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 The Edinburgh Dinnshenchas. 489

Tuirbe Tragmar was a negligent man, Father of Gobban with pure desire. Unknown is his bright pedigree, From him Traig Tuirbi is named.

Also in BB. 408 b ; H. 68 a ; Lee. 520 b ; and R. 124 b i. See also Petrie's Round Toivcrs, pp. 382, 383 ; O'Curry's Manners and Customs, iii, 41 ; and O'Grady's Silva Gadelica, ii, 518.

According to Petrie, Trdig Tuirbi is now Turvey, on the northern coast of the CO. of Dublin, and the Diamra Breagh are now Diamor in Meath.

The Gobban Saer was an architect who flourished (according to Petrie) early in the seventh century.

Samilddiiach, "skilled-in-many-arts-together," trvfiiroXvrexi'os, if one may coin a Greek word, was a name for Lugh mac Ethlenn. See " The Second Battle of Moytura", Kev. Celtique, xii, pp. 74, 76, 78, 80.

The tale of Tuirbe and his a.xe is a tolerably close parallel to that of Para9u- rima. "This hero, after the destruction of the Kshatriya race, bestowed the earth upon the Brahmans, who repaid the obligation by banishing him as a homi- cide from amongst them. Being thus at a loss for a domicile, he solicited one of the ocean, and its regent-deity consented to yield him as much land as he could hurl his battle-axe^ along. Para9urama threw the weapon from Gokernam to Kumari, and the retiring ocean yielded him the coast of Malabar, below the latitude of 15°," H. H. Wilson, Catalogue of tlie Mackenzie Collection, 2nded., Madras, 1882, p. 56.

So in his Glossary of Judicial and Reve7iue Terms, London, 1855, p. 401 : " PARAguRAMA .... An avatar of Vishwu, to whom is ascribed the recovery from the sea of Kerala, or Malabar, by casting his axe from a point of the coast. Mount Dilli .... to the extreme south ; the sea retiring from the part over which the axe flew."

[71. LusMAG.] — Lusmag, cid dia ta ? YW ansa.

IS as tug Diancecht g^ch \us n-i'ce conammalt ar- thip;>-ait Slain[gi i n-Achad Abla] ir'\ Mag T///red aniarthuaith, intan bai cath etir Tuatha De Danann [fo. S*' 2] 3 Fomhoire. [Gach aen do Thuatha/Z' De Danann no laigtis fon Und Iwsraid sin atraiged slemun slancrechtac[h] — BJ5.] Vnde Lusmag.

Diancecht dorat leis alle

gach lus o Lusmhaigh luaidhe [leg. luaighne ?],

go tiprait na slainti suaill

fH Magh Tuiread aniarthuaidh.^

Lusmag, whence is it ?

Not hard (to say). 'Tis thence that Diancecht brought every herb of healing and grated them on Slainge's Well in Achad Abla, north-west of Moytura, when there was a battle between the Tuatha De Danann and the Fomorians. Every one of the Tuatha De Danann whom they would lay under that water of herbs would arise smooth and healed of his wounds. Whence Ztfsmag, " Herb-plain."

^ paraqn-s = Gr. ireXeKv^, cognate perhaps with Welsh elech,. saxum". * MS. 3ms a. ^ MS. -thuaigh.