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 The Bodleian Dinnshenchas. 491

alais seig fri^ seilc subaigh, robo mein ri mor-fubflz'<^.

Mossad, son of Maen, son of Flesc Find (" White Rod") found the hawk on Mag Eoin. He fed it and nourished it till it used to eat the herds of horses, and the droves of cattle, and the human beings by twos and threes. And when at last it found nothing to devour, it turned on the plain against its fosterer Mossad, even Mossad, son of Maen. Hence Mag Mossad (" Mossad's Plain") and Seig Mossad (" Mossad's Hawk").

Mossad, son of Maen, a fair faggot.

Son of Flesc Find, a good man.

Nurtured a hawk for joyous hunting :

Its desire was in great destruction.

Also in LL. i6ob 37, and Lee. 523 b. LL. adds that the place may have been named from Mossad, a gillie of Eogan Taidlech.

I cannot identify Mag Eoin ( = Fid Eoin, Lee. ) or Mag Mossad.

[25. Mag Main.] — Mag Main, cidh dia ta? Ni ansa .1. Moen Morgnimach fer berrtha no berrthoir mac Miledh, is e c^/na fer no ber[r]ad i nEirind .1. iar tascur mac Miled. Is e da«^ cetfer robif/'rad i nErind, Fobarr Foltcain. Is e da;2<9 cedluag berrtha tuccad art^j- i nErind .1. Ber[r]amain .1. ferann i cuxvacvn a berrtha. Marb da/?(? im-Muig Moen cen brec. No comad^ il-log a berrtha taithi in mag ac caillig ianhiva^ conid de sin ata Moenmag 'j Berramain.

No comad il-logh a berrthorachta do Maen do bertais Ma/c Miled Berramain do Moen. Et quod est uerius. Ba marb Moen co mine ngal ior Mag Main atcu[a]lamar : fo[fh]uair cen debtha^ tre baig il-log berrtha'^ Ber[r]amain.

Maen of the Mighty-deeds, the barber of the sons of Mil : he was the first man who shaved (others) in Erin, to wit, after the expedition of the sons of Mil. Now the first man who was shaved in Ireland was Fobarr Foltchain. This is the first bar- ber's fee that was given in Erin, to wit, Berramain, that is, a land in reward {cumdin) of his shaving (berrtha). He died, then, without a lie, in Mag Moin.

Or maybe it was recompense of his shaving that the plain. . . . . . only : whence are " Moenmag" and " Berramain".

Or maybe it was in wage for his barbering that the sons of Mil gave Berramain to Moen. And this is truer.

Moen was dead, with fineness of valours. On Mag Moen (as) we have heard.

1 MS. fris. - MS. coma ad. •' MS. deatba. ''MS. herrta..

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