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thou." " Small is the profit to me," said Labran, " as I shall not be able 

 to deliver them in the hour of fight to-morrow." On the next morning 

 they saw Aed mac Aebinn coming towards them, viz. a good . . . . of the 

 people of Tadg mac Niiadat, and this man was as quick as the March- 

 wind till the midst of each day, and after that nobody else was quicker 

 than he. " Thou hast come at the right moment/' said Tadg, and he 

 told him the object of the weapons. Here the story is taken up in the 

 Rawh copy. 



In conclusion, I have to thank all those who have kindly given me 

 assistance in the translation as well as in the glossary. Special thanks 

 are due to the Rev. Charles Plummer, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, 

 Oxford, who, most kindly complying with my request, has once more 

 compared the whole text in proof with the MS. 



K. M. 



LiVERPOOL : May 1885. 



