Chapter II: Part 2

[Note 145: huara N]

146. Tri fuammann moaigthe: fuam bo mblecht, fuam cerdchae, fuam aratbair.

[Note 146: fuamandu moaigti N moigthi L fuaim bo mblicht N]

128. Three tokens of a blessed site: a bell, psalm-singing, a synod (of elders).

129. Three tokens of a cursed site: elder, a corncrake, nettles.[82]

[82] See my edition of _Cain Adamnain_, p. 13, note 3, and p. 38.

130. Three nurses of theft: a wood, a cloak, night.

131. Three qualities[83] that bespeak good fortune: self-importance, ..., self-will.

[83] Literally, 'parts.'

132. Three qualities[84] that bespeak misfortune: weariness, (premature) old age, reproachfulness.

[84] Literally, 'heaviness, weight.'

133. Two sisters: weariness and wretchedness.

134. Two brothers: prosperity and husbandry.

135. Three unlucky...:[85] guaranteeing, mediating, witnessing. The witness has to swear to his evidence, the guarantor has to pay for his security, the mediator gets a blow on his head.[86]

[85] The usual meanings of _fodb_, 'accoutrement, equipment, arms,' do not seem to suit here.

[86] Literally, 'the blow of mediation is dealt on his head.'

136. Three false sisters: 'perhaps,' 'may be,' 'I dare say.'

137. Three timid brothers: 'hush!' 'stop!' 'listen!'

138. Three dead things that give evidence on live things: a pair of scales, a bushel, a measuring-rod.

139. Three pottages of guaranteeing....[87]

[87] Obscure and probably corrupt. Cf. Sec. 219.

140. Three black husbandries: thatching with stolen things,[88] putting up a fence with a proclamation of trespass, kiln-drying with scorching.

[88] 'with sods,' NML, perperam.

141. Three after-sorrows: a wooer's, a thief's, a tale-bearer's.

142. Three sons whom folly bears to anger: frowning, ... ,[89] mockery (?).

[89] _fidchell_, the well-known game, gives no sense here.

143. Three sons whom generosity bears to patience: ... , blushing, shame.

144. Three sons whom churlishness bears to impatience: trembling, niggardliness, vociferation.

145. Three cold things that seethe: a well, the sea, new ale.

146. Three sounds of increase: the lowing of a cow in milk, the din of a smithy, the swish of a plough.

147. Tri hana antreinn: tipra i sleib, tene a liic, ana la fer calad.

[Note 147: luc MSS. anai la fear calaid N]

148. Tri aithgine in domuin: bru mna, uth bo, ness gobann.

[Note 148: haitgine N aithgeinit L corathgen B coratgen M bru birite
BM meas(!) BMLec]

149. Tri diubarta forsna iada dilse: tinnscra mna, imthomailt lanamna, iarraid maicc.

[Note 149: hiad N imtomailt N iarr_aid_ menicc(!) L]

150. Tri cuir tintaiter do reir britheman: cor mna [et] micc [et] bothaich.

[Note 150: tinntaigter N]

151. Tri nata[t] tualaing sainchuir: mac beo-athar, ben aurnadma, doer flatha.

[Note 151: nad N]

152. Tri maic nad rannat orbai: mac muini [et] aurlai [et] ingine fo thrilis.

[Note 152: erlai N]

153. Tri ai nad eplet faill: ai dochuind, [et] dochraite, [et] anfis.

[Note 153: dochainn N docraite N]

154. Tri fuile na dlegat frecor: fuil catha, [et] eoit, [et] etargaire.

[Note 154: nad N etargaire N]

155. Tri fuchachta nad increnat slabrai: a gabail ar ecin, a sleith tri mescai, a turtugud do rig.

[Note 155: fuichechta N slaibri N]

156. Tri na dlegat turbaidi: athchor maic, aicdi cherdai, giallaigecht.

[Note 156: nad dlegait turbaid N aige cerda N]

157. Tri aithne na dlegat taisec: aithne n-ecuind, [et] ardneimid [et] aithne fuirmeda.

[Note 157: haitne nad dlegait taisec N ecoind N fuirmidai L]

158. Tri mairb direnaiter beoaib: aball, coll, fidnemed.

[Note 158: dorenatar beo N]

159. Tri[ar] na ditoing na fortongar: ben, angar, amlabar.

[Note 159: dotoing na fortoing_er_ L amlobar N]

160. Tri na dlegat athchommus: mac [et] a athair, ben [et] a ceile, doer [et] a thigerna.

[Note 160: na dlegait N]

161. Tri nat fuigletar cia beith ar a ngaes: fer adgair [et] adgairther [et] focrenar fri breith.

[Note 161: nat fuigletar cia beit N fer adgair [et] adgair (sic)
[et] adgairter [et] rocrenar N]

162. Tri fors na tuit aititiu 'na re: bas, anfis, anfaitches.

[Note 162: anfuichc_h_es L anbaitces N]

147. Three wealths in barren places: a well in a mountain, fire out of a stone, wealth in the possession of a hard man.

148. Three renovators of the world: the womb of woman, a cow's udder, a smith's moulding-block.

149. Three concealments upon which forfeiture does not close: a wife's dowry, the food of a married couple, a boy's foster-fee.

150. Three contracts that are reversed by the decision of a judge: the contracts of a woman, of a son, of a cottar.

151. Three that are incapable of special contracts[90]: a son whose father is alive, a betrothed woman, the serf of a chief.

[90] Or, 'of contracts on their own behalf.'

152. Three sons that do not share inheritance: a son begotten in a brake,[91] the son of a slave, the son of a girl still wearing tresses.

[91] Cf. the expression _meirdrech muine_, 'a bush-strumpet,' Laws v. 176, 4.

153. Three causes that do not die with neglect: the causes of an imbecile, and of oppression, and of ignorance.

154. Three bloodsheds that need not be impugned: the bloodshed of battle, of jealousy, of mediating.

155. Three cohabitations[92] that do not pay a marriage-portion: taking her by force, outraging her without her knowledge through drunkenness, her being violated by a king.

[92] _fuchacht_, or _fuichecht_, usually means 'cuckoldry,' a meaning which does not seem to suit here.

156. Three that are not entitled to exemption: restoring a son, the tools of an artificer, hostageship.

157. Three deposits that need not be returned: the deposits of an imbecile,[93] and of a high dignitary, and a fixed deposit.[94]

[93] _i.e._ a deposit made by an imbecile. _Cf._ Plato, Republic: "But surely you would never give back to a mad friend a sword which he had lent you?"

[94] But in the Heptads (Laws v. 196, 3) _aithne fuirmida_, there rendered by 'a deposited charge,' is enumerated as one of those to be restored even if there are no bonds to that effect.

158. Three dead ones that are paid for with living things: an apple-tree, a hazle-bush, a sacred grove.[95]

[95] there is nothing in the laws to explain this.

159. Three that neither swear nor are sworn: a woman, a son who does not support his father, a dumb person.

160. Three that are not entitled to renunciation of authority: a son and his father, a wife and her husband, a serf and his lord.

161. Three who do not adjudicate though they are possessed of wisdom: a man who sues, a man who is being sued, a man who is bribed to give judgment.

