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The Death of the Sons of Uisnech.
The bulk of the following saga is taken from the so-
called Glenn Masáin manuscript, which belongs to the High-
land Society and is now deposited in the Advocates' Library,
Edinburgh. The ins. is a vellum quarto, marked LIII, and
was probably written in the fifteenth century. It consists of
twenty-six leaves, or fifty-one pages, in double columns, with 38
or (rarely) 39 lines in each column. The first two leaves con-
tain the first part of the story. Then comes a leaf containing
a portion of the Cattlespoil of Flidais. Then our story is re-
sumed on the recto of the fourth leaf, and breaks off on the
verso of the same leaf. The rest of the codex is taken up with
the Táin bó Flidais. There is said to be a facsimile of a leaf
in the 'Report of the Committee of the Highland Society ap-
pointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems
of Ossian', Edinburgh 1805, p. Ill, No. 4. The ms. is also no-
ticed by Dr. Graves in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Aca-
demy, vol. IV (1850), p. 255, by M. Henri Gaidoz in the Revue
Celtique, t. VI, p. Ill, and by Dr. Kuno Meyer in the Aca-
demy for Nov. 22, 1884, p. 344, col. 2.
The conclusion of the saga is taken from a small quarto
paper ms., marked 'LVI Highland Society, Peter Turner, No. 3'
and also deposited in the Advocates' Library. It is paged from
369 to 559, and then there is an old pagination from 337
to 361. Here follows a list of the contents:
p. 369. Oigheadh [leg. Oidheadh] Clainne Tuireann.
pp. 399 and next page (by error) 499 seems a fragment
on repentance. At foot of p. 499 is this note: 'W m Reidy of