good, goodness.
p BAG, see under -peuc.
J.6ACA1H, v. a. inf. of feAc.
peAcc, s. f. a turn, time, gen. -CA ; ATI -OA^A f CACC, the
second time.
•peA&, (A1]\) comp. prep, (governs the gen. case) during.
•peA&, s. a tree, gen. -peA&A, //. id. ; dat. pi. -
At), v. n. inf. to be able.
,^. n.pt. tense(he)\vas able; inf. feA'OA&
cond. ^reATJf A& ; peA'OA'OAjv they could, they were able.
•pe AX>Aim, v. n. pres. tense, I can. I am able.
, v. a. def. pres. tense, we know.
v, "v. a. def.pt. tense, we knew ; ni £eAt>AniA|\, we
did not know.
, v. a. def. pres. emph. I do know.
•peAt>mA, s. m. gen. of -peTom ; Aor1 f eA&mA, those serving
(on the king).
, v. a. flay ; •oo peAr.nAt), pt. pass, was or were flayed.
, s.f. treachery, falsehood, deceit; gen. peiLLe,
s. m. pi. of -peALfArh, a philosopher; gen.
peA|\, s. m. a man ; gen. (ir.) pi]\, pi. id. ; f eAtv coitrieu-ocA,
a guardian, a custodian.
•peAfv, v. a. give, grant, bestow, ; shower, pour.
•peAj\AT>, v. a. pt. pa-ts. of peAj\ ; was poured-out or given.
•peAjvAit), v. a. pres. tense, they'give (fight) ; imp. -peAfv.
•peA]\5AC, adj. angry, passionate ; 50 jreA-pgAC, angrily ;
/ fr. feAr*5, anger.
•peA]\j\, adj. comp. (ir.) of mAic, good; 1]* feATiri Linn, we
prefer ; tiob' poA]\|\ Linn, we would prefer.
), v. a. pt. tense of -peA-p, give (fight) (52); middle
Ir. form of old synthetic termination ^erxfAU, for the
thirdpers.pl. of ihept. tense indie, active; modern form,
, s. m. a grave, a tomb ; gen. £eAf\CA, pi. id.
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, s. f. riches, goods.
peic, v. a. ir. see ;pres. tense cit> ; pt. tense, t>o conriAirvc ;
fut. ci&pt>; cond. T>' pAicpeAt), x>' petcpjAt), cit>pjAf>,
or cipeA& ; inf. -o' pAicpn or tj'peicpn.
adj. able, possible ; fr. peA'DAim, possum, valeo,
and in this form it answers all the persons, singular and
plural, as -peix)i|\ Liom, ICAG, etc. O'Brien, tli piioip
teif, he cannot, it is not in his power.
pei6m, s. m. the customary service due from a vassal to his
lord; use, business, employment ; need, necessity ; gen.
p3ij, adj. sharp, bloody ; 50 }.eij, adv. sharply.
peiL, adj. gen. mas. of pAL.
p eitle, s. f. gen. of pjALl.
pem, emph. suffix, own, self; uir\r\i pein, upon itself.
peirme.&&A, s. pi. also pAnui6e and •peinne, the Fenii,
or the famous old Irish Militia ; dot. pi. -|?einne&&-
Aib.
•peipjvoe, i.e. peApri and t>e, of or off it, written yeifvp before
the slender vowels ; the better of it.
peif, s. f. a pig, swine; gen. -pe.
jreiceArh, ( v. a. pres. part, and injin. of fete, wait, await,
peiciotii, ) attend, oversee.
feoiL, s.f. flesh ; gen. feolA.
yeoiA, s.f. gen. ot peoiL.
yeuc, v. a. look, behold, examine, watch ; pt. tense -o'peuc ;
inf. Tj'peucAin ; Ag feucAiti, />/-«. part, watching.
, v. a. pres. pdrt. and inf. oi peuc.
, v. n. pres. tense, I can, I am able; emph.
peux)Ain, v. n. cond. by syncope for peut>f Ainn ; OA b-peuo-
Ain, if I could.
( v. n. cf>nd. they would be able ; MAC b-
peuopAt>Aoir-, that they would not be
able.
, (A b-) comp. prep, (governs the gen. case.} in
the presence of, before.
. \ v. a. question, inquire ; pt. tense -o' pAjrrunj ;
inf. (ir.) t>' pAjrpAiSTO ; pres. hist. PA-
, adj. generous, liberal, bountiful ; comp.
pceAX>, num. adj. twenty.
pie, s. m. a poet ; gen. id. and sometimes pLeAi> ; //.
-OA, gen. pi. pl,eAX>, dot. pi. pieAX)Aio.
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ptL, v. a. turn ; used reflexively with object implied, to
turn (oneself) > hence, to return ; inf. •o'ptte&t) ; pt.
tenst •o'pU, ; fut. pltpt) ; cond. ptlpjAO.
pne, s.f. a tribe, family, stock ; gen. id.
p'oT>bA, s.f. a wood, a thicket; gen. -&me, pi. id.
poJAip, s. f. a sign, presage : gen. -gpAC, //. -gpACA.
•pfon, s. m. wine ; gen. -pforiA.
ponJAL, s.f. the murder of a relative, or member of the
same tribe ; gen. -Aite ; fr. pne, a tribe and jjAt, a
(cruel) deed.
porm, adj. white, fair, pale ; sincere, true.
p"op, s. truth (21); see a parallel instance of its use, as a
substantive, in O'Donovan's Supp. to O'Reilly's Die.
p* op, intensitive insep. prefix ; written p'p before words whose
first vowel is slender,
•pi opt) 01 trine, c. s. f. the vast deep ; fr. p"op, intensitive
and ooiirme, the deep,
pop, s. m. knowledge, gen. -peAfA.
popAc, adj. knowing, expert, intelligent ; fr. pop.
pp. intensitive prefix ; see pf op.
pp, s. m. gen. and pi. (ir.) of pj^p.
p'ptieA'p, c. adj. very handsome, pretty ; fr. pfop, intensitive
and T>eAp.
p'pneiriineAC, c. adj. very venomous, pi. -tienfmeACA ; fr.
pop, intens. and neinitieAC.
•pLAiceAf , s. m. sovereignty, rale, dominion ; gen. -ip ; fr.
jrt/Aic, a prince.
1 I s. f. dat. of trteAr^, a wand, a rod.
ftetfg, } J
•pLiuc-Apt),^. adj. humid and high; pi. -AptDA.
•po, prep, old form of pi, which see ; adj. powerful, mighty.
,, s. m. a word ; gen. -AiL, pi. id. and f octA.
(A b-), conip. prep, (governs the gen. case) with,
together with, along with.
), s. m. sod, soil, earth.
Ain, v. a. serve, suit, suffice, satisfy ; inf. id. : O1 Donovan
gives pDJnA6 as an inf.
, v. a. command; pt. tense •o'pogAip, inf.
v. a. cond.offo^^n.
p, \adj. near, close; comp. (ir.) niop
p, ) neApA.
, s.f. learning, instruction; gen.
•pojlumcA, s.f. gen. of po^Lunn.
T), v. a,, fut.
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f>, s. m. an ordinance, decree, order; gen. -
//. id.
jroi5fe, adj. camp. (z>.) of fo^Ar.
f-oibjceAC, adj. secret ; 50 foiujceAc, adv. secretly.
•jroiH, adj. little.
p oiUleAT), rectius -pAiLLeAt), which see.
v. a. reveal, disclose, manifest ; inf. t>'roill-
v. a. pt. pass, of p oiLLpj ; was or were
disclosed ; imp. act. third. t>ers. sing, let (him) disclose.
cAT), v. a.fut. of jroilA/pj; I will reveal.
JA'o, -v. a. inf. of -poiLl/pj;.
, or fop, intensiti-je ins ep. prefix ; it is written jroin
before a word whose first vowel is slender, and jron
before a word whose first vowel is broad.
, pres. part, and inf. of jroip&eApj;, wound
grievously ; poin, intensitive, and t)eAp5, redden,
wound, hurt.
, c. adj. extensive, very wide ; fr. JTOJA, intens.
an eACAn, wide.
poi]\tiitiieAC, c. adj. very venomous, bitter, virulent, pas-
sionate.
f oiA, J. /. gen. of put.
•pol/ACCA, s. f. gen. of puLACG.
jroLAib, s.f. dat. pi. of puii.
potc, s. m. hair of the human head ; gen. pjilc ; dat. pi.
•ponn, s. m. foundation; hence land; a region, district,
country (16).
•ponn, s. m. a tune, a song (63).
pop, intensitive insep. prefix ; written foip before a word
whose first vowel is slender.
pojv, prep, original form of Aip.
c. s. m. possession; the supreme power or
authority; gen. -Aif; fr, jron, intens. and LAriiAf,/r.
LATTI, a hand.
poj\t,Arm, j. /«. force, power.
ponmnA, s. the shoulder.
•popnocc, o^/- dismantled: fr. pop, intens. and nocc, bare,
reveal, expose.
Cc, s. f. help, comfort, relief ; gen. -CA ; In O'Brien'.
dictionary, this word is explained as ease at the crisis of
a disorder, a definition applicable to the sense in which
it is used in Text.
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p6f, adv. yet, moreover.
fopjA-6, v. a. inf. of f ofD, stop, hinder, dissuade.
f OFJJA&AC, adj. sheltering, protecting; fr. p ofgAt), a shelter,
refuge.
pocf\uJAX>, v. s. a bathing, annealing.
, s. m. a shower; gen. ^riAfA, //. if.
A, v. a. answer, reply, take issue ;pt. tense, -o'frieAg-
; inf. •o'fpeAj^A'o or •o'^eAjAi^c.
GA, s. m. gen. and//, of fr\eA5pAT>.
T), s. m. an answer, reply ; gen. ppeAgA^CA, pi. id.
t>, v. a. inf. of fpeAgAir* ; A 5 ppeAgfiAT), pres. part.
answering.
v. a. pt. pass, of pr»eAr"OALL, provide, serve,
attend, wait on.
Vim, prep, against.
fptc, v a. ir.pt. pass, was or were found ; imp. pAJ; ; piA^At)
is now the form in use ; behaved or acted, as, •o'lnn^eA-
•OA]\ A t>-coij*5 tjo Agup iriAji vo •ppic Lug O|\|\A,
they recounted their adventures to him and how Lugh
had behaved towards them (55) ; •oo -ppic 50 niAtc
Liom e, he behaved well to me ; CfBrieris Die. in -voce
ynic.
fT\i oc Alice, s. m. gen. of fjviceoLAt), attending, ministering
to ; Luce •pfviocAiLce, servants, waiting-men or women,
attendants. O'JDonovan's Grammar gives -pfMocoLriiA
as a gen. for this substantive.
r1, prep. pron. old form for teif or ^Mf , which see.
eolAt), v. a.pt.pass. of -pfviceoL, serve, attend.
, prep. pron. with them ; modern form Leo .
v. a. hist. pres. tries, tastes; imp. f|\om ; inf.
•pfVOtflAt).
(T>O), v. a. ir. pt. tense of JTA£.
pUAi|AneiiiineAC, c. adj. bleak and bitter.
|\, arf/'. cold, chilly ; bleak, uninviting. £UAP is often a
simple intensitive and before words whose first vowel is
slender, it is written -pjAip.
y, c. s.f. the bleak ocean.
A, v. a. ir. pt. tense of J?A£ ; they got.
t), s. m, ransom, redemption; gen. -gLuijce.
C, s. m. hatred, aversion, abhorrence ; gen. piACA.
v. a. ir. cond. of fAg ; they might or would get.
, s. m. a remainder, remnant, residue, balance ; get*
.
, v. a. cond. of fAg or puig ; they would leave.
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204
mn, "V' ci. id. of JTAJ ; I would get.
, v. n. pres. subj. of bi ; also the form of the present,
used with negatives and interrogatives.
s.f. blood, gore ; a family, a tribe ; gen. f ol,A, pi. id.\
dat.pl. pot-Aib.
, v. s. blood-letting, bleeding, wounding.
, adj. bloody, cruel ; 50 jruiLceAC, bloodily.
s. a descent; a setting; puinwAX) gneme, the
setting of the sun.
pnnn, prep. pron. under us ; fr. JTA, prep, and inn
fUi|\eA<5, v. a. and n. inf. and pres. part, of rAii.
e, prep. pron. under her or it; fr. -pA, under, and i,
her, it.
, s.f. boiling, roasting, cooking; gen. foLACCA.
ig, -v. a. inf. and pres. part, of fu^Aing, suffer, permit,
. allow.
, v. a. inf. to request, desire, or command, incite or
induce : pt. tense. •o'punAiL.
1, or uruir1, adj. easy ; comp. (ir.) nior pir-A
, prep. pron. under them ; fr. p A ana IAI>.
, v. a. take, receive ; as gAb AJA g-cinii CUJAC Ab'Ti-ucc,
take you our heads on your bosom (59) ; nioj\ jjAb AH
CAtAtrileir'.trie earth did not receive him (14); seize, take
hold of; as, -oo JAb An C-A|\A A1|\ CAoLcoife, he seized
the charioteer by the small of the foot (46) ; take-to,
begin, set about, fall to, commence, in which significa-
tion it is followed by the present participle ; as, t>o
§Ab (r>e) AJ ceAfAdc Aij\ AH 5-curiAc, he began grum-
bling at the curach (31) ; with the prep, mi or urn, it
means gird on, don; as, t>o §&b (fe) xseife TTlAnAn-
iiAin tnme, he donned the accoutrements of Manannan
(54); sing, in which sense it is accompanied by a noun
of kindred meaning; as, •o'eipjeA'OArt AOf •OAHA Ati
r»ij oo JAbAil/ A n-T>UAn, the king's poets arose to sing
their poems (36) ; beat, pelt (with stones) : as, T>O ^AbA-
t»Ar\ Ar A h-Aicie pn A1|\ bo clocAib 50 h-ACJApb,
after that they pelted him roughly with stones (14) ; no
j;im £Ab (r-e) cuAn, uutil it made port ; pt. tense, t>o
JAD ; cond. t)o JAbAt) ; inf. bo
, v. a. inf. of gAb.
Ail, -v. s. taking, receiving ; gen. -A
f, v. a. pres. hist,
, v. a. pt. tense, old synchetic ending of the third
pers. pi. now gAbAT>Af\ ; imp. gAb.
gAbt>Aoip, -v. a. cond., by syncope for gAbpAt>AOip.
_ . I indef. pron. each, every ; gAC sometimes carries a
^A° genitive force with it ; as, gACA pij\ t)iob, each
' ( man of you (34).
gAt>A|\, s. m. a dog, a mastiff, a hound ; gen. -Aip, pi. id.
gAibceAC, adj. craving, complainiug; eager, vehement : pi.