162. Three on whom acknowledgment does not fall in its time: death, ignorance, carelessness.

163. Tri foimrimme na dlegad dire: homan, robud, toxal.

[Note 163: foimrime N foimrenn L na dlegaid N robad N]

164. Tri duilgine conrannat gniaid: duilgine coiri, duilgine muilinn, duilgine tige.

[Note 164: duilcinne N conrenad gnia N]

165. Tri noill dona dlegar frithnoill: noill mna fri huaitni, noill fir mairb, noill dithir.

[Note 165: naill nad dlegad fritnaill luige mna N luide N luige
ditire N]

166. Tri grada coillte tuath ina ngoi: goi rig, goi [.s]enchada, goi bretheman.

[Note 166-220: _om._ HBMLec inango N go N]

167. Tri soir dogniat doeru dib fein: tigerna renas a deiss, rigan teite co haithech, mac filed leces a cheird.

[Note 167: daoir dib fein N des N deissi L teid N treiges a cerd N]

168. Tri ruip conberat duinechinaid: cu araig, reithe lonn, ech daintech.

[Note 168: araid N reithid N daindtech N]

169. Tri ruip ara tiagat cinta: cu foilm[n]ech, sleg caille, slissen chomneibi.

170. Tri imuserenat: saill, imm, iarn, fechemnas toisc leimmid eicsi.

[Note 170: imus crenait saill N sall L iaronn N feitemnus toisc
leine im eiccsi N]

171. Tri comartha aragella i tig britheman: ecna, aisneis, intlecht.

[Note 171: comardda L aragellat a tig bretheman N taig L aisnesen
intliuchtach L]

172. Tri dlegat aurfocrai: ael coire, fidba cen [.s]eim, ord cen dimosc.

[Note 172: dlegait urfograe N fidbaigh can tseim ord gan dimosc N
dinsem L]

173. Tri doruis gua: tacra fergach, fotha n-utmall n-eolais, aisneis cen chuimni.

[Note 173: fothad utmall N eolus aisena oca_n_ coimni N]

174. Tri doruis a n-aichnither fir: frecra n-ainmnetach, ai fossad, soud fri fiadnu.

[Note 174: an aithnit_er_ fiorinne N freaccra n-ainmnedach N ainmeta
L ai fosaid sodad N]

175. Tri buada airechta: brithem cen fuasnad, etirchert cen ecnach, coma cen diupairt.

[Note 175: fuasna L]

176. Tri tonna cen gaissi: tacra calad, breth cen eolas, airecht labar.

[Note 176: ton_n_a gaisi N donnadgaissi L tonna gan gaoise H. 1. 11
brethem N]

177. Tri buada insci: fosta, gais, gairde.

[Note 177: buadad innsce N gois N]

178. Tri cumtaig gaisse: immed n-eolais, lin fassach, dagaigni do airbirt.

[Note 178: lion fasaid N]

163. Three usucaptions that are not entitled to a fine: fear, warning, asportation.

164. Three wages that labourers share: the wages of a caldron,[96] the wages of a mill, the wages of a house.

[96] _i.e._ of making a caldron, &c.

165. Three oaths that do not require fulfilment[97]: the oath of a woman in birth-pangs, the oath of a dead man, the oath of a landless man.

[97] Literally, 'a counter-oath, a second oath.'

166. Three ranks that ruin tribes in their falsehood: the falsehood of a king, of a historian, of a judge.

167. Three free ones that make slaves of themselves: a lord who sells his land, a queen who goes to a boor, a poet's son who abandons his (father's) craft.

168. Three brutes whose trespasses count as human crimes: a chained hound, a ferocious ram, a biting horse.

169. Three brutish things that atone for crimes: a leashed hound, a spike in a wood, a lath....[98]

[98] _comneibi_ is a [Greek: hapax legomenon] to me.

170. Three things that ... salt-meat, butter, iron....[99]

171. Three signs that ... [99] in a judge's house: wisdom, information, intellect.

172. Three things that should be proclaimed: the flesh-fork of a caldron, a bill-hook without a rivet, a sledge-hammer without....[99]

[99] Obscure and probably corrupt.

173. Three doors of falsehood: an angry pleading, a shifting foundation of knowledge, giving information without memory.

174. Three doors through which truth is recognised: a patient answer, a firm pleading, appealing to witnesses.

175. Three glories of a gathering: a judge without perturbation, a decision without reviling, terms (agreed upon) without fraud.

176. Three waves without wisdom: hard pleading, judgment without knowledge, a talkative gathering.

177. Three glories of speech: steadiness, wisdom, brevity.

178. Three ornaments of wisdom: abundance of knowledge, a number of precedents, to employ a good counsel.

179. Tri miscena indsci: rigne, dluithe, dulbaire.

[Note 179: miscne indsce N raighni L]

180. Tri fostai dagbanais: fosta thengad [et] gensa [et] airnb_ern_tais.

[Note 180: fosta N fostadh tengad N airb_er_tais N]

181. Tri foindil drochbanais: foindil scel [et] ataid [et] airberntais.

[Note 181: _om._ N]

182. Tri buada etaig: maisse, clithcha, suthaine.

[Note 182: buadhad N cliche N]

183. Tri na dlegat othras: fer aslui flaith [et] fini [et] fili.

[Note 183: nad d_leg_ait dire fer doslaig flaith [et] file [et] fine
N feili L]

184. Tri tharsuinn archuillet othras: echmuir, mil, saillti.

[Note 184: tharsunn L tarsuind aircaillti othiais N]

185. Tri mna na dlegat diri: ben lasma cuma cipe las fai, ben gatach, ben aupthach.

[Note 185: nat d_leg_ait N cia las f(a)oi N optach N]

186. Tri dofortat cach flaith: gou, forsnaidm, fingal.

[Note 186: dofortad gach fl_ath_a N]

187. Tri tuarascbait cach ngenmnaide: fosta, feile, sobraide.

[Note 187: tuarascb_al_a genmnaid fostad N]

188. Tri ara n-aichnider cach fergach: ir, crith, imbanad.

[Note 188: tri aichnider L aranaithnent_ur_ N hir L]

189. Tri thuarascbait cach n-ainmnetach: samtha, tua, imderead.

[Note 189: tuarascbalai gach nainmnedaigh samtad N tuai L]

19O. Tri thuarascbait cach n-uallach: morthu, maisse, maine.

[Note 190: tuaruscbalai cach ndubalcai mortha N]

191. Tri forindet cach n-umal: bochtatu, dinnime, humalloit.

[Note 191: forinded N bochtai N]

192. Tri airdi gaisse: ainmne, faiscsiu, fathaige.

[Note 192: hairdhe N faicsi fathaidhi N]

193. Tri airdi druisse: bag, imresain, condailbe.

[Note 193: _om._ N]

194. Trede immifoilnge gais do baeth: ecna, fosta, sochoisce.

[Note 194: imfuilnge N]

195. Trede immifoilnge bais do gaeth: fuasnad, ferg, mesca.

[Note 195: imfailnge baoth N]

196. Trede faillsiges cach ndag[.f]eras: dan, gaisced, cresine.

[Note 196: cach degfer_us_ N cresenai N]

197. Trede faillsigedar cach ndroch[.f]eras: serba, miscais, midlachas.

[Note 197: faillsigh_us_ cach drochferus N]

198. Tri fogluaiset foenledchu: ingreim, dolud, dommatu.

[Note 198: fainnelca N dolai N]

179. Three hateful things in speech: stiffness,[100] obscurity, a bad delivery.

[100] In Mod. Ir. _righneas labhartha_ means 'an impediment in speech.' See Dinneen's Dictionary, s.v.

180. Three steadinesses of good womanhood: keeping a steady tongue, a steady chastity, and a steady housewifery.

181. Three strayings of bad womanhood: letting her tongue,[101] and ... and her housewifery go astray.

[101] Literally, 'stories.'

182. Three excellences of dress: elegance, comfort, lastingness.

183. Three that are not entitled to sick-maintenance: a man who absconds from his chief, from his family, from a poet.

184. Three sauces that spoil a sick-bed: ...,[102] honey, salt food.

[102] I believe _echmuir_ to be the name of a plant: but I cannot find the reference.

185. Three women that are not entitled to a fine: a woman who does not care with whom she sleeps, a thievish woman, a sorceress.

186. Three things that ruin every chief: falsehood, overreaching, parricide.[103]

[103] Or rather 'murder of relations.'

