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 The Bodleian Dinnshenchas. 479

her in the boat of bronze wherein she lay, so that she slept. And he turned her course back, so that she went round Ireland southwards, till she came to Clidna.

This was the time that the illimitable sea-burst arose and spread through the districts of the present world. Because there were at that season three great floods of Erin, to wit, Clidna's flood, and Ladra's flood, and Bale's flood. But not in the same hour did they arise. Ladra's flood was the middle one.

So the flood pressed on aloft, and divided throughout the land of Erin, till it overtook yon boat with the girl asleep in it, on the strand, and there was drowned Clidna, the shapely daughter of Genann. Hence " Tonn Clidna" (Clidna's Wave).

Also in LL. i68b i ; BB. 374 a 2; H. 27 b ; and R.

Tonn Chlidna, " the ancient name of a strand and the waves that broke over it, situated in or near the bay of Clock na Cot lite (Clonakilty), on the coast of the county of Cork" (O'Curry, Lectures, p. 306) ; " a loud surge in the bay of Glandore, much celebrated by the Irish poets" (O'Donovan, Topogr. Poems, p. Ixvi ; Keating, pp. 205, 568). For the legend see Four Masters, a.d. 1557, note h, and Magh Lena, p. 95.

luchna. Another luchna seems an alias for Echaid Echb^l (Horsemouth), as to whom see Cormac's Glossary, s.v.Jir, and LL. 160 b 37, 169 b 46.

Mace ind Oc, sometimes called in Mac Oc or Oengus Oc (in LL. 266 a), son of the Dagda and Boann, infra, No. 36. Some of the many tales about him are noticed by Rhys, Hibbert Lectures, 144 et seq.

I adra, the first man that died in Ireland, Four Masters, A.M. 2242.

Bale, formally = the Homeric BoAicis, can hardly be the Bale mac Buain of a story printed in O'Curry's Lecittres, pp. 472-74.

[11. Sliab Bladma.] — Slirt<5 WLadfiia cid diata? Ni ansa .1. Bladma 9i6 Blod m^c Con xnaic Caiss Clothmi'n^ romarb buachaill Bregmael gabann Cuirchi xnaic Snithi rig Ua Fuatta. Doluid iarum ina noedin- corro gab h[i] Ross Bladma, Ross n-Air a ainm artus. Doluidh assen isin sliab. Unde est ^Mab 'Siadrcia. Unde poeta dixit^ :

Blod mac Con maic Caiss Clothmin

romarb buach^// Bregmail bain,

gabann Cuirche moir xnaic Snithi,

rogab hi Ross Tiri inn air.

No is e Blodh xxiac 'Qxeogain is marb ann ~] is ua[d] ro hain- mniged* mons 'EAadtna.

Bladma or Blod, son of Cii, son of Cass Clothmin, killed the cowherd of Bregmael, the smith of Cuirche. son of Snithe, King of Hiii Fuatta. Then he went in his little boat till he set up at Ross Bladma — Ross n-Air, " Wood of Slaughter," was its name at first. Thence he went to the mountain. Hence is " Sliab Bladma" (Bladma's Mountain).

^ MS. clothaigmin. ^ MS. nodein, ^ MS, dr. ^ MS. liainmniag-.