-CeACA.
gAip, v. a. call, shout ; pt. tense, •oo g
gAif\e, s. m. daughter, a laugh ; gen. id.
gAif\it>, adj. short.
t, v. a. pres. pass, is or are called, termed.
[s. f. bravery, feats of arms; when gAifgeAT)
° f* . J is the nom. form, the genitive is made
I -511°-
SAIAJA, s. m. a disease, a distemper, sickness; gen. -Air*.
5Ati, pr^. without; the negative used with infinitives, as,
gAii gA-pcA b'fuLATij, not to permit shouts.
5AOpiiA|\A, adj.pl. of 5AOfmA|\, skilful.
C, s.f. the wind ; gen. JAOICC, dat. JAOIC, pi. JAOCA.
CA, s. m. pi. of JAOC, a wound, a pain; JJAOCA intheo-o-
ATIACA, interior pains. O'Brien's Die. in voce JAOC.
gAfv, s. m. profit, advantage, gain, convenience.
5A|\b, adj. rough, rude ; comp. gAipbe.
\ 4 \ s. m. a garden ; gen. id.
5A]\CA, s. m. a shout, a great cry ; gen. id. ; also //. of
5A1JA, id.
jje, conj. though, although.
bAt), v. a. fut. of gAb ; I will sing (42) ; emph. geAbABf A,
I will take (24).
t), v. a. cond. of gAb ; also reobAti.
), (t>o), v. a. ir. fut. shall find or get ; imp. pAg.
('oo), v. a. ir. fut. of -pAg.
, v. a. ir.fut. of pAg ; ye shall get (24).
v. a. ir. pres. pass, of pAg ; is or are found or got
(24); in O' Donovan's Gr., p. 244, pAgcAp is the only
form given for the present passive.
LL, v. a. promise ; pt. tense, t>o geAiL ; fut.
inf. T)O geAltAtiiAiri.
geili, v. a. serve, obey, do homage ; pt. tense, t»o
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, s. m. a mood or frame of mind ; a humour, a fond-
ness; SCAII SAipe, a lit of laughter; see quotation under
muir ; s. a sword (37).
j", s.f. a solemn prohibition or injunction enforced by a
charm or spell ; gen. jeife ; pi. geAfA.
i (t>o), v. a. ir. fut. of JTAJ, we shall or will get.
git), conj. though, although ; also ciu.
5it>be, comp. indef. pr. whoever, whatever ; also cit> be.
5it>eAT), conj. though, although ; yet, nevertheless.
, ctnj. although, notwithstanding ; although not. It is
used negatively with go at page 24, and affirmatively
with the same word at page 41. O'Donovan remarks
that when used negatively it is made up of 56, although,
HA, not, and 50 that ; when used affirmatively it is put
simply for get) 50, or 516 50,
C, v. a. take, seize, catch ; pt. tense, t)o §tAC ; inf. bo
j', v. a. prepare, trim, put in order,//, tense, oo j
inf. t>o glgApvo ; T>O gieAf AXJA^, they prepared.
gteo, s. m. a fight ; gen. gliAt), pi. id.
, adj. pi. of gltc, cunning, ingenious.
, s. m. cunning, ingenuity; gen. -Air1.
, s. glass ; gen. id.
Aif, v. a. and n. go, advance, march, move ; pres. hist.
gluAtfeAp ; pt. tense, t»o jl/UAtf ; inf. t>o jiuAipeAcc
or t>o gluAf ACC ; gl/UAipt) -pompA, they go forward.
AfAcc, s.f. motion, movement ; gen. -ACCA.
iAC ('oo), comp. adv. always.
nTt) (-00), v. a. ir.pt. tense of 5111111, I do or make.
iTi, s. m. an act, action, deed ; gen. gnforiiA, />/.
("oo) v. a. ir. pres. pass, is or are made, done, per-
formed. O'Donovan gives t>eAncAf\ as the form for the
present passive.
gnthp, s. f. the face, the countenance ; the look or expres-
sion; gen. jnuife.
50, conj. that, so that ; go HAC, so that not ; lonnuf 50, in
order that.
50, when placed before an adjective, gives to the latter an
adverbial force, as 50 h-ACJApb, very roughly ; 50
TtiAiu, well.
50, s. m. a lie, an untruth ; deceit, guile ; adj. false, un-
true.
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go, prep, to, unto ; used with a verb expressive of mo-
tion ; 50 b-ct, comp. prep, to, unto, and of the same
furce as 50 ; with, as, 50 jvopriACG, with great autho-
rity.
, adj. near, nigh ; ionA roipe, near him.
, adv. so that ; prep. with.
C, adj. wounding ; fr. 50111, a wound, a hurt.
, comp. prep, to, until, so far.
AC, comp. adj. blue-streamed,
gopm finl/eAc, comp. adj. blear-eyed.
SfXAt), s. m. love ; gen. -AT>A and -AIX>.
5]AeAj6Ajv, s. squeaking. O'Curry (2).
5j\eirn, s. m. a bit, a morsel; gen. gjieAtriA, pi.
AntiA.
5l\em, s. f. dat. of gjvi AH.
I, s.f. the sun; gen. jjf\eine, dat. 5f\em, pi.
rii, s. a griffin ; pi. gpioriiA.
cAC, s. a griffin.
guA, ind. adj. false, untrue.
511 AlA, s.f. a shoulder ; gen. -Ann ; dat. Ainn, //.
gtiALAinn, s.f. dat. of JJUA^A; Aif\ juALAinn, alongside of.
piAf ACCAOI, adj. put for guAfACCAije, gen. fern, of SUAJ*-
ACCAC, dangerous, painful,
gtnle, s.f. prowess, valour, bravery; gen id.
5U]A, conj. that ; form of 50 before ^tf. tense.
, combination of gup, conj. and Ab, subj. of the asser-
tive verb if .
f, prep, to ; form of 50, used before the article AH.
h, euphonic letter, prefixed to nouns beginning with vowels
in all cases of the plural, except the genitive plural ; as,
HA h-Anitiij*, the soldiers.
.1., the initial letter of the word iot>on, adv. that is, to wit,
namely, videlicet ; written with an abbreviation mark
as shown both before and after it.
1, pers. pron. she, it ; her ; 1 -pn, that.
1AT), pers. pron. they, them : with ip and verbs in the passive
voice it is considered the nominative form, as bo 1i-At>-
tiACAt) i At), they were interred; iAt> f6in, themselves;
emph. iAt>-fAn.
ao8
i«p, ind. s. the west ; prep, after ; iAf\ fin, subsequently.
This preposition, says O'Donovan, in his work on Irish
Gr., p. 308, is chiefly used in connection with verbal
nouns to iorm expressions equivalent to the ablative
absolute in Latin.
iAj\5ri6, s. f. anguish, grief; gen. id. ; pi. i&pgnoA, or with
•6 inserted to prevent a hiatus iAf\5not>A.
IAJ\ n-UA, c. s. m. successors in the male line; fr. IA^, after,
subsequent, and UA, a son.
1A|\J\, v a. seek, request, entreat ; ask, demand ; pt. tense,
t)'iAf*t\ ; inf. (ir.) •o'iAf\j\Ai'6.
lAjvjNA'o, v. a. pt. pass, of lAfvp.
iAf»r\AT6, s.f. a desire : gen. -ACA, pi. id.
iA|\|\A'p, v. a. pres. hist, asks, etc.
iAj\fin, c. adv. after that, afterwards.
iAr\CAr», J-. m. the west country ; gen. -1 AJ\ ; fr. iAr», the west,
and cir\.
lAfAcc, s.f. a loan ; gen. id.
1AC, s. f. a land, a country, a region ; gen. IACA, pi. IAC-
1T)1|A, prep, between, betwixt, among; conj. both ; adv. at all.
il/, intensitive inseparable prefix ; form of ioL, used before
a word which has its first vowel of the slender class.
ibbeALbAC, c. adj. well-featured, favoured, or complexioned,
im or iom, intensitive inseparable prefix .
iirrof-oeAn, s.f. protection, defence, preservation.
imeAU,, s. m. a border, an edge ; gen. imilL, pi. id.
imir», v. a. play, exercise ; inf. t>'irmj\c.
imleicin, c. adj. veiy wide, expansive ;fr. 10111 and teACAn.
itiitionnAlb, s.f. dat. pi. of imtmn, the navel.
itrmeAt), s. m. hardship ; gen. -rut).
imneA'oAC, adj. painful, distressing, attended with hard-
ship.
unceAcc, s.f. an adventure, a feat ; a departure, a pro-
gress, a going ; gen. -CA ; the opposite of CCACC, a
coming.
imceAcc, v. n. inf. of imcij.
unci§, v. n. depart, go ; pt. tense, -o'micig ; fut. imeoc\MT>;
inf. •o'ltnceAcc.
inA, conj. than; a iorm of ionA; it is often abbreviated
to 'VIA.
U1A, prep, and pass. pron. in his, her, its, their ; prep, and
rel. pron. in or upon, whose, or which ; UIA OIAI j \\\\
(fern.}, after that,
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, form of itiA used before pt. tense.
x, frep. and pass. pron. in our (causes eclipsis).
, s. f. the brains ; gen. -tine.
, c. pt. part, practicable, or fit to be done ;
and -oetiTicA.
irijeAnriA, s.f.pl. of inteAn.
injioti-eAti, s. f. a daughter; gen. -51110, pi.
itineAC, adj. taloned.
, s.f. dat.pl. of iongA, a talon.
s. array, order, dress, attire; inneAtl
travelling array.
), v. a. fut. I will tell ; imp. mmr.
v. a. prepare, equip ; intend, design ; inf. id pt.
tense, •o'lnnitl.
f, v. a. tell, relate ; inf. t>'inrnj*in ; fut. inne6r"it).
ininf, s. f. an island ; gen. -mtife ; pi. intifeA'OA.
innifeAf, v. a. pres. hist, tells, relates.
innipti, v. a. inf. of innif.
mtir-e, s.f. gen. of intup
irmfeA'oA, s. pi. of innij\
mnce, prep. pron. in her, in it.
iiincirm, s.f. the mind, spirit, intention 5 gen. -tie.
•mticteACC, s.f. intellect, mind, ingenuity; gen. -UA.
ioc, s. m. or f. payment ; fulfilling, malting good, complet-
ing ; gen. IOCA.
loL, inseparable prefix, used in composition, signifying va-
riety or diversity ; it is also intensitive ; it is written iL
before a word whose first vowel is slender.
ro, c. adj. very hard or stubborn (fight) ; fr. ioL, in-
tensitive, and c|\UAi&.
, c. adj. polytechnic or skilled in various trades or
arts ; ingenious.
lol/p AobAi|\, s. m. pi. many or various edged (weapons).
lotn, an intensitive inseparable prefix ; written itn before a
word whose first vowel is slender.
iomAVLciu£, c. adj. deep or dense surrounding, bordering ;
fr. itneAtl, and ciu§, thick, dense.
ioniAj\CAc, adj. copious, abundant ; 50 h-ioniAf»cAc, adv.
copiously, exceedingly.
lombtiAlAi), v. s. a mighty beating or striking; fr. iom,
intensitive, and btiAt/A'o.
lotntAti, c. adj. complete, whole, entire ;fr. iom, intensitive
and LAH.
lomnocc, s.f. a skin.
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lomoppo, adv. indeed.
i At), s. m. notice, mentioning; gen. -Aice, pi. id.
\, comp. prep, ("governs the gen. case) as to, as for,
with respect or regard to.
ion, a prefix denoting fitness, worthiness; it is written m
before words whose first vowel is slender.
lonA, see mA.
lonA, conj. than ; often contracted to 'TIA.
loriAO, s. m. a place, position ; gen. -AIT>.
ion Ann, adj. equal, alike, equivalent.
ionAf\, prep, and pass. pron. in our ; also inAfi.
loncAicce, c. pt. part, fit or capable of being thrown, mis-
sive ; fr. ion, and CAicce^/. part, of CAIC, throw, cast,
fling.
lonjjA, s.f.& talon ; gen. id. pi. mgne and longnA.
5, adj. wonderful, strange, surprising ; fr. 1 on 511 A,
wonder, surprise.
15, adj. dat.fem. of longAncAC.
p, s. m. a wonder, a surprise ; gen. -Aif, pi. id.
kt>, j. m. wonder, surprise, astonishment ; gen. -gAncA,
pi. id.
lonthum, adj. dear, beloved; comp. (ir.) riiop Annj*A, and
lonriiume.
lonwiutne, adj.pl. of lonifium.
s. m. a treasure ; geji. -tiiui)*, pi. -TTIA'TA.
1, prep. pron. in me ; fr. Ann and me.
ij. that, so that ; lonnup 50, id.
lonnAC, prep. pron. in thee.
(v. a. attack ; approach, make to, or towards ;
*y 4 pt. tense, -O'ionnrAi$; inf. (ir.} tMonn-
lonnruije, -fAije, comp. prep, (governs the gen. case) to,
towards ; X)'A n-ionnpnje, to them.
lonnCA, prep. pron. in them, into them ; fr. Ann and
1AT).
lonceACCA, c. pt. part, fitting, suitable, or appropriate to
come.
longAit, s. f. a battle, a fray ; strife, contention ; gen.
-le.
lj% v. n. ir. assertive verb, is, are ; pt. tense bA or bux>, fut.
btif, subj. pres. Ab.
if, prep, in ; also Annf and
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if, contraction of Apif .
C, adv. in, into ; used with a verb denoting motion,
j, adv. in, within; used with a verb denoting rest.
LA, s. m. the day, as distinguished from oit>ce, the night ;
gen. (ir.~) LAC, and LAOI, dat. Lo ; pi. LAOCA.
LAD Aip, z1. a. speak ; inf. t>o LAOAIJAC, or l/AbjAAT).
LAbjVAt>A-|\, v. a. pt. tense of LAbAijA ; they yelped (13).
LAG, s. m. gen. (tr.) of LA.
LAit>j\e, adj. comp. super, and pi. of LATOIJA, strong ; syn-
copated fr. LAit)if\e.
LAim, s. f. dat. of Lxvm.
LA™, s. f. a hand, an arm ; gen. LAirhe, pi. LAITIA.
LAniAc. s. m. dexterity, hand-exercise, shooting ; gen.
-Alg.
LArhAfmi, c. s. m. a hand-weapon.
LAihf.A'OA, c. adj. long-armed; the soubriquet of Lug.
LAtriocAi'o, •v.a.fut. of LAtii, dare, presume; they will dare.
LAn, adj. full ; when placed before its substantive it gives to
it an intensitive force, and is written LAHI when the first
vowel of the word is slender.
