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Sru, and he spread his warriors: over all 
the plains of Hisfeine, and» the! Gach of 
Fisteine from Aoimag, andithe Pirgnheat, 
and the Gaal of Buas-ceand Algeirba 
galled onthe? name!‘of Hocaid, the vie- 
torious,’ ‘to lead ‘them .against dhe de- 
siroyer. © it 
But nought could prevail against Sra- 
amac s ére the nations of Bisfeine could 
gather themselves together, did Sru over- 
throw them, and with the remnant that 
he spared, did he swell his host. 
And Eocaid called round him all the 
chiefs and warriors of renown to coun- 
cil, and all were of one mind*to move 
forth of Gael-ag, to meet the foe. 
And when the host of Gael-ag were 
within the distance ‘of two days of the 
waters of the Duor, the priests did en- 
treat Eocaid to tarry one day at Samur, 
that the congregation may purify them- 
selves in the presence of Baal. 
‘And Eoeaid did listen unto the voice 
of 'the priests, and on the next day, as 
the! Warriots were in motion, did not 
those from the heads of the vale espy a 
‘cloud riszig from the earth towards the 
heaveri? And after a while the thousand 
thousands of the foemen appeared. 
And ‘the! “priests, did’ again implore 
Focaid 10 move back to Samur, and 
there to wait for the foe. 
When Eocaid heard the voice of the 
priests speaking the words, his anger 
was Kindled! against ‘them, and he said 
tinto me, Ordae, 
<“ Ordac, when’ thow shalt sct down 
the words of the priests to Eocaid, and 
the words of Kocaid:unto the priests, 
thou wilt'say, 
«(And thus answered Eocaid, the son 
of Bille;' chief of the Gaal of Sciot of 
Tb. or, wnto theopriests}:“L will not go 
backward, tho’ my face were. still to- 
wards the foeman‘as I moved. Is Baa 
only-in Samur?” 
And Moeaid« added smoreover,: ‘1 
thought! to "have: encumbered) Mag- 
doraid with ‘the weight, of those we sent 
not for, as it isyas it is, let the words run 
frony Eocaid thro’ the:host,! “ Warriovs 
make'treble the pace: of thy feet, and the 
sound of ‘thy! voice tell' Eocaid and Sru 
stand face to face’) oi) lo ino on 
nd it was so, i i TL 
And the battle'was fought in all the 
plains’ between: Saimur and: Duor; Ko- 
caid, and all: the chiefs, and alb the Gaal 
fought, destroying, ! like oa’ consuming 
fire; but'what availeth fire against: wa- 
ter? was not the: fire: of Ther extin- 
guished by the stormy waves of the mul- 
titudes of Sru-amac? 
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\ Thousands of the Gaal lay on the earth, 
and Kocaid;: O woe ! thow fell intofthe 
arms df death on:that unhappy day; and 
three sons of Go-lam;and chiefs in heaps 
lay round the weight of Hocaidyni4 +s 
On that, day: Srwoverthrew I ber, and 
all the nations: of Hisfeine) ‘and :hectouk. 
away captive off the: youth,and-idrove 
away a huge prey of the cattlevuf the 
land. if #loidlo oil} orolorod T 
Now is Gael-ag aisdesertj(save of 
mourners. 9 Behold Saibj:the partner of 
Go-lam, lamenting ‘her shero\(the ‘most 
renowned warrior of ‘the’ race; sities! Or 
the son of Tat-foth):and three sons fallen 
in the battle. toby 
— widows bewailing their ‘elect- 
ed. 2 tzong dsl 
Behold matrons lamenting their chil- 
dren, and maidens the youths'of’ their 
promise, and the brethren of their fathers 
board. bY yi 
On that day, when Baal*lad ‘entered 
into the second chamber ‘of his’ howse 
Blath, did Eocaid fall) bat not petish ; 
his spirit will endure, bis name! will ‘live 
in the memory of the children of the land 
for ever, ; 
On that day was the pride of the tents 
of Gacl-ag abased ; when will their hedds 
be raised up, and their locks, bedecked 
with garlands, dance to’ the’ sportive 
music of the winds again? ne hast 
Ordac doth take the sun, and mos, 
and all the stars to witness; heawdulil 
rather have fallen, numbered! with “he 
dead, and he that Ard‘Olapy then had 
been, had set down?on the ‘chrunieles for 
the times to come, And Go-lam re- 
turned with victory from the battle?” 
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NOTE. . a 
This prince of Gael-ag, whose proper 
name Was Eocaid; is in the tales of the 
bards knownsby the: name) of Go-lam, 
and is'also the Milesius of Latinity wri- 
ters of the L5thtenturies; fromowhom! we 
Trish are ignorantly and absurdly called 
Milesians; he reigned, as:you see; from 
1025.to 1008, beforeo the Christian ‘era, 
whew Sesostris;\:the: most! ancient-\and 
‘Egyptian Hercules’ moving througt Ly- 
bia, and ‘the maritime nations ‘of Afric, 
whom he overran, invaded Spainy which 
he'subdued, whereon he imposed tribute, 
wherein he introduced: idolatry,,and 
erected | colunins, called the: pillars of 
Hercules,; in Spain and Afric} to perpe- 
tuate tlie memory of his exploits:. The 
battle of Samur determined the fate of 
this people, und produced those events 
which will appear in:the sequel of these 
chronicles, 
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