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72 19. "It is no protection for you to go beneath my shield, for I never yet forbade the bald man anything, but that he per- sisted in doing it the more for that. But a decision I give in this matter, and again I say that it is meet to give it, viz., that the two heroes should join in conflict, and whichever of you be laid low, that the head be taken from him." An -oÁ x)í<Nf, the "oÁ is superfluous. "Oidf means " two men." 20. " What was the grip, with which Conan determined to seize the champion, but the grip of ' emmet and jaw,' and the Fianna of Innisf ail heard the crash which he took from his body." SeAtijAn is an ant or emmet. — De H. 21. "By (as a result of) the grip of might you are down, O little magician that came from afar. Come with me to my grey (whet-) stone, to see whether my keen blade be true of edge." 22. '« And through excess of fear of death, there remained alive (within him) only two veins that were throbbing at the back of his head." '* Good," said Conan, " if it would spite you to let you live, I will not slay you." Phrases like x>Á mbux) CAnncAf o|ic and ni coimi|tce x>wz should be carefully studied. One can imagine what an inferior writer would say. 23. " Seven battalions." 24. ♦' The magician revived, and fled home to Greece." 25. ** To see whether anyone was coming in pursuit of them " ; lit., any pursuit coming to them. 26. " There was no tear of all that he shed from his two eyes that did not go through the rock to its base." 27. •* When she (Bran) was being wounded and torn and ready to stretch on the grass, there was only a mere scratch being cut in the black hound's back." 28. '** Finn mac Cumhaill," said Conan, " why do you not take thought of your dog to-day, and of the vast deal of knowledge you ever got from your finger, and if I had your thumb between my jaws I would get my full of knowledge from it to last my lifetime." An allusion to the magic virtue in the thumb of Finn. By pressing his teeth into it, he obtained knowledge of how to escape from difliculties. 29. Lit.f ** it would