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 The Bodleian Dinnshenc/ias. 48 1

Nectain Findgu[a]laig o Loch^ Lein, Noisi a ainm. Roboi a muime s/</e Eittech mgen Lennglaiss ma/c Luind, de Glomraide Tracta Tuirbi d6. Dochoidh la Tethfa ^ la Noissin xxvac Ne^/j/ain Findgualaig,^ co toracht Ard n-Umai. " Bid tesbaid do cum- tuc[h] in tire-se mo dula-sa ass," ol ind ingen.

"Ni ba fir son," ar a ceile, "ar ni teiseba do slonniud don tir. AcJit bid teidmnech in daiP brethri facbaisiu fc;/-sin tir sea." " Fot-lile cuma de,"* ior seat.

Ba fir son disi, daigh atbath Etteach oc dul fodes .1. Ettech \7igefi Len[n]glaiss. Unde Tethba ^ Cenn Ettigh :

Teathb[a] toga ban co mblaidh

ingen Echa^/z'' Airimain :

hisin tir contoisi thair,

ros-car Noissi m«c N^rAtain.

atbath Eittech mgen Glaiss

a Cind Etteig'' dia hingnais.

Tethba, daughter of Eochaid Airem, was loved by a son of Nechtan the White-shouldered, from Loch Lein, whose name was N6isiu. His fostermother was Ettech, daughter of Lennglass, son of Lonn : of the Glomraide of Tracht Tuirbi was he. She went with Tethba and with N6isiu, son of Nechtan the White- shouldered, till she came to Ard Umai.

" My going hence will be a loss to the beauty of this land," saith the girl.

" That will not be true," says her husband, " for thy name shall not be wanting to the land. But the worded doom which thou hast left on this land will be deadly." " Grief for this will follow thee," say they. That came true to her, for (her husband's fostermother) Ettech died when going southwards, even Ettech, daughter of Lennglass. Whence " Tethba" and " Cenn Etig".

Tethba, choice of famous women. Daughter of Eochaid Aireman. In the land east he hearkens, N6isiu, son of Nechtan, loved her. Ettech, daughter of Glass, died. At Cenn Ettig, of her absence.

Also in BB. 409 a 12 ; H. 68 b ; Lee. 521 a ; and R. 124 b 2.

Tethba, anglicised Teffa, a territory in the present counties of Westmeath and Longford ; O'Donovan, Topogr. Punns, p. ix. O'Curry, Lectures, 286, spells Teahhtha. Loch Lein, now the lake of Killarney, see ittfra. No. 18. Tracht Tuirbi, " Tuirbe's Strand", near Malahide.

Cenn Eitigh, now Kinnitty, in King's county. O'Curry, Lectures, p. 340 ; Chron. Scot. , p. 367.

Eochaid Airem, over-king of Ireland, A.M. 5070, according to the Four Masters.

1 MS. lochoch. 2 MS. fingulai. -^ MS. daeil. " MS. ade.

^ MS. tzxhach. ^MS. etteid.