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

of heroes of Ireland so that they were in Tara, and what was best of champions