LATIA, adj. pi. of LATI.
LAiiniAifeAC, c. adj. extremely beautiful ; fr. LATI, intensi-
tive and iriAir-eAC, fr. triAife, beauty.
LAn-CApAiT), c. adj. most actively.
LAOC, s. m. a hero, a soldier, a champion ; gen. and pi.
LAOIC.
LAOCT>A, ind. adj. heroic, warrior-like.
LAOCPATO, coll. s. pi. heroes, warriors.
LAOI, s. m. dat. of LA, a day ; also gen. (23).
LAOTO, s.f. a poem, a song; anglicised lay; gen. -•oe.
LA^, s. m. the middle, centre ; the ground or floor, gen.
•A1|\ ; A1|\ LAfi, upon the floor, laid low.
LACAI|\, J. m. an appointed place of meeting ; gen. LAC^VAC ;
presence (generally with prep. A or t>o) ; as t>o LAcAifi
An t\ij, to the presence of the king ; t>o LACAIJA, adv.
presently.
Le, prep, (becomes Leif before the article), with, by, during;
to, from, against ; when placed after adjectives it ex-
presses equal comparison, and is translated "as."
Le, prep. pron. with her or it ;Jalso Leice or JMA.
LeAbA, s f. a bed ; gen. LeAbcA, pi. LeA-pCACA.
LeAcc, s. m. a monument, a grave ; gen. -CA.
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, v. s. a tearing, rending, mangling, maiming ; imp.
, tear, etc.
J, s. M. a physician; gen. ieA$A,/>A id. ; dat.pl.
, prep.pron. with me ; a form of tiorn.
, v. a. follow, pursue ; pt. tense TJO LeAn ; fut.
f ATO ; inf. x)o LeAtiAtriAin.
O, v. a. fut. of t,eAH.
, v. a. inf. of teAti.
s. m. benefit, advantage, welfare ; gen. teAfA.
s. f. light, a glimpse , gen. teit1.
Aipe, c. s. m. a helmet to admit light : fr. LeAf and
Aipe, a helmet, or any kind of head dress.
, adj. loth, unwilling (56) ; comp.
LCAC, prep. pron. with thee ; emph. leACf A ; fr. 1e and cu.
C, s. f. a half ; gen. Leice: it is often placed before a
word to denote one of such nouns, as nature or art has
placed in couples ; as, teAC-fuiL, one eye, t,eAC-\Atri,
one hand, LCAC Ain l-eic, adv. on either side.
C-LAtii, c. s. f. one hand.
, c. s. f. one eye.
ob, c. s. f. one side.
, v. a. let, permit, allow ; let go, let off, throw, cast ;
give ; pt. tense -oo teig ; inf. (tr.~) t>o teigeAn, or t>o
leipnc ;fut. Leigpt).
-o, v. a. pt. pass, of teijj.
ti, v. a. inf. (tr.~) of teig ; see under
f, v. a. cure, heal ; inf. id. ; fut. lei
f, s. m. medicine, cure, remedy; gen. -ji
t-ATO, v.a.fut. of teigeAf ; put for leije
Leim, s. f. a leap ; gen. -me, pi. -meArmA ; gen. pi.
-meAtin.
leij\ (50), adv. entirely, altogether, wholly.
Leif, prep. pron. with him or it, Leif yem, with or by him-
self, alone ; the form of the prep, te, which is used
before the article An, as, Leir1 An -pAe pn, during that
time.
Leif-pn, comp. adv. with that, thereupon.
ic, s.f. dot. of LeAC.
opuAoiciTi, c. s.f. quite a sufficiency; Le6|\ is an inten-
sitive h».re.
), s. m. breadth ; gen. -CIT>,
Leo, prep. pron. with them, by them, along with them ; as,
•no CUA1-6 dene leo, Eithne went with them ; gup
tii Aic Leo, that they would like ; -oo cirmeAt) teo, it
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was decided by them ; against, or at them, as, •oo CAIC-
eAT>Ap fpAfA ^eo' ^ey cast showers (of missives) at
them ; from them, as, T>A tii-br\eiG Leo AIJ\ ei geAn, to
take them from them by force.
teotfiATi, s. m. a lion ; gen, -AIM, pi. id.
Leceit), s.f. the like, the equal, the same; such as ; gen. -t>e.
YA>- \ J./. a great stone; gen. Lee.
Lib, prep. pron. with ye or you ; emph. Libfe.
LibeAjtri, s. m. a ship, house, habitation ; hence figuratively,
" a defence " ? O 'Curry has substituted LeibeAnnA for
LibeAf\nA.. in the text of the story, as published in the
Atlantis, Vol. IV. p. 178. He has also struck out Lib-
eAjvttA in AfacCurtin's MS. of the story, substituting
LibeAf\nA in the margin, for what reason it does not
appear evident, as both LibeAftriA andt LeibeArm have
the same meaning. He explains leibeArm in notes to
Battle of Magh Leana, p. 45, and 131, as meaning a
stage, table, platform, or deck.
Ling, v. n, spring, bound, dart; pres. hist. LmgeAf; inf.
lingtwo.
Linn, s. f. a pool, water ; gen. Linne.
Linti, s.f. time, period, a course: gen. imne ; te bnn riA
Vi-tiAi]\e -pn, during the course of that time.
l/inn, prep. pron. with us ; 6 TIAC Linn •out 6'n g-cuncAb-
Ai|\c, since we cannot escape from this danger; ir1 oLc
Linn, we regret.
1/iom, prep. pron. with me; emph. liomr'A ; t>Ai\ l/iom,
methinks.
tion, v. a. fill ; pt. tense, TJO Lion ; inf. TDO LionA&.
f, s.f. an earthen fort, a fortified place, a court; gen.
, adj. valuable, precious; fr. ioj, value.
' 5' 1 v. a. burn ; fut, Loifgf eAT) ; inf. t>o
Lonin-beiinionnAC, c. adj. of the mighty strokes.
Lorn, adj. bare, bleak.
LompuAp, c. adj. bleak-cold, bitter-cold.
Lon, t. m. food, provision, stores ; gen. Lom.
Long, s. f. a ship ; gen. Luinge, dat, Lumg, pi. Long
Lonn, adj. strong, able, powerful.
Lo]\5, s. m. a trace, track, print : gen. Linng, pi. id.
Lor1, s. m. sake, account (49 and 54).
Lop, s. M. an herb, a leek ; see Luj*.
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LO]-AT>, s.f. a kneading-trough, a losset ; gen. Lor'Ai'oe, by
syncope, Loif-oe, dat. LopyTO.
Loj'gAf), v. a. inf. of Loifg ; TIA LofgAt), burning them
(34) ! <O'AI\ Lof gAt>, to our burning, being burnt (35).
toe. s.f. a wound ; gen. Loice, pi. LOCA.
LtiAt>, s. m. a mention, hinting, speaking.
Lu AT:, adj. nimble, quick, speedy; comp. LuAice, 50 LUAC,
adv. speedily.
l.nAr-bAncA, c. s. f. pi. of -bA|\c, a swift (sailing) boat.
Luc, s.f. a mouse; gen. Ltnce, pi. LUCA.
L-.icc, s. m. folk, people, a party; gen. -CA; tucccoitrieux>A,
the guarding party.
uiJA, adj. id. comp. of beAg ; smaller, less; ip LUJA, least.
, s. littleness, smallness.
AToe, adj. and prep. ran. the less of it ; union of LUJA
and t>e, of it, 1 being thrown in to comply with the rule
of CAoL Le CAol/, slender with a slender (vowel).
w. n. lie, settle down; pt. tense no ung ; inf. (ir.)
Unj,/ -oo uii§e.
luij;, v. a. swear ; luijim, I swear, emph.
Unng, s.f. dat. of Long
Ltr.peAC, s.f. a coat of mail, armour: gen. -f
1.117, s' m- a ^ee^c > sen- ^°rA> pi- *d.
Luc, s. m. strength, power, vigour, activity; gen. Luic, and
LUCA.
C, adj. glad, joyful.
, adj. quick, nimble ; 50 LucifiAjA, adv. quickly.
m', put for mo, poss.pron. my, before a word commencing
with a vowel or -p.
UIAC, s.m. a son; gen. true,//, id; IDAC mior'A, a one month's
old son.
inACAib, s. m. dat. pi. of ITIAC.
mACAOtri, s. m. a youth, a young person ; gen. -oitri, pi. id.
and -otfiA.
AJ, s.f. a plain, a level country ; gen. niAige, or muije,
dat. mA'ij.
-AiriAn, s. a bear, i.e. a calf of the plain. O'Brien.
, s.f. morning; gen. tnATone, syncopated/r.mAitmie.
niAit)tn, a flight, a defeat, overthrow; gen. niA'omA, pi.
-•m ATI 11 A.
•niAigiAe, s.f. a salmon ; gen. id.
HIAIJ\, v. n.anda. live, exist, endure ;continue,last;
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pres. hist, lives or does live ; fut. rnAippt>, fut. hist.
tnAiT\FeA]' ; inf. t>o riiAjvcAin, or •oo mAi-peAccA-in.
yvoir, for mAi-]\-|nt>ff, cond. of mAif\ ; they would live.
5. J. f. woe, sorrow, pity ; gen. -ge; inter j. woe !
t), c. conj. if so, well ; contraction fr. rnA ip eAt>.
ic, -v. a. forgive, remit; inf. -oo iriAiceAth ; fut. ITIAIC-
po.
niAit, s. f. good, success, prosperity; gen. -ce.
ic, adj. good, suitable, appropriate, befitting, skilled;
comp. (ir.) tiiop -peAf\]\ ; gup tiiAicleo, that they would
like ; ip mAic Le tuj, Lugh likes,
ice, s. m. pi. chiefs, chieftains ; only found in the plural
number.
niAice, adj.pl. of THAIC.
tnAicpoceAjA, ~v. a. fut. pass, of THAIC.
niAicib, s. m. at. pi. mAice, chieftains.
' . .' \s. m. forgiveness, remission; gen. tnAicce.
iceATn, j
ir1, -v. a. cond. of tnAic, ; they would forgive.
fveA'o, c. s. a large herd ; fr. mAl/l., recte moLL, a
number, a flock, and ujveAT), a herd.
triAO|\, s. m. a steward ; gen. mAOifv, pi. id. ; dat. pi. mAOj\-
Aib.
v, prep, for, as ; adv. how, thus, as, like ; when, as soon
as ; mAfv -po, adv. thus, in this manner; tnA|\ A, adv.
where, becomes triAf AJA, before pt. tense.
c, s. m. to-morrow, gen. id. and -jvuig; A1|\ n-A
•mAr»AC, on the next day.
inA|\AOTi, adv. as one, together with, as well as.
, s. m. and f. gen. of mui|\, q. v.
, v. a. kill, slay ; pt. tense, x>o tiiA^b ; inf. TJO riiA|\bA6 ;
pt.part. mAf\bcA.
tnA]\bA-6, v. s. m. a slaying, a killing: gen. triA]\bcA ; pt.
pass, and inf. of mA|\b.
Jf Atn (T>O), v. a. pt. tense, we killed ; ancient synthetic
form for the first pers. pi. pt. tense.
vbcA, pt.part. killed, slain ; v. s. m. gen. of mAfvbAT).
mAf\CAc, s. m, a horseman, a knight ; gen. -AI 5, pi. -Aije.
, s. f. riding, horsemanship ; gen. -CA.
u cavalry.
}
, v.s.f. living, being, life; gen. -CAntiA;
CAinn ; inf. of mAifv.
Af, contraction of niA, if and If, it is ; properly mA'tv
me, pers. fron. I, me.
meAt>, s. f., see ineut>.
meA^A, s.f. gen. of mil, honey.
meAtl,, v. a. circumvent, delude, deceive ; inf. -I<v6.
tneAnniA, s. f. the mind, memory ; gladness, high spirits;
gen. -in An.
meAnmnAC, adj. cheerful, gleeful, in high spirits,
me An, adj. quick, active ; raging, enraged.
meAf, -v. a. think, estimate, consider; inf. id.
rneAfS, v. a. stir, move, excite, confuse (56) ; ft. tense, id.
meACA, ind. adj. cowardly, fearful, timid.
meACACc, s.f. cowardice, timidity ; gen. -CACCA.
metro, s.f. greatness ; gen. meroe.
meutjAij, v. a. increase, augment ; pt. tense, T>O rheu'OAij,
inf. t>o meumigAX).
mi, negative inseparable prefix, indicating the opposite, or
want of the quality expressed by the word with which
it is combined ; it is written mio and miou, before a
word whose first vowel is broad,
mf, s.f. a month; gen. (ir.) mfor'A and mfr1, dat. mif and
m\ : pi. miof A.
miAn, s.f. desire, wish ; gen. -nA.
mic, s. m. gen. and pi. (ir.) of THAC, q. v.
mijtiocAf, c. s. m. impudence, folly ; gen. -AIJ* \fr. mi, neg.
and gtiocAp
miLe, num. adj. a thousand.
t), s. m. a soldier, a champion ; gen. -tit), pi. mil/roe.
v. a. mar, spoil, destroy, ruin; fut. miLLpt) ; inf.
•oo iniLLeA'O ; pt. part. rmUlce.
LeAp, r. a. pt. pass, of miLL ; was or were destroyed ;
also inf. of rniUl.
niiU/pt)e, v. a. cond. pass, of mill/ ; would be destroyed.
niitneAnmnAC, c. adj. negligent, unmindful, thoughtless;
fr. mi, neg. and meAnmnAc; fr. me&nmnA, the mind,
min, adj. line, delica'e, smooth.
njing^eujAc, c. adj. fine Grecian.
nnnic, adj often, frequent ; comp. (ir.) nior1 mtoncA ;
50 mime, adv. oftentimes.
miot>l,Aoc, c. s. m. a poltroon, a coward.
rmoncA, adj. oftener; comp. (ir.) of mime.
miO|\, s. m. myrrh; gen. minn.
miof A, s. f. gen. of mi, a month.
miOfCAi|', s.f. spite, hatred ; gen. -pe.
mirve, s. f. madness, fury; ardour, vehemence ; gen. id.
, adj.pl. baking? (3). 0' Curry.
e. meA^A, comp. (ir.) of oLc, and x)e, of it.
, pers. pr. emph. of me ; I myself.
iAtriAC, c. adj. ill-looking, ill-favoured, ugly;//-, mi,
neg. and fpAmAc, adj. ; fr. pjjiAni, beauty.
micit), z«^. J./. a proper or fit time or season.
mnA, s.f. ir. gen. and pi. of beAtt.
trniAib, s.f. dat. pi. of beAti.
mo, poss.pron. my (causes aspiration) ; written m' before a
word commencing with a vowel or p.
mo, adj. comp. (ir.) of m6]\, great.
moc, adj. early.
