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HE following story is taken from Book of Lecan 351 b, 353 a. Another copy is found in Rawl. MS. B. 512, fo. 1$a$1–fo. 2$a$2, described by Stokes in the Introduction to his edition of the "Tripartite Life of St. Patrick," where it is called "Ferchuitred Medba." Nearly all the variants of the second text have been added at bottom from photos. It differs little from the Lecan text, but contains a greater number of later forms. The language of the texts is late Middle Irish, and presents few difficulties, though there are a few forms about the precise meaning of which I am still doubtful. The chief interest of the story lies in the personal and place names, and to these I have given fairly full references in notes to the English translation.

JOSEPH O'NEILL