i8 THE BATTLE OF VENTRY. 



uirri 7 do connairc ri Frangc chuigi he 7 dochuaidh a cruth 7 a caemhdenamh de 

 7 teid a ghal 7 a ghaisceadh ar chul 7 smuainis nach roibhi ar talmain di din aigi, 



315 muna deachadh a n-adr no a firmaiminnt 7 fechais suas ar na nellaib 7 smuainis 

 gumadh din do eaturra 7 tainic ^dtruma chelU 7 aigeanta do 7 tuc sfneadh ar a 

 cholainn o talmain co n-deachaigh re gaith 7 re gealtacht a fiadhnaisi sluag an 

 domhain 7 nir 'Ci\d\%edh don baetheitill sin co rainic Gleann m-BoIcain a n-oirr- 

 thear na crichi sin 7 tucadh gairthi adhbulmhora ag sluagaibh an domhain 'ga 



320 chainedh 7 ac fianaibh Eirenn 'ga commaidheamh. 



Do badar imoro fiana Eirenn mar sin co tainic an oidhchi 7 adubert Finn : ' Is 

 cumthach aithmelach ata ri an domain anocht,' ar se '7 dobhera amas longpuirt 

 oruibh 7 cia hagaibh do ghiabhainn d' foraire an chuain anocht?' ar se. ' Do 

 ghiabhair misi,' ar Oisin ' 7 an Ifn cedna do bhi ac chur catha aniubh 'mailli rim, 



325 oir ni furail linn la co n-oidhchi do dingmhail d' fianaibh Eirenn' 7 tangadar ar 

 an cuan. Ozus is i sin uair 7 aimser adubert righ an domhain : ' Dar linn, 

 a firu an domhain, ni maith bhar sdn catha aniubh,' ar se ' 7 eirgeadh dream eigin 

 agaibh do thabairt amuis longphuirt ar fianaibh Erenn.' 



Is ann sin ro eirgedar nai mic Gairb mic Tachair .i. Donn Mara mac Gairbh 



3 30 7 Lonnmar mac [fo. 4b. 1] Gairbh 7 Lodra mac Gairbh 7 luchra mac Gairbh 

 7 Troigleathan mac Gairbh 7 Tarraing Tren mac Gairbh 7 Tola mac Gairbh 



of France saw him coming towards himself, and his beauty and comeliness went from 

 him, and his valour and his prowess left him, and he thought there was no shelter on 

 earth for him, except if he went into the air or into the firmament, and he looked up 

 into the clouds and thought that there was shelter for him between them. And there 

 came lightness of mind and of nature upon him, and he gave his body a stretching 

 from the ground, so that he went with the wind and with madness before the eyes of 

 the hosts of the world, and did not stop in his mad flight till he came to Glenn Bolcain 

 in the east of that territory. And wondrous great cries were raised by the hosts of the 

 world in wailing him, and by the fianns of Erinn in exultation. 



Now, the fianns of Erinn were thus till night came, and Finn said : ' Sad and sorrow- 

 ful is the king of the world to-night,'said he, ' and he vvill make an attack of the harbour 

 against you, and who is there of you that will take upon him the watch of the harbour 

 to-nightr' he said. ' I will,' said Oisin, ' with the same number that has been fighting 

 together with me to-day, for it is not too much for us to fight for the fianns of Erinn 

 a day and a night.' And they went to the harbour. And that was the hour and the 

 time that the king of the world said : ' It seems to us, O men of the world, our luck of 

 battle was not good to-day,' said he, ' and let some of you arise to make an attack of the 

 harbour on the fianns of Erinn.* 



Then arose the nine sons of Garb (the Fierce) the son of Tachar, namely, Donn Mara 

 the son of Garb, and Lonnmar the son of Garb, and Lodra the son of Garb, and luchra 

 the son of Garb, and Troiglethan (the Broad-footed) the son of Garb, and Tarraing Tren 



