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Holly of the sharp point ! 



Thou hast caught on the feet of a wondrous one. 



Evil was the luck of the hour when a 



vassal of the country cut thee for his cattle. 



Chilling is the cold in Cuanu's household." 



His good wife, the fair hand, 



his daughter, his only son. 

 That was true. There remained near him that night only those three 

 (Fer, adds, viz. his son, his wife, his daughter). 

 For pedigree of Cuanu see F. 



HISTOKICAL EEFERENCES. 



Aedh Bennai^. 



Keating (For. Feas. vol. iii, p. 83) mentions amongst " the provincial 

 kings and the territorial princes who attended the Mordhail Droma Ceat " 

 (A.D. 575) : 



Maoldiiin mac Aedha Bennain ri iarthair Mhumhan ; Finghin mac 

 Aedha Duibh mic Criomhthainn ri Mumhan uile. In the DionbhroUach, 

 p. 53, Keating says that SS. Fursa, Faolan, and Ultan were children of 

 Aodh Beannan, King of Munster, do reir naomh-sheanchusa Eireann. 

 "Mors Aed/io Bennain." AU. 618, recte 619, FM. 614. 



Keating (vol. iii, p. 119), " It was about this time (hi the reign of 

 Suibhne Meann, 615-628), that Aodh Bennain, King of Munster, died." 



" Congal, son of Maelduin, son of Aedh Bennain, King of larmumha, 

 slain," AU. 689. Three Frag., p. 92 ; CS. 686, AI. AT. 670; FM. 689. 



" It was about this time (' of Domhnell, son of Murchadh, first kiug of 

 Ireland of the Clann Colman ') that Cumascach, king of Ui Failghe, 

 fell by Maelduin, son of Aedh Bennan, king of Munster.''" KFF. 2381. 



Death of a Maelduin, son of Aedh Bennan, king of Ir. Luachair, 785 a.d. 



Keat. (1. 2429) says that " when Turgesius came to Ireland, it was 

 Olchobhar, son of Ciouaoth, s. of Congal, s. of Maelduin, s. of Aodh 

 Bennain, who was king of Munster. 



Aedh Bennan ri Muman quievit. 



Aedh Bendan don Eoghanacht iar Luachau\ 



mairg [do] setaib dianadh ri, cen mair tir diauad buachail.'^ 



1 The words " innoeht aithgelach" in L are perhaps a gloss which has crept into the tuxt. 

 Cenmair dialuathnil) dian buachaU. 



