The Scottish Celtic review

;126 The Muileartach.'S chaidh i stigh do mhur Fhinn,'S rug i air cuach Fhinn 'na croma-chroig.Leum i air eas ruadh nan ramh,'S cuach Fhinn na deas laimh.Leum Fionn gu eas, cas,An deigh chas na Caillich'S rug e air a' chuaichO'n 's ann leis 'bha 'buaidh 's a brigh.Rug Caoilte Mac RoinAir a chlaidheanih nior 's a dha shlcagh ;'S rug an t-Oscar meamnach 6gAir an leine shr6il a bha mu cneas.Thug iad an t-ubhal o'n bhcist'S ma thug clia b' ann gun streup ;'S mar deachaidh an ceann air colhiinn eile,Cha d'fhuair a h-anani riamh trocair.B' ard a h-ionad, 's b' ard a fas,B' ard a cuid siuil ri h-aois,Geamhlag iaruinn fo 'mas,'S da fhiacail siar o 'craos ;Leithid na ciaraig cliaillich,Cha'n fhacas o linn Chuchullin].*TALE OF THE MUILEARTACH (WESTERN SEA).[TRANSLATED.]Part I.The Fians were for keeping the kingdom from the Lochlinners.Fin was their king. There was a battle between them and Manusat Dun Kincorry in Ireland. When Manus went home, his fostermother(nurse), the Muileartach., said that she would go to fightFin, and to take from him the " Cup of Victory "—a vessel of clay,of which it was said that it was by drinking from it, the Fianswere always victorious. Manus said he would send men with her,but she refused. She would take with her only her husband, theOcean Smith, and a loop of iron, called the Little Ridged Crutch.She went at full speed to Dun Kincorry. The Fians saw somethingbig and monstrous coming; and Fin said, " If he has traversedthe universe, and gone round the world, it is Manus's foster-mother,* See p. 119, 6th stanza, and p. 137, last Kote.