. welcome.
mocen, )
mo&, s. m. condition, situation, manner; gen. .T>A, //. id.
mo'OApCA, ind. adj. sour, rough, grim.
moic-eipge, c. s.f. early rising ;gen. id.
Tnoit>e, adj. combination of mo, cnmp. of mop, and "oe, of
it; 1 is inserted in compliance with the rule of cAoi
te CAoU
moiLL, s.f. delay, a stay ; gen. mottle.
moiILe, adj. comp. of mALL, slow, dilatory, tardy, tedious.
inol, v. a. praise, extol, applaud; inf. -oo moLAt) ; fut.
mol/j:Ait>.
moj\, adj. great, great in extent, extensive ; elated ; much ;
as, in6]A •O'A b-^uiL, much of their blood ; tii mor*
gur- fei]\poe pb A f-AJAil, it is not much that ye are
the better for obtaining it; but) mo
mop meAntriA
ACA, their spiiits and mind were elated (53) ; go
m6r», adv. greatly; comp. (ir.) m'or mo.
XAigeAncAC, c. adj. most cheerful, highly elate.
, s. m. a multitude, many ; gen. -Ain.
mopmiAn, c. s.f. a great desire.
morvoij\teAC (AJ), c. part, cutting off in great numbers ;
also -eir\ieAC, q. v.
m6]AUAifte, c. s. m. pi, of -UAfAl, a noble; the high
nobility.
mocinj;, v. a. feel, perceive, know ; inf. mocuJAt) ; moc-
uijit> An Luce c6imeuT)A IATJ, the guard perceive
them.
miic, s.f. a pig ; gen. muice, pi. mucA.
mu&A6 (AJ), pres. part, of mu6, put to death, kill, destroy,
muSAigce, v. s. gen. of mu&AJAft, a killing, a destroying.
muici'oe, a swine herd ; gen. id.
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muije, s. f. gen. of ITIAJ, a plain.
inuig, v. a. fall-to, begin; pt. tense, r>o tiiui§; tjo niui§
A geAti 5Ai]\e A1|\ SAC oeAti T>O IIA trmAib, each of the
women fell a laughing, lit. her humour of laughing fell
upon each woman of the women,
mum, s. f. the back ; gen. -ne.
muin (AIJ\), comp. prep, (governs the genitive case), upon,
on, over.
tmnneAl,, s. m. the neck ; gen. -ml,, pi. id.
niuinnceA|\T)Af, s. m. service, servitude (44) ; gen. -Aif.
mtnnci{\, '( s. f. people, persons ; a clan or following of a
tnuinncij\, j chief; gen. -]\e.
, s.f. the sea; gen. THAJAA; 1Tluii\ tluA'6, the Red Sea ;
gen. fflAfVA tltiAi-oe.
we, v. a. cond. pass, of tnAnb; would have been
"killed.
muipbpceAfv, v. a. fut. pass, of tnA|\b ; shall be killed.
tiiui|\prm (t>o), -v. a. cond. ac. of mA]Ab ; I would kill,
tntnfvn, s. f. natural affection, love ; gen. -tie.
muttAC, s. m. top, summit ; gen. -AI 5, pi. -Aije, dat. pi.
-Aigib.
mutiA, conj. unless, if not.
, s. m. a wall, rampart, bulwark ; gen. mui)\, //.
HA, negative particle, used with imp. mood, not, let not.
MA, def. art. gen. fern., and its form mas. and fern, for all
cases of the plural.
HA, con1), nor ; or; conj. than, contracted from IOIIA.
n.ic, rel. pr. that not, which not.
TiAiTiToeAiTiui'L, adj. hostile, inimical, vicious; comp. -iritA;
fr. n Aril Ait), an enemy.
riAifc,, "V. a. seal, bind, fasten ; pt. tense, t>o tiAifc, inf.
TIAfCAt).
TIAOI, ind. num. adj. nine.
iiAOtibA}\, coll. s. m. nine persons ; gen. -Aif\ ; An HAonbA^
|*i n, those nine persons.
tiAp, conj. which not, that not, may not ; contracted from
11ACA1\, which is made up of HAC and po, sign of the
past tense.
tiAf\Ab, combination of MA]A, and Ab, the subj. of if, the
assertive verb.
neAC, ind. indef. sub. some one, anyone, one.
2IQ
C (50), adv. without defect, faultless.
s. m. strength, might; power, dominion; gen
adj. ir. comp. of T-ogup, near; alsofoigpeor
tieice, s. m. pi. of TITO.
neicib, s. dat. pi. of TITO ; also dat. pi. of neic, a fight, battle,
eagagement, contention, conflict, (42). See O 'Dono-
van's Supp. to O'Reilly's Die. in voce nit, which is ex-
plained by CAC and cogAfr.
tieut, s. m. a cloud; a swoon, a trace, as in CAirfi-Tieut,
q. "v. ; gen. neiL, pi. neutcA.
•m, neg. adv. not ; used with the pres. and fut. tenses, and
causes aspiration.
tii-6, s. m. a thing, a matter or affair ; a part of anything, a
jot, a whit; gen. id. and neice, pi. id. ; JJAC nfo, each
thing, everything.
tiiTh, s. f. venom, poison ; effectiveness, destructiveness ;
gen. mrhe.
nf OTV, neg. adv. not ; fr. ni and T\O, sign of past tense, before
which it is used.
Tiiop, the sign of the comp. degree ; tn'op mo, more.
TIO, conj. or ; TIO 50, tio CUTV, until
noc, ind. rel. pr. who, which.
TIOCA, conj. not ; TIOCA Ti--p«it, there is not ; TIOCA always
requires ti before £ as its eclipsing letter instead of
b (asp.)
TIOCC, v. a. bare, unsheath ; reveal, disclose ; pres. hist.
tioccAf ; pt. tense, T>O TIOCC; inf. T)o TIOCCAX).
Tiom, s. f. noon, evening; gen. TIOTIA.
nuALLcuTTiAT), c . s. m. utter lamentation or sorrow; fr.
lamentation, roaring, and cutfiAti, idem.
tiuije (50), adv. until; 50 1111150 -po, hitherto.
6, prep, from ; 6'ti, from the ; adv. when, since, seeing that ;
6 •pom, adv. since ; 6 ciAtiAib, conj. a while ago ; 6 -pin
AID AC, adv. ever since, thenceforward.
6, s. f. the ear ; gen. id.
occ, num. adj. eight.
OCCA, s. m. gen. of ucc.
ot>' contraction •=. 6, prep, and t>' for pass. pron. •oo, thy.
65, adj. young ; comp. 6150.
65, s. m. a youth, a young person ; a warrior ; gen. ogA*
//. id,
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, J. m.pl. of 65, a youth.
s. m. an occult way of writing used by the ancient
Irish.
J. m. a soldier, a warrior ; a man-servant (2) <gv».
-Aic and -AOIC, pi. id.
oioce, s. f. night ; gen. id. pi. -e&-6A ; the opposite of LA,
the day-time.
oitie, s. m. a tragic fate; gen. id,
615, s. m. a champion.
oiLeAii, s. m. an island; gen. -ein.
omeAC, s. m. liberality, generosity; gen. -1115.
6if\, conj. for, because.
oif\, s. the east ; A n-oi|\, in the east.
6if\, s. m. gen. of OTV, gold.
oifxteAC, .s-. m. slaughter, havoc ; gen. -b j.
oij\eAccAf, s. m. an assembly, a meeting, a conference; gen.
-Aif, pi. id.
A, s.f. shore, coast, border.
), s. m. an equal quantity or number ; as much, so
much ; gen. -eit).
\, s. m. the east, the eastern part of the world; gen.
6t, v, s. m. drinking ; gen. 6iL.
oic, adj. bad, evil ; untoward, unfortunate ; conip. ni
oLc, s. m. evil, harm, mischief; gen. tnLc.
otniiA, s.f. a lance, a spear; gen. id.
on, contraction of 6 prep, and AH, the.
ori6i|\, s.f. honour; gen. -OJ\A.
onorvAc, adj. honourable ; 50 1i-on6]\AC, honourably.
OTV, s. m. gold ; gen. 6if\.
orvoA, ind. adj. golden ; fr. op, gold.
omvAinn, prep. pr. on us ', fr. AIJ\ nnd 11111.
oftlotpgce, ind. adj. burnished.
ojvouigce, .". m. gen. of orvou JAt>, an order, a decree.
o]\m, prep. pr. on me ; fr. A1|\ and mo ; emph. oniriT-A.
OJV|\A, prep. pr. on them ; fr. AITI and IAO ; emph. op.pAT-Ati.
or\|\Aib, prep. pr. on ye ; fr. AIT\ and ib ; emph. o|\HAibfe.
OT\C, prep. pr. on thee ; fr. AIJ\ and cu ; emph. o|\q*A.
<)f, prep, over, above ; 6]' cionn, comp. prep, over the head
(of), (governs the gen. case) over, above; op A 5-0101111,
over them.
op, a particle prefixed to some adjectives by which they be-
come adverbs ; as, 6]' ATVO. loudly, publicly.
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t), s. m. opening, admission ; gen. -juiLce ; also
t), fr. rofgAiL, open,
t), s. m. a sign, a groan ; gen. id.pl. -ft A.
pic, s. f. pitch; gen. -ce.
poj;, s. f. a kiss ; gen. -6 50, pi. -O
in (t>A), v. n. ir. pres. tense (if) thou art ; the only form
of this verb now in use is f\Aib, which supplies the sub-
stantive verb cAirn with a past subjunctive.
or -pAcr-A^, v. n. ir. cond. would go ; imp. cei& ;
•oo HACA-O Ai]V would overtake him.
, v. n. ir. jut. we shall go ; also jVACAtnAOit) or -pAC-
pA(h)Aoir>, v. n. ir. cond. by syncope for f\ACAt>Aoif or
pyoAOir1; they would go.
j\AcpyoAOif, v. n. ir. cond. of ceit», they would go ;
•OAOir1 'tiA coif, they would go back of it, they would
fail to fulfil it.
pAe, s. m. a space of time ; gen. id.
pAib, ~v. n. ir. pt. subj. of bi ; was or were.
, v. a. ir.pt. tense of AbAifv; fr. i\Ait>itn, I say; also
1\Air>ceAj\, v. a. ir. pres. pass, is said, is called.
•j\AiL, s.f. an oak tree.
•pAice, s.f. a quarter of a year; gen. id., pi. id.
•pAlAT>(loo), obs. v. n. pt. tense, it happened, it came to pass.
•pAon, s. m. a rout, a breaking, a tearing? gtn. -om ; pAon
tnAX>mA, a complete derout ?
•pe, prep, form of Le, which see.
peAcc, s. m. a law, statute, ordinance ; gen. -CA, pi. id.
jveACGAib, s. m. dat.pl. of piocu.
•peACA, s. m. gen. of pic, running.
j\eit>, adj. plain, level, smooth.
peiTJTO, -v. n. pres. tense of pero, agree, bargain.
•peroceACAib, s. m. dat. pi. of •peit>ceAC, a plain or level ;
gen. C1J, pi. -dge and -CCAC'A.
j\eim, s. f. a way, course, voyage ; gen. -me, pi. -meAtitiA,
gen.pl. -tneAtin.
), comp.prep. (governs the gen. case), according to;
\, will, accord.
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piA, def. verb,fut. will come.
piACC (-00), def. -verb. pt. tense, arrived.
piAiri, adv. ever, at any time (up to the present).
pi'oeipeA'OA, s. m. pi. of pioeipe, a knight.
pij, s. m. a king, a sovereign ; gen. id. pi. -piece; pi. also
nioJA, whence gen. pi. pioj and dat.pl. pioJAib.
J-. dat. pi. of pig-j-eAfc, a king-tree, a tree of
trees.
(t>o), v. a. ir. pt. tense of t>eAn ; made, composed.
pi£neAbAip (t>o), v. a. ir.pt. tense of -oeAti ; ye have done.
'p, I v^ j t pass, of t>eAn ; was or were made.
igce, s. m. pi. of pig.
piocc, s. m. shape, form ; guise, garb; gen. peACCA,
pioj, s. m. gen. pi. of pig.
pioj-cupAit), c. s. m. gen. and//, of -CU^AX), a royal cham-
pion.
pioc, prep. pr. with thee; modern form LeAC.
•jM-p, prep. pr. with him or it ; modem Leif .
1\o, pa''t'clf used with past tense ; modern T>O.
•poccAin, v. s.f. reacmng, arri\-ing; inf. of pit, reach.
1\o, int'niitive ins'.pi rable prefix, very, exceeding.
pot), s. m. a road way, path ; gen. poTO, pi id,
pojA, s. f. choice, selection, the best ; gen. - JJAH.
poinie, prep, before; poitfie fo, hitherto, previously.
poiiiie, prep.pr. before him or it; T>ofe6il, An cupAcponfie,
the curach sailed forward.
poitrie, adv. already, formerly.
potiiAirine, prep. pr. emph. of poriiAirm, before us.
poiTiAic, c. adj. very good.
poniAC, prep.pr. before thee;/r. poirfie and cu.
popeACA, c. adj. very swift.
poniop, c. adj. very great.
pompA, prep. pr. before them ; gLtiAirTo p6mpA, they go
forward.
ponAT), v. a.pt.pass. of TJ^ATI ; form of pijneAt), which
see.
pop , a particle prefixed to the past tense in ancient writ-
ings, instead of which t>o or po is now generally sub-
stituted.
J- *». a poem, a poetic composition; gen.
pi. id.
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, c. s. m. great authority or sway.
t), adj. strong, valiant ; |\UAT)-CACA, the stiong bat-
talions; red, as, ffluip HUAO, (the) Red Sea.
•pug, v. a. ir pt. tense of beij\ ; brought, bore, carried, took.
, for TMf (37).
, s. m. pi. of •pAijneAti, a dart, flash.
f Aite, s.f. the salt water, the sea ; gen. id.
, intensitive inseparable prefix, exceeding, excessive,
great ; written r~Aj\ before a word whose first vowel is
bioad.
p, c. s. m. a dreadful manner \fr. fAi^, intensitive,
and gieAr1, a manner, nethod, fashion.
fAi]unnirieAc, c. adj. exceedingly venomed, poisonous,
mortal.
, adj. like, alike, equal.
s. m. summer; gen. -ATO.
TAn, emphatic affix, own, self; as, iAt>r'Ati, themselves.
FAH, contraction for nnf, • rep, and ATI, article ; also for
, conj. and n, article.
adj. avaricious, covetous, eager; fr. fAinc,
avarce.
