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 The Bodleian Dinnshenchas. 5 1 1

teora aidci and. Isin ceathramad aidci immoro .i. aidci luain, rocacain in drai brict suain os an ingin, conas-focaib fair co hlnbcr nGIas, ar ba %ed a cet-ainm. Condas-fuirimi ar lar [p. 396] 'na suan co ndigscrf d'iarair culaid,- 7 nirb' ail do a di/sachfl con us hcrad 'na suan i Tir Ban Sutliain, co tanic tonn tuile dia eis cor" baid in ingin. Doluid didiu Fear F'lgai/ roirae dia tig, 7 nomarband Mananna/j in on-* a mignima,

Tuag, daughter of Conall, son of Etersc^l, tiiere was she reared, in Tara, with a great host of Erin's kings'-daughters about her to protect her. After she had com- pleted her fifth year no man at all was allowed to see her, so that the King of Ireland might have the wooing of her. Now Manannan sent unto her a messenger,, (one) of his fair messengers, even Fer Figail, son of [the elf-king] Eogabal (a fosterling of Manannan's and a druid of the Tuatha D6 Danann), in a woman's shape, and he was three nights there. On the fourth night, however, to wit, on the night of a Monday, the druid chanted a sleep-spell over the girl, and carried her to Inver Glas, for that was the first name of Tuag Inbir. And he laid her down asleep on the ground that he might go to look for a boat. He did not wish to awake her, so that he might take her in her sleep to the Land of Everliving Women. But a wave of the flood-tide came when he had gone, and drowned the girl. So then Fer Figail went on to his house, and Manannan killed him because of his misdeed.

[47. Cleittech.] — Cleittech, canas rohainmnig[e]d ? Ni ansa .1. Cleteach [mace] Dedaid maicc^ Sin adbath anrr sin.

JVo Cletach Even a .i. clethi-ach nErend, daig na haccoine dorigensat fir [Erenn] ann sin oc cainiud Cormaic [15^ i] hiii^ Cuind rig Evenn.

A^d comad cleithi tech nErind ro loisced ann for Cormac, '^ ni fir son, ac/i^ is {or Muirchertach mac nErcca, ;] ba m^c mathar sein do epscop Mel, et undo epscop Mel cecinit, et unde Cletech nominatur.

Fillis in ri m^c nErcca awberta dol[e]id ua Neill, sirt fuil fer;m in gach maig, brogais a chricha hi cein. ISam omun ol in bein, ima luaidi ilar sin, ar fiur loiscfidir i tein, i taeb Cleitig baidfis" fin.

Clettech, son of Dedad, son of Sen, died there.

Or Ckt-adi Erenn, that is, the roof {clethe) of the groans (adi) of Ireland, because of the lamentation which the men of Ireland made there, bewailing Cormac, grandson of Conn, King of Erin.

Or it may be the roof {clethe) of the houses {tech) of Ireland which was burnt there on Cormac. And that is not true, but it was on Muirchertach, son of Ere, and he was an uterine brother of Bishop Mel's. Hence Bishop Mel sang [the following staves],, and hence " Cletech" is so named.

^ Facs. Condasfui run. - A curious corruption ol curaig.

^ dcij-cud, Lee. ^ ar son, Lee. ^ MS. inmrt/tx. '"' MS. hua^

7 MS. baigfis.