pork unsalted, ale, new milk for drink rot bia lim and, a be find, a be find. shall be to thee with me there, O woman fair-haired. [a gap, 9 letters lost] i atumchotaise om aithech tige rag-sa, [a gap, thou obtainest me from my master of the house I will go, [9 letters lost] fetai, ni rag. Is iarsin dolluid Mider (L.U. 130 a.) co canst, not will I go. It is thereon came Mider to Echaid, ocus damair a thochell fochetoir co m-beth fôlo acai Echaid, and yields his stake immediately that may be (cause) of reproach for him do Echaid, is airi roic na comada mora, ocus issairi is to Echaid, it is therefore he paid the great stakes, and on that account it is (that) fo anfis con atig a gell. Conid iarsin giull adrubrad in tan tra under ignorance that he asked his wager. So that after that wager it was said when now ro boi Mider cona muinter oc ic comad na aidehi, i. in tochor, ocus was Mider and his folk at paying the stake of the night, that is, the causeway, and di-chlochad Midi, ocus luachair Tetbai, ocus fid dar Breg: isse[FN#140] seo clearing stones off Meath, and rushes of Tethba and forest over Breg: it is he this [FN#140] Grammar not clear: perhaps the Irish is corrupt (Str.). an no foclad boi oca muinter amal atbert lebor drom snechta: what used to say was with his folk as says Book of Drom-snechta: Rhetoric-- Cuirthe illand: Put on the field: tochre illand: Put close on the field airderg dararad: very red oxen: trom in choibden: heavy the troop clunithar fir ferdi. Which hears ?really-manly buidni balc-thruim crand-chuir troops for strong heavy setting of trees forderg saire fedar of very red ?oaks[FN#141] are led [FN#141] Reading daire for saire. sechuib slimprib snithib past them on twisted wattles: scitha lama: weary are hands, ind rosc cloina: the eye ?slants aside? fobith oen mna because of one woman Duib in digail: To you the revenge, duib in trom-daim:[FN#142] to you the heavy ?oxen [FN#142] A conjecture. MS. gives trom-daim. tairthim flatho fer ban: splendour of sovereignty over white men: fomnis, fomnis, in fer m-braine cerpae fomnis diad dergæ ? ? ? fer arfeid solaig ? fri aiss esslind ? fer bron for-ti ? sorrow shall, come on the man? i. more ertechta inde ? lamnado luachair rushes for di Thethbi over?two Tethbas di-chlochad[FN#143] Midi clearing stones from Meath [FN#143] A conjecture. MS. gives dilecad (Str.) indracht ? coich les, coich amles to whom the benefit, to whom the harm thocur dar clochach? moin.[FN#144] causeway over stony moor. [FN#144] The last line in the Ms. is t d c m. Dalis Mider dia mis Fochiallastar (i. rotinoil). Echaid formna Mider appointed a meeting for the end of a month. Echaid assembled (i.e. collected)troops. laech la-erend com batar hi Temrach, ocus an ro po dech do fiannaib