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 504 The Bodleian Dinushenchas.

Sampait, daughter of Bethra the lasting, When she was a-herding with her kine — Not half-blunt was the work — Killed Crechmael, the fair landowner.

Also in LL. 167b 16; BB. 393 a 41 ; H. 52 a; Lee. 497 a ; R. 115 b i. Crechmael is not identified.

Endae Cennsalach is mentioned in the Book of Armagh, fo. 18 a i, as having a son (Crimthann) contemporary with S. Patrick.

[41. LiA NOTHAIN.] — Lia Nothfz/;?, canas rohainmni[g]edh ? Ni ansa .1. Nothan cailleach di Chonnachtaib,^ ^ ni rue a gnuiss riam for machairi o rogeinir, ^ batir lana tn coicait hXxadan di. Doluid a siur fecht n-an[n] cuici dia hacallaim. Sentuinde a hainm, Sess Srafais^ a fer .1. Senbachlach^ ainm ele do. Unde poeta dijc/t :

Sentuinne ocus Senbachlach^

rop seiss [s]rafaiss a cnnfess,

acht nocon a drat Mac^ nDe

nocon fagbat'' a primless.

A Berri 6.z.no lotar di[a] hindsaigidh'^ dia hidnacul for machairie dia cetamuin. O'tcondarc si'' in mag mor uaidhi rofeimdes uaidi dul arculu, 3 roclann liic annsin hi talmuin, ^ benais^ a cenn fria r^nattuil i;//m^ 3 ba marb. " Bid si mo ecnairc lasa muinntir asbfHm foclannaim do raith mo anma." Unde Lia Nothain.

Nothan ingen Chonmair chain,

caillech cruaidh di C<?nnactaib,

a mis cetemuin, ngluair nglic,

is i fo[f]huair in ardlicc.

Nothain (was) an old woman of Connaught, and from the time she was born her face never fell on a field, and her thrice fifty years were complete. Her sister once went to have speech with her. Sentuinne (" Old Woman") was her name : her husband was Sess Srafais, and Senbachlach ("Old-Churl") was another name for him. Hence said the poet :

Sentuinne and Senbachlach,

A seis srofais be their withered hair !

If they adore not God's Son

They get not their chief benefit.

From Berre, then, they went to her to bring her on a plain on May-day. When she beheld the great plain, she was unable to go back from it, and she planted a stone {lia) there in the ground, and struck her head against it and .... and was dead. " It

1 MS. diaco«daib. ^ ]\.is_ j rafais. ^ jyjs. senbathlach.

•* MS. adrad meic. ^ MS. fagnat. ^ MS. hindsaigdhi.

'' MS. sin. .^ MS. bennais. '•* Here a blank space.