-v. a. think, imagine, suppose ; pt. tense, id. ; inf.
(ir.) -oo fAOiLe^ccMn, cond. fAoilpeAt).
t'AOi|\cineA'LAc, c. ad', free clansman, free born.
fAOfv, adj. free, noble ; comp. fAoirie.
•pAOCAj\, s. m. labour, work, toil ; gen. -AITI.
r-AOCixuJAT), v. s. m. labouring, working, toiling ; gen.
-tngce.
y A-|VlticiriAj\, c. adj. very swift ; fr. fAjA, intensitive, and
LuctrtAr\,_/h Luc, swiftness.
•pAT\, intensitive inseparable prefix ; also fAiri, q. v.
, v. a.fut. shall or will violate; imp. pyiAUij ; inf.
vtij, c. s. m. great slaughter, gen. o/t'Ar\-oi^leAc.
•pe, pers. pron. he, it.
•peAbAC, s. m. a hawk ; gen. -AIC, pi. id.
•peAC, prep, beside, side by side with, in comparison with.
•peAcc, num. adj. seven.
feAccrhAX), num. adj. seventh.
r'eActiAt), v. a. inf. of r-eACA-m, shun, avoid, evade.
f 6AL, s. m. a while, a space of tune ; gen. -^A, //. id. and
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yi-'Anj, adj. slender.
re_\]-Aiii. v. a. and n. inf. of feAf, stand, rise up. uphold,
maintain ; v. s. standing, act or posture of standing ,
gen.re AfOA.
ft- Arc .c, \ s. f. a barren or dry cow; gen. -Aige, //. -ACA :
c. |
_/>-. feAfg. dry, barren.
f., adj. comfortable, easy, at ease.
t), T. a. pt. pass, of feAf.
c, adj. strong, able ;_/>•. feifvc, strength, power.
;'eo-o, s. m. a jewel ; gen. -6it>, pi. -OOA.
j*eo, demons, pron. this ; also po.
feor>Aib, s. dat. pi. of feot> ; used as nom. pi. in some in-
stances.
v. a. sail, steer, direct, lead; inf. feoLAt), pA few.!*, t>o
feot.
j. /w a sail ; gen. -oit, *>/. -otcA.
, for ]-eoLAt), v. s. a sailing, steering, directing ; -IcA.
), s f. a. sail (cloth), a sail.
fe6L]\eim, c. s.f. sail-power.
, s. m. a breastplate; gen. -AiLL.
v. a. loose, spread, scatter, disperse ; inf. -LeAt>.
ceAp, v. a. pres. pass, of -p^AOiL ; f gAOiLceAp T>o'n
•pig, the king is released ; pres. pass, used imper-
sonally.
\, v. a. and n. part, separate ; inf. t>o •pgApAtriAiti.
s. m. a story, news, tidings, embassy; gen. fgeiL,
geuL, -CAtA znd.pl. -eA^CA.
.51 AC, s.f. a shield, buckler; gen. j-geice, pi. ppACA.
r^itig, v. a. and «. bounce, bound, start; pt. tense, id
Vgic, s.f. weariness, fatigue ; gen. -ce.
f5iobAT)A]\, v.a.pt. tense pi. 3. of fgiob, take in hands,
prepare ?
f joitc, f. a. split, cleave ; burst asunder ; pt. tense, id. in/.
-ceAt).
), v. n. squeak, scream, shriek ; inf. -T>AT>.
, v. a. write, inscribe ; inf. -bA&.
, v. a. cease, desist, leave off; inf. -oo fgup.
11', />^rr. pron. she, it.
PAT>, pers. pron. they.
piA]\, o^z^. to the west, westwards, westerly; back, back-
ward, behind.
pb, pers. pron. ye or you ; ^/«^A.pbp».
•pbeAtiti, s.f. a bullrush ; gen. -bmne.
I if>e *mf>h. suffix.
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•pin, lemons. .">ron. that; Afpn, adv.phr. from that, thence;
AH CAN pvi, that time, then : Lei-p pn, with that, there-
upon ; tnme pti, therefore, IAJV pn, after that, subse-
quently, IAO fo, these, iAt> pn, those.
pne, adj. comp. of pjAn, old ; if pne, super, eldest.
pun, pers. pron. we ; emph. pnne.
p'on, "v. a. search, inquire after ; inf. p'ojVAt).
p'o-fv, adj. continual, perpetual.
po'OA, ind. adj. fairy.
p'ojA&t), v. a. past pass, of p'ojA.
p'oncAiceAin, v. a. inf. and pres. part.,fr. p'oj\, ever, and
CAiceAth, inf. of CAIC, eat, spend, consume.
p'oyvoubAt), c. s. utter darkness, despair.
p'op, adv. down, below; used generally with a verb implying
motion.
poccAncA, adj. pacific, peaceable ; 50 p"occAiicA, peaceably.
l> \v. a. search, seek ; beg, beseech (61).
pc, s. m. a thrust, a pass (39) ; peace, reconciliation.
pubAL, v. a. and n. walk, traverse, travel, pass-over.
pubAL, s. m. a march, journey ; gen. -AiL.
public, adj. fleet, nimble, swift (13) ; sliding (9).
p^Ab|\At), s. m. a chain ; gen. -Ait>, pi. -AT>A.
p^,Aije, v. a. inf. of p^Aig, slay, kill, slaughter.
p\An, adj. healthy, sound, whole, safe.
i, s. m. a guarantee, surety, gen. -Am ; pi. -HA.
, s.f. a guarantee, surety; gen. -CA.
i}. a. heal, cure ; inf. p^AnuJAt).
iT), v. a.fut.sing. 3. of fLArmij.
p!,eA j, s. f. a spear, lance ; gen. -eije ; pi. -eA§A ; gen.
also p\eA§A.
rLeig, s.f. dat. of -pleAJ.
•pLeibce, s. m. pi. of p^/iAb.
s. m. a mountain; gen. p^eibe, pi. ple'ibce, dat.
pi. -cib.
, s.f. a way, road, path, passage; gen. id. pi.
, s. m. a side or margin of a country or district,
j, s. m. an army, host, legion ; gen. -Aij and -
pi. -Aijce and -AJA.
•pLonin, v. a. name, mention; inf. -ploirmeAt).
p^oinneA&, s. m. naming, recording ; gen. fLo
ptiACC, s. m. authority, sway ; (fen. -CA.
•p, demons, pron. this; poirhe po, before this, previously.
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fo, prefix, giving to the word to which it is prefixed the idea
of fitness, aptness, or suitability.
pocpAc, adj. agreeable, gracious, sedate.
7 occ, s. m. astoundment, silence.
foqAATO, s.f. a multitude of people, an army, a troop;
gen. -Toe.
fom (6), comp. adv. from that (time), since ; 6 pom AtriAC,
from that out, thenceforward.
poif\, adj. to the east, eastwards, easterly.
fo'lAiiiA'o, c. adj. sleight of hand.
j~piof\AT>, s. m. the life, spirit; gen. -Alt).
•port, ind. s. m. sake, cause, account ; AIJ\ A pon, on their
account.
f|Aon, s.f. the nose ; gen. -oitie, pi. -6riA ; gen. also pporiA.
pj\uc, s. m. a stream, current ; gen. ppocA, pi. id. and
, c. s. probably an inflected form of pcuAro,
which O'Reilly explains a point, pinnacle, a ridge, and
leif\5, a phonetic Munster form of Luifiij, aat. of
tuipeAC, armour; hence fcuAit>-leif\5 A •6j\ornA may
denote the chief or principal armour of his (Lugh's)
back, from which the shield depended.
icceAnncAc, adj. variegated, emblazoned.
i, s. m. rest, sleep ; gen. -Ain ; coipcim pUAin, a deep
sleep.
•puAtf\c, adj. civil, kind, affable, gracious ; meek, gentle.
•put), demons, pron. that person, yon, yonder.
>, v a. and n. sit, seat, encamp ; inf. (ir.) -oo f
t), v. a. pt. pass, of puiT>.
eAO, v. a. pt. pass, of -pvn-oiuj.
g, v. a. set ; inf. -oo puioiuJAt).
f inL, s. f. an eye ; gen. -put, and pi LA, pi. putLe.
yut, adv. before (causes aspiration).
put, s.f. gen. of full.
f ulfA, gen. emph. of puiU
, v. a. ir. give, grant, in which sense it is generally
followed by the prep, -oo ; bring, generally followed by
prep, cum ; inflict, execute, by VOKprep. AIJ\; take, fol-
lowed by the prep. 6; emph. CAbAijvre; pt. tense,
•oo cu^ ; fut. T>O beAppAiS, fr. beip ; GAOAjvpAfb, and
ciubA]\j.-Ait), fr. CAbAip; inf. Do CAbAi]\c: CAC t)o
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CAbAij\c, to give battle; t>o cAbAinc UACA, to take
from them.
, -v. n. ir. pres. of ceit> ; old form of ceit>, pres. yd.
sing. (22).
v. s. progress, departure ; see under CAt>Al,1, in
O'Reilly's Dictionary, and CAT>AiU, in Supp. to same.
This word is supplied in some copies of the story by
CATO, ir. v. sub. pres. yd pers. pi. they are.
CAirn-neul, c. s. m. lit. a death-cloud ; a swoon, or slumber
betokening death ; CAirhneAlAib is used at p. 55 for
nom.
f, conj. moreover, besides, in addition to ; nevertheless,
notwithstanding; GAi^tf fin uiLe, notwithstanding all
that.
CAinic COG), v. n. ir. pt. tense of CAJ\ or cig.
v. a. try, endeavour; seek, offer; inf. (ir.) •oo
, v. a. pt. tense pi. 3, they drew, pulled ; syn-
copated fr. CAjAnAinjeA'OArv ; imp. CAn/pAing.
GAinn/ingirie, s. a promise, prophesy; gen. id.; cfp CAIJV-
nmjine, the land of promise, a name frequently applied
by ancient Irish writers to any district the beauty or
fertility of which they wished to picture.
CAinre, prep. pron. over her, it ; fr. prep. CA]\ and f.
CAif oeAttfAt), v. a. cond. of CAifbeAn, show, exhibit.
CAife, s.f. weakness, swoon, faint-heartedness ; gen. id. (55).
GAicneATh, s. m. splendour, brightness ; gen. -ITIA.
s. m. and/", laud, country; earth, ground; gen.
GAl/tflAn.
i, s. f. gen. of CAlArii.
t), adj. quick, active, dexterous.
CATI (An), adv. when ; ATI CAH fin, then.
,, v. n. ir. pt. tense, 1st pi. we came, \
v. n. ir.pt. tense, 2nd pi. ye came, J imp. ng.
v. n. ir.pt. tense, yd pi. they came, )
, s.f. a side ; gen. cAoibe, pi. CAobA.
CAJ\, prep, over, beyond, across ; becomes CAnp before the
article ; CAN, A g-ceAnn, on their account, for them.
GA-n,Aif, adv. back, backward.
, comp. prep, (governs the gen. case) after.
, def. -verb, happened, came to pass, befell ; used only
in ydpers. ing. and//, of//, indie, and subj.
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, "v, a. draw, lift, pull ; inf. id.
ce, indef. pron. he who, the person who.
ceA6, s. m. a house ; gen. a j;e, dat. cij.
CCACC, s. m. an ambassador, messenger, courier ; gen. -CA,
pi. id.
ceACG, v. n. ir. inf. of 015 ; f A CCACC, for coming (18) ;
•oo COACC t>e, to come from it, to result from it
(63).
), v. n. ir. old form of yd per s. sing. pres. of ceit>, go ;
modern form ceit>.
C, s. m. a household ; gen. -1/Aij, pi. -tAije.
t) (00), z/. n. cond. would happen, fall out.
ceAii5triAX>Aoif, v. a. cond. they would meet.
ceAMjrniAil/, 1
ceAgriiAil, }v-s-f> happening, occurnng ; gen. -thAU.
ceArm, s. oppression, violence.
ceArmcA, s. distress, trouble, jeopardy, strait.
ceAfbeAnpAiiinr'e, v. a. cond. sing. i. I would have shown ;
imp. ceAfbeAn.
coAi'OAig, v. n. pt. tense, was wanting, lacking ; imp.
id. ; inf. ceAfougA-o ; fr. ceAfOA, adj. less by, short
of.
coAft)Aiin, v. n. pres. hob., is or are wanting;
UAinn, we want.
), v. n. ir. go ; pt. tense, t>o cu AIX> ; hab. past,
fut. -jAAcpAit) or HACATO ; subj. past. 50 n-x>eACAit>.
), v. n. ir. pres. sing. 3, of ceii>.
1, v. n. ir. imp. pi. I, let us go.
, -v. a. cast, fling, throw; inf. (ir.) •oo ceil^eAii, and
•oo ceilgmc ; fut. ceitgpG.
ceitgeAT, v.,a. pres. hist, of ceiig.
cei]\cit)e, adj. comp. ofueApc, few, rare, scarce, with De suf-
fixed — the scarcer of it.
ceic, v. a. and n. fly, flee, escape ; inf. t>o ceiceAt).
ce6]\A, num. adj. three ; modern form cpi.
ci, (50 "O-) comp. prep, (governs the gen. case) to, unto.
dg, v. n. ir. come; also CA|\ ; pt. tense, -oo CAHAIC or
CAltiir ; fut. ciocpAit) ; inf. •oo ceACC.
dj, s. f. dat. of ceAc.
T>, ir. v. n. pt. hab. of 015.
t), for ciocpyo, cond. of cig ; TJA •o-cigeAti neAc, if
one would come (58).
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j. m. circuit, ambit ; (A t>-) comp. prep, (governs
the gen. case) about, around ; IHA or VIA cnn-
c-mcioVl, j cioVl, around her or it; itiA citncioVl, around
dtnceAVL J him or it; HIA •o-cimcioLL, around them.
Cimciot/L is now always used in this preposi-
tional phrase form.
Cime, s.f. fear, dread, gen. id.
circije, adj. fiery; s. f. gen. of cinceAc, lightning, fr.
ceme, fire.
dnn, adj. sick, sore, unwell.
dobrtAt), "V. a. ir. cond. sing. 3 of cAbAip.
cioc]TAit) (t>o), v. n. ir. .cond. sing. 3 of dg.
pAiT), v. n. ir.fut. sing. 3 of cig ; ciocpAit> -pe D-UA, it
will come against their sons.
jTAf (t>o), v. n. ir.fut. hist, of dg.
CIOCIIAIC, v. a. give, bestow; dot>t,Aic, id.; inf. -ACA&.
dotrtr-ugAT), s. m. a collection, a heap ; gen. -jnnjce.
cionoL, v. a. inf. of ctonoil, assemble, collect, gather.
cionf^AHi, s. m. a purpose, design ; gen. -JJAIICA.
ci]\, s.f. land (as opposed to rnuip, the sea), country, re-
gion ; gen. cifve.
