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Bodb's dependents were less estimable. He kept a sort of training 

 college, which gave " Sid na nibann " its name, " the mound of the women." 

 L geud speaks unfavourably of the management. Bodb's own daughter was 

 abducted; so was Deltbanna, Conaire's attendant, the wife of Life and 

 daughter of Caiman ;' and Finnchada, who was carried off from it by 

 Sengarman, so late as the reign of Dathi. in the early fifth century. Some 

 said that Connla, son of the High King, Conn, when he was lured away by 

 the lovely woman of the Sid, went with her. not beyond, or beneath, the sea, 

 but - y which v probably intended. 1 Oliu tried to 



lure Conchenn, another daughter of Bodb, out of it, 3 In it. too, was edu- 

 he cruel wife of I.er, who turned his children into swans. 



attached to Sid F F en, if it be the same place, 



1 cairn, when, during the absence of Oengus, son of the 1'agda, 



on Samhain niglit, tl _ M lir carried off to it the unfaithful wife of 



.-liter of Elcmar. Len LinGaclach, a retainer of Bodb, 



Loch Lein, "r Killarney Lake, in Luachair 



II- - were also of doubtful eh His swineherd, 



" Nar-squinting-with-tbe- - cooking squealing heads of pigs over 



the fire, and bring _ which hi a -l " with his 



inch and Eucht, were turned to ravens.' 



V Tumniue (in the fnrm of a many-coloured Least i. wa< swallowed, 



I ' nil l'u. . . .is he revealed I' ililL 



It - ubtful whether the second residence, Sid liv Dear 



B It was I _ l'erhaps it was the 



even the Sid •■; . but 1 have 



iill, also bears his name. 



Ik: _ at the mere dictum of U'L'uiry" t>> regard Bodb Derg, 



kin. his nan Loch l>erg, 



lildlike faith in the historic character 

 of the 1 In the "Drea ' the king of Magh Femen 



aii grow wins him the swan 



maiden on the lake in I ees. 



>n». p. ! i -chniarch liomei i." p. 1">.">i : Rennes Dind >-.. Bev. 



• know whether it and the " SU "t 

 the i r whether they \m the two cairns of Slievenaman and 



na. 



D - . \, pp. 41-4:;. 

 • •f NechMn Kimi^'uaJa, was also connected with 

 i 

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- I i, p. 166. 



