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" "\Miat hast thou there ? " — " The head of Fear-
ghus." — " It is not." — " Truly it is." — " Let me see it."
He gave it to him. He drew it, and he struck
him with it, and he made two heads of the one. Then
they began at each other.
They -would make a bog on the rock, and a rock on
the bog. In the place where the least they would sink,
they would sink to the knees, in the place where the
most they would sink, they would sink to the eyes.
Conall thought it would be ill for liim to fall after
he had got so near the matter.
He drew his sword, and he threw the head off
Lagh an Laidli.
" Now I am king over Erin, as I myself had a right
to be."
He took his mother and her father from the lubhar,
and took them to the palace ; and his race were in it
till the ninth knee. The last one was choked, as a babe,
with a splinter of bone that went crosswise into his
throat, and another tribe came in on Emixx.
COXALL.
Bha sean righ roimhe so ann an Eirinn agus bha triliir mac aig piuthar
dha. Be 'm fear a bu shine dhiii Fearghus, am fear a bii mhiadhonaiche
Lagh an Laigh, 's am fear a b' òige Conall, Smaointich e gon dian-
adh e oighre do 'n fhear a bu shine Fearghus. Thug e sgoil mhic
righ agus ridire dha, agus nur abba e buidheach sgoil agus ionnsach-
aidh thug e dhachaidh e do 'n phaileas. Bha eud an so anns a'
phaileas. Urs' an righ, " Chuir mi seachad a' bhliadhna so go math.
Tha ceann na bliadhna nis a' tighinn 's tha trioblaid agus ciiram a'
tigh 'n orm leatha." " De 'n trioblaid na 'n cliram a tha tigh 'n ort ?"
nrs' am fear òg. " Tha tuath na duthcha tigh 'n a chunndas riuin an
diugh." " Cha ruig thu leas ciiram a bhi ort 'tha e air eubhach a
mach gor misr' an t-oigh òg 's air a chur sios ann am paipeirean 's an