Gi|\m, adj. dry ; conip. ciorimA.
cl-Af, s. m. weakness, timorousness, weak-spiritedness ; gen.
-Air-.
ciubf\At>, v. a. fut-. sing. I, I shall or will give, \ imp.
TO, v. a. fut. sing. 3, shall or will give, ( CAbAijv
, -v. a. dig, root ; cocuii, id. : coclAim, pres. sing, i,
dig, syncopated from cocAil/im ; inf. -oo cocAiLc; fut.
cocAilc, -v. a. inf. of cocAit; v. s. a digging, rooting.
coj, v. a. raise, lift, erect; fut. coigeo^Ait) ; inf. T)O
t), v. a. pt. pass, of cog.
f, v. a. hist. pres. of cog.
coice, s.f. a natural right ; gen. id.
, s. f. the will, willingness, consent, inclination; gen.
and coite.
tiTpt), v. a. imp. pi. 2. of cotriAif, weigh, measure;
syncopated from coriiAipo.
coir\cim, j. numbness, deadness; coi|\cim ruAin, a dead-
sleep.
i, adj. loud murmuring.
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coij\rneAf5, s. m. opposition, hindrance, impediment, ob-
stacle ; gen. -tnei-pg and -1111^5.
coifg, s. f. a journey, expedition; circumstance.
coriiAir--uif, "v. a. measure, weigh ; inf. T>O cortiAf, -tir.
cotin, s. f. a wave, billow; gen. cumne, pi. cormA.
t), def, verb, pt. tense, fell (in battle) ; was or were
lolled.
, prep. pron. over you ; compounded of CAJA, over,
and ib.
ro, v. a. imp.pl. a of cOriiATp, weigh, measure;
syncopated fr. GotriAirro.
C, s. m. front, vanguard ; gen. -AIJ.
cnA, adv. indeed ; vero, autem.
CJAAOC, v. a. lessen, abate, drain ; inf. id. and CJAAOCA&.
crtA-pCA (50 TO-), adv. up to this time, hitherto,
en AC, s. m. a natural day of twenty-four hours ; gen. GJAACA ;
ATI cnAC, adv. when,
une, prep, through, by, on account of; becomes cney before
the article.
cpeAbcAn, v. a. pres. pass, is or are ploughed ; imp. act.
cneAO, inf. -bAT>.
cneAT>, I m a ^gj.^^ floc]Cj dro%-e ; gen. --OA, pi. id.
, s. m. gen. of cr\eALl/ATh, apparel,
i, adj. strong, mighty, powerful ; becomes cfieiti in
composition with a word whose first vowel is slender.
, v. a. abandon, leave, forsake ; inf. (ir. ) x>o CJAOIJ-
eAnn or C|\ei5inc.
, v. a. inf. of cjv&ig,
, c. s. m. a brave man ; gen. -prt.
, adv. comp. (ir.) of LAiTJirt, strong.
cr»eic, adv. weak, disabled.
', prep, cpe, and m' for pass. pron. mo, my.
, s.f. strength, force ; gen. -OJ\AC.
cpeuti, adj. brave, valiant.
J, c. s. m. a brave host.
, (AJ), pres. part, beating or smiting bravely;
, v. a. pres. i. I knock, smite, shake.
cj\eAf, s. a stroke ; gen. -r-A, //. id.
cpi, num. adj. three.
CJMAIL, v. a. and n. go, march, walk, journey, travel.
en an I co^' s' m' t^iree persons ;fr. cpi, and
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), prep, through ; c^io pn, through that, on that ac-
count ; prep. pron. through him or it.
, prep. pron. through her or it.
see cjviAfv.
Cf\om, adj. heavy, weighty, oppressive (3) ; sorrowful, sad,
melancholy (56).
J, \adj. pitiful, dismal, sorrowful ; comp.
super, ir cjAUAi^e.
s. f. a sheath, a scabbard; gen. -te, pi. -
cu, pers. pron. thou ; emph. cur-A ; ace. cu.
s.f. north; gen. -t>e; adj. northern ; but) ctiAit),
adv. phrase, northwards.
, s.f. an account, detail, notification; gen. -ge.
cuAij*ceA-j\G, s. m. the north ; gen. -cei-j\c.
cuA]\Aj*OAt, s. m. hire, wages, stipend ; gen. -Ail.
CUAC, s. m. a people, tribe ; gen. and pi. CUACA.
cuj, v. a. pt. tense, sing. 3, of CAbAijv.
v. a. pt. pass, of CAbAip.
t), v. a. cond. sing. 3, of GAbAijx ; cugfA-OAOir1, cond.
3. pi. they would give.
cujr'Atn, v. a. pt. tense of CAbAifv ; old synthetic form of the
1st pers. pi. past.
ctnj;, v. a. understand ; inf. t»o
cuigeAj", v. a. pt. tense sing. i.
ctn^fe, s.f. sense, understanding; gen. --potiA.
cuitie, s. more, an addition.
emit, v. a. deserve, earn, merit; inf. ctnl,teAifiAi«,
eAth, or -1OTT1.
ctnnne, s. f. gen. of conti.
cui^feAC, adj. weary, tired, depressed ; mournful, sorrow-
ful ; fr. ctiijAf e, sadness.
cuij\ce, s.pl. of Guip, a pillar, prop, bulwark.
cuif (Ai|\t)-), adv. at first.
cvhr1, s.f. dat. of cur1, a beginning, origin; gen. -pe.
cuip, s. f. incense, frankincense ; gen. -ye.
cuic, v. n. fall, fall (in combat) ; inf. (ir.) t>o cuiam ; fut.
cuicim, v. n. ir. inf. of cuic.
v. n. pt. tense pi. 3 ; old synthetic form yd pers.
pi. past tense, for which in modern Irish cuiceAt>A]\ is
written.
1, s. m. a journey, expedition ; gen. -uif, pi. id.
pers. pron. emph. of co.
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adj. surface?; tii le Vt-A|AmAib TnuipbptceA]\
cu, ACC Le clocAib cutArhAip TIA CAl/rriAti, (It is) not
with arms you will be slain, but with the surface stones
of the earth (14).
UA, s. m. a grandson or male descendant ; gen. ui.
UACCAfi, s. m. the top, surface, upper part, bosom ; gen.
-A1fu
J, s.f. a grave ; gen. UAije, pi. UAJA.
, //•<?/. pron. from ye or you.
UATO, prep. pron. from him or it.
UA1J, S. f. dot. Of UA§.
, prep, pron from me.
, ind. adj. green, greenish.
, prep. pron. from us.
UA1]\, s.f. an hour, a time; gen. -pe : Aon UAIJA, one time,
once ; AII UAIJ\, when.
/, adj. noble; comp. and pi. HAir-le, syncopated from
fAile; 50 h-UAfAt, adv. nobly.
s. m. a noble ; gen. -Ail, pi. UAifLe.
, s.f. nobility ; gen. id.
UAIC, prep. pron. from thee.
UAirfe, emph. of UAIC.
UACA, prep. pron. from them.
UAcbA-p, s. m. dismay, astonishment, surprise; gen. -Aif.
ubAlt, J. m. an apple , gen. -AilL, pi. ubAll-A and by syn-
cope ublA.
ubl,A, s. m. pi. of ubALL.
ucc, s. m. the breast, bosom, lap ; gen. OCCA.
ut>, demons, pron. that, that there.
uiLe, adj. all, every, whole.
uiUleAunA, s. f. pi. of uitte, an elbow, a haunch ; gen.
-eAnn.
mme, conj. therefore; tume fin, on that account,
uime, prep. pron. about him, it , fr. um or im, prep, and 6,
him, it.
tnn^e, s.f. an ingot, an ounce; gen. id.pl. -eACA.
uip, s.f. mould, earth, clay; gen. -j\e.
tnjveAfOAT), s. f. want, need, deficiency ; gen. -Ait>e, dat.
-A1T).
uipriietpieAC, c. adj. very courageous ; fr. uft, intensitim
and tneijtieAC.
v:i|\, intensitive prefix ; very, exceeding ; form of Op before a
\vord whose first vowel is slender.
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uij\citncioUL, c. s. m. a complete circuit ; IIIA n-uifvcimcioVL,
completely around them.
™ ' \prep. pron. on or upon her, it.
tn-pge, s. m. water; gen. id.pl. -At>A.
«m, prep, about, around; also im.
, s. m. submission ; gen. id.
, prep. pron. about them.
, adj. easy ; comp. (ir.) niofUfA.
tif\bf\uirme, s. f. gen. of uj\b-ponn, a limit, a boundary.
tij\CAf\, s. m. a throw, cast, shot ; gen. -A1|\, pi. id.
ujAlAopAT), s. m. utterance, the faculty of speech ; gen. id.
u|\lAit>eAcc, s. f. sledging; gen. -CA ; fr. u|VlA&, a malk-t.
u]\Luit)e, s. a conflict, skirmish, slaughter; gen. id.
uj\j\AThAtiCA, adj. respected, honored.
ujvufA, see u-pAfA.
ur-A, adj. comp. (ir.} of jni]\uj' or ttpuf, easy
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VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES.
, pi. AU-wupAij, a foreigner ; the designation
given in the text to the opponents of the Tuatha De Danann,
and who were also known as the tocl-AnnAije and the
VorhojXAij; or Vir>eirotrio]\AC.
Aot>, gen. AOX>A ; one of the three sons of Miodhchaoin,
who guarded the hill from which the children of Tuireann
were to give the three loud shouts, one of the erics imposed
by Lugh.
Ar-At; gen. Ar-Ait, the King of the Golden Pillars:
written also e-AfAL,
Ac-cl/iAC, now Dublin ; also called by the Irish-speaking
people Ac-cLi AC T>uibl/irme and bAiLe-ACA — CLiAC, a name
shortened into bleA-Cl/iAC, which literally signifies the
"Town of the Ford of Hurdles," from a ford made of
trees and branches, which was thrown across the Liffey by
the Leinster men in the reign of King Conor Mac Nessa
(A.D. 33) to enable Aicipne, the Importunate, the Ulster
poet and satirist, to bring with him the spoils which they had
given him, sooner than incur the enmity of his province.
(See a paper "On the ancient name of Dublin," by Charles
Haliday, in the " Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy"
for June, 1854; and "O'Cuny's MS. Materials.")
Ac-LuAin. Athlone ; literally signifies the " Ford of the
Luan or Loin. " The name of this ford was changed from Ac-
fflop, or Great Ford, to Ac-UiAin. after the Tain Bo Chuailgne,
probably about one hundred and fifty years previous to the
battle of Magh Lena. The Donn Cuailgne, or Brown Bull
of Cuailgne in Louth, for the possession of which Maive,
Queen of Connaught, made war on Ulster, and which, after
a contest of ten years, she succeeded in carrying off to her
own country, had no sooner arrived there, than he made battle
with the Finn-bheannach, or White Horned Bull of Connaught,
which he overthrew, and taking him on his horns ran off
towards this ford, shattering and scattering his members as he
went along ; and so when he came to Ac-mop, he flung his an-
tagonist's luan into the current, whence ever after the place
was called Ac-tuAin. The text does not support this origin
of the name, since Athlone is referred to as Ac-luAin true
\M JATO, the ford of Luan, the son of Lughaidh.
OAlAp, styled in the text bAiA]vb6inieAtiriAc, i.e., "Of
the Blows," also known as t>Al>A-|\ UA Tleix), i.e., Balar,
the grandson of Neid, was King of the Foraorians, when the
sesond battle of Magh Tuireadh was fought. In this battle
he lost his life at the hands of his own grandson Lugh
Lamhfhada. Balar was remaikable for one of his eyes, an
" evil eye," which caused, it is said* the death of any living
thing that it looked at. It was in this eye he was struck by
a stone flung by Luj, and with so much force that it carried
it out through the back of his head. In the account of the
second battle of Magh Tuireadh, the meeting of these two
warriors is recorded as follows : " Lugh and Balar of the
Piercing Eye met in the battle. Balar had a destructive
eye. This eye was never open but in the field of battle
only. Four men were required to raise the lid off the eye
with a hook, which was passed through its lid. A whole
army that he looked upon out of this eye could not prevail
against (a few) warriors, though they should count many
thousands. The cause why this poison was on it was this,
namely, his father's druids had been boiling a druidical spell ;
and he came and looked in through the window, so that the
fume of the boiling passed under it ; and it was upon the
sye that the poison of the brewing passed afterwards." At-
lantis, vol. iv., p. 235.
t)AnbA, Ireland ; according to Keating, the sixth name
that Ireland received. Banba was one of three famous
queens of the Tuatha De Danann, whose husbands reigned
in alternate periodical succession at the coming of the Mile-
sians. She with her two sisters, fell at the battle of Tell-
town (CAitlce) in which the Milesians were victorious.
beitin eAt>Aip, now the Hill of Howth, near Dublin ; so
called from Kdar or Etar, the wife of Gann, son of Dela, one
of the five brother chiefs of theFirbolgs, who took possession
of Ireland before the Tuatha De Danann. The origin of the
name is ascribed also to Edar, the son of Edgaeth, a Tuatha
De Danann chief, who died of love of a lady, Aine, and was
buried here (see the Dinnsenchus, Book of Lecain, ioL
232. a.a.) O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv.
beipbe (toctAiiriAige) ; the name of the chief city of
Lochlan. It is mentioned in several of our medieval roman-
tic tales.
