Eochaid. Rot-bia lim-sa ol Mider mad tu beras mo thochell, Eochaid. Thou shalt have from me, said Mider, if thou carry off my stake, L. gabur n-dub-glas ite cend-brecca, croderga, biruich, 50 horses of dark-gray, and they with dappled heads, blood-red, with ears pricked high, bruin-lethain, bolg(s)roin, coss choela, comrassa, faeborda,[FN#133] femendae,[FN#133] chests broad, nostrils distended, feet thin, strong, keen, ? vehement, aurarda, aignecha, so-(a)staidi,[FN#133] so very high, spirited, easily stopped, [FN#133] See Bruidne da Derga (Stokes), 50, 51, faeborda, lit. with an edge on them; femendae? = Lat. vehemens; soaistidi is the form adopted by Stokes in his edition of the Bruidne; Egerton MS. gives soastaide. There is a gap here, a complete column being torn from the manuscript. The lost part obviously describes the issue of the chess game or games, and the penalties demanded by Bochaid: what these penalties were is plain from the succeeding story. The work of Mider and his folk in paying these penalties must also have been described: the next column (Leabhar na h- Uidhri, 131 b. of the facsimile) opens thus: iarsin doberar uir ocus grian ocus clocha for sin monai. Fri etna thereupon is, placed earth and gravel and stones on the bog. Over foreheads dam dano-batar fedmand la firu h-Erind cosind n-aidchi sin, co of oxen then were yokes among men of Ireland till that very night, when n-aicces la lucht in t-side for a formnaib. Dognith it was seen (tbLat they were) among people of the Mounds on their shoulders. It was done samlaid la Eochaid, conid de ata do som. Echaid Airem, ar so by Eochaid, so that hence is to himself (the name of) Echaid Airem, for is aice toisech tucad cuing for muinelaib dam do ferand h-Erind. Is it is by him first was put yoke on necks of oxen for land of Ireland. This ed dino and food ro boi im belaib in t-sluaig oc denam in tocuir: is then there word which was on lips of the host at making of the causeway: Rhetoric-- Cuire illaim, Put into hand tochra illaim, place (it) into hand aurdairc damrad trathaib iar fuin noble (are) oxen for hours after sunset for trom ailges very heavy request ni fes cuich les it is not known to whom (is) gain cuich amles de thochur dar moin Lamraige. to whom harm from the causeway over moor of Lamrach. Ni biad isin bith tochur bad ferr mani bethe oca There would not be in the world a causeway which is better, if not (men) had been at n-descin Forracbad de bochtae and iartain. Iarsin dolluid the seeing them. Was left on that account a breach there thenceforth. Thereupon came in rechtaire co Echaid ocus adfet scela in mor fedma, atconnaire the steward to Echaid, and made known tales of the great serving band, that he saw fiadai, ocus asbert nad rabi for fertas in betha cumachta before him, and said that there was not on the chariot pole of life a power