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The Bodleian D inns Iienc has.

{or \js\gnib, foraib feisin ri tiachtu adocum nErind. Conid de asbeir ind rigfili Find mac Rossa Ru[a]idh :

Moen doen obanoed nimbodnos ardri orgg rigu rohud an loech huae luirc Labraidh lathi duabsi gasait inna lamaib laignai Laigein iarsin gniset catha cota ler lerga iath nErimoin is arlebur loicheit loingsech longais flaith Goedal [ii^ 2] gabais grib ind rig iath aneoil ua Luirc Labraid.

Loegairi Lore, tra, meic [leg. mac] Ugaine Mair, is e senathair Laigen, unde Laigin 6.idtur.

No [i]s laigin ordai -] airgididi doronsat cerdada Erinn do Labraid 'Lomgsech dia tudcaid ~^ Ernoll iwac rig Danmarg -\ Indse Gall laiss. Et is e ro ort in rigraid in nDind [Rig], eonid de na laigne sin ro imirthea {or in rigraid i nDind Rig 3 {or Cohfliach Coelbreg rig Ere«;? m^c Ug(^/;^/, ~\ conid o sain alle asbd'/'ar Laig/« fnu, conidh de desin asbeir in sench^zV/ :

Labraidh l^omgsech, lor al-lin, ro ort Cohthach i nDind Righ, cossluag Laignech dar^ linn Lir dib rohainmni[g]edh Laig?';?.

Tuaimm Tenma [a] ainm ria sin cnuic in^ rog[n]iad inn orgain : is Dind Rig o sain alle 6 marbadh'^ na rigraidhe.

Da cet zx fichit c'et Gall CO \?i\gnib leathna'* leo anall : dona laignib tuctha insin de ata Laig/;z {or Laig;///^

Laigin, ' Leinster', so called from laginae, the broad green lances which the Black Foreigners brought with them over sea from the Continent. Two thousand and two hundred was their number along with Labraid Loingsech the Dumb, son of Ailill of Aine, son of Loegaire Lore, son of Ugaine the Great. From the time of that Labraid, among (all) the men of Ireland, the Leinstermen are famed for championship and (for causing) horror, and fear, and dread. For great was the virulence and the ill-luck, and the misfortune that was inflicted upon the Leinster- men, on themselves, before Labraid came to Ireland. Where- fore saith the king-poet Find, son of Ross the Red, Moejt doen, etc. [untranslatable by me].

Loegaire Lore, then, son of Ugaine the Great, he is the ancestor of the Leinstermen. Hence ' Laigin' is so called.

Or it is the golden and silvern lances which the craftsmen of Erin made for Labraid Loingsech when he came along with Ernoll,

1 MS. inserts in. ^ ^3 i^a. ^ MS. ommarbadh. * MS. repeats.