4 THE BATTLE OF VENTRY. 



do eirigh uaith/<5 co rainic a haitreab ard uachtarach anamna. 7 is ann sin fa min 



55 in muir doibh 7 fa ceannsiz/fl^ gach goirml/ gur bo teigU seimidhe socharthanach 

 in fairr"'! etir chuan 7 chuil 7 chearn 7 charraig, co nach rainic a leas neach dibh 

 oirbert no imram do denamh, acht na longa fana lanseokz^^ ag imthecht le foghar 

 na gaithi glanuairi gur ghabhsad cuan 7 caladport ar in maithinis na n-domhun 7 

 ag glascarraig risi n-abcrthar Sgeilleag Michil aniubh. Is e fa heolach acu ann sin 



60 .1. Glas mac Dreamhain o Sithan Laca Lein linnuair 7 o dhiamraibh Droma Droi- 

 bheoil 7 in uair do duiscti fiadh no bethadhach eiccialk?'^'^ eiU ag in fein, nir 

 tharba do choin no do dhuine rith ris, acht a gabhail beo do Ghlas mac Dreamhain 

 7 do fastoadh ag in fein trid sin 7 is gairid do bi acu an uair docuredh air beth ag 

 feall ar Finn do Cormac mac Airt do righ Eirenn 7 dob' eigean do Eiri d' fagbail 



65 trid sin 7 dul 'sa doman mor 7 is e ba heolach do righ in domain an tan sin. 



* A anam, aGhlais mic Dreamhain,' ar ri in domain 'ni cuan mar so do gheallais 

 dom loinges d' fagbail acht tragha gealgainmighi a fedfaidis mo sluaig aenaighi 

 7 oireachtais do chomhchruinniugud an tan nach beidis ac cathugud.' ' Is aithnedh 

 damh-sa cuan mar sin a n-iarthar Eircnn' [fo. i b. 2.] ar Glas ' .i. cuan 



70 Finntragha a Corca Duibhne.' Tangadar rompo assin co Finntraigh 7 ro 

 linadar crislaigi in chuain uili co nar bo leir in saili tairsibh 7 barc mor righ 



champions, it rose from them, and went to its high lofty aerial abode. Then the sea 

 grew gentle unto them, and every blue wave grew tame so that the ocean was miH, 

 smooth, friendly in harbour and recess and corner and rock. And none of them had 

 need to work or to row, but the slanting full-sailing ships went along with the sound of 

 the pure-cold wind, until they took harbour and port on the goodly island of the worlds, 

 and at the green rock that is called Sgelhg Michil to-day. It is he that was their 

 guide there, namely, Glas the son of Dreman, from Sithan of Loch Lein of the cold 

 water, and from the hidden places of Druim Droibel, and when a deer or other 

 senseless benst was roused by the fiann there was no need for a dog or a man to 

 run after it, but it was caught alive by Glas the son of Dreman. And he was hired 

 by the fiann for that rcason, and a short time he was with them when he was inveigled 

 to betray Finn to Cormac the son of Art, the king of Erinn, and he had to leave Erinn 

 for that, and to go into the great world, and it is he that was guide to the king of the world 

 at that time. 



' O soul, O Glas son of Dreman,' said the king of the world, ' not a harbour like this 

 didst thou promise my fieet would find, but shores of white sand where my army might 

 assemble for fairs and gatherings whenever they were not fighting.' ' I know a harbour 

 like that in the west of Erinn,' said Glas, ' namely, Ventry Harbour in CorcaDuibne (Corca 

 Guiny).' They went onward thence to Ventry, and filled the borders of the whole har- 

 bour so that the sea was not visible between them, and the great barque of the king of the 



58. arinxi MS. 



