THE BATTLE OF VENTRV. 17 



ailli ilbuadhacha a n-aicill a cheh 7 ro nochtadar a cloidhme creatblaithi comthar- 295 

 racha 7 dorinneadar \xxx\aid\ urrlamh ain iarmartach 7 do bhi an comrac ag dul 

 tar a cheiU ann sin, uair do bas ac clodh Oisin ann 7 do connairc Oisin mac Oisin 

 sin 7 tainic chucha 7 tuc beim do righ na Fraingi 7 dorad an ri befn do-san 7 do 

 freagair a comlann d' Oisin 7 do conairc da mac ele Oisin sin .i. Echtach 7 Uladh 

 7 ro ghonadar righ Frangc 7 do gon-san gach neach dhibh-sean a cumain a 300 

 ghona 7 do bean osneamh eccomW/^ a hOisin tairsib uili 7 do connairc mac 

 Lughach sin 7 dorad rodghuin do righ Fra^<r 7 dorad an ri beim do-som 7 do 

 freagar a comlann d' Oisin. Tangadar imoro tri caeca laech do clannaibh 

 Baiscne chuigi 7 ro ghon gach ^nfear acu he 7 ro ghon-san gach ^nfer acu-san 

 7 do bean osnam eccomlaz a hOisin thairsibh uih. 305 



Dochuala imoro sin an tuir nar traethadh 7 an leoman luathfergach 7 an 

 nathair neimhelach 7 an 6nchu irghaiU 7 an tonn rabharta 7 an brath tar bruachaibh 

 7 an chathbearna cdd 7 an lamh nach lamthai 7 an croidhi nach cumscnaidhthi 

 7 an troigh nach ruc aencheimh ar culaibh riamh roim [fo. 4 a. 2.] uathadh no 

 sochaide .i. Oscur anghlonnach 7 ba hingnadh leis cia do lemadh an eigean sin ar^io 

 a athair 7 tainic da n-innsaighedh ana feargruathar reachtaigmheil 7 ba samalta 

 re caecaid each ac torannbhualad 7 ag crithbhualad na tragha an crithbhualad tuc 



banners of soft silk into the green-sided hill, and raised their two beautiful shields of 

 many virtues against each other, and bared their terrible swords of smooth bronze, and 

 made a ready, quick, successful onslaught. And the combat was going against one of them, 

 for Oisin was being oppressed in it. And Oisin the son of Oisin saw this, and came towards 

 them, and struck the king of France a blow, and the king returned the stroke and 

 answered the fighting of Oisin. And the two other sons of Oisin saw this, to wit, 

 Echtach and Ulad, and they wounded the king of France, and he wounded either of 

 them in exchange for his wound, and he ehcited a sigh of oppression from Oisin over 

 them all. And Mac Lugach saw this and wounded the king of France by a shot, 

 and the king struck him a blow and answered the fighting of Oisin. Then came three 

 times fifty warriors of the children of Baiscne to him, and every man of them wounded 

 him, and he wounded every man of them, and he made Oisin utter a sigh of oppression 

 over them all. 



Now, this heard the pillar that was never put down, and the quickly-roused hon, and 

 the venomous adder, and the wolf of combat, and the wave of overwhehning, and the (man 

 of) destruction over the border, and the battle-gap of a hundred, and the hand which 

 nobody dared to touch, and the heart that was never confounded, and the foot that never 

 took one step backward before a few or many, to wit, Oscar of the noble deeds. And 

 he was wondering who dared to bring his father into such a strait, and he came upon 

 them in his angry, right terrible rush, and the terror that he struck into them was like 

 (that of ) fifty horses at a thunderstroke and at the shaking of the strand. And the king 



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