O'NoLAN^ — Mor of Munster and the Tragic Fate of Cuana. 2tl 



Tliou seest Loch Cenn though it lives not. 

 Seldom after the coursing of steeds 

 between Cashel and Loch 

 does the place of the fair-tufted furze 

 make music against my two wheels. 



6. Cathal was listening to her at the side of the grove. Then he arose, 

 and said — 



It is proper, 

 Though my silence is not great, 

 since dearer to thee is thought of the dead man than I am. 



Even the dead, when he has been in the clay of a year or a day, it is his 

 excellent, kindly nature that preserves, so that mourning for him is not 

 forgotten. 



Woman over there ! do not pour praise upon the dead since he has gone. 

 Love someone who will not do thy displeasure till he himself go to death. 



Man over there as you are, since you have found me weeping, it will be the 

 love of thyself that will act, so that the man who was first lives not. 



She was not seen weeping for him from that time. 



7. Mor then gave Euithchern to Lonan the son of Findech. He was on 

 foray along with Cathal. Mor gave her sister to him. On one occasion the 

 king of Deise came. Lonan used to be at Cathal's hand. " Else up, 

 Lonan, before the king." 



Do not move Lonan son of Findnech (said Mor), from the west from a 

 sidh what he plies. He would not be the bolder against battle-shouts, he would 

 not be a shelter against a company. Is the hero whom you woiild put 

 from a seat a hero to whom you would return it ? 



Lonan went westwards then ; and his wife and his people to the sons of 

 Aed Bennain. Cuanu son of Oailchin from Liathmuine attacked them and 

 carried off his wife from Lonan, and he (Lonan) was wounded himself and 

 escaped after being wounded, and arrived in the west. 



8. After that war was proclaimed by the sons of Aed Bennain upon the 

 sons of Cathal, because the married couple did not arrive in the west under 

 their protection. And, indeed, some of the sons of Cathal were at the 

 outrage. " How shall this battle be fought ! " said the men of Munster. " If 

 it be the sons of Cathal who would go against the sons of Aed, they will fall 

 on both sides, because of their equal pride." 



The sons of Aed then go against the foreign tribes eastwards, viz. of Ossory 

 and of the Deise and of Eile and of Muscraige Bregoin and of the east of 

 Femen and of Fer Maige. Cuanu was king of Fer Maige F^ne. 



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