i6 THE BATTLE OF VENTRY. 



beith a sidhbroghaibh fo thalmain .i. Tuatha De Danand 7 d' fogra chatha doibh 

 tanag-sa.' ' Cia freageorus Tuatha De Danand dam V ar ri an domhain. ' Rach- 

 maid-ne cucu,' ar da righ do righaibh an domain .i. Comur Cromgenn ri Fer Con- 



280 chenn 7 Caitcheann ri Fer Caitcheann 7 do badar sein coic catha armruadha eagair 

 7 tangadar a tir a cedoir ana ruadbuinnedaibh romhora. 



'Cia do dingemadh ri Fer Conceann dim?' bhar Bodbh Derg. * Rachad-sa 

 chuigi/ ar Lir Sithe Finnachtz/c/ ' 7 gidh edh do chuala me nach fuil 'sa doman 

 mor duine is ferr lamh 'na se.' ' Cia dingbhus ri Fer Caitcheann dib } ' ar Bodhbh 



285 Dearg. ' Dingebhad-sa,' ar Abartach mac IUathaz^ 7 gabhais luirech trom \xtz!Qxeach 



taitneamach uime 7 cathbarr ciarach comlaz ceithircimsach 7 cloidheamh * * * * 



[fo. 4 a. I.] Oscur ardruathar fo cath na n-allmurach 7 ba samalta sin re 



gairbeas n-glorach n-gairbhlinnteach n-graineamhail ac comdortadh tre chael- 



charaidh comthana no mar bhuinni m-borbruadh m-bfaclasrach tre mullach 



290 rofairsing righ-thighi no mar thonnghail tuinne ceannghili cneasuaine cainntighi 

 chuipghili treathan moiri 'na timcheall, is e sin sreatadh 7 scailed 7 slichtbualad 7 

 sreangleadradh 7 saebcuma tuc Oscur ar na hallmurachaib don ruathar sin. 



Is ann sin doriacht Bolcan ri na Fraingci 7 Oisin docum a cheU 7 ro saidhsead 

 a n-da meirgi maethsroill isin \.\Aaig taebhuaine 7 ro thogaibhsead a n-da sciath 



the surface of the earth, but live in sid-brugs (fairy mansions) under the ground, called 

 the Tuatha De Danand, and to announce battle from them have I come.' ' Who will 

 answer the Tuatha De Danand for me?' said the king of the world. ' We will go 

 against them,' said two of the kings of the world, namely, Comur Cromgenn, the king 

 of the men of the Dogheads, and Caitchenn, the king of the men of the Catheads, and 

 they had five red-armed battalions in order, and they went on shore forthwith in their 

 great red waves. 



' Who is there to match the king of the men of the Dogheads for me?' said Bodb 

 Derg. *I will go against him,'said Lir of Sid Finnachaid, 'though I haveheard that there 

 is not in the great world a man of stronger arm than he,' ' Who of you will match the 

 king of the men of the Catheads ?' said Bodb Derg. ' I will match him,' said Abartach, 

 the son of Ildathach, and he put on his heavy bright glittering coat of mail, and his 

 crested, four-brimmed helmet of battle, and his sword * * * * 



Oscar of thegreat routs throughthe army of theforeigners,and like the wild,noisy,rough- 

 streamed,terrible waterfall that pours through a narrow thin rock, or like a fierce red blaze 

 of fire with high-peaked flames through the wide roof of a king's palace, or like the roar 

 of a white-crested, green-skinned, wailing, white-foaming, fuU-watered wave of the great 

 sea around it, so was the overthrowing and the scattering and the beating and the tearing 

 into pieces and wild hacking which Oscar inflicted on the foreigners in that onslaught. 



Then Vulcan the king of France and Oisin met each other, and they stuck their two 



286. cathabarr MS. 287. /;fl//murach MS. 