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beij\n-NA li-eA'DAjAgAtiA, that is, the Gap of Interposition,
now Roscommon, in Connaught. This was probably the
name of the place before St. Coman (who died in 742) built
his church in its forest, after which it has continued to be
called Ros Comain, or Comain's Wood. O'Curry, Atlantis,
vol. iv., p. 174.
t)OT)b •OeA^j, King of Connaught, whose territory the
Fomorians ravaged, and to whose assistance Lugh came, was
the son of the Daghda.
t)dirm, gen. (IIA) t)6inne ; the River Boyne, which flows
through the plain of Magh Breagh, passing the towns of
Trim, Navan, and Drogheda, was the chief river of the Irish
monarch's territory of Meath. It has its source in a well,
now known as Trinity Well, Carbury Hill, but anciently called
Sidh Nechtain, Nechtain's Hill, in the barony of Carbury and
county of Kildare. Boan, from whom the river took its name
of Boan, or Boinn, now anglicised Boyne, was the wife of
Nechtan, and having dishonoured the waters of the sacred
well, which stood within her court, they overflowed. She fled
before them towards the sea, but they overtook and drowned
her. The lady Boan was followed all through by her lap-
dog, which was named Dabhilla, and which, like its mistress,
was overwhelmed by the flood and carried out of thcj Boyne's
mouth, and as far as the rocks, on the coast of Bregia, which
from it are called Cnoc'OAbi'ltA, Dabhilla's Hill ^see Dinn-
senchus), now the Abill Rocks, i.e., Rockabill, on the coast
of Dublin, between Rush and Holme Patrick.
brteAf , the son of Balar, and a leader of the Fomorians,
on whose engagement to Lugh, as mentioned in the text
(p. 1 8), his followers came to fight the Second or Northern
battle of Magh Tuireadh, in which they were defeated by
the Tuatha De Danann. His father was a Fomorian whils
his mother was of the Tnatha De Danann race. He hel
the sovereignty of Eire for the seven years that Nuadha o
the " Silver Hand" was under treatment for the wound his
arm sustained in the first battle of Magh Tuireadh ; but his
cruelties and exactions upon the Tuatha De Danann during
this time were so great, that on Nuadh's resumption of the
reins of government, he was driven out of the country.
brviAti, gen. -Ain. Brian, one of the three sons of Tuireann,
upon whom Lugh imposed the eric and who acted as the
leader and spokesman for his brothers in all their journeys
and difficulties.
riA boirme, the Palace of the Boyne, the celebrated
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Hall of the DaghdaM6r, who was the great king and oracle
of the CUACA t)e T}AnAnn.
CAince, Cainte, whose three sons, Cu, Ceiceti, and CiAn set
out, at Lugh's request, to muster the Fairy Cavalcade to
march against bjxeA-p, who had invaded and was devastating
Connaught. CAince was father of CiAn, whose tragic death
forms the foundation of the story.
CAUAif\ CfvoDAing ; Crofin's City. This was the Tuatha
De Danann name of Tara, so called after Crofin (the Crim-
son-fair), the daughter of Alloid.
CeiceAnn, one of the sons of Cainte and brother of Cian.
Ceicl/iorm (cAij*piAcl,Ac), the wife of Balar of the
" Mighty Blows," and who inflicted such wounds upon the
Daghda Mor at the battle of the second Magh Tuireadh,
that he subsequently died of them at his palace on the Boyne
(tjpug HA t)oirme).
CiAti ; gen. Cein ; son of Cainte and father of Lugh
Lamhfhada, who was killed by the Children of Tuireann.
Conn, one of the three sons of tttioi>CAOiti, whose death-
struggle with the Children of Tuireann forms one of the in-
cidents of the present text.
ContiAcc ; gen. -CA ; Connaught. According to Keating
it owes its name to a druid, who, to prove his necromantic
skill, covered the province with a snow, hence, ContiAcc, .1.
Cuirm fnieACCA, .1. ftieAcc CViuirm, Conn's snow; or again, to
the fact, that the posterity of Eochaidh Muighmheadhoin, who
were descended from Conn, inhabited this portion of Ireland.
Co|\c, one of the sons of 1T1ioi>CAOin.
Corvon, one of the chiefs of the Fomorians, to whom the
Tuatha De Danann paid tribute.
Coj\Anti (the territory of the bright-faced Corann). This
was the well-known principality of the family of Mac Donn-
chaidh (Mac Donagh) of Corann, in the present county of
Sligo. In the Dinnsenchus, the name is derived from
Corann, a famous harper (cruitirf) of the Tuatha De Danann,
to whom it had been originally assigned in right of his art.
[Book of Lecain, fol. 248, b.b.] O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv.,
P- 175.
Co]\r\ ShViAb tiA SeAJfA, situate in the present Curlieu
Mountains, near the town of Boyle, county of Roscommon.
This particular mountain which is not now distinguishable
from any of the group of hills which share the name, was
called Coirrshliabh na Seaghsa, that is, the Round Moun-
tain of the Poetic Spring. There were several of those
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'' poetic springs," or Helicons, in ancient Erinn ; each sur-
rounded (it was said) by nine imperishable hazel trees, from
which showers of ruddy nuts were dropped periodically into
the spring. These nuts were eagerly watched by the salmon
at the bottom of the spring, who, when they saw them drop
upon the surface, darted up and eat them as fast as they
could, after which they glided into the neighbouring rivers.
Those who had succeeded in getting the nuts to eat had
their bellies all spotted with a ruddy spot for every nut they
had eaten ; but those who got none had no such spots. On this
account the spotted salmon (which was called the E6 fts,
or Salmon of Knowledge) became an object of eager acquisi-
tion, both -with the learned and the unlearned ; because when
the learned eat of it, they became (it was supposed) more
learned and sublime in their poetic aspirations ; and when
the unlearned had the good fortune to catch and eat him,
they became at once great poets. Some illustration of this
curious old myth will be found in a little fragment (inaccurately
copied, and carelessly translated, unfortunately), published
in the volume of the Transactions of the Ossianic Society
of Dublin, in the year 1859. O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv.,
p. 174.
CompAp, one of the chiefs of the Fomorians, to whom
the Tuatha De Danann paid tribute.
Cu, one of the sons of Cainte.
'OAg'OA (mop) ; the great king and oracle of the Tuatha
De Danann, who resided at t>|\Ǥ IIA faoimie, or the Palace
of the Boyne, near Slane. He was otherwise called eocAit>
OllAiri. He reigned seventy years and died at his palace on
the Boyne from the wounds he received at the hands o
Ceict/ionn, the wife of Balar, in the second battle of Magh
Tuireadh.
"OAJAA TDeAf\5, a druid of the Fomorians.
t)i AticeAcc, a celebrated physician of theTuathaDe Danann,
to whose skill Nuadh was indebted for the arm of silver
that replaced the natural member which was cut off in the
first battle of Magh Tuireadh. Miach and Oirmhiach were
his sons and equally skilled as physicians.
t)obA]A, King of Sicily.
OAf-Al, ; gen. -Ail : written also Af At, q.v.
OAf X)A|\A, the cataract of Dara, so called from the death
of this druid having occurred at it. It is now the village of
Ballisadare, situated at this cataract, on the river Uinshinn,
in the barony of Leney, and county of Sligo.
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a Fomorian to whom the Tuatha De Danann
were, for a time, subject.
Gitie, also a Fomorian.
€hj\e, whence (dative) Erin, was the fourth name given to
Ireland and owes its origin, according to Keating, to a queen
of that name who ruled the island in the time of the Tuatha
De Danann dynasty. She was killed at the battle ofTelltown
eicne, sister of the Children of Tuireann. This is the name
of the kernel of a sweet hazel-nut, and appears to have been
a favourite name lor amiable ladies among the ancient
Gaedhil. O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 193.
p&iL-mir1. O'Curry supposed this word to be a transposed
form of Itur-pAii, (Island of Fal), one of the ancient names
of the country ; from the stone jTAl, upon which the pagan
kings of Eire were crowned at Tara.
pAttCAipe (inif), Inis-fianchuire ; that is, the island of
Fianchair^, or, as it appears in the Book of Lecain, Ims
Caire Cenn-fhinne, that is, the island of Caer (Rose) of the
Fair Hair (or head). In the Book of Lecain, this island is
said to be concealed (under water) between Erinn and
Albain ; but the London copy (Tipper's) says it was a secret
druidical island in the Mediterranean Sea ; this, however, is
a purely modern interpolation. To this island, under either
form of its name, I have never before met with any reference.
There is, however, a very curious case in point, of some sub-
merged place in the sea, between Ireland and Scotland, and
inhabited by women, though it is without a name, and which
may, upon other authority, be the island spoken of here.
The reference to this submerged island, if such it be, is found
in the ancient tract so well known as the Dinnsenchus, a
tract originally compiled in the reign of Diarmait, the son of
Fergus Cerrbheoil, (monarch of Erinn, from A.D. 538 to
558;) but which has received some later additions, and
which professes to give the origin of the names of remarkable
hills, mounds, caves, rivers, rocks, etc., throughout the king-
dom. The article of this tract to which I allude is that on
the supposed origin of the name of the river Oilbhine, or
Ailbhine, now the river Dilvin, which falls into the bay of
Malahide, in the county of Dublin. O'Curry, Atlantis, vol.
iv., p. 191. (The article of this tract, alluded to by O'Curry,
is to be found in the Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 235, whence he
transferred it from thej50<;£ of Bally mote, R.I.A., fol. 191,
a.a.)
(cocAlL mjme), the Cloak of the daughter of
Fleidhis, which, we learn from the text, Lugh assumed on
his leaving Tara to avoid the Children of Tuireann.
•p6riio|\AC, pi. poiiiopAtj, Fomorians; the opponents and
enemies of the Tuatha De Danann.
£t\eArhAirm, Freamhainn, now Frewin ; a hill, over the
western shore of Loch Uair {Lough Owel), in the parish
of Portloman, county of Westmeath. A palace was raised
here by Eochaidh Aireamh, monarch of Erinn, who was
killed there himself afterwards. (See Annals of the Four
Masters, A.M. 5084 — O'Donovan, p. 89. note [w] ; and see
the Historic Tale of the Cathreim of King Dathi Mac
Fiachrach). O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv.. p. 222.
SAIJVTO, Gairech, i.e., the Place of Shouts ; so called from
the shouts of joy which were raised by the youths of Ulster,
when they saw Cuchulainn coming from his sick bed to their
relief in the great final battle of the Tain Bo Chuailgne,
which took place between the present town of Mullingar, in
Westmeath, and Athlone. [See Dinnsenchus, Book of
Lecain, fol. 251, b.a.] O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 174.
3|\eA5, Greece ; gen. (TIA) Sfxeige.
lljAijvix>, Ilghaireach, another name of Gairech, for the
battle is called the Battle of Gairech and Ilghairech, in the
Tain. The latter name would signify the place of many or
unusual shouts. Gairech and Ilghairech were two hills in
the neighbourhood of Mullingar, in the county Westmeath,
where the last battle of the Tain Bo Chuailgne was fought,
between Kfcg Conor Mac Nessa and Ailill and Medb, the
king and queen of Connacht. O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv. p. 174.
1ucAi|\, one of the sons of Tuireann, upon whom the eric
was imposed by Lugh.
1ucAj\bA, one of the sons of Tuireann, upon whom the
eric was imposed by Lugh.
1ojuiAi6e. I would take this place to be the present Ice-
land. The name occurs in Cormac's Glossary, and frequently
in other very old tales; but the situation of the country
meant has not been yet satisfactorily ascertained. The
country was also called Fuardha ; and Uardha, leaving the
initial F out ; and in this form it would signify the Cold
Country. It is stated in the ancient historic tale of Cathreim
Chonghail Chlaireinigh, or the Battle Career of Conghal
"of the flat (noseless) face," that the land of lorruaidh, or
Fuardha, lay six weeks' sail north-east from Lochlainn (or
Norway ?), and that a burning mountain was sailed through
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when within two weeks' sail of it. It may be Iceland and
Mount Hecla, notwithstanding the inaccuracy of the geo-
graphical direction from Lochlainn, and the passage through
the burning mountain. O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 190.
Life, the river Liffey upon which the present city of
Dublin is built.
LoctA«ti,^w.-Ainn ; a name generally applied to Denmark
by Irish writers, but considered by O'Curry to referto Sweden.
LocLAntiAij, s. pi. the Fomorians.
Lug tAtiif A-O A, Lugh of the Long Arms, of the Tuatha De
Danann line, called in the story LoinbeimeAntiAc, " Of the
Stout Blows," and 1olx>AtiAC, i.e., "Master of many (or all)
Arts," was the son of C.An and the third king in succession
from Nuadha of the " Silver Hand." He held the sovereignty
of Eire forty years. He instituted the games of Telltown
(CAiUlce) in honour of his foster-mother CAtLLce. which were
celebrated on the 1st day of August in each year down to
A.D. 1168 (O'Donovan's Ann. Four Masters ; p. 1168, note
(12). This festival was called Lughnasadh, from Lugh, the
founder, and nas or nos, a custom ; and even to this day, the
first of August is called by no other name than LA LujnAf-
At>, that is, the day of Lugh's Custom, by the Irish-speak-
ing people of Ireland. He was the great planner of the
Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh, in which lie slew Balar,
the leader of the Fomorians. He was, eventually, killed by
MacQoll at Caondruim : gen. tu JJATO and lx> JA.
ttlA'j t>f\eAJA, Breagh's Plain ; so called from Breagha,
son of Breoghan, and uncle to Milesius, whoSe sons he ac-
companied on their expedition to Eire. He gave his name
to this territory, which anciently comprised almost all, if not
all, the present county of Meath. (See Books of Rights, ed.
O'Donovan, p. n, note(n). O'Curry, Atlantis, vol. iv.. p. 223.
fllAJ t-vnpj;, this was the name of MacDermot's country,
in the present county of Roscommon. The Dinnsenchus
says, that this plain received the name of Magh Luirg (the
Plain ofPursuit) from this circumstance, when Conall Cernach,
at the instigation of Medb (Maive), queen of Connacht,
wounded her husband in the thigh with the cast of a spear,
he, Conall, fled from the palace of Cruachain, followed by
*' the Four Red Heads of Mairtine," who tracked and pur-
sued him into Breifne, where they slew and beheaded him.
[Boofrof-Lecain,{o\. 245, b.a.] O'Curry,^4//aw/zj,vol.iv., p. 174.
111 AJ mop An AOMAIJ, the Great Plain of the Fair; ac-
cording to O'Curry, not far from Ballisadare.
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tNuif\ceiniiie, the Plain of Muirtheimhne ; the level
>?ountry extending from the River Boyne to the mountains
cf Cuailgne or Carlingford. This was the inheritance of the
famous Ulster champion, Cuchulaiun, and the chief theatre
of the battles of the Tain Bo Cuailgne. The name is said
to have been compounded of m«if\, the sea or tide, and
ceimen, obscurity or concealment, from its having been
covered with the sea until the time of the Tuatha De
Danann, when the "OAgrjA caused the waters to recede by
pronouncing an incantation upon them (see the tale of the
"Courtship of Cuchulainn and Eimer. ") This, however,
does not agree with the Annals, which say, at A.M. 2859,
that this plain was cleared by Neimidh, long before the time
of the Tuatha De Danann (O'Curry's note, Atlantis, vol. iv.,
P- J70).
triAJ Cui|\iT>, anglicised Moytura, the Plain of Tuireadh,
literally the Plain of Pillars or Columns, noted as the scene
of two famous battles between the Tuatha De Danann and
the Firbolgs and Fomorians. The First or Southern Battle
of Magh Tuireadh was fought between the Firbolgs, led by
Eochaidh, and the Tuatha De Danann, led by Nuadha of
the " Silver Hand," in which, after four days' fighting, the
latter were victorious. The plain, where this battle was
fought, is situate near the village of Cong, in the present
county of Mayo, The Second or Northern Battle of Moy-
tura, called Moytura "of the Fomorians," was fought
thirty years later between the Tuatha De Danann and the
Fomorians. The Fomorians were defeated, but Nuadha,
who led the Tuatha De Dananns, was killed, as also Balar
"of the Mighty Blows," who commanded on the opposite
side. The site of this second Battle of Moytura, which was
fought, according to the Four Masters, A.M., 3330, is dis-
tant about fifty miles from the place where the First Battle
of Magh Tuireadh took place, and is situate in the present
barony of Tirerrill, in the county of Sligo. See Wilde's com-
munication upon the battle field of Moytura, in the Proceed-
ings R. I. A., vol. x., pp. 22-24.
1T1 AH Ann An, the son of Lir, the celebrated navigator, who
flourished in the time of the Tuatha De Danann. Oirbsen
was his true name. He resided in Arran in the Frith of
Clyde, which was called Emhain Abhlach, Emain of the
Apple Trees. He was killed in the battle of Cuilleann, by
Uilleann, son of Caitir, son of Nuadha of the Silver Hand,
in contention for the sovereignty of Connaught ; and when
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his grave was dug, Lough Oirbsen burst over the land, so
that it was from him the Lough, modernly corrupted Corrib,
was named. (See a note on Manannan Mac Lir by O'Curry,
in Atlantis, vol. iv. p. 226.)
tYlAr\cj\A Si'o&A, The Fairy Cavalcade. These were the
Tuatha De Danann cavalry, who, after the great body of their
race had returned to the Sidhes or Fairy Hills, were kept
embodied by the great chief, Manannan, in his enchanted
dominion of the Isle of Man (Manainn), which is the Tir
Tairrngire, or Land of Promise, of ancient Irish Mythology;
corruptly called lir na n-6g, or the Land of Perpetual
Youthfulness, by modern Irish romancers (O'Curry, Atlan.
tis, vol. iv. p. Hi2, note, 142.)
1TI1AC, a son of "OiAiiceAcc, and a more accomplished
doctor than his father. Miach was not satisfied with the
silver arm which his lather had made for Nuadha, and we
are told by the traditions of the period that he disinterred
the real arm, set it joint to joint, and sinew to sinew, and
made it whole " in three moments." This very singular
legend goes on to say that the old doctor was so enraged at
this damaging competition, that, in a fit of auger, he took a
sword and killed his son, whom he then buried, and that
three hundred and sixty-five medicinal herbs grew up through
the grave of the young doctor, one from every joint and
sinew of his body ; that these were afterwards plucked up in
the order of their positions, and placed in her cloak by
Airmed, his sister, who was also of the faculty ; but that the
unappeased father came and mixed them all again, so that
their separate medicinal powers cannot be known. (See MS.
Second Battle of Magh Tuireadh in the O'Curry collection.)
fflvoe, Meath ; according to Keating's Ireland, this name
is derived fro..m the rneit>e, or neck of each province from
which CUACAL CeAcciiiAf\ took it ; or again, from Midhe,
son of Bratha, son of the Daghda, high priest of the family
of Neimheadh, by whom the first sacred fire was kindled in
Ireland after the arrival of the followers of Neimheadh, who
conferred upon Midhe all that tract of land about Uisneach,
near which the fire was first kindled ; which tract is called
Midhe from the name of that priest or druid. There was at
that time only this one tract called Meath, until the reign of
CuACAt, who added to it the portions which he took from
the other provinces, and increased its area to eighteen
tracts or baronies.
tniot>cAOin, the guardian of the Hill from which Brian
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and his brothers were obliged to give the three shouts, the
last of the Eric-fine imposed by Lugh.
ITIooAti, gen. -Mti, the Swine-herd, whose arm was taken
to supply one for Nuadha, who lost his own in the battle of
the First Moytura.
nuAX>A Aif\5ioT>lAm, Nuadha of the Silver Hand; the
king and leader of the Tuatha De Danann on their invasion
of Eire. In the first great battle of Moytura, between his
followers and their predecessors, the Firbolgs, in the soil of
Ireland, Nuadha's right arm was cut off from the shoulder,
in single combat by Sreng, the great champion of the Fir-
bolgs. Dianceacht, the celebrated physician of the Tuatha
De Danann, replaced the lost member by an arm made of
silver, whence Nuadha obtained the epithet of " Silver-
handed," Whilst under treatment for his injuries, a lapse of
seven years, his place in the government was filled by Breas ;
but his rule became so intolerable that the Tuatha De
Danann welcomed the resumption of power by Nuadha.
Breas, in revenge, sought the assistance of Balar, with the
result that the Second or Northern battle of Moytura was
fought, in which, although the Tuatha De Danann were
again victorious, they counted amongst the slain their king,
Nuadha.
^piptrnAC, a celebrated physician of the Tuatha De Danann,
and son ot "OiAnceAcc.
peppA, gen. (TIA) — ; Persia.
piyeAp, a personage mentioned in text as king of Persia.
SeAti-Shl/iAb ; that is, the Old Mountain ; otherwise called
Chorann, now the barony of Corann, in the county Sligo,
the ancient territory of the MacDonnoch family. This dis-
trict first received its name from Corann, a famous harper of
the Tuatha De Danann, who received it from that people in
recognition of his professional excellence. In times long
after, a certain part of the land received the name of Ceis-
Chorann. The place that bore, and still bears, this name,
is a well-known remarkable hill in the barony of Corann.
This hill received its name from the circumstance that it was
there Gael Cheis (Slender Ceis), one of the six enchanted
pigs of the Princess Derbriu, already mentioned in connection
with Dumha Sealga (Mount Chase) was killed by Queen
Maive. [Dinnsenchus, Bcokof Lecain, fol. 248, b.] — O'Curry's
note, Atlantis, voL iv, p. 175.
Sirle, Sicilly ; gen. (IIA) Sifte.
; gen. -ceAim ; anglicised Telltown ; a famous
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place of antiquity, situate on the Sele or Blackwater, and
midway between Kells and Navan, on the right-hand side of
the road leading from Navan to Kells, from which last named
town it is distant about four miles. It owes its name to a
Danannian princess, by name CAiVlce, the daughter of
TMAJtrioi-p, and wife of GOCATO, in whose father's person
CAJVC terminated the life of the Firbolg kings. She was
subsequently married to eocA-ro ^A^b, son of "OuAcrooUl, a
chieftain of the tTu AC A "Oe TDAti Ann line, into whose hands
the sovereignty of Eire fell after the decisive battle of South
Moytura, where the Firbolgs were totally routed. l/u j of
the Long Arms was nurtured by this princess ; and after her
death, he established the Olympic games to honour and com-
memorate her name. These games were annually celebrated
here on the first day of August, with great pomp, in the
presence of the monarch and his court. They began a fort-
night before Lammas, and lasted four weeks. At Telltown
all the marriages of Pagan Ireland were celebrated. "The
ceremony was a simple one," says O'Donovan, "if we are to
rely on the Book of Fermoy. It consisted in kissing and
shaking hands, unde, po-pAt), marriage." Business of buying
and selling was transacted ; and feats of eAngnAtri, dexterity
at arms and buffoonery were exhibited. We learn from
Cormac's Glossary that there was a hill at Taillteann, called
C«LAC nA coibce, which he explains hill of buying, or market
hill. This, O'Donovan considers, is probably the mound
lying to the north of the road on which there is a trigonome-
trical point.
Here the Tuatha De Danann made a last but fruitless
stand against the Milesians, losing in the engagement their
three famous queens, Eir6, Fodhla, and Banba. Up to the
time of Roderic O'Conor, the last king of Ireland, UAil/tce
continued to be a theatre of interesting events. According
to the Four Masters that monarch celebrated the Nassa of
CAiUlce, on which occasion his people covered the country
for some miles around.
O'Donovan, whilst engaged on the ordnance survey in the
county of Meath, in 1836, was informed by several old
natives that sports were celebrated at CAiLlce up to so late
a period as thhty years previously, and that these were sup-
posed to be a kind of continuation of the ancient games.
They took the form of an annual pattern, which was held on
the south side of the river Blackwater, opposite the fort of
Telton, on the first Sunday of the month, which tug of the
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Long Hands had set apart for holding the Nassa or sports
or games. O'Donovan considered it worthy of note that,
" This pattern was not carried on in honour of any saint, as
is always the case in every other parish, and that it was held
in the very beginning of the month which derived its name
from the sports of UAiVLce." One of the interesting letters,
which O'Donovan wrote from Kells in 1836 on this subject,
was accompanied by a sketch-plan of the antiquities of
CAiUlce, all of which he urged should be marked on the Ord-
nance Sheet of the county (No. 1 7), which embraced Telltown.
His wishes were carried out in a very partial manner only,
the Rath and the two Loughs between it and the road, which
are termed on the Ordnance Sheet ''blind Loughs," being
the only features of interest marked, whilst his suggestions
as to the nomenclature were entirely unheeded. He urged
the adoption of Telton as the best way to anglicise
CAiLLceAnti, and thus follow the example of Usher in his
" Primordia." He condemned the practice of sticking
" town" to the names of places, which had, in too many
cases, corrupted the orthography and disguised the mean-
ing, as in the case of "Telltown," where " ton" would have
fittingly conveyed the sound of the terminating syllable.
This suggestion was not acted on, and Telltown was pre-
served to perpetuate a disguise, which O'Donovan character-
sized as tending " to make it impossible to tell what
town it was."
CeAc ttlio&cu&pcA ; literally the "House of Mead-
circling." This was the famous banqueting hall of Tara, of
which the shape and dimensions are still traceable (See Petrie's
" Essay on the Antiquities of Tara Hill," in the Proceedings
of the Royal Irish Academy).
UeATtiAif\ ; Tara, the ancient palace of the Monarchs of
Ireland and the remains of which are still visible upon the
hill, is situate in the present county of Meath, a lew miles
from Kilmessan Railway Station. Here the scattered
Firbolgs re-united their forces, which landed in Ireland about
the year 3266. They designated the hill 'Opuim CAHI, or
the Beautiful Eminence, a name of which it is justly deserving,
from the view it commands of the fertile plains that extend
for miles from its base. The Firbolgs established their seat
of government here, and the five brother chiefs, who led them,
divided the island into five parts, and distributed their people
among them. Here OllAtii VO&IA, the fortieth monarch
of Ireland first instituted the triennial assemblies, A.M. 3922.
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Tara continued to be the chief residence of the Irish kings
till its abandonment in the year A.D. 563. See the " History
and Antiquities of Tara Hill," by Dr. Petrie, in the proceed-
ings of the Royal Irish Academy," vol. xviii., pp. 25-232.
CtAccj;*, the ancient name of the present "Hill of Ward,"
situate near Athboy, and in that part of ancient Meath
which originally belonged to Munster, and in the territory of
Ui tAeJAi-pe, which, since the establishment of surnames,
was the patrimonial inheritance of the f«milyof O'CAinneal-
bAin, now Quinlans, the descendants of LAegAipe, the^ast
pagan monarch of Ireland. Some of the antiquities of the hill
are shown on ordnance sheet No. 30, of the county of Meath.
There is a remarkable earthen fort on the hill, said to have
been originally erected by the monarch CUACA! CeACCtriAp,
towards the middle of the second century, where the Druids
lighted their sacred fires on the eve of SAtrmin (first day of
November), and from which, according to all the Irish author-
ities, the fire that lighted all the hearths in Ireland was
supplied. CtAccJA derives its name from the daughter of
Mogh Ruith, the great Irish Druid of Valentia Island, off
the coast of Kerry, who, as well as this daughter, is said to
have studied in the school of Simon Magus, " in the Alpine
Mountains." See Book of Rights, ed. O'Donovan ; and
Atlantis, vol. iv., p. 223. ed. OCurry.
CtiA-6, gen. -Avoe; Conn CiiAit>e, the Wave of Tuatha, a
princess, who, whilst under the care of Conaire, the Monarch
of Eire, was stolen as she lay in an enchanted sleep, by an
emissary of the celebrated UUAC TJe X) An Aim navigator,
Manannan MacLir. She was thus brought to the mouth of
the Bann, which was then called 1nbep 5l&ip, and left on
the beach, whilst her captor went in search of a boat to carry
her over the sea. In his absence a great wave rolled in and
bore her off to sea and drowned her. — (See note to Battle of
Magh Leana, p. 95 ; ed. O'Curry.)
CUAC t)e t) &ti Ann, the Tuatha De Danann, the second
colony who occupied Eire. According to Keating, anti-
quarians held different opinions as to the origin of this name.
Some asserted it was from Brian, luchair, and lucharba,
three sons of Danann, daughter of Dealbaoith, they were so
called ; because these were so famous in the Black Art, that
these CUAC A or sorcerers called themselves after them. Others
held that the CUACA •oe TjANArm were so called because they
were three distinct tribes, The first tribe was denominated
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CUAC, and comprised the nobility and leaders of the colony j for
CUAG signifies a lord or noble, and this is the more credible,
because Bechoill and Danann, two of their women, were
called bATi-cuAt), i.e., female Tuaths. The second tribe was
called t)ee or gods ; these were their druids. The third
tribe, which obtained the name, embraced those who were
skilled in arts, for •OAtt signifies an art, and from their arts
they were called TDAnAtin.
CtnfveAnn, called Ctnj\eArm beAjjAAnri at p. 21. This
name, says O'Curry, would literally signify the " Wheat with
the Ifttle beard." He was the son of Ogma, the "Sunfaced; "
and he is also called t)eUi>Aec, the " Fire-faced" and CtujYiLt
bicpeo ; but this last is merely another form of the word.
Cuif, a personage mefltioned in text as being King of
Greece.
th-pneAC ; gen. -mj ; now Usny, or Usnagh Hill, "on
the west side of Tara," and according to the text, anciently,
called CnocAti bAtAir\, is situate in the parish of Killare
barony of Rathconrath, and county of Westmeath. It was
at this hill that the five divisions, into which the Firbolg
brothers divided Eire among them, met ; and it was in
ancient times one of the chief places of assembly for the
states of the country. A rock on the top of it is said to
have been inscribed with four lines, pointing to the cardinal
points, and containing within their angles the provinces into
which the Firbolg brothers divided the island. Here
CuAG^L CeAccmAp, monarch of Ireland, in the first century
erected a palace and established public marts, which were
annually held* on the first day of May. According to
Keating, the author of Dinnsenchus and others, the fire,
called Bealltine, was lighted at Usnagh in the Connaught
portion of Meath in the beginning of Samhradh, viz., on
the first May, which for that reason is called LA
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