Stowe.

Page 302

[1-1]

Reading with YBL. 44a, 41.

[2-2]

Stowe and YBL. 44a, 41.

[3-3]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[4-4]

YBL. 44a, 46.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[6-6]

YBL. 44a, 45.

[7-7]

YBL. 44b, 7-8.

[8-8]

YBL. 44b, 28-29, Stowe and H. 1. 13.

Page 303

[1-1]

H. 1. 13 and YBL. 44b, 36.

[2-2]

YBL. 44b, 40-41.

[3-3]

YBL. 44b, 44.

[4-4]

Stowe and YBL. 44b, 14.

[a]

The readings are corrupt.

[5-5]

YBL. 44b, 44.

Page 304

[1-1]

Reading with YBL. 45a, 14; LL. is corrupt.

[2-2]

YBL. 45a, 3.

[3-3]

YBL. 45a, 7.

[4-4]

YBL. 45a, 14.

[5-5]

Stowe

[6-6]

Stowe

[7-7]

Stowe and YBL. 45a, 24.

Page 305

[1-1]

YBL. 45a, 26.

[2-2]

YBL. 45a, 27.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

YBL. 45a, 29.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[6-6]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

Page 306

[1-1]

This title is supplied by the present writer.

[2-2]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[3-3]

YBL. 45a, 38.

[a]

I can make nothing of the first four lines of the following poem, and they are consequently omitted from the translation. The translation of the remainder of the rosc is largely conjectural.

[4-4]

YBL. 45a, 45-45b, 2.

[b]

There is a small gap in the MS.

Page 307

[1-1]

YBL. 45b, 7.

[2-2]

Reading with YBL. 45b, 8; LL. has 'hosts'.

[3-3]

YBL. 45b, 8-9.

[a]

Or, 'the sun.'

[4-4]

YBL. 45b, 11-14.

[5-5]

YBL. 45b, 4-5.

[6-6]

YBL. 45b, 5-6.

[7-7]

YBL. 45b, 19.

[8-8]

Reading with Stowe.

[b]

See note, page 198.

[c]

Probably Connacht.

Page 308

[1-1]

YBL. 45b, 4-5.

Page 309

[1-1]

YBL. 45b, 22.

[2-2]

YBL. 45b, 23-26.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[4-4]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[5-5]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[6-6]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

Page 310

[1-1]

YBL. 46a, 2.

[2-2]

YBL. 46a, 1-2.

[3-3]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[4-4]

YBL. 46a, 3-4.

[5-5]

YBL. 45b, 40-41.

[6-6]

Stowe.

[7-7]

YBL. 45b, 41.

Page 311

[a]

MS.: 'I.'

[1-1]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[2-2]

YBL. 45b, 46-46a, 1.

[b]

MS. 'my.'

[c]

MS. 'me.'

Page 312

[1-1]

H. 1. 13.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

Stowe.

[a]

'Ailill,' YBL. 46a, 23.

[4-4]

YBL. 46a, 22.

[5-5]

Stowe.

[6-6]

YBL. 46a, 23.

Page 312

[1-1]

YBL. 46a, 24.

[2-2]

YBL. 45a, 25-28.

[3-3]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[4-4]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[5-5]

YBL. 46a, 28-31.

Page 314

[1-1]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[2-2]

Stowe.

Page 315

[1-1]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[2-2]

Reading with Stowe.

[3-3]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[4-4]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[5-5]

Following Stowe.

[a]

'Fergus,' H. 1. 13 and Stowe.

Page 316

[1-1]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[a-a]

'Thirty hundred,' Stowe, H. 1. 13, and YBL. 46a, 47.

[2-2]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[3-3]

Stowe and H. 1. 13, and, similarly, YBL. 46a, 42.

[4-4]

YBL. 46a, 47.

Page 317

[1-1]

YBL. 46a, 44.

[2-2]

YBL. 46a, 44.

[3-3]

YBL. 46b, 3.

[4-4]

Stowe and H. 1. 13. That is, 'a great spear.'

[5-5]

YBL. 46b, 8-9.

[6-6]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[7-7]

YBL. 46b, 9.

[a]

That is, 'a flaming-red spear.'

Page 318

[1-1]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[2-2]

YBL. 46b, 19.

[3-3]

YBL. 46b, 21.

[4-4]

YBL. 46b, 30.

[5-5]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

Page 319

[1-1]

YBL. 46b, 36.

[2-2]

Stowe.

[3-3]

YBL. 46b, 40.

[4-4]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

Page 320

[1-1]

Stowe, H. 1. 13, and, similarly, YBL. 47a, 1.

[2-2]

Stowe, H. 1. 13 and YBL. 47a, 12.

[3-3]

Reading with Stowe and H. 1. 13; LL. seems to be corrupt here.

[4-4]

YBL. 47a, 18-19.

[5-5]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

Page 321

[1-1]

YBL. 47a, 40.

[2-2]

YBL. 47a, 43.

[3-3]

YBL. 47a, 44.

[4-4]

YBL. 47b, 12-13.

[5-5]

Reading with Stowe and H. 1. 13.

Page 322

[1-1]

YBL. 47b, 20.

[2-2]

YBL. 47b, 21-22.

[3-3]

YBL. 47a, 48-49.

[4-4]

YBL. 47a, 50-51.

[5-5]

YBL. 47b, 1-3.

[6-6]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[a]

A proverbial saying, the exact force of which we cannot determine. The reading of H. 1. 13 may be translated, 'No fool on a board (or shield ?),' that is, a clown or tumbler (?).

Page 323

[1-1]

Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[2-2]

Reading with Stowe.

[3-3]

YBL. 47b, 9-10.

[4-4]

YBL. 47b, 26.

[5-5]

YBL. 47b, 29-30; Stowe and H. 1. 13.

[6-6]

Translating from YBL. 47b, 30, Stowe and H. 1. 13; LL. has, 'very beautiful.'

[7-7]