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and the Decision as to Cormac's Sword, — Notes. 229
§ 80. 'As the Seal appeared to Conn'. The reference in to tbn
piece called Baile in Scdil, the ecstatic prophecy of the ghost of Liigli
mac Ethlenu, of which the oldest copy is in the Bodleian library, Rawl.
B. 512, fo. 101 et seq. A precis of this piece is given by O'Curry, Lec-
tures pp. 3b7 — 389, and it is mentioned in the following quatrain by
Fland Mauistrech (LL. 132», lines 47 — 48).
Marb iarna rigad don tslóg
Eocho miuglan' Mugmedón.
rofírad cid cruth aile,
roscribad issin Scál-baile.
The Trom-dam mentioned at the end of the story is the bardic company,
whose doings are related in the Iinthecht na Tromdáimc, Book
of Lismore, if. 144—151, printed, with a translation by Owen Connellan,
in the Transactions of the Ossianic Society, vol. V. The names of the
hards are given in LL. 27''— 28«.
cena lecon doib "and prevented them from seizing it", Hennessy.
Read min-glan to rhyme with rigad in the preceding line.