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Arose tlic high aud souuding strife
Ou Alnecma of southern peaks,
385 By the course of Du-hula of waves,
Where the torrent speeds in empty foam.
With Cormac went down to battle
Du-Carlion the brave from Selma.
Nor alone did the chief go down ;
390 Counal, under the wavy hair of youth.
Lifted the spear by his side :
At thy word they went to war.
With aid to the king of Erin.
" Like migh ty strength which bursts from the great
395 Gathered Bolga to stern strife — [sea,
Colc-uUa (was) foremost leader of their hosts,
Lord of Atha of blue waves.
Each on other poured the fight upon the field ;
Cormac flamed on the skirt of battle
400 Bright as the forms of his fathers.
But, above all, the champion of the king,
Carhon of woods, hewed down the foe.
The arm of Connal slept not by the side
Of his great father on the sloping hUl.
405 But Colc-uUa gained the field.
Like rolling mist which flees away,
His warriors fled from Cormac, the chief.
to ■vvar. Colc-uUa Avas before them, tlie chief of Ijlue-stTeaining
Atha. The hattle was mixed on the plain. Cormac shone in his
own strife bright as the forms of his fathers. But, far before the
rest, Duthcaron hewed do^vn the foe. Nor slept the arm of Connal
by his father's side. Colc-idla prevailed on the plain : like scat-
tered mist fled the people of Cormac.
DUAN III.
to battle
beside his
father Du-
Carhon, in
the cause of
Cormac, king
of Erin.
Cole-ulla,
leader of the
Bolgi, the
enemies of
Cormac,
fought with
gi'eat fierce-
ness.
Du-Carhon
was tlie ablest
warrior on the
side of
Cormac ;
but his men
fled.