54 THE BATTLE OF VENTRY. 



do teasargain, dobeiridh-san sithi ar an en eili, gur eigean don chuir ra sineadh 

 980 eaturra ar a^n 7 gur usu le bas d' fagail 7 d' fulug ocon fiadh allaid 'naid na heoin 

 do marbad do. 7 tug Geilgheis sin da huidh co mor 7 adubert : ' Nir ingnadh dam- 

 sa' ar si 'gradh dom chaemleannan, 6 ata an t-en becc isin airc ud uma heinaibh.' 

 Ro chuala imoro damh allaid ar Druim Ruighleann os cinn an chuain 7 do bhi 

 ac caineadh na heillti co dearmhair on chonc co 'cheili. Uair do badar nai hWadna 

 985 a farradh a cheili 7 do luighdis a fidh do bhi re cois an chuain .i. Fidh Leis 7 do 

 marbad le Finn an eilid sin 7 do bhi an dam sin naz trath deg gan fer gan uisce 

 do blasacht ac caineadh na heillti sin. ' Ni guth dam-sa ' ar Geilgheis ' bas 

 d' fagail do cumaidh Chail, 6 ata an damh ac timdibhi a saegail do chumhaidh 

 na heillti.' 

 990 Tarrla Ferghus Finnbel di a measc an air. ' Scela Cail agad dam, a Fearghus ? ' 

 ar si. 'Ataid imoro,' ar Fearghus 'uair do baidh se a cheile 7 taiseach teaghlaidh 

 righ an domhain .i. Finnachta Fiaclach.' ' Beac an t-inamzdh dam-sa ' ar si ' Cael 

 7 clanna Baiscne do chaineadh, uair is trenchainid na heoin 7 na tonna iad.' 

 7 dorinne an laidh ann sin : 



995 ' Geisigh cuan 



ardbhuinne Ruadh-Rinn Da Bharc : 



of the birds to save him, he made a rush at the other bird, so that the crane had 

 to stretch itself outbetween them both, and so that she would rather have found and suf- 

 fered death by the wild beast, than that her birds should be killed by him. And Gelges 

 mused on this greatly, and said : ' I wonder not,' said she, ' that I so love my fair leman, 

 since the little bird is in that distress about his birds.' Then she heard a stag on Druim 

 Ruiglenn above the harbour, and it was bewaiiing the hind vehemently from one pass to 

 the other. For they had been nine years together and had dwelt in the wood, that was 

 at the foot of the harbour, to wit, Fid Leis, and the hind had been killed by Finn, and 

 the stag was nineteen days without tasting grass, or water, mourning the hind. ' It is 

 no shame for me,' said Gelges, ' to find death from grief for Cael, as the stag is shorten- 

 ing his life for grief of the hind.' 



Fergus met her in the midst of the slaughter. ' Hast thou tidings of Cael for 

 me, O Fergus ? ' said she. ' I have,' said Fergus, ' for he and the chief-henchman of 

 the king of the world, to wit, Finnachta Fiaclach, have drowned each other.' ' Small 

 is the want for me,' said she, 'to bewail Cael and the Clanna Baiscne, for the birds and 

 the waves bewail them strongly.' And then she made the song : 



' The high-waved harbour 

 Of Ruad-Rinn Da Barc sounds : 



980. oncon MS. 984. caineudh MS. 



