122-123: _om._ BMHLec]

123. Trede neimthigedar filid: immas forosna, teinm laeda, dichetal di
chennaib.

124. Da migairm mithocaid: commaidem do chetguine, do ben la fer n-aile.

[Note 124: atte da ni igairm (!) do neoch .i. maidem a
c_het_guine [et] a bean do beith fri fer n-aill BM mitocaid N a cedgona
N a ben la fer n-aile N]

125. Teora airi[se]na iarnduba: comar, cocless, clemnas.

[Note 125: tri hairnadmand BMN iardubha M coicless LM coicle M]

126. Tri bainne cetmuintire: bainne fola, bainne der, bainne aillse.

[Note 126: banda NBM]

127. Tri coiri bite in cach duini: coire erma, coire goriath, coire
aiged.

[Note 127: core B duini L duine B goiriat N aitiu N notead B
notheadh M]

116. Three things that constitute a buffoon: blowing out his cheek,
blowing out his satchel, blowing out his belly.

117. Three things that constitute a comb-maker: racing a hound in
contending for a bone; straightening a ram's horn by his breath, without
fire; chanting upon a dunghill so that all antlers and bones and horns
that are below come to the top.

118. Three things that constitute a carpenter: joining together without
calculating (?), without warping (?); agility with the compass; a
well-measured stroke.

119. Three things that constitute a physician: a complete cure, leaving
no blemish behind, a painless examination.

120. Three things that constitute a blacksmith: Nethin's spit, the
cooking-hearth of the Morrigan, the Dagda's anvil.[77]

[77] For a description and pictures of these appliances, see YBL., p.
419_a_, and Egerton, 1782, fo. 46_a_.

121. Three things that constitute an artificer: weaving chains, a mosaic
ball,[78] an edge upon a blade.

[78] O'Curry, Manners and Customs, ii., p. 253, thought that a _caer
comraic_ was 'a ball of convergent ribs or lines,' perhaps such a bead
or ball of mosaic glass as is depicted in Joyce's _Social History of
Ancient Ireland_, vol. ii., p. 32, fig. 171. _A caer comraic_ of eight
different colours is mentioned in LB. 108_b_ 20.

122. Three things that constitute a harper: a tune to make you cry, a
tune to make you laugh, a tune to put you to sleep.[79]

[79] _Cf._ H. 3. 18, p. 87: treide nemtighther cruit; goltraiges,
gentraiges, suantraiges.

123. Three things that constitute a poet: 'knowledge that illumines,'
'_teinm laeda_,'[80] improvisation.

[80] The names of various kinds of incantations. See Cormac's Glossary
and Ancient Laws, s