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 47o The Bodleian Dinnshenchas.

[i. Temuir.] — Teamuir diu .1. Muir Tea ingine Lugdach vaaio. Itha dia luid la Geidi nOllgothar/z. Is 'na flaith sein ba bindidir la each nduine i nErind guth araille beitis teta m^/mchrota, ar met in tsi'da -] in tsamcuiri ■] in chaincomraic^ j na cairdine robai do each duine fn aroile i nErind, 3 is airi- da/zt* as [sjruithiu each mur .1. Tea-mur, [ii'^ !]•] is uaisliu each eoniarba a com- arba, fobith^ it e cetna"* soerehuir doronta i nErind .1. cuir Tea ingine Y^Vigdach maic Itha fn Gede nOlIgotha^/^. Unde Temuir. No is Tea bean Erimoin xaaic Miledh Esprtt///e roadhnrtf/z/ indte, et quod uerius est, ut poeta d/or/t :

IN chetbean luid i n-uaigh^ uair

don euan a Tur Breogrt/;? bain,

Tea Bregha, bean ind righ,

dia[na]dh ainm Tem?^z> fir Fail.

Temuir, then, to wit, the mur ' rampart' of Tea, daughter of Eugaid, son of Ith, when she went with Geide the Loud-voiced. In his reign everyone in Erin deemed another's voice sweeter than strings of lutes would be, because of the greatness of the peace and quiet and the goodwill and friendship that each man had for the other in Ireland. Therefore, then, is Tea-m1ir more venerable than every rampart, and nobler than every heritor is its heritor, because the covenants of Tea, daughter of Lugaid, son of Ith, to Gede the Loud-voiced, were the first free covenants that were given in Erin.

Or Tea, wife of Erimon, son of Mil of Spain, was buried therein. This is truer, as the poet said ;

The first woman that went into a cold grave, Of the band from the Tower of white Breogan, Was Tea of Bregia, the wife of the King, From whom is the name ' true Temuir of Fal'.

Also in LL. 159 a. The first paragraph is also in BB. 349 a, and in R. 90 a.

Temuir, gen. Temrach, now Tara, the palace of the monarchs of Ireland down to the reign of Diarmait, son of Fergus Cerrb^l, when it was deserted owing to the curses of two saints, of whom one had been compelled by the king to surrender a murderer to justice. See the story of Diarniait's death, Egerton 1782, fo. 39 a, 2 ; O' Curry, M. and C, ii, 237. As to Fal, Mil of Spain, Lugaid, Erimon, and Geide, see O'Mahony's Keating, pp. 81, 175, 183, 195, 197, 200, 204, 205, 233.

[2. Mag mBreg.] — Mag mBregh .1. Brega ainm daim Dile .1. Dil ingen Lugmannrach, dodechaidh a Tir Tairrngire, no a tir Falga, la Tuilchaine druidh Conaire Moir maic Eitirseeoil vnaic Meissi Buaehalla. I n-oenuair dvino rogenir o mmath^/r in Dil sin ~] rue in bo in loegh .1. Falga a ainm. Rocar iarum ingen ind rig in loeg sech na hindile olcena, ar rogenir a n-oenuair fria, j

^ MS. ambet ansida 7 insamcuirie 7 in caincomraith. '^ MS. airie. ^ MS. repeats. ■* MS. cen;mo. ^ MS. uaidh.