THE BATTLE OF VENTRY. 9 



Eirenn na rit-sa seach cach.' ' Na haba/r-si sin,' ar Conncrithir ' uair coic mic 

 deg do chloinn ata ag Finn a fegma/j a clannmaicne fen 7 luidim-si fom armaibh 

 /fom ghaiscedh, damarbtha-sa sin uili, nach budh eagail duit Finn acht co tigthea 150 

 ar a eineach 7 ar a comairci.' Adubert imoro Glas 'na dhiaidh sin : ' Tainic mo 

 la badha-sa lett-sa 7 rachad do innisin do righ an domhain' 7 do ghluais roime 

 mar a raibhi an ri. ' A anam, a Glais,' ar ri an domhain ' ann e Oscur ata ann 

 sud.?' ' Ni he idir, a ardri,' ar Glas '7 damad he a tainic as dod muintir-si ni thic. 

 Yer [f]is 7 brathair dam-sa ata ann 7 is timcroidhi lium a beth 'na aenar 7 dob' ail 155 

 lium dul do congnamh leis.' ' Da n-dheachair,' ar ri an domhain ' cuinngim-si ort 

 tacht da innisin dam an lin thuitfeas lium d'fianaibh Eirenn gach lae 7 da tuiti a 

 beac leo dom sluagaibh techt da innisin dam c le tuitfedh.' ' Cuinngim-si ort-sa' 

 ar Glas ' gan neach dod sluagaib do Iicean a tir acht mar ader-sa no co ti fiana 

 Eirenn chugainn 7 o nach fuil urrgairdiugudh ele againn aniubh,' ar Glas ' tabhrfl(//z 160 

 comlann enfir dhuinn.' 



7 do cuiredh dias allmurach cucu in la sin 7 taraidh Conncrithir an tabhaill 

 taibleabhar 7 cuiris cloch cert cudruma innti 7 tuc urrchur cert coimdhireach co 

 tarrla a tuledain a fir comraic co rug in inchinn ina caibh cro tre cul a chinn. 

 Fuaradar imoro an dias sin bas leo 7 do siredar dias allmurach docum gach fir acu. 165 



the whole world, if Finn and the fianns of Erinn had been true to me, I should not fight 

 against any man of Erinn nor against thee above all.' ' Do not say so,' said Conncrithir, 

 * for there are fifteen sons with Finn beside his own children, and I swear by my 

 weapons and by my valour, that if thou hadst killed all these, thou wouldst not have to 

 dread Finn, provided thou camest under his honour and protection.' Thereupon 

 Glas said : ' The day of fighting together with thee has come for me, and I will go and 

 tell the king of the world.' And he went where the king was. ' O soul, O Glas,' said 

 the king, ' is it Oscar that is there ? ' ' It is not he at all, O high king,' said Glas, * and 

 if it had been he that has come, it is not for thy people that he comes. It is an 

 acquaintance and brother of mine that is there, and I am sick at hcart that he is alone, 

 and I desire to go and help him.' ' If thou goest,' said the king of the world, ' I demand 

 of thee, to come and tell me the number that will fall by me of the fianns of Erinn every 

 day, and if some few of my host fall by them, to come and tell me by whom they 

 shall fall.' ' I ask of thee,' said Glas, ' not to let any one of thy host ashore, but as I 

 say, nor till the fianns of Erinn come to us, and as there are no other restrictions for us 

 to-day, let single combat be granted to us.' 



And two foreigners were sent against them that day. And Conncrithir seized his 

 long-sided sling, and put a straight even stone in it, and gave a straight well-directed 

 cast, so that it went into the forehead of his adversary, and took the brain as a lump of 

 blood out through the back of his head. So those two found their deaths by them, and they 



156. congamh MS. 164. tuledaijm MS, 



