8o THE BATTLE OE VENTRY. 



154. Read : 7 damad he a tahiic as dod niidntir-si, nt thicfaidis . 7 brathair, &c. and 

 translate : ' and if it had been he that had come against thy peopie, they would not 

 return.' The Egerton copy has : damo e a ttamig as dod mhutntir, nd tiocfaidis 7 is 

 brathair damh-sa ^td ann. 



156. ctiinngim-si ort, Szc. Egerton : cuirim mar gheasa ort teacht dd innsinnt dam gach 

 trath nona an meid thuitfios. 



160. tabharthar, Eg. 



221. a croicinn. Cf. co n-derna briscbruar dia chnamaib *na chroccund, LL. p. iiob, 41. 



252. This catalogue of the Tiiatha De Danand chiefs is also found in the Tor. Dh. 

 p. 114, with some variations. 



260. Feilim Nuacrothach (which is not found in the Tor. Dh. list) sounds very hke 

 Fedlem Noicrothach, the name of a daugliter of King Conchobur's, and is probably a 

 mcre figment of the writer's made after that name. 



269. Sliabh mongruadh Mis. Cf. ra cuired in cath cruaid Maigi Muccrama mongruaid, 

 LL. 27 b. 



276. drem eili d^ feraibh Eirenn, Szc. Cf. n^tfuil acht da airecht cudruma a n-Erinn .i. 

 mic Miled 7 Tuatha De Daitann, Agall. na Senor. Rawl. 487, fol. 14 b, i. 



285. For treabrc-^c^ read treabr7iS<\. 



289. mar bhuinni . . tre mullach righthighi. Cf. andar lim at lassar rigthigi di leirgg a 

 tlachtga 7 a n-errid 7 a n-ettaid, LL. p. 175 b. 



293. Oishi, lit. the little roebuck. There is another diminutive form osswe, and the 

 proper name also is sometimes found in this form, e. g. in the list of the ' muinter Find,' 

 in the Yellow Book of Lecan, col. 770 : i\W mac Oisine, Oisene mac Find; or Stowe MS. 

 992 fo. 66 a, 2: ro herbad Oisine dia fuine, whilst a few lines farther on we read : 

 fonaccoib Oisin imoigh. 



294. a n-da sciath ilbuadhacha may also be translated, ' their two oft-victorious 

 shields.' 



298. Instead of bem read bem. But there is a word ben, meaning 'striking, a stroke,' 

 0'R.'s bean, e. g. iar m-ben a chluas de, LBr. p. 140 a. co m-boi oc bein a chrocind don uball 

 amal ba bes do, LBr. p. 1433. 



301. os7ieamh ecccmlainn, bctter osnad ecoynlaind. For ecomland cf. Ra chuas do saide 

 buadrugud a maic ac comrac ra ecomlund for Tdin Bo Cualnge .i. ri Calatm n-Ddna 

 cona secht maccaibfichet 7 rd hua Raglas muc n-Delga. ' Is do chein gid so ' bar Sualtaim. 

 ' In nem maides nd in muir thrdges nd in talam condascara nd inn e buadrugud mo maic-sea 

 so ac comrac ra ecomlond for Tdin Bo CualngeV LL. p. 93 a. atchlos buridach na m'tled 

 ic immirt ecomlaind forru, LL. p. 255 b. buriud mo daltai-se oc imbert eco^nluind fair. 

 LL. p. ii5a. Letcis Garb a iachtad ecomlaind ar aird, LL. p. iiob. For osnad cf. Do 

 digelaind-se th' osnaid-siu cosindiu dianot fessind, LL. p. 289 b. fri dtgail th' osnaide, ib. 



306. Such and similar designations of a prominent warrior are very frequent also in 

 the heroic tales. Thus in the T.B.C. LLec. col. 635, Fergus says: ^ Is leo lamderg 

 londansclech dadanic, is ardglondach agmar amnas, is bruth ar thir nadfulangthar.' ib. col. 

 636 : ' Is e sin in dana dicbonnarcell, is e sin [/'] lamnid leatharthach, is e in robrigi ergaili, 

 is e in tarb dasachtach, is e in buadach baili, is e in t-anglondach bernais, is e in cathchuindich 



