lo THE BATTLE OF VENTRY. 



Frith dana co hathlum an aiscidh sin. Togbhais Conncrithir in cealtair coimhreamur 

 chatha [fo. 2b. 2.] /tuc urrchur aith athlum urrmaisneach don fir ba neasa do acu, 

 ffur bhean a mullach a ochta co n-deachaid trio 7 mar do connairc in fer ele sin 

 do theith do leith droma inti arar-teilgedh an t-urrchur co n-deachaid an t-sl^^ 



i7otrithu ar aen co fuaradar bas de 7 do thuiteadar a dhias f^n le Glas faisin. 

 Do thuitedar dana tri nonbair leo re n-oidhchi 7 ba crechtach Conncrithir on 

 16 sin 7 adubert se re Glas : ' Tangadar triar ban chugam-sa o traigh mara Tibhir 

 anoir 7 do gealladar damh, ge marbthai gach lae me a cath Finntragha gumadh 

 beo arna marach me 7 in neach budh annsa lium d'fianaibh Eirenn co fuideadh 



175 mar sin, ocus coimed-sa an cuan anocht co condeuchainn-si da fis' 7 teit da fis 

 7 do curedar fon tobar slanicidhe 7 tainic co himlan as. 



Imthusa Glais mic Dreamhain \.eid ar an chuan. ' A ri an domhain,' ar se ' ata 

 cara agam ar an loingeas .i. Madan Munchas mac Duin, ri na Gaethlaighi, 7 is ed 

 adubert se 'sa domhan mor thoir gur leor duit-si i iixi do gabail Eirenn 7 co 



iSorn-beradh a n-gheill ar ais no ar eigin chugad-sa 7 cuinnchim-si ort-sa a leigen 

 chugam-sa am aenar anocht co fechamis cia hagainn is ferr choiseonas Ere.' 



Ro innsaigheadar dana an dias sin a cheli 7 dorinnedar comhrac fichdha forta- 

 mail feidmlaidir acht ^nni ni hann sin do bhi a n-dan bas d' fagbail do Glas 7 fuair 



asked for two foreigners for either of them. This request was granted readily. Conncrithir 

 llfted the thick spear of battle, and made a sharp quick determined (?) cast at the man 

 next to him on their side, and hit him in the front of his breast, so that the spear went 

 through him ; and when the other man saw this, he fled behind the back of him that 

 had been hit, so that the spear went through them both, and they found their death from 

 it. And thereupon his own two fell through Glas. Three times nine fell through 

 them before night, and Conncrithir was covered with wounds from that day, and he 

 said to Glas: 'Three women have come to me from the shore of the sea of Tiberias in the 

 east, and have promised me, though 1 should be killed every day in the battle of Ventry, 

 I should be aUve on the morrow, and that he whom I loved most of the fianns of Erinn 

 should obtain the same. And watch thou the harbour to-night, that I may go to seek 

 them.' And he went to seek them, and they put him under the healing spring, and he 

 came out whole. 



As to Glas the son of Dreman, he went to the harbour. * O king of the world,' said 

 he, 'there is a friend of mine with the fleet, called Madan of the Bent Neck, the son of 

 Donn, the king of the Swamps, and this is what he said in the great world in the east, 

 that he himself would be sufficient for thee to take Erinn, and that he would bring it to 

 do homage to thee by fair means or foul, and I ask thee to let him meet me alone to-night, 

 that we may see which of us will better fight for Erinn.' 



Then those two attacked each other and made a furious brave powerful fight, but as 

 it was not in the destiny of Glas to find his death there, the king of the Swamps found 



