LA LB LC VG II. _The origin and birth of Ciaran; the wizard's prophecies_ 1 1 1 2 III. _How Ciaran raised the steed of Oengus from death_ 2 2 2 3 IV. _How Ciaran turned water into honey_ 3 3 3 4 V. _How Ciaran was delivered from a hound_ 6 9 4 5 VI. _How Ciaran and his instructor conversed, though distant from one another_ 4 - - 6 VII. _Ciaran and the fox_ - - - 7 VIII. _How Ciaran spoiled his mother's dye-stuff_ - - - 8 IX. _How Ciaran restored a calf which a wolf had devoured_ 5 8 5 9 X. _How Ciaran was delivered from robbers_ 7 - 6 10 XI. _How Ciaran gave a gift of cattle_ 8 - - - XII. _How Ciaran gave a gift of a plough-coulter_ 9 - - - XIII. _How Ciaran gave a gift of an ox_ 10 - - - XIV. _How Ciaran gave the king's cauldron to beggars and was enslaved_ 11 - 7 11 XV. _How Ciaran reproved his mother_ 13 - 9 - XVI. _The breaking of the carriage-axle_ 14 - 10 - The boyhood legend probably consisted originally of the five incidents common to all, II-V, IX. It is noteworthy, however, that LB transfers V, IX, to a position after the second phase of the Life. This is possibly due to a misplaced leaf in the exemplar from which our copies of LB are derived. X-XIII, variants on the theme of XIV, are probably interpolations in LA, and VIII, a valuable fragment of folk-lore, is an interpolation in VG. VI and VII are conflations of two varieties of one incident, as is pointed out in the Annotations. These observations will show how complex is the criticism of the Ciaran tradition. =B.= The second phase of the life is the Schooling of Ciaran at Clonard; perhaps about 530-535, still using round numbers. This part of the life is most fully told in VG; it is very fragmentary in all the Latin Lives. There are thirteen incidents--