gela det and, dubai brai, white teeth there, black eyebrows, Is li sula lin ar sluag,[FN#135] is colour of eyes number of our hosts, [FN#135] A conjecture by Windisch. Text gives sluaig the genitive singular, which does not rhyme. [FN#136]no is brece is dath sion and cech gruad: or is many-coloured is hue of foxglove there each cheek: [FN#136] The three glosses are interesting. It may be noted that the last two certainly follow the word (above the line in which it occurs) that they seem to gloss: it is therefore probable that the first does so too; the two lines of a couplet are on the same line in the manuscript. It {footnote p. 156} seems then possible that the gloss "it is many-coloured" refers, not to the foxglove, but to the preceding line, "the colour of eyes is number of our hosts," and that the writer of this gloss gave the same meaning to the rather hard description of the colour of the eyes as is given in the verse translation (vol. i. p. 26), i.e. that the eyes had changing lights and shapes. We must hope, for the credit of his taste, that he did not think of the cheeks as many-coloured or freckled, but his gloss of lossa does not seem happy. The meaning "growth" is taken from O'Reilly's Dictionary. no lossa Is corcair maige cach muin,[FN#137] or growth? is purple of a plain each neck, [FN#137] A conjecture (Str.), main, treasure, is in the text: this does not rhyme, nor give good sense; note, however, that muin has no accent-the text gives one. no is dath is li sula ugai luin: or is hue is colour of eyes (that of) eggs of a blackbird: cid cain deicsiu maigi Fail though pleasant (is) seeing plains of Fal (isle of Destiny) annam iar gnais maige mair. a wilderness[FN#138] after knowledge of the Great Plain. [FN#138] This meaning for annam is doubtful; the sense of "seldom" is established for the word; the line possibly means "it will seldom be so after," &c. Cid mesc lib coirm inse Fail, Though intoxicating to you (is) ale of the island Fal, is mescu coirm tire mair, is more intoxicating the ale of the country great, amra tire tir asbiur, a wonder of a land the land I mention, ni theit oac and re siun. not goes a young man there before an old man. Srotha teith millsi tar tir, Streams warm (and) sweet through the land, rogu de mid ocus fin, choice of mead and wine, doini delgnaidi, cen on, men ? handsome, without blemish, combart cen pecead, cen col. conception without sin without crime. Atchiam cach for each leth, We see all on every side, ocus ni-conn acci nech; and yet not sees us anyone temel imorbais adaim the cloud of the sin of Adam do-don-archeil[FN#139] ar araim encompasses us from reckoning [FN#139] From tairchellaim. A ben dia ris mo thuaith tind, O woman, if thou wilt come to my people strong, is barr oir bias fort chind, it is top of head of gold shall be on thy head, inue ur, laith, lemnacht la lind