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gobuid ind tsaoir 7 reiiqui ni maith 

 la each diob a fer muindti'n do daul 

 connec/t haile. Fotroicli lethsu ol maol- 

 dith?-«!i Tuccusae lietiguth 7 comarleccud 

 IS ianiiu slech-tois soot fo reir maol- 

 Yiwin Tunc Ai-s.it maoLruoiw. Bliadain 

 aithglantae lindi olsesim. Do t)ib 

 cethorchait aidci a;«maiii' lor usciu 7 

 haxgin acht loim nais ind domnaichib 

 7 comarlecud do lorn di midc do 

 clmmusc ar usci bisind tsameorgus 

 nawmje Fo anmcbairdini ectguidi 

 da«o robuiso/rt cosin anald ISsed dano 

 asrubflrt maolioiM f/7ssim intan tra 

 rocloither iwitecht duini olsesim tene 

 bas andsoni lat dod loscud bat cuici 

 tesi 



§25. [37'] Adb«;-t maoldith;«/o hi 

 iiiaohui« robadar cethtri c/idiscel liom- 

 sae de chianaib. Ropa cndiscel dam 

 cedamiw a tanic do neblegund a tir do 

 legund 7 do cbor siilae taris. llopo 

 cndiscel dam da.no tecb sruithi bet 

 fuirbtbium bisind tir co mbeim* oca 

 timtirecA^ na siuitbi sin oc tuildem a 

 mbend«c/i^an. Ack-s cororosind mo saith 

 ior tacaldaurtsiu aciw co toroildind 

 beudut/i/ai/J do muindtirisiu bull etir 

 indni diob adgladmis 7 nad nacaldmis 

 di'ob. Atbe/'t ar sruitbi f/-(indi fer da 

 ci'icb' de bitbiir' ind redae sin ol 

 maolmiw. Emitir dona macaib bethad 

 na c/idi scelae maitbi conescomrit«/- doib 

 a fochrici amail forfertis a cndiscelaB 

 nahi pin. 



" Even artisans, said Maelruain, tbe 

 smiths, the wrights, etc., none of them 

 likes a man of bis household to go to 

 anyone else." " What thou sayest has 

 g been looked to," said Maeldithniib ; " I 

 obtaiiiLd authorization and permission." 

 Then he made submission to the autho- 

 rity of Maeli-uain. Then said Mael- 

 ruain : " A year of repurification shalt 



10 tliou have among us," said he. " Thrice 

 forty nights shalt thou be on bread 

 a):d water, save for a sup of milk on 

 Sundays only," and he had permission 

 to mi-x. a cup of wliey in the water in the 



15 summer-Lent only. !Now till that 

 time he had been imder the spiritual 

 clii'ection of Echtgiiide. 



Now this is what Maelruain said to 

 him : " When thou hearest of a man's 

 decease," said he, "then [say to thyseK 

 that] the fire thou most dreadest to 

 bum thee, to it shalt thou go." 



§ 25. Maeldithi'uib said to Mael- 

 ruain: "I have long had four darling 



20 wishes. My first wish was to read and 

 to cast my eyes over whatever sacred 

 reading had come into the country. 

 Then it was a darling wish of mine, 

 wherever there is the household of 



25 saintly men that are holiest iu this 

 country, to be busied in attending on 

 those saintly persons and earning their 

 blessing. And [my next wish was] 

 that I might attain to have my fill of 



30 discourse with thee ; and [the last was] 

 that I might earn the blessing of thy 

 folk here, both those of them that we 

 should discourse with and those we 

 should not." "Our saintly friend, 



36 Fer da Chiich, said to us, speaking of 



' ahould come after domnaicMb " Head co nibeinn 



' Mead ar snuth .i. fer da chrich f linni ' Jtead bithlur 



