N tuighe
go foidibh M co foitib Lec tiriudh M]
141. Tri hiarnduba: fer tochmairc, fer gaite meirle, fer hic aisneis.
[Note 141: fear fochairc Lec fer aisneisi N]
142. Tri maic beres drus do lonnus: tuilfeth, fidchell, dulsaine.
[Note 142: lundus N tulfeith N dullsaine L]
143. Tri maic beres feile do ainmnit: gruss, russ, rucca.
[Note 143: ainmned N grus rus rucad N]
144. Tri maic beres neoit do deinmnait: crith, dochell, grith.
[Note 144: deinmnet N grith crith doicell N]
145. Tri huar fichte: tipra, muir, nuae corma.
[Note 145: huara N]
146. Tri fuammann moaigthe: fuam bo mblecht, fuam cerdchae, fuam
aratbair.
[Note 146: fuamandu moaigti N moigthi L fuaim bo mblicht N]
128. Three tokens of a blessed site: a bell, psalm-singing, a synod (of
elders).
129. Three tokens of a cursed site: elder, a corncrake, nettles.[82]
[82] See my edition of _Cain Adamnain_, p. 13, note 3, and p. 38.
130. Three nurses of theft: a wood, a cloak, night.
131. Three qualities[83] that bespeak good fortune: self-importance,
..., self-will.
[83] Literally, 'parts.'
132. Three qualities[84] that bespeak misfortune: weariness, (premature)
old age, reproachfulness.
[84] Literally, 'heaviness, weight.'
133. Two sisters: weariness and wretchedness.
134. Two brothers: prosperity and husbandry.
135. Three unlucky...:[85] guaranteeing, mediating, witnessing. The
witness has to swear to his evidence, the guarantor has to pay for his
security, the mediator gets a blow on his head.[86]
[85] The usual meanings of _fodb_, 'accoutrement, equipment, arms,' do
not seem to suit here.
[86] Literally, 'the blow of mediation is dealt on his head.'
136. Three false sisters: 'perhaps,' 'may be,' 'I dare say.'
137. Three timid brothers: 'hush!' 'stop!' 'listen!'
138. Three dead things that give evidence on live things: a pair of
scales, a bushel, a measuring-rod.
139. Three pottages of guaranteeing....[87]
[87] Obscure and probably corrupt. Cf. Sec. 219.
140. Three black husbandries: thatching with stolen things,[88] putting
up a fence with a proclamation of trespass, kiln-drying with scorching.
[88] 'with sods,' NML, perperam.
141. Three after-sorrows: a wooer's, a thief's, a tale-bearer's.
142. Three sons whom folly bears to anger: frowning, ... ,[89] mockery
(?).
[89] _fidchell_, the well-known game, gives no sense here.
143. Three sons whom generosity bears to patienc
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