187. Three things that characterise every chaste person: steadiness, modesty, sobriety.

188. Three things by which every angry person is known: an outburst of passion, trembling, growing pale.

189. Three things that characterise every patient person: repose, silence, blushing.

190. Three things that characterise every haughty person: pompousness, elegance, (display of) wealth.

191. Three things that tell every humble person: poverty, homeliness, servility.

192. Three signs of wisdom: patience, closeness, the gift of prophecy.

193. Three signs of folly: contention, wrangling, attachment (to everybody).

194. Three things that make a fool wise: learning, steadiness, docility.[104]

[104] _Cf._ dan ecna dogni rig do bocht, dogni gaeth do baeth, &c., LL. 346^a35.

195. Three things that make a wise man foolish: quarrelling, anger, drunkenness.

196. Three things that show every good man: a special gift,[105] valour, piety.

[105] Such as art, poetry, &c.

197. Three things that show a bad man: bitterness, hatred, cowardice.

198. Three things that set waifs a-wandering: persecution, loss, poverty.

199. Tri slabrada hi cumregar cloine: cotach, riagail, rechtge.

[Note 199: racht N]

200. Tri all frisa timargar bescna: mainister, flaith, fine.

[Note 200: tri frisa N mineistir N flatha N]

201. Tri caindle forosnat cach ndorcha: fir, aicned, ecna.

202. Trede neimthigedar rig: fonaidm ruirech, feis Temrach, roimse inna [.f]laith.

[Note 202: tri aran_em_it_er_ ri N]

203. Tri glais foriadat ruine: naire, tua, dochta.

[Note 203: ruini L]

204. Tri heochracha aroslicet imraitiu: mescca, tairisiu, serc.

[Note 204: oslaice imraite N]

205. Tri orbai rannaiter fiad chomarbaib: orba druith [et] orba dasachtaig [et] orba sin.

[Note 205: rannait fia comarbaoibh (_sic_) N]

206. Tri seithir oited: tol, ailde, feile.

[Note 206: aide toil N]

207. Tri seithir sentad: cnet, genas, eitche.

208. Tri seithir sognaise: feidle, soithnges, cuinnmine.

[Note 208: feili soingtes connamno N soithgnes L]

209. Tri seithir dognaise: luinne, cetludche, tairismige.

[Note 209: cetluithche N]

210. Tri seithir sotcaid: sognas, sochell, suarcus.

[Note 210: sottch N sothchaidh L sognais L]

211. Tri seithir sochlatad: leire, trebaire, rathmaire.

212. Tri seithir dochlatad: laxa, dibe, prapchaillte.

[Note 212: doclata N]

213. Tri seithir ferge: ecnach, augra, doithnges.

[Note 213: doingteas N]

214. Tri seithir deirmiten: tromdatu, espatu, utmaille.

215. Tri seithir airmiten: torbatu, airetrumma, fosta.

216. Tri banlae: luan, mairt, cetain. Mna co firu innib, bid mo a serc la firu inda serc a fer leo-som [et] beit a mna tar eis na fer sin.

[Note 216: bandla N at mna beit tara n-eiseiu N]

217. Tri ferlae: .i. dardain, aine, domnach. Mna co firu intib, beitit na mna sin fo digrad [et] beitit a fir dia n-eisi. Satharn im_morro_ is laithe coitchenn. Is comlith doib. Luan saer do dul fri cach les.

[Note 217: aoine satharn _no_ domnach N innib N beidis N]

218. Tri gnima ratha: fosta, feile, lobra. Fosta i n-arus, feile, arna ebra goe, lobra hicce .i. lecud a lomartha i n-indligud dar a [.f]echimain.

[Note 218: om. ratha L lubrai N anarus N heibre goi N lubrai ice .i.
leacadh lomartha anindli_ged_ dar cenn feichi_man_ N]

199. Three chains by which evil propensity is bound: a covenant, a (monastic) rule, law.

200. Three rocks to which lawful behaviour is tied: a monastery,[106] a chieftain, the family.

[106] 'The credence-table,' N., perperam.

201. Three candles that illumine every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge.

202. Three things that constitute a king: a contract with (other) kings, the feast of Tara, abundance during his reign.

203. Three locks that lock up secrets: shame, silence, closeness.

204. Three keys that unlock thoughts: drunkenness, trustfulness, love.

205. Three inheritances that are divided in the presence of heirs: the inheritance of a jester, of a madman, and of an old man.

206. Three youthful sisters: desire, beauty, generosity.

207. Three aged sisters: groaning, chastity, ugliness.

208. Three well-bred sisters: constancy, well-spokenness, kindliness.

209. Three ill-bred sisters: fierceness, lustfulness, obduracy.

210. Three sisters of good fortune: good breeding, liberality, mirth.

211. Three sisters of good repute: diligence, prudence, bountifulness.

212. Three sisters of ill repute: inertness, grudging, closefistedness.

213. Three angry sisters: blasphemy, strife, foulmouthedness.

214. Three irreverent sisters: importunity, frivolity, flightiness.

215. Three reverent sisters: usefulness, an easy bearing, firmness.

216. Three woman-days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. If women go to men on those days, the men will love them better than they the men, and the women will survive the men.

217. Three man-days: Thursday, Friday, Sunday. If women go to men on those days, they will not be loved, and their husbands will survive them. Saturday, however, is a common day. It is equally lucky to them. Monday is a free day to undertake any business.

218. Three duties of guarantorship: staying (at home), honesty, suffering (?); staying in one's residence, honesty lest he utter falsehood, suffering (?) payment, viz. letting oneself be stripped for an illegal action instead of the debtor.

219. Tri brothchain ratha: eir[i]c no thognim fecheman no dithechte.

[Note 219: brocain N _no_ no thognim L ditechta N dithechdi L]

220. Tri huais ratha [et] aitiri [et] nadma .i. dul fri denam duine rig [et] daurthaige [et] choiri. Ar is uais do fir fine do thabairt fria ceili.

[Note 220: eit_er_i N nadmadh fri N]

221. Tri as anergnaid do neoch: slaide a eich riana thigerna co salaig a etach, dul ina chocar cen gairm, a sirdeicsiu ina agaid oc caithem neich.

[Note 221: is ainergna N tri saineargnaidh M slaige BN rena BMN
sirdeicsin N sirdegsain BM caithium BM aeaitniem a coda N]

222. Tri bassa techtai: bass etir a assa [et] a ochrai, bass etir a o [et] a berrad, bass etir chorthair a leined [et] a glun.

[Note 222: corrthair M]

223. Cia mesam hi trebod? Maic mna meile, fleda menci, clemna ile, immat meda sceo fina: notchrinat, ni thormaiget.

[Note 223: cidh is messa do treb_ad_ ni _hansa_ N mic B imad fianna
nodcrinaid [et] nitoirmuigid BM imchiana (!) N nitormaigett N]

224. Tri galair ata ferr slainti: seola mna for mac, griss bronn-galair glanas broinn, griss timgaire olc dia maith.

[Note 224: seol N sceola(!) for fermac BM galar timargur olc do
maith N timgaire B di maith B do maith M]

225. Tri failti coirmthige: immed [et] duthracht [et] elatho.

[Note 225: ealathaoi N ealado do neoch carthar BM]

226. Tri fognama ata messam dogni duine: fognam do drochmnai [et] do drochthigerna [et] do drochgobainn.

[Note 226: mesa N drochflaith B drochf_er_ann N]

227. Tri ata ferr i tig: daim, fir, bela.

[Note 227: dam N]

228. Tri ata messum i tig: m_ai_c, mna, meile.

[Note 228: measum bite a taig mic BM]

229. Tri comartha tirdachta .i. immargal [et] immarbag [et] meraichne.

[Note 229: im_ur_cal im_ur_baid imraithne N imabad LBM]

230. Cenele amus: salanaig buale [et] buicc brodnai [et] eoin erchoille [et] seiche corad.

[Note 230: cenela BM buale _om._ BM earcaille M coradh M]

231. Cenele daileman: mormenmnach meda, bolcsronach brocoiti, itfa eserni, cuacroessach, donndabach, bolcra paitte, abartach escrai, geir grainne, cranndretel cuirn.

