THE BA TTLE OF VENTRY. 5 



in domhain do gabh in cuan ar tus, conadh Rinn na Bairci a ainm o sin ale. 7 ro 

 tuirrnadar a seola illathacha anairtghela 7 do togbadar a puipla/^i belcorcra 

 breachtnaidhi 7 ro caithsead a m-bhiadha saera somblasta 7 a n-deocha mine 

 meascamla 7 tucadh a croinn ciuil cucu da sirseinm 7 a n-aes dana do ghabhail 75 

 a n-duan 7 a n-dubhchonn doibh. 



* A Glais mic Dreamain,' ar ri in domhain ' cia da rainic in tir si a tangamar ar 

 tus do chuid ronna uair do roinnedar Eire eaturru fein re techt anoir doib?' 'Do 

 Thor mac Breoghain do righ na hEspaine,' ar Glas ' rainic an tir si.' ' Mas ead, 

 a ri na hEspaine,' ar ri in domain ' is tu dhghus feis 7 aedaighacht na hoidhchi 80 

 anocht do taibart duine.' 



Is ann sin ro eirig ri na hEspaine 7 ceithri catha armruadha eagair 'mailli ris 

 7 tainic fo imlibh na crichi a cedoir 7 do badar tri dunaidh a n-iarthar na crichi 

 sin .i. Dun Cais 7 Dun Aedha 7 Dun Cearbain 7 do loiscedh le righ na hEspaine iad 

 etir triath 7 tigerrne, etir mnai 7 macamh, etir coin 7 fear, elir chuach 7 chorn 85 

 7 chopan 7 do badar tri coicait do theaghlach in gach dunadh dib-sin 7 do 

 loisceadh leo uili iad. 



Do bhi imoro a fis ag Finn 7 ag fianaibh Eirenn co ticfad in tromdamh sin d' 

 innsaighi Eirenn .i. righradh in domain uili amail do bhi a fighair 7 a faistine 

 doibh 7 ni raibhi cuan ghabhala a n-Erinn gan fer forairi o Finn fair 7 is e do bhi 90 

 ag forairi in chuain sin aigi .i. Conncriihir mac Brain mic Feabhail o Theamhair 



world was the first to take harbour, so that thenceforward its name was Rinn na Bairci 

 (The Point of the Barque). And they let down their many-coloured linen-white sails, 

 and raised their purple-mouthed speckled tents, and consumed their excelient savoury 

 viands, and their fine intoxicating drinks, and their harps were brought to them for long 

 playing, and their poets to sing their songs and their dark conceits to them. 



' O Glas son of Dreman,' said the king of the world, * to whom belongs this land into 

 which we have come first as a portion of the spoil when they will dividc Erinn between 

 them before they return eastward ?' ' To Tor the son of Breogan, the king of Spain,' 

 said Glas, 'belongs this land.' ' In that case, O king of Spain,' said the king of the 

 world, 'thou art obliged to procure entertainment and good cheer for us to-night.' 



Then the king of Spain rose, and four red-armed battalions in order together with him, 

 and he went at once across the border of the country, and there were three forts to the 

 west of this territory, namcly, Dun Gais, and Dun Acda and Dun Cerbain, and they were 

 burnt by the king of Spain, both kings and lords, both women and children, both dogs 

 and men, both bowls and drinking-horns and cups, and there were thrice fifty henchmen 

 in each of these forts, and they were all of them biirnt by them. 



Now Finn and the fianns of Erinn knew that that heavy troop would come against 

 Erinn, to wit, the kings of the whole world, as it had been represented and pro- 

 phesied to them. And there was no landing-place in Erinn without a watchman 

 from Finn over it, and he that was watching this harbour was Conncrithir the son of 



