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[72. ]—Beand Codhail can a[s] rohainmnigeadh? Ni ansa.

Codhol Coirrchicheach is e rob aide do Eirind diata Inis Erenn, is ann tairbreadh a dalta for in beind ud,  nach tairbert dobeiread furri conogbhadh in talamh foaib,  mairberead Eiriu atumadar suas go tiagat a goth gæithe fu domhnaib a cluass man[i]abrad (sí) sin nofhasfadh gomadh reil Eire uile as,  an la domela comarba Erenn no rí Temrach tuara Codhail nó ní d'enlaith nó d'fíaduch nó di iasc, forbraid a ghal  a slainte. Unde Beand Codhail.

{{block center| Codhal Coirrchicheach go n-aibh topghais Erind abradchain, manbadh Eriu cæmh monur cia cia bad leiriu cæmhchodhul.

Benn Codail, whence was it named?

Not hard (to say). Codal, the Round-breasted, 'tis he that was fosterer to Eriu, from whom is the island of Erin, and on yon peak he used to feed (?) his fosterling, and with every {{...|4}} he would put upon her the ground would rise up under them, and Eriu {{...|4}} And the day that Erin's coarb (successor) or Tara's king shall partake of Codal's food, or aught of birds or venison or fish, his valour and his health increase. Whence Benn Codail, "Codal's Peak."

{{smaller block|The rest of the prose, and the quatrain, are so corrupt and obscure in the Edinburgh codex and the other MSS. (BB. 406 a; H. 13 b; L. 516 a; and R. 121 a 1) that I do not venture to translate them.

Benn Codail has not been identified.

Eriu is perhaps the queen of the Tuatha Dé Danann, mentioned in LL. 10 a, and O'Mahony's Keating, pp. 82, 141, 198.}}

[73. {{sc|Tlachtga.}}]—Tlachtgha canas rohainmnigheadh? Ni ansa.

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