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THE FINN EPISODE 51
22 There were eight Cáiltes gathered around Finn : Corra and
the TJa Daim Derg dilinn, Cass, Cur, Escru and Aithne, Oil and Nena
Nuagnithe.
23 This is the best treasure which Finn found, Crimthann's
fidchell, I know it for certain ; Fiachra of Fál had hidden it in the
land of Crimthann Nia Nár.
24 Once — a famous expedition — Finn found a stream, nothing
but silver was its fair gravelly bottom ; it springs past the hawthorn
to the south-east and close to Albine.
25 Ossin said : ' The most marvellous dainty jewel which Finn
himself found, that is, without vaporous ignorance,^ the fair close-
woven hood of Crothrainne,'
26 Gold is its woof, silver underneath it, soft to the skin is its
lining ; you will be hound, man, or deer as you turn it, aa you change
it.
27 It is worth fifty bond-maids whatever, it was made in the
Land of Promise, for thirty years in Mag Mell, with fifty . . .
28 Thirty jewels — it is not the wisdom of an ignorant man —
Finn took out of the jaws of the crane-bag, after he had slain Glonna
at the vast ford and Liath Luachra of the swift deeds.
' Literally, ' without the vile smoke of blindness.'