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Fitness of Names. 311
48. Cú cen mdfhair 'Hound without mother': to wit, wail-
ing for his mother was he when the mother perished: Cú cen
mdthair 'motherless Cú', was his name thereafter.
49. Cairbre Crom, son of Crimthann Srera. In Cell Crom-
glaise ('the Chm*ch of the Crooked Stream'), in Mag Femin was
he reared: thence was he named.
50. FedHmith TJilletlian, that is, Fedhmith TJa-Liathain,
that is in Hiii Liathain he was reared. Hence he was named
Fedhmith Uillethan. Or Fedlimith Ollethan i.e. huge {oil) and
broad {lethan) was he: thence he was named.
51. Fergus Scandal, that is, a quarrel (scandal) was raised
about him the night he was born, to know wliich of them (the
bystanders) should foster him.
52. Cairbre CruitJinechdn ('Picthng'). In Scottish Pictland
he was bom and reared. Monginid, daughter of Feradach Fenct
king of Alba, was Cairbre the Pict's mother. From this he
was named Caii-bre Cruithneclidn, from an, an additional syllable
which was put on him to lengthen the name.
53. Cairbre Luachra 'of Luachair': in Luachair Degad
was his residence and his dwelhng.
54. Conall Core, whence is it? Easy to say. Once when
the king, Lugaid son of Aihll Flann the Little, was in his
house on Femen, there came to the king's house a she-satirist,
named Bole Ban-bretnach — a she -satirist of the Britons. The
satirist made an urgent request of the king to he with her.
To this the king consented, and he went into the same bed as
the she -satirist. She then became pregnant by the king, and
bore him a son, even Conall son of Lugaid. Lair the Red,
daughter of Mothaire, son of Chthaire, of the Corco-Oiche from
Hiii Fidgente, and Torna Eces the aforesaid poet, 'tis they
that fostered Core son of Lugaid. And from that Lair he is
called Core mac Láfre. There was a sister of that Lair, Feidhm
daughter of Mothaire. She was a witch (?), and she went
to the king's house on the night that Core was bom. AU the