[Note 231: cenela BM metha H bolgsronach BM itfa eserne BM
cuachroeasach BM cuachrochesach H baite BM haiti H abarthach easgraidh
M gearr grandai B grenn graindi H crand rebartach H treiteal cuirnd M
cuirnn L]

219. The pottages of guarantorship: wer-geld or a debtor's ... or non-possession (?)[107]

[107] Obscure and probably corrupt. Cp. Sec. 139.

220. Three things hard to guarantee and to become a hostage and to make a contract for: to go security for constructing the fort of a king, an oratory, and a caldron. For it is hard for a man of a family to be given with (?) his fellow.[108]

[108] I cannot make out the meaning of _doberim fri_.

221. Three things that are undignified for everyone: driving one's horse before one's lord so as to soil his dress, going to speak to him without being summoned, staring in his face as he is eating his food.

222. Three lawful handbreadths: a handbreadth between shoes and hose, a handbreadth between ear and hair, a handbreadth between the fringe of the tunic and the knee.

223. What is worst in a household? Sons of a bawd, frequent feasts, numerous alliances in marriages, abundance of mead and wine. They waste you and do not profit.

224. Three illnesses that are better than health: the lying-in of a woman with a male child, the fever of an abdominal disease that clears the bowels, a feverish passion to check evil by its good (?).

225. Three welcomes of an ale-house: plenty and kindliness and art.

226. Three services the worst that a man can serve: serving a bad woman, a bad lord, and a bad smith.[109]

[109] 'bad land,' N.

227. Three things that are best in a house: oxen,[110] men, axes.

[110] 'an ox,' N.

228. Three that are worst in a house: boys, women, lewdness.[111]

[111] 'Or, perhaps, as in Sec. 223, 'sons of a lewd woman,' only in that case we have no triad.

229. Three signs of boorishness: strife, and contention, and mistaking a person for another (?)[112]

[112] Or, perhaps, 'slight or superficial knowledge.'

230. Various kinds of mercenaries: ....[113]

231. Various kinds of dispensers: ....[113]

[113] As I could only offer unsatisfactory guess-work as a translation of these passages, I omit them altogether.

232. Tri as anso bis do accallaim .i. ri imma gabail [et] Gall ina luirig [et] athech do muin commairchi.

[Note 232: annsom (andso H) do agallaim bis BHM rig M cumairce N a
chumairci H]

233. Tri as mo menma bis .i. scoloc iar legad a [.s]alm [et] gilla iar lecud a erraid uad [et] ingen iar ndenam mna di.

[Note 233: trede BMHN scol_aigi_ N scolaidi H iar lecun a eri uada H
iar leccad a arad uad N]

234. Cetharda forna bi cosc no riagail .i. gilla sacairt [et] cu muilleorach [et] mac bantrebthaige [et] gamain gamnaige.

[Note 234: fornach bi BM na BM gamnaidhe M]

235. Tri huais doib: dul ar rig no uasal nemid, ar is lethiu enech rig aidbriud; dul fri cath, ar ni tualaing nech glinni fri cath acht rig lasmbiat secht tuatha foa mam; dul fri cimmidecht acht nech lasa mbi mug doer. Secht n-aurgarta doib: dul ar deoraid, ar druth [et] ar dasachtach, ar diaraig, ar angar, ar econn, ar essconn. Imnedach da_no_ cach rath, ar is ecen di dianapud im cach ngell dob_eir_, aill riam, aill iarum.

[Note 235: n_em_i N it lethai L lethe N aidbriu N tulaing N glinde N
acht nech laisimbiad N fo mam_m_i N cimbidheacht acht nech lasambiad
mogh daor dil_es_ N dasachtaig N imnedach do_no_ cech raith N imni
da_no_ L dianapad N dobeir N]

236. Tri hamra Glinne Dallain i tir Eogain: torcc Dromma Leithe, is ass rochin [et] is do-side for[.f]eimid Finn ni, co torchair im Maig Lii la aithech bui hic tirad, ut dixit Finn:

Ni mad biadsam ar cono. ni mad riadsam ar n-echa
tan is aithechan atha. romarb torcc Dromma Letha.

Mil Leittreach Dallain, cenn duine fair, denam builc gobann olchena .i. ech usci roboi isind loch i toeb na cille, is he dochuaid ar ingin in t[.s]acairt co ndergene in mil frie. Dam Dili in tres ingnad. Asind loch cetna tainic a athair co ndechaid for boin do buaib in brugad roboi i fail na cille, co ndeirgenai in dam de.

[Note 236: as as rocin N forfeimdi N Muig Hi N Muig Hith H. 1.15 ma
biasam N ma riadsim ar n-eacha N ricsam andechi L L_et_hae N Leithi L ase
docoid N fria N isin N co nderrna an dam fria N]

232. Three that are most difficult to talk to: a king about his booty, a viking in his hauberk, a boor who is under patronage.

233. Three whose spirits are highest: a young scholar after having read his psalms, a youngster who has put on man's attire,[114] a maiden who has been made a woman.

[114] Literally, 'who has doffed his (boy's) clothes.'

234. Four on whom there is neither restraint nor rule: the servant of a priest, a miller's hound, a widow's son, and a stripper's calf.

235. Three hard things[115]: to go security on behalf of a king or highly privileged person, for a king's honour is wider than any claim; to go security for battle, for no one is capable of any security for a battle save a king under whose yoke are seven tribes; to go security for captivity, except one who owns a serf.

Seven prohibitions: to go security for an outlaw, for a jester and for a madman, for a person without bonds, for an unfilial person, for an imbecile, for one excommunicated. Troublesome moreover is every security, for it is necessary for it to give sudden notice as regards every pledge which he gives, now beforehand, now afterwards.

[115] I do not understand the force of _doib_, 'to them,' either here or below after _secht n-aurgarta_.

236. Three wonders of Glenn Dallan[116] in Tirowen: the boar of Druim Leithe. It was born there, and Finn was unable to do aught against it, until it fell in Mag Li[117] by a peasant who was kiln-drying. Whence Finn said:

[116] Now Glencar, six miles to the north of the town of Sligo.

[117] The territory of the Tir Li, west of the river Bann.

"Not well have we fed our hounds,
Not well have we driven our horses,
Since a little boor from a kiln
Has killed the boar of Druim Leithe."

The Beast of Lettir Dallan. It has a human head and otherwise the shape of a smith's bellows. The water-horse which lived in the lake by the side of the church cohabited with the daughter of the priest and begot the beast upon her.

The Ox of Dil[118] is the third wonder. Its father came out of the same lake, and went upon one of the cows of the landholder who lived near the church, and begot the ox upon her.

[118] The oxen of Dil, daughter of Mil or Legmannair, are mentioned in the Dindsenchas, No. 44 and 111 (Rev. Celt. xv.).

237. Tri hamra Connacht: lige nEothaili 'na thracht. Comard he frisin tracht. Intan atraig in muir, comard he fria lan. Dirna (.i. cloch) in Dagdai, cia fochertar im-muir, cia berthair hi tech fo glass, dodeime a tiprait oca mbi. In da chorr i n-Inis Cathaig, nocha legat corra aili leo inna n-insi [et] teit in banchorr isin fairrgi siar do duth, co toet cona heisinib essi [et] nocon fagbat curaig eolus cia airm in doithi.

