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plained in the translation of the poem, it will only be necessary here to resolve 

 the contractions in the text, and translate it in the order of the plan — first 

 reading the two external columns, and then the two internal in like manner, 

 as it appears from the poem that the several ranks of the household were 

 arranged in this order. It should, however, be remarked that the texts of both 

 these tables — which are evidently copied from different originals — not only 

 disagree from each other in several instances, but also from the text of the poem 

 itself; and, though these differences may have arisen in part from the careless- 

 ness of the transcribers, it is obvious that in some instances they originated in 

 attempts to shape the words of the original documents according to their own 

 ideas of their meanings, and particularly in the transcript in the Book of Glen- 

 dalough, which is much less accurate than that in the Leabhar Buidhe. 



The following are the names in the external division to the left : 



1. niapcaij: — cuinoooib. Horsemen: — c«mrf' for them. 



2. Cpuiceipi : — Tnuc-popmuin ooib. Harpers: — a pig's shoulder for them. 



3. 6pichemain : — lon-cpuacaic ooib. Brehons : — a lon-chruachait^ for them. 



4. SuiD liccpi : — lon-chpuacaic Doib. Professors of literature: — a lon-chruachait for 



them. . 



5. Canaipe fuao: — lep-cpuacaic ooib. Tanist -professors: — a les-chruachait^ for them. 



6. Ollam pileo : — l.oap5 ooib. OUave-poets : — a loarg for them. 



7. Qnpochpileo: — cam-cnaiin ooib. ^wro^A-poets : — a crooked bone for them. 



8. 6piU5a cecoc : — loapj do. Briuga cetoch :♦ — a loarg for him. 



9. Qujcappaippi : — poichnech do. Augtarsairsi : — a roichnech for him. 



10. PaDijOcupopuiD, ocupcommilio: — colp- Augurs, and druids, and commilid: — a colptha for 



cha Dotb. them. 



11. Qelcaipe, ocup jxiip ; — cpuachaic ooib. House-builders, and carpenters: — a cruachait for 



them. 



In the external division to the right : 



12. QpaiD : — cuino Doib. Charioteers: — cwtW for them. 



' CuinD, or cuinri, is the plural of cunn, which is explained copp, the body, in all the Glossaries. 



» Cpuachaic. See note 3, page 208. 



' f.ep-chpuachaic, steak of the thigh. 



* The lirughaidh Cetoch, or Ceadach, i.e. the centurion Brughcudh, or, Brughaidh of the hundreds, was so called, ac- 

 cording to the Leabhar Buidhe, col. 921, because he was bound by the law to have one hundred slaves, or labourers, and 

 one hundred of each kind of cattle and other animals, as cows, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, hounds, cats, hens, geese, 

 bees, &c. 



