[Note 106: _om._ BMHLec achad N]
107. Tri hingnad Herenn: lige inn abaic, lige nEothuili, allabair i
foccus.
[Note 107: _om._ BMHLec hinganta N allubuir a fogus N]
108. Tri daurthige Herenn: daurthech Birra, daurthech Cluana Eidnech,
daurthech Leithglinde.
[Note 108: _om._ BMHLec]
109. Tri hingena berta miscais do mithocod: labra, lesca, anidna.
[Note 109: do mitocuid N do togud BM lesce N anidna N nemidna BM .i.
esinrucas _add._ H]
110. Tri hingena berta seirc do chaintocud: tua, escuss, idnae.
[Note 110: beres L berta seircce de caintogud BM serc N caintocaid N
tri hadbair serci Lec toa esces idna N esca BMLec]
111. Tri tua ata ferr labra: tua fri forcital, tua fri hairfitiud, tua
fri procept.
[Note 111: labrai N sproicept B sproicepht M fri aithfrend N]
112. Tri labra ata ferr tua: ochan rig do chath, sreth immais, molad iar
luag.
[Note 112: uchan N ocon_n_ BM hairfidiud _no_ fis BM luadh B]
113. Tri hailgesa etualaing .i. eirg cen co dechais, tuc cenitbe, dena
ceni derna.
[Note 113: haisgeadha edualaing B erg gen cotis H tuc gen gud beirg
(?) gen go gaemais dena gen go heda B tuca gen cobe N gen gudbe M gen
[go] dernais N gen go feta HM]
114. Tri hamaite bit[e] i ndrochthig oiged .i. sentrichem senchaillige,
roschaullach ingine moile, sirite gillai.
[Note 114: hamaide drochtoighe BM sentriche caillige BM sentrichim N
rosc cailleach ingine siridhe gillai BM siride N sirithe L]
115. Tri hairig na ndualche: sant, craes, etrad.
103. Three signs of a fop: the track of his comb in his hair, the track
of his teeth in his food, the track of his stick[68] behind him.
[68] Or 'cudgel.'
104. Three ungentlemanly boasts: I am on your track, I have trampled on
you, I have wet you with my dress.
105. Three live ones that put away dead things: a deer shedding its
horn, a wood shedding its leaves, cattle shedding their coat.[69]
[69] Literally, 'stinking hair.'
106. Three places of Ireland to make you start: Tulach na n-Escop,[70]
Achad Deo,[71] Duma mBuirig.
[70] A hill near Kildare. See Thesaurus Palaeo-hibernicus ii.. p. 335.
[71] At Tara. See Todd's _Irish Nennius_, p. 200.
107. Three wonders of Ireland: the grave of the dwarf,[72] the grave of
Trawohelly,[73] an echo near.[74]
[72] Somewhere in the west (i n-iarthar Erenn, Fel., p. clvii).
[73] See Todd's _Irish Nennius_, p. 199, and Zeitschrift fuer Celt. Phil,
v., p. 23.
[74] Noth
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