THE BATTLE OF VENTRY. 21 



maid aca-san uime 7 docuiredh ced chuigi an la sin. Cidh trath acht ba ruathar 

 leomain bhuirb barbardha a gnimarra-san orro 7 dorcradar leis gan Aad gan for- 

 dergadh do thabairt air fen 7 dorinne cairn da ceann [fo. 5 a. i.] -aibh /duma dha^^o 

 colliT/(5 7 fadhbcharn da n-ddaighibh. 



lar sin trath ro theilg an t-allmurach a eirredh catha de 7 do ghabh eirredh 

 suaicn?'c//z somhaiseach uime 7 do gabh caman 7 liathrofd 7 ro bhuail an liathroid 

 o larthar na tragha co hoirrther 7 do ghabh 'na deaslaim re toirrnem hi 7 do chuir 

 ar atroighidh hi an dara feacht 7 do lig 'na ruathar he o iarthar na tragha co hoirrther 375 

 7 s^ ac teilgean na liathroide don troighidh 'na cheili gan lamh do bhuafn ria 7 gan 

 isi do bhuain re talam 7 cuiris ar a ghlun hi an treasfeacht 7 reathais gusan cenn ele 

 don traigh 7 sd 'ga cur don glun 'na chele gan buain re lar. Teilgis imoro ar a 

 ghualaind hi^ ruc ruathar ba samalta re gaith Marta on cheann 'na cheili don traigh 

 7 se ag teilgean na liathroidi don ghualaind da cheile gan laim do bhuain ria 7 380 

 gan isi do bhuain re talmain 7 greannaighis an fian uili uman cles sin do ddnamh. 

 Fobrais imoro Oscur 7 mac Lughach teacht do denamh an chleasa sin. 'Anaidh, a 

 oga/ ar Finn ' uair nf dearrna 7 ni dhingne Eirennach an cleas lid acht ^ntriar 

 amain .i. Lugh mac Eithleann a cath Mhuighi Tuiredh 7 dorinne Cuchulaind a 

 Tailltin he 7 ticfa macamh ele do Connachtaibh doghena he.' 3^5 



uttered by them a shout of contempt and derision at him, and one hundred were put 

 against him on that day. However, his attack on them was the rush of a fierce barbarous 

 lion, and they fell by him without his receiving a wound or getting bloody, and he made 

 a cairn of their heads, and a mound of their trunks, and a cairn of byrnies of their 

 accoutrements. 



Thereupon the foreigner doffed his battle-dress, and donned a splendid elegant 

 dress, and took a club and a ball, and beat the ball from the west of the strand 

 to the east, and he caught it in his right hand before it descended, and he put it 

 on his foot the second time, and he sprang in his rushing from the west of the 

 strand to the east, and he threw the ball from one foot on to the other, without 

 touching it with the hand, and without its touching the ground, and he put it 

 on his knee the third time, and ran to the other end of the strand, and then put 

 it from one knee on to the other, without throwing it on the ground. Then he 

 threw it on his shoulder and made a rush hke the March wind from one end of the 

 strand to the other, and then sent the ball from one shoulder to the other, without 

 touching it with the hand, and without throwing it on the ground, and hc challenged all 

 the fiann to perform that trick. Now Oscar and Mac Lugach were ready to go and to 

 perform that trick. ' Stay, O youths,' said Finn, ' for no man of Erinn ever performed 

 or will perform that trick but three only, namely Lug the son of Eithle in the battle of 

 Mag Tured (Moytura), and Cuchulaind performed it at Tailltin (Teltown), and there will 

 come another youth from Connaught who will perform it.' 



369. an gnimarrasan MS. 



