Macai.istek — Tetnair Breg : Remains and Traditions ofTara. 349 



is the better copy, so we give it here, with variae lediones from the Book of 



Lecan, p. 269 1 : — 



Mug rtoith mac Fergusa, a quo 

 Fir Maigi Feine, is e luid do Foglaim 

 drnideehto co Simon ndruid, 7 is mar 

 oen doronsat i» Roth Ramach,tic da?' 

 Eoraip riambrath, hisiw bliad«Mi ria 

 cathugud do Simon iri Pol 7 iri Petar. 

 Ocus is aire chazrgthir for Eoraip, ar 

 daig dalta c&cha ceneil robae moalle 

 Iri Simon i cathugud Iri Petar. Cacht 

 i»gen Cathmmd rig na mBretair 

 mathair: Moga Buith. Both m«c 

 Biguill rodnalt ; is de asbe?w Mug 

 Boith. Da mac Moga Buith, Buan 

 7 Fercorb. Derdraigen 3 mathair da 

 mac Moga Buith 7 [Lifean] 4 mathair 

 Chairprc Lifichaw - , di siai;- 5 do Chorco 

 Barddeine o Dun Cbermna. Dron 

 imorro, ingen Lairine [do Erndaib] 6 

 cet muinter Moga Buith [mathair 

 Labrada meic Moga Buith] 6 ocus in- 

 gen do Mug Buith Tlachtga ut alii 

 Aicunt, covus toirrchitar .iii. maca 

 Simoin ria tichtam anai)' 7' rue tri 

 macco doib ; 7 hissi tuc le cairthi 

 Cnamcbaille 8 .i. fuidel ind Boith 7 isi° 

 nodrabris e. Dab cadi noen nodnaiccfe, 

 bodar cac/i oen noclumfe, marb cucli 

 oen frisambena. 



Mug lluith son of Fergus, from 

 whom arc the people of Fermoy, it is 

 he who went to learn druidry to Simon 

 Magus, and it is together the ymade the 

 Both Bamach, that comes over Europe 

 before the Judgment, in the year before 

 Simon's contention with Paul and with 

 Peter. And for this reason is Europe 

 censured, because a pupil of every 

 nation was with Simon as he con- 

 tended with Peter. Cacht daughter 

 of Caithmiu king of the Britons was 

 mother of Mug Buith. Both son of 

 Bigoll fostered him ; thence comes the 

 name Mug Buith. The two sons of 

 Mug Buith were Buan and Fercorb. 

 Derdraigen the mother of the two sons 

 of Mug Buith, and Lifean the mother 

 of Cairpre Lifechair, twain sisters of 

 the Corcu Bairdine of Dun Cermna. 

 Now Dron daughter of Lairine of the 

 Erna, the first people of Mug Buith, 

 was mother of Labraid son of Mug 

 Buith, and Tlachtga was daughter of 

 Mug Buith as others say, so that the 

 three sons of Simon got her with child 

 before she came from the east, so that 

 she bore three sons to them ; and it is 

 she who brought with her the pillar- 

 stone of Cnamchoill, that is, the leav- 

 ings of the Wheel ; ami it is she that 

 broke it. Blind everyone that shall 

 see it, deaf everyone that shall hear it, 

 dead everyone that it shall touch. 



I Another copy, from Laud G10, is published without translation in Zeitsch. celt. 

 Phil, viii, 332. 



3 ii Manann no Breatan, LLec. 



3 Der 7 Draigean, LLec. 



4 This word omitted in Bawl. LLec reads Lifhi siur «ii' doib mathair. 



6 LLec omits di siair. 



II These bracketed words omitted in Rawl, 



7 conid afus rue, LLec. 



8 Spelt by oversight Cnawicham chaille in Rawl. 

 » ise, Rawl. 



