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 The Bodleian D inns henc has. 503

Marg, son of Giuscach, son of Ladan of Luachair, steward of the King of the Fomorians. Centarcluas, that is a hundred ears he had on his ... . In the time of Eochaid Muniste, King of Leinster, he (Marg) went to Ireland to levy his tribute. The Leinstermen gathered his steward's tribute for him to Belach [nEjdeinn. Now there came to him plenty of food, but no liquor, and he got into a hurry to eat his food. So he devoured the flesh in heaps, and it was dry. A sore thirst came to him, and dryness of throat attacked him, so he dashed his head against the end of the mountain, and thereby he afterwards perished. Hence Sliab Mairge, "Marg's Mountain", is called.

Marg, son of Giuscach, without a bright deed.

Son of Lodan the Red, a steward.

His throat dried up without water (?)

On his rounds (to gather) Centarcluas' tribute.

Also in LL. 160 a 12 ; BB. 370 a 16 ; H. 24 a ; Lee. 467 b ; and R. 102 a i.

Sliab Mairge is now Slieve Margy or Slieve Marague in the Queen's County. Belach iiEdinn is not identified.

According to another dinnshenchas in LL. 216 b, Marg was wife of the King of Leinster, and she died on the mountain, apparently of grief for her daughter and son-in-law, who were killed by some monster when swimming a match in the sea \oc immarbdig sndina issin muir).

[40. Crechmael.] — Crechma[e]l nomen siluae, canas rohain- mnegh[ed] ?

Ni ansa .1. Crechmhael druth Ennai Cennsi?l«4'' "S^"^ Laigen dorochair [and] o[c] gab<;z// algaisse do ingin macdachta .1. Sempait ingen Bethrai.^ Fos-fuair in druth oc imain a coShra do etrudh, fodaigh roboi i cuairt foigde in druth as gach tir mna roille. Rola laim ar ind ingin dia ft'^'eicniud. Imsai friss ind ingin CO //dorad beim dia buaraigh ina cloiccind, co ndernai sliccrig dia cind. Unde Crechmael.^

Sampait ingen Beat/^/'a buain, dia^ mboi [ic ingeilt] ic a buaib, nir'bo lethmael in lubair, romarb Crechmael caembrugaid.^

Crechmael, the buffoon of Enna Cennselach, King of Leinster, fell there when he was making an urgent request to a grown-up girl, to wit, Sempait, daughter of Bethra. The buftoon was on a begging tour from one country into another, and he found her driving her cattle (home) at twilight. He put his hand on the girl to force her. She turned against him, fetched him a blow with her cow-spancel on his skull, and made splinters of his head. Hence Crechmael.

1 MS. bethra ai. ^ ms. crech. ml. ' MS. daia.

^ MS. caembruaig. LL. has coinchubaid^ "harmonious".