[Note 237: comaird i frisin lan N focerda a muir no cia bert_ar_ N
_no_ do deime _no_ dogeibt_er_ a tibr_aid_ oca mbid N do _no_ todeime L
corr N chuirr L Ceitig N leigitt N do doich N heisenaib eisib [et]
nochan fagbuid N eolus _om._ L hairm in doich N]

238. Tri luchra ata mesa: luchra tuinde, luchra mna boithe, luchra con foleimnige.

[Note 238: _om._ LHBM luchra duine H^1 foleimnigh N]

239. Cisne tri ana soitcedach? Ni handsa son. Immarchor erlam, cuirm cen arus, cummairce for set.

[Note 239: a tri N]

240. Tri maic beres genas do gais: gal, gart, gaire.

241. Tri airfite dala: druth, fuirsire, oirce.

[Note 241: druith H^1]

242. Tri ata ferr do [.f]laith: fir, sith, slog.

[Note 242: adda H^1]

243. Tri ata mesa do [.f]laith: len, brath, miairle.

[Note 243: adda H^1 ada N]

244. Ceithre bais breithe: a breith i ngo, a breith cen dilse, a breith cen ailig, a breith cen forus.

[Note 244: disle H^1 disliu N]

245. Tri adcoillet gais: anfis, doas, dichuimne.

[Note 245: a tri N ainbh[.f]es H^1 duas H^1]

246. Tri muime ordain: delb chain, cuimne maith, creisine.

[Note 246: ordan H^1 chaoin H^1]

247. Tri muime menman: sotla, suirge, mesce.

[Note 247: socla .i. sochlu H^1]

248. Cetheora miscne flatha: .i. fer baeth utmall, fer doer dimain. fer guach esindraic, fer labor disceoil; ar ni tabair labrai acht do chethrur: .i. fer cerda fri hair [et] molad, fer coimgni cuimnech fri haisneis [et] scelugud, brethem fri bretha, sencha fri senchas.

249. Tri dorcha in betha: aithne, rathaiges, altrom.

237. Three wonders of Connaught: the grave of Eothaile[119] on its strand. It is as high as the strand. When the sea rises, it is as high as the tide.

The stone of the Dagda. Though it be thrown into the sea, though it be put into a house under lock, ... out of the well at which it is.

The two herons in Scattery island. They let no other herons to them into the island, and the she-heron goes on the ocean westwards to hatch and returns thence with her young ones. And coracles have not discovered the place of hatching.

[119] _Cf._ Sec. 197.

238. Three worst smiles: the smile of a wave, the smile of a lewd woman, the grin of a dog ready to leap.[120]

[120] _Cf._ Sec. 91.

239. What are the three wealths of fortunate people? Not hard to tell. A ready conveyance(?), ale without a habitation(?), a safeguard upon the road.

240. Three sons whom chastity bears to wisdom: valour, generosity, laughter (filial piety?).

241. Three entertainers of a gathering: a jester, a juggler, a lap-dog.

242. Three things that are best for a chief: justice, peace, an army.

243. Three things that are worst for a chief: sloth, treachery, evil counsel.

244. The four deaths of judgment: to give it in falsehood, to give it without forfeiture, to give it without precedent, to give it without knowledge.

245. Three things that ruin wisdom: ignorance, inaccurate knowledge, forgetfulness.

246. Three nurses of dignity: a fine figure, a good memory, piety.

247. Three nurses of high spirits: pride, wooing, drunkenness.

248. Four hatreds of a chief: a silly flighty man, a slavish useless man, a lying dishonourable man, a talkative man who has no story to tell.[121] For a chief does not grant speech save to four: a poet for satire and praise, a chronicler of good memory for narration and story-telling, a judge for giving judgments, an historian for ancient lore.[122]

[121] _i.e._, who has nothing worth hearing to say.

[122] See a similar passage in Ancient Laws i., p. 18, and in the tale called, 'The Conversion of Loegaire to the Faith' (Rev. Celt. iv., p. 165).

249. Three dark[123] things of the world: giving a thing into keeping, guaranteeing, fostering.

[123] _i.e._, uncertain what will come of them.

250. Tri urgarta bid: a chaithem cen altugud, a chaithem d'eis oiged, a chaithem rena thrath coir.

[Note 250: haurgartho N^1 hurgairt HM hurghairrthe H^2 d'aithli
aidead H coir om. NH^2 iarna coir M]

251. Cetheora aipgitre gaise: ainmne, sonmathe, sobraid[e], sothnges; ar is gaeth cach ainmnetach [et] sai cach somnath, fairsing cach sobraid, sochoisc cach sothengtha.

[Note 251: somna sobraicch H^2 sobes N soingthes H^2 somnoigh H^2
farsigh [_leg._ farsing] .i. sgaoiltech H^2]

252. Cetheora aipgitre baise: baithe, condailbe, imresan, doingthe.

253. Teora sirechta flatha: cuirmthech cen aisneis, buiden cen erdonail, dirim cen chona.

[Note 253: airdanail N erdanail N^1]

254. Tri indchoisc ordain do duine: .i. sodelb, saire, sulbaire.

[Note 254: a tri ina coisceadh ordan M suirbire H]

255. Tri guala dona fess fudomain: guala flatha, guala ecalse, guala nemid filed.

[Note 255: dana H fodhomain M]

256. Tri feich nach dlegar faill: feich thire, duilgine achaid, argius aiste.

[Note 256: nat eple faill M aichid M argui_us_ H]

250. Three prohibitions of food: to eat it without giving thanks, to eat it before its proper time, to eat it after a guest.

251. Four elements[124] of wisdom: patience, docility, sobriety, well-spokenness; for every patient person is wise, and every docile person is a sage, every sober person is generous, every well-spoken person is tractable.

252. Four elements[124] of folly: silliness, bias, wrangling, foulmouthedness.

[124] Literally, 'alphabets.'

253. Three tabus of a chief: an ale-house without story-telling, a troop without a herald, a great company without wolfhounds.[125]

[125] This triad has been wrongly read (fais_cre_ instead of fais_n_e_is_) and rendered by O'Grady in his Catalogue of Ir. mss. in the British Museum, p. 91.

254. Three indications of dignity in a person: a fine figure, a free bearing, eloquence.

255. Three coffers whose depth is not known: the coffer of a chieftain, of the Church,[126] of a privileged poet.

[126] "Die Kirche hat einen guten Magen," Goethe, Faust.

256. Three debts which must not be neglected:[127] debts of land, payment of a field, instruction (?) of poetry.

[127] 'Which do not die by neglect,' M.

GLOSSES AND NOTES

1. Gloss in H. 1. 15: oir gurab innte do bhi suidhe priomhaigh Eirenn.

2. .i. ordaighecht no ord uaisle no airechas .i. arduaislighecht tre adhluicedh na riogh inte [et] na naoimh.

4. .i. serc Eirenn o annsacht chaich uirre tre Muire na nGaodhal .i. Brighid.

5. .i. naomthacht tre naomaibh, no foghluim sruth .i. saoi-raith.

7. .i. feronn buird riogh Eirenn.

11. .i. tre caich innte no tre n-iomad taisi innte.

13. .i. eircille ar gradhuibh dar ndoigh fa tuarasdul giolla foic[h]le, no tuarastail.

14. .i. liodain do gnath.

15. .i. ealadhna mor ann [et] senchaoi [.f]esa na sen.

16. .i. a n-iomat breithemhuin, no cuirt, no sgol feinechuis ann.

17. .i. o iomad scol innte.

18. .i. aoibnes no conach no er tir fo sliocht Eireann.

19. .i. ag guidhe ar gach duine.

20. .i. tre leigen Temhrach. This refers to the curse pronounced by Ruadan, the founder of Lorrha, against King Diarmait and Tara.

22. .i. cairedh inte. St. Feichin, the founder of Fore, was famous for the austerity of his devotion. 'He used to set his wretched rib against the hard cell without raiment,' says Cuimmine in his poem on the Saints of Ireland (_Zeitschr._, I., p. 63).

24. .i. diamharracht no aon ar anacht no gloine.

25. .i. luathghaire a mBreifne.

26. .i. gradh De.

28. .i. ait comhnuidhe.

30. .i. cill as mesa do cheallaibh no beim aithesach no ceall dair.

31. .i. genmnacht.

32. .i. leime tara do tugsat.

33. .i. bailte bodaich.

34. tri clothra .i. coimhthineoil cluacha no uirdherca.

36. Dun Sobairchi and Dun Cermna are, according to tradition, the oldest stone forts in Ireland, having been built by Sobairche and Cermna, who divided Ireland between them, about 1500 B.C., the former placing his dun in the extreme north, the latter in the extreme south on the Old Head of Kinsale.

37. Sliab Cua (or, by eclipse after the neuter _sliab_, Gua), 'the hollow mountain,' or 'mountain of hollows' (_cua_ = Lat. _cavus_), the native name for the Knockmealdown mountains on the borders of Tipperary and Waterford.

42. Dercc Ferna was demolished by the Norse in 930. Hennessy, in a note on the entry in the AU., says that it is supposed to be the cave of Dunmore, not far from the city of Kilkenny, but adds "apparently on insufficient evidence."

44. i. ionadha dona no nemhchonaig. Here we get the only gloss in L. Bangor is said to be unlucky, "because of its having been destroyed so often." It was frequently plundered by the Norse during the ninth century. As to the kingship of Mugdorn Maigen (now Cremorne barony, Co. Monaghan), it certainly was an ill-fated dynasty. Of the sixteen kings of this tribe who are mentioned in the Annals of Ulster, ten were put to death, of whom one (Suibne) was slain by his own brothers, while two brothers, Gilla Ciarain and Maelmuaid, were slain within the same year (1020), the latter after having been king for but one day.

45. Beyond the fact that the three tribes here mentioned belonged to the _aithech-thuatha_ or rent-paying tribes, I know nothing to throw light on the triad.

51. In Harl. 5280, p. 75a, marg. inf., Druimm nDrobeoil is said to derive its name from a horse called Drobel. (Ech Dedad. i. Drobel a ainm diata Druim nDrob_eoil_.)

56. Here H. has the absurd etymological gloss futhairbhe .i. fothirbhe .i. tir mhaith na mbeo, no ferann maith.

60. Leim Congcoluinn i gcondae in Chlair.

64. .i. miodhchonach duine. Suighe cumhang .i. deireoil.

65. iarmar cleithe .i. salchar na cleithe d'fagbhail a bferann. drithlennach .i. ferthain anuas no linn thrid.

66. The first two items occur also in the list of proverbial sayings addressed by the Wizard Doctor to Mac Conglinne (_Aisl. Maic C._, p. 73), with the significant variation that 'a veteran in the abbotship' has become 'a veteran in the bishop's chair,' showing that the 'Vision of Mac Conglinne' was composed at a time when the diocese had superseded the old monastic constitution. As to the 'drop upon the altar,' though O'Neachtain's gloss explains it as 'rain' (bainne .i. fer[th]uinn anuas), the Rev. Mr. O'Sullivan has furnished me with a much more likely explanation. He thinks it refers to the spilling of the consecrated wine from the chalice, which is considered a most unfortunate accident. No one but a priest is allowed to touch or remove it.

71. .i. tri donais mhic bodaigh. re oigthigerna .i. re duine uasal. for thascar righ .i. ceimionnadh mora do ghlacadh air (!) .i. do thabhairt uaidhe do striopach (!) .i. do thocaidhibh no ar son gatuigechtadh.

72. targha .i. tineol no cruinnugadh .i. malairt [.f]erainn mhaith ar dhrochferonn.

74. haonaighe nesairte .i. eisert .i. bochtain lag. gan airdhe .i. gan comhartha no arra aige le gcennocha ni.

75. caol srithide a foilleirb .i. an sreab bainne da chru .i. soidech. .i. fochan an gheamhair. for tuinn .i. faoi an cennar chroichin .i. ag denamh druithnechuis.

76. dorn daimh .i. cos ag treabhath.

77. mes .i. o laimh. tomharas .i. o [.s]uil. cubhus .i. ona coimhesa .i. coimhfiosa.

79. eadruidh .i. adhaltraigh. cluithe .i. clesuighes. ceilighe .i. cuairt.

80. maoin .i. tabhartus d'faghail uaide.

81. dognas .i. nemhghnas. diomaoinche .i. dith maoine .i. do chuid do bhuain dhiod.

83. troich .i. do gerr[.s]aoghul. Cp. _Aisl. Maic Conglinne_, p. 71, 20.

84. aine la daor .i. saidhbrios ag daor neimhnidh .i. aithioch no fer gan senchus. doidheilbh .i. duine gran[n]amh.

85. bo bennach gan eas .i. sreibh no bainne. tothacht .i. gan tabhacht faoithe .i. tochus.

86. aibhle .i. splangca lasta gradha. aladh .i. hesa maith.

87. .i. tri ni curthar a ttaisge ara ccurtar caithemh. mna .i. taisge.

88. teidhe (_sic_) .i. aonaigh.

89. Seghaine .i. caomha no seimhe. fathrann .i. rann fathach. adhbhann tri ciuil do [.s]einimh duine eile. berradh .i. eolus berr[th]a no do bherrath go des. These three accomplishments were united in the person of Mac Dichoeme, the barber of King Eochaid with horse's ears (_Otia Merseiana_, III., p. 47), and in Donnbo (_Three Fragments_, p. 34, and Rev. Celt. 24, p. 44).

90. cluiche tenn .i. sugradh ten[n]. abhacht go n-aithis .i. sugradh le masla do thabairt.

91. .i. iar n-ealo ona fer fein. foileimnighe .i. chum do gerrtha .i. iar leigion sealga uaithe.

92. foghladha .i. gadaighe.

93. .i. tri haonarain is ferr iona iomad. .i. began do chaint mhaith. .i. ag ol fleadha no sec[h]na imresain.

94 brona .i. hamghaire. .i. deglaoch nach saiseocha cach. .i. ga nderna ina ainim munath sasaigh[th]e e.

95. .i. faoi ndentar magaid. lonn .i. fergach. eataigh .i. eudmhar. dibhach .i. doichleach.

99. gretha .i. garrtha. .i. gair ag fodhail a mbidh. grith suidhe .i. chuman[n] bhidh. .i. ag eirghe on mbiadh.

101. .i. postaidhe fir boigechta .i. boiggniomh. imgellad .i. sior-c[h]ur geallta. iomarbhaigh .i. comortas. imresain .i. conspoidedha.

103. luirge .i. a bhata no a mhna (lorg .i. ben, abhall, laoch, leo, arg).

104. da maoidhemh air fein gan nech da chur cuige.

105. os focherd a congan .i. fiadh chuires de a benna.

106. sceinbh .i. ionadha baoghlacha dochum sceinm do chur i neach no ionada sccunamhla.

107. allabair .i. mac-alla no iollabhar is gnath a bhfod o neach.

109. labra .i. iomad cainte. aimhiodhna .i. nemhgloine.

110. toa .i. bailbhe .i. eistecht. eiscis .i. escuidhecht. iodhna .i. glaine.

112. moladh iar luag .i. cennach tabhairt ar moladh.

113. .i. imthecht gion nach bh[.f]edann tu imthecht. .i. ni do thabhairt uaid na mbia agat. .i. gen go bfedann tu a dhenamh.

114. .i. senchaillioch triudhach casachtach ar aondhacht ann. .i. amhail cullach le buille ar choin, ar chat, ar mhada. .i. gach granna siobharrtha 'na ghiolla.

116. .i. a n-onoruighther no uaislighther. .i. pluice ag sineadh a beoil. righe a bhronn .i. a bhuilg.

117. cirmaire .i. 'fer denta na gcior. dichetal for otrach .i. adhbhal-cantainn le rosg no orrtha. go rothochra .i. go docuiredh.

118. dlughughadh .i. cnesughadh. freiscre .i. frisearadh gan sergadh. luth tar luaitbrenn .i. for a tighibh no templuibh .i. rennaigheacht do cuiredh sa luaith. beim fo chumas .i. buille a coimhmheiseamnuighe fein.

119. dighalra .i. leighios iomlan na ngalar. diainmhe .i. gan ainiomh d' fagail iar genedhuibh. .i. coimh[.f]ecsin no fioradharc.

120. .i. bior dobheir sasadh as gach ni rachad fair.

121. caer comraic .i. raed cruinn go ccomhtharrachtain d'iomat dath ann. fleath for faobhar .i. faobhar for faobhar.

122. cruitire .i. clairseoir.

125. comar .i. docum treabtha no coimhghelsine.

131. truime .i. tromdhacht. toice .i. saidhbhres. talchaire .i. toil charthanach ag gach duine do.

132. .i. tri neithe aisneisi an doconaigh.

133. tlas [.i.] doni an trosgadh an duine tlait[h].

135. .i. cnapain misenamhla no nemhconaigh.

139. tri brothc[h]ain ratha .i. tri neithe breithemhnuighther no caoinbherthar ar anti theid a raithiges no a n-urrughas. roitioc .i. iocaidh na fiacha. rosiacht .i. eigion do nech do leanamhuin. rotho_cht_ .i. [et] mionnughadh 'sa gcuis.

140. tugha go bh[.f]oidibh .i. foide os toighe ar tech. imme go bfoighnagare (sic) .i. fal [et] fioriongaire maille ris. .i. go ngoradh ger cloch a ndiaigh gortath na hatha.

141. tri failte go n-iarnduibhe. fer gaide .i. an tan bhios da chrochadh. .i. doni faisneis.

142. tulfeaith (_sic_) .i. druis .i. toil feithe. dulsaine .i. cainedh no cainseoireacht.

143. gris .i. imdhergadh. rus .i. roifios. ruccaidh .i. ancroidhe.

145. nua corma .i. braitlis.

146. moaighthe .i. medaighthe sochair do neoch.

147. teine a lucc (!) .i. [a] tteallach. nae la fer calaigh (!) .i. naomhog, coite, bad, long, do dhuine le purt.

148. aithgionta .i. neithe dobheir aithghin tarais no aithgini uatha. nes gabhann .i. mala cre.

149. .i. neithe ann a ttabhair neach iomarcaith naith [et] nach iadhann disle orrtha o nech dar ben iad. iarraid mic .i. luach oileamhna.

151. aurnadhma .i. posta.

153. .i. tri cuisi nach basaighenn d'faill do dhenamh umpa iad eibiulait .i. basaighenn. dochraidhe .i. duine diochairdigh.

155. slabhra .i. imdhergtha .i. pecughadh le mnai neich gan coibhche do dhiol ionnta, nach gcennuighther le airneis no eiric do diol ionnta. .i. coimheigniughadh do righ.

156. turbhadh .i. cairde d'iarraigh da ccur amach .i. da ttabhairt amach. .i. da athair tar eis altroma. .i. tar eis anbhaill do dhenamh a thabhairt da sealbhaightheoir. .i. braighe do tabhairt as laimh le comhall siotha.

157. .i. taisce do fuigfidhe ag egciallaidh. .i. do fuigfidhe ag duine mor. aithne formeda .i. do fuigfidhe gan aithne do thabhairt go cinnte i ccumhdach acht go heccinte air.

158. dorenathar bi .i. nech eirnighther no hiocthar le beo do thabhairt da gcenn. fidnemed .i. coill ar a bhfuil neimh[.s]enchus no ata da gcumhdach la huasal.

159. Tri na dotoing na fortongar. angar .i. mac ionghar nach bhfoghann da senoir do reir a dhualgais.

160. athchumas .i. do ghlacadh orra na athchomhasan (no do thabhairt daibh) (.i. ar a ceile).

161. .i. nach teighther faoi a bhfuigheall .i. a mbreitheamnuis. .i. cia do bheithdaois glic. fer adgair (.i. cu rios fios ort) agas adghairther (.i. an fer ar a gcuirther fios) agas ro crenair ria breith (.i. agas cennuighther mar breithemh le brib le haghaidh breithe).

162. aitide .i. aonta. ainbhfaitches.

163. Tri fo imrime na dleagaid (.i. imthechta amhuil ar marcuigheght) dire (.i. dire enecluise). toxal .i. toccbhail agus ag denamh athghabala.

164. duilchinn.

165. Tri naoill .i. luighe no mionna nach coir mhionnughadh 'na n-aghaidh. fir mairb .i. do bheith le bas go cinnte. ditire .i. do threig a thir .i. do chur curam an t[.s]aoighil de.

166. .i. ceimionna mhilleas an tuaith le breig.

167. renus a dheis .i. a dhuthaigh no a feronn .i. bodach e [et] ni bh[.f]uil ced sencuis air.

168. For _comberat_ H^1 has _conrannat_. dainntech .i. gremannach no buailtech.

170. feichemhnas .i. lucht tagartha no oificc na bh[.f]eithemhan. toisc. leimim. eicsi .i. muna foghluma.

171. aradgeallad. breithemhuin .i. fuasglais neach.

172. urfogradh .i. air ar coir miothaithnemh. ael coire .i. ag togbhail feola coiri. fiodhbhaigh gan tseinm .i. meileg gan semann no thairn[g]e da chengal. ord ghabhan[n] gan dinesc gan tairn[g]e annsa bpoll .i. dion ina eis.

173. fotha utmhall gan eolus .i. bunadhas gan forus acht haimhnech, utmhall .i. roluath.

174. soadh fri fiadnaib .i. iompodh a n-aghaidh na bhfiadhan do haondaighe.

175. breithemh gan [.f]uasna .i. techt 'na aghaidh. eidirchert gan eaccnach .i. breithemhnas gan idhiomradh 'na dhiaigh. comha gan diubhairt .i. gan bhreith do bhreith le caomhmha no gan leatrom aonroinn.

176. Tri tonna gan gaoise .i. do chuires anfa ar ghaois .i. gliocas.

177. fostadh .i. foisdinecht. gairde .i. athchumairecht.

179. .i. cuisi far coir mioscuis don urlabhra. dluithe .i. ar muin a cheile.

180. fostadh .i. na tengan 'na sost. airnbertais .i. ag denamh [et] ag ordughadh gach neithe mar as du.

182. maise .i. bregha. clithighe .i. bheith clithar.

183. tri na dleaghaidh dire .i. truaighe no comairce. .i. ealaighes o flaith. agas file .i. o eglais (!).

184. .i. tri hanlain[n] chrosta don othar. each .i. feoil eich. muir .i. mil mhoir .i. cointinn ar coinntinn.

186. Instead of _forsnaidm_, H. 1. 15 has forran .i. firbrised.

187. sobhraidhe .i. brigh maith no laidir.

188. ir .i. fer[g].

189. sam (_sic_) .i. anmhuin go socair. tua .i. socht no eistecht. imdhergadh .i. griosadh no naire.

190. mort[h]a .i. morthacht. maise .i. maisech lais fein. maoine .i. a mhes gurab maoineach e.

191. forindet .i. doni faisneis ar in umhal. dinmhe .i. dith inmbe.

192. faicse (sic) .i. meabair maith. fathaidhe .i. bheith foghluma faith-chialluigh.

195. fuasnadh .i. imresan.

196. cach ndagferas .i. guch feidhm no gniomh iomlan no feramhuil.

197. serbha .i. goid.

198. .i. docuires chum siubhail iad fainealca. ingreim .i. do [.s]lad no da gcrechadh. dola .i. da ngremughadh. domata .i. boichtecht.

200. fine .i. iomad fine no moirmhes an fine.

202. fornaidm ruirioch .i. riogha eile congbhail faoi. roimhse .i. roimhes no torad mor ina [.f]laith.

203. tua .i. bailbhe. dochta .i. eistecht (!).

204. tairisamh .i. coimhniughadh alfaire neich.

205. .i. i bh[.f]iadhnuise na gcomharcadh. .i. daoine gan cheill .i. daoine ag imthecht le gaoith.

207. eitche .i. grainche.

208. soingthes .i. urlabhradh mhaith. connamhna .i. coma degmhana no de[g]mianadh.

209. luinne .i. fergaighe. cetludche .i. cedluath ghaire. tairismidhe .i. iomarcraidh griaidh da chur a gceill .i. tairismidhe.

210. sognas .i. goma maith le a ghnathugadh. soicheall .i. goma soichellach no luathghairech.

211. .i. tri 'ga mbionn clu maith. trebaire .i. gliocas. rathmaire .i. rath mor do techt air no bhfas fair.

212. dochlatad .i. miochluid. laxa .i. faillidhe. prapcaillte .i. a bheith cruaidh [et] luath .i. bheith caillte anna chuid go luath.

213. ecnach .i. ithiomradh. doingthes .i. droichtengadh.

214. deirmiten .i. athairmhidin. easpata .i. diomhaoines.

216. .i. tri laithe as sona do mhnaibh posta. mna go fiora .i. mna do thabhairt chum posta. .i. biadh na mna beo 'na ndiaidh.

217. fri gach leas .i. gach neithe bhus leas do.

218. ratha .i. urradha. fostadh .i. comhnuidhe. feile .i. naire. lomradh .i. ag lomairt ag diol fiachadh. fostodha a n-arus .i. comhnuidhe a bpriosun lomradh ice .i. da lomairt fein ag diol fiachadh no fulang e fein do lomradh do reir dlighe .i. leigen lomartha an dlighe dar cenn feichemhan.

219. eiric no toghniomh feichemhan (.i. an t-ioc do dhenamh darcenn a bhiodhbha) no dithecht.

220. .i. tri neithe as anfae (leg. ansa) no as doiligh dhaibh. .i. dol a n-urrudhas dun righ do dhenamh, decair sin. coire .i. coire longan. .i. do thabhairt an urrudhas re cechtar doibh sin aroile do dhenamh.

221. tri as ainer[g]na (.i. neimhealadhanta) do neach. .i. no go salaighenn a eudach do scarduibh.

222. ochradh .i. alt. berradh .i. mullach a chinn.

223. mic .i. iomad mac. mna .i. iomad ban. meile .i. amadan. cleamhna ile imchiana .i. iomad clemhnas a gcein. notcrionad (.i. dibrid) agus ni thormaighid (.i. ni mhedaighid a tighes).

224. seol mna for mac .i. luighe seola. gris bronn .i. tesuighecht. galar tiomargar olc .i. togbhus an t-olc [et] [.f]agbhus an mhaith 'na hait fein.

225. .i. gar coir failte rompa, no dobheir an [.f]ailte a ttigh fleadha im duthracht [et] ealatha .i. ealadha do thaisbeana[dh].

227. daimh. bealai .i. tuadh, biail.

229. tiordhachta .i. tuathamhlacht no bodamhlacht. iomargal .i. ime ro mheraighe focal. iomarbhaidh .i. comartus gniomh. meraigecht .i. mire.

230-231. omitted in H. 2. 15.

232. ri ima gabhail .i. im geall no chreich. aithech do mhuin coimeirce .i. bodach ar a mbeith dho ar coimeirce, no tenn ar chul aige.

233. .i. scolaire iar gcriochnughadh a leighen .i. iar leagha no egluisech iar ndenamh ornaidhe. iar leaccad a araidhechta uadh .i. iar ccriochnughadh a term a no aimsire.

235. tri huais doibh .i. gar doilge doibh. .i. a n-urrdhas ar righ, ar esbog do bhrigh a leithe eneaclann an righ, no inte ata na cronughadh ann. dul fri cath .i. dul a n-urrughas le cur catha. fri cimidh .i. dul a n-urrughas le brughaidh no le siothcain. .i. secht neithe crosta donte rachadh a n-urrughas orra. dol ar dheoruighe .i. dol a n-urrughas. ar dhiaraigh .i. gan arus no coimhnaidhe aige. ar druith .i. duine gan ceill, ar dhiaraigh .i. nach feidir arach air. ar angar .i. mac iongar. ar esccong (!) .i. senoir iar ndul a cheille uaidh. imnedhach dona gacha rath (im[.s]niomhach go firinnech gach urrughas diobh sin), .i. fulang dianbhas no dianollmhughadh no urfogra fa gach gealla dobheir aill ria n-aill iaromh .i. mionna a n-aghaidh mionn an [.f]ir oile .i. nach decha se a n-urrudhas no le diola.

236. ag tioradh .i. ag goradh arbha.

238. luchra .i. gaire no genamh.

239. .i. cia hiat na tri sonais dogheibh an duine sonadh? Ni handsa son .i. ni hainbh[.f]esach misi ar sin. iomarchor .i. iomchar. cuirm gan ara .i. deoch gan tech aige. .i. ar an tslighe go teghmaisech.

240. gaire .i. gaire maith.

241. .i. do ni oirfide no comhluadar i gcomhdail. druith .i. amatan. foirsire abhloir no ursoire. oircc (_sic_) .i. mesan no cu beg.

243. lean .i. amhgar. brath .i. ar comarsan.

244. a breith a ngo .i. gubreith bregach. gan disle .i. faoi omhan gan arach. gan ailic .i. gan hailche 'na timchioll .i. rosg [et] fasach.

246. duas .i. droich[.f]ios.

247. socla (_sic_) .i. sochlu. suirge .i. le mnaibh.

248. .i. ceitheora da ttugann flaith mioscais no nemhdhuil. baoth .i. leamh. uttmhall .i. roluath. fer labhar disceoil .i. labharrach cainntech gan sceol aige. fer coimhghne cuimhnech .i. go caoimhegna [et] cuimhne senchusa.

251. somna .i. so-omhnach .i. so-eglach (!). sobraicch .i. sobrioghach.

252. condailbhe .i. baghach no leathtaobhach. doingthe .i. doitenguighe.

253. tri sirrechta flatha .i. suthainghesa no neithe bhios toirmisc ar uasal. .i. fleadha gan ealadha da [.f]aisneis. .i. cuitechta gan donail piobaire 'na tosach.

INDEX LOCORUM

Ached Deo, 106.

Ae Chualann, 38.

Ardmacha _Armagh_, 1, 34, 46.

Ard mBreccain _Ardbrackan_, 23.

Ath Caille, 48.

Ath Cliath Duiblinne, 48, 50.

Ath Luain _Athlone_, 48.

Bairenn _the Burren_, 58.

Banna _the Bann_, 40.

Belach Conglais _Baltinglass_, 50.

Belach Duiblinne, 50.

Belach Luimnig, 50.

Bennchor _Bangor_, 5, 44.

Benn mBoirchi _Slieve Donard_, 38.

Benntraige _Bantry_, 45.

Berre _Beare_, 58.

Birra _Birr_, 108.

Boand _the Boyne_, 40.

Braichlesan Brigde, 57.

Breifne, 58.

Caisel _Cashel_, 54.

Cathair Chonrui, 36.

Cell Dara _Kildare_, 4, 34.

Cell Maignenn _Kilmainham_, 32.

Cell Ruaid, 30.

Cenannus _Kells_, 7.

Cluain Eidnech _Clonenagh_, 108.

Cluain Eois _Clones_, 53.

Cluain Ferta Brenainn _Clonfert_, 19.

Cluain Iraird _Clonard_, 3, 33, 53.

Cluain Maic Nois _Clonmacnois_, 2, 34, 53.

Cluain Uama _Cloyne_, 12.

Connacht, 43, 237.

Corcach _Cork_, 16.

Crecraige, 43.[TN 45]

Cruachan Aigli _Croagh Patrick_, 38.

Cruachu _Croghan_, 35, 54.

Cuailgne _Coolney_, 43, 62.

Cualu, 46.

Dairchaill, 27.

Daire Calgaig _Derry_, 32.

Derc Ferna, 42.

Druimm Fingin, 51.
In Munster, famous for its fertility. See LL. 15^a 11.

Druimm Lethan _Drumlane_, 25.

Druimm nDrobeoil, 51.

Druimm Leithe, 51, 236.

Dublinn _Dublin_, 50.

Duma mBurig, 106.

Dun Cain _Dunquin_, 60.

Dun Cermna, 36.

Dun Da Lethglas _Downpatrick_, 26.

Dun Sobairche _Dunseverick_, 36.

Ess Danainne, 55.

Ess Maige, 55.

Ess Ruaid _Assaroe_, 55.