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colptai comla coicthi thiiaiscirt hErenu.' ib. col. 634 : * /j cend erbaga dadanic, is leth catha, 

 is greit argail, is tond ainbt[h]ine badas, is muir dar cricha.' ib. col. 635 : ^ Inmain em in 

 bethir bailcbeimnech dodanic,' or Fergus ' in mathgamain morglonnach,' &c. ib. col. 633 : 

 '/j tonn anbthine badis, is gus nad fulangthar co coscraib a aillcrichaib iarfoirtib a namad' 

 ib. col. 632 : ^Is cathmilid fri nith, is brathfri bidbadu.' 



309. an troigh nach ruc aeticheimh ar culaibh riamh roim uathadh no socbaide. Cf. ni 

 rucas traig techid re n-oenfer risin re sin, LL. p. 823. is e tuc a brethir frlaig nach berad 

 oentraig teichid reisin ciniud doenna uli, Cog. G. p. 186, 9. 



317. co n-deachaidh re gaitb. Cf. can tocht re gaith, ' without running distracted before 

 the winds,' Cog. G. p. 182, 22. 



325. Id co ti-oidhcbi, lit. ' a day with a night.' Cf. dd Id cotia n-oidhchibh, ' two days 

 with their nights,' Cog. G. p. 210. Of the old Celtic custom of counting by nights (to 

 which the Welsh ivythnos still points) and making the day follow the' night (Caes. Bell. 

 Gall. VL 18) there seem to be no traces extant in Irish. 



354. Instead of medaigiher, read medaigh, with Egerton, though in the MS. there is 

 a stroke, and not a dot, over the g. 



373. do ghabh caman, &c. This juggler's trick reminds us of a similar one which, in 

 the Tstoria, Cbarles, one of the knights of Charlemagne, is going to perform before 

 Hugh the Mighty. See Koschwitz, Sechs Bearbeitungen, p. 1 1 : ' ac a ivharyaf a pbetwar 

 aval ac ae taflafbob eil^wers om dwyla6 yn yr a(>yr ac ae herbynnaf, ac or dygwyd yr fn 

 nadutit yr llaSr 'vn om divylaS, nyt oes boeti nys diodef<wyf arnaf 'and I will play with 

 four apples, and will throw them into the air alternately out of my hands, and I will 

 catch them, and if one of them fall to the ground from one of my hands, there is no 

 penalty which I would not suffer.' 



384. Lugh mac Eithleatm, better Eithnenn. Cf. LL. p. 9 a : Dorat Cian mac Dem- 

 cecht .i. Scdl Balb ainm aile do, a mac di [sc. do Taltin] for altrom .i. Lug. Eithne, ittgen 

 Balar Balcbeimtiig, a mathair side. Sons sometimes take metronymics when the father 

 is doubtful, as in the case of Conchobur, who was either called mac Catbbad, or tnac 

 Fachtna Fdtbaig (see Compert Conchobuir, Rev. Celt. VI. p. 178), but more generally 

 mac Nessa. Also mac Cnissi, Chron. Scot. p. 37. 



391. ar teithed. Cf. ar teithed urcra latbairfort, Mcgn. F. 27. 



392. ro fagsad imchomarc, &c. Ci.fdgbbaid iomcbomairc beathadh agus sldinte aice, 

 Tor. Dhiarm. p. 206, 6. Tancas Chotichobur 'na diaid co ti-airdig meda il-lestur argait 

 oengil db co m-bethaid 7 sldnti ond rtg, LL. p. iii b, 5. Cf. the modern ' /j e do 

 bheatha ! ' 



402. maith do detita-sa sin. Cf. 408 : is maith dogbetiadh sibh-si, and Tor. Dhiarm. 

 p. 200: is maith do dligheadh dhuit-se sluagh do thabairt damh-sa, 'truly thou oughtest 

 to give me a host.' 



473. Is ann sin ro gab, &c. Compare with this, and especially with the Egerton ver- 

 sion of this passage, the foUowing description of Finn's weapons and accoutrement from 

 the Sclg Slebe na m-Ban Finn, Egerton, 1782, fo. 33 a, 2: ' Is ann sin eirgis rifetmigh 

 hErinn 7 Alban 7 Saxan 7 Bretan 7 Leous 7 Z-of/'/ann 7 na ti-ailen cetidtarach. Et 

 gabuis a catherred catha 7 comraic 7 comlainn tiitne ,i. lene thana siJaide do sroU suaich- 



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