Mesca Ulad

Anonymous

Translated by William M. Hennessy

2 chapters · about 42 min

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THE INTOXICATION OF THE ULTONIANS BEGINS.

“TTTHEN the sons of Miled of Spain reached Erin, their sagacity • circumvented the Tuatha De Danaan, so that Eriu was left to the partition of Amargin Glunmar, son of Miled; for he was a king-poet, and a king-judge. And he divided Eriu in two parts, and gave the part of Eriu that was under ground to the Tuatha De Danaan, and the other part to the sons of Miled, his own corporeal sept.

The Tuatha De Danaan went into hills and fairy places, so that they spoke with 8tdhe under ground. They left five of their number before the five provinces of Eriu, to excite war, and conflict, and valour, and strife, between the sons of Miled. They left five of them before the province of Ulad in particular. The names of these five were: Brea, son of Belgan, in Dromana-Bregh; Eedg Eotbel in the slopes of Magh-Itha; Tinnel, son of Boclachtna, in Sliabh-Edlicon; Grici in Cruachan-Aigle; Gulban the Grey, son of Grac, in the Ben of Gulban Gort, son of Ungarbh.

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About this edition

The words
William M. Hennessy's English translation, copied word for word.
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  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
  • Google's notice on digitised books and its usage guidelines (the scanning library's notice) (13 blocks)
  • Specks and marks on the scanned endpaper, read as characters by the OCR (16 blocks)
  • Harvard College Library bookplate (“FROM THE BEQUEST OF FRANCIS BROWN HAYES”) (6 blocks)
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 2 places
  • A preface, foreword or afterword
  • Half-title (“mesca ulao; OB, THE INTOXICATION OF THE ULTONIANS. TODD LECTURE SEfilES, I.”) (4 blocks)
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 32 places
  • Specks and the library's overdue-fee slip (“THE BORROWER WILL BE CHARGED AN OVERDUE FEE”) (5 blocks)