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dani in brug Id 7 adhaigJi ' ar AengJius. ' Dober-sa dono duit-si in ehoniJm 

 sin ar in DagJidJia. Is ann sin dono ro faeaib in DagJidJia in brtig do 

 AcngJius .i. id 7 adhaigh. O doruniidt Aengus in re sin atbert in DagJidJia 

 fria hAenguss : [fo. 50 b. 1] ' Facaib in brugJifodJiesta, daigJi atai Id eona 

 aidJicJii ann^ ' Ni fuiceab dono,' ar Aengus ' daigJi ni fil ann aeJit Id 7 

 adJiaigJi tosaeJi doniuin eo a deredJi 7 is e sin eairdi ro iarusa.^ ConidJi 

 ann sin ro facaib in DagdJia in brugJi 7 Aengus and sin cSssanniugJi. 

 Finit. 



In the third cycle, that of Finn and the fiann, the different notions 

 and traditions about the TuatJia De Ddnand of the older cycles are 

 completely thrown together and now found side by side. They and the 

 men of Erinn (or niaic Miled) are the sole occupants of Erinn : ni fuil acJit 

 da airecJit cudrunia a n-Erinn .i. niic Miled 7 TuatJia De Danand, Agall. 

 na Senorach, Rawl. 487 fo. 14 b, i. They are still considered to live 

 under ground, but hills and mountains are now generally imagined to be 

 the proper abode of all kinds of ' demons,' as is shown e.g. by a passage 

 in the Agallani na SenoraeJi, where Patrick, when Oisin and Cailte first 

 approached him, seizes the holy water stick and throws water over them, 

 ' for there were legions of demons over their heads ; and the demons 

 went into the hills and to the borders of the country from them.' Mur 

 do co7tneadur na eleirig iad-som dd n-innsaiged ro gabJi grain 7 egla mor 

 resna feruibJi inora cona conaibJi coni niora le'o, oir nirbas coinu^e na 

 comaimsiri doibJi iad. Is ann sin ro cirig in t-co fJaitheanmus 7 in 

 t-uaitJine oireaeJius 7 in t-aingel talniande 7 esbog na n-Gaigcl j gabhais 

 in deisreta do crotJiad in uisci ar na feraibJi mora, tiair do bi niile 

 leigJiigJion do demnaibJi os a cejmuibJi eoniei in la sin 7 do eJiuadur na 

 dcmJina a cnocjiibJi 7 a n-ijjjlibJi Jia cj-icJie uatJia. Rawl. 487, fo. 12 b. 2. 

 Or again, they are imagined to reside in the Tir Tairjigire (" The Land 

 of Promise'), where, according to LL. p. 168 b, 3, Mag Melli^ the Pleasant 

 Plain') is situate. This is the case e.g. in the TdrjiigJieacJit DJiiai-mjida 

 agus GJiraijine (ed. OGrady, p. 118), where the Tjlatha De DaJiajjd comc 

 to Erinn for a goaHng-match with the fiaiuia. Thcy still preserve thcir 

 original divine character, being able to do good or evil to man, and being 

 respected or feared accordingly. Cf. Tor. Dh. pp. 172, 194. They 

 intermarry freely with the men of Erinn, see Tor. Dh. p. 110 : '/$ dias 

 bJiaji do TJmathaib De DajiajiJi do bJii ^na maitJweacJiaibJi agaijm^ ibid. p. 



