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AVhat follows is partly summarised by O'Curry, Manners and 

 Customs, iii. 34 : the legend tells how Moling's eye was put out by 

 a chip, and miraculously healed, how he succoured a leper who 

 turned out to be Christ in disguise : how Christ appeared in the 

 form of a boy of seven : how he caught a salmon, with a lump of 

 gold {teinne oir) inside it. 



Then comes the story of Gobban and his wife : see ]\r.C. iii. 35-6. 

 After this we have a story of a dispute between the sons of Aed 

 Slaine and the Leinstermen. The latter insist on having St. Moling's 

 arbitration on a frontier question : in spite of the treacherous in- 

 tention of the sons of Aed Slaine, the saint comes : he is entertained 

 at a place called Tnuthel by a Avoman and her husband, and the poor 

 fare they offer him is miraculously altered. ]S'ext comes a condensed 

 version of the story of Moling's diplomacy, and the trick by wliich he 

 got Finnaehta to remit the Borama : cf. LL. 305-307. Adamnan's 

 visit to Finnachta is barely referred to. Alasan, Einnachta's trenfer^ 

 and his men, pursue Moling ; but when they overtake him, he causes 

 them to slay each other. 



The Life ends with the tale of the gnat, the wren, the fox, and 

 the clogs, which is told also in the Life in Codex Kilkennensis. See 

 Ancient Life of St. Molyng," by P. 0'L[eary], Dublin : 1887, p. 22. 



I learn from Dr. Whitley Stokes that there is another, and appa- 

 rently a better, text of this Life in the Brussels collection. Ends — 

 isin dara bliadain ochtmoghad a aisse. 



f. 15 [67] b — Da bron flatha neirne. 



The Two Sorrows of the Kingdom of Heaven. Edited by G. 

 Dottin, Rev. Celt, xxi. 349. Ends— 



c-unid he gebus cloidhem do a oiti Crist. 



f. 15 [67] vo b — Tainic dano dearbairdi inguntach chucu 7 ni ro creidsid do. 

 Of signs that appeared in the Temple of Jerusalem : a great light 

 which shone out, and lasted an hour and a half : and a cow which, 

 when brought to the altar, dropped a woolly lamb. Ends — 



7 ni rocreidsid foss dosin. 



f. 15 [67] b — As imadb ^gla ar m'anmuin. 



Two stanzas on the fear of death and hell. 



The column ends with the words (written in darker ink) — 

 As ok an gles so et an dubh leis beth st ; te(:) cum fir an leabah seo o Aedb. 



