THE BATTLE OF VENTRV. 19 



7 Tomna mac Gairbh 7 Dolar Durbha mac Gairbh ri mara n-Icht 7 se cdd deg a 

 socraidi 7 tangadar a tir uili acht seinnser na clainni sin Gairbh .i. Dolur Durbha 

 7 do freagradar clanna Baiscne co hathlum imghonach iad 7 tangadar do trentuarcain 

 a chele gar leadradh lamha ann sin 7 gur teascadh taibh 7 gur cirrbad cuirp 7 do 335 

 badar isin irghail sin co tafnic an maiden mochsolus. Acht enni ni roibh beo 'sa 

 maidin neach do ba thualaing a arm d' imirt dibh leath ar leath, acht triar do chlan- 

 naibh Gairbh 7 Oisin 7 Oscur 7 ni drud o chele dorinneadar, acht tucadh sithi ar a 

 cheli acu 7 ro innsaigh dias dib Oscur 7 ro innsaigh an treas fear 7 Oisin a cheU 

 7 ba cruaid coimnert cutruma an comhrac sin 7 fuaradar a dis fen bas le hOscur 34 

 7 do thuitsedar taisi 7 taimnella bais air fen 7 ba lor do laighdiugud Oisin sin. 



Ro theilg imoro Oisin 7 an t-allmurach a n-airm asa lamaibh 7 ro dunsat a 

 righthi reamra righdha romaiseacha tar caelaib corp a chele 7 tucsead cuir 

 f hearrdha fircalma d' aroile, acht enni do bo theachta o oirrther an domhain co 

 cxxQhaib na fuinedach d' fechain comraic na deisi sin. Is ann sin tuc an t-all- 345 

 murach tarraing tulcalma ar Oisin docum na fairrgi, oir ba maith a snamh 7 a 

 onfais fein. Tuc imoro Oisin tairraing air-sim, oir nir fiu leis a inad comraic do 

 seachna d6. Rangadar imoro ar aen 'sa fairrci 7 do bidis ac combathad a cheile 

 co teighdis [fo. 4 b. 2.] co grian 7 co grinnell an glanmara. Ba cradh cridhe 



(the Strong) the son of Garb, and Tomna the son of Garb, and Dolar Durba the son 

 of Garb, the king of the Sea of Wight. And sixteen hundred was their number, and 

 they went all on shore except the eldest of those children of Garb, namely, Dolur 

 Durba, and the children of Baiscne answered them readily and with fighting. And 

 they began to beat each other severely, so that hands were hacked off there, and 

 sides cut, and bodies mangled, and they continued in that fight until the morning 

 came with its early hght. And not one of them was alive on the morrow, that was 

 able to wield his weapons on either side, but three of the children of Garb, and Oisin, 

 and Oscar, and they did not let go of each other, but they made rushcs at each other, 

 and tvvo of them attacked Oscar, and the third man and Oisin attacked each other, 

 and hard, equally strong, and equally waged was that combat, and his own two found 

 their death by Oscar, and the weakness and trance of death fell upon him, and that was 



enough to Oisin. 



Then Oisin and the foreigner threw their weapons out of their hands, and closed their 

 stout kingly graceful arms across the slender part of each other's bodies, and gave each 

 other a manly right brave pull, so that it was worth coming from the east of the world 

 to the lands of the men of the west to bchold the fight of those two. Then the foreigner 

 gave a sudden valiant pull to Oisin towards the sea. For he was a good swimmer and 



Then Oisin gave him a pull, for he deemed it unmeet to refuse him his 



place of fighting. So they went into the sea together and were trying to drown each 

 other, till they came upon the sand and gravel of the clcar sea. Now, it was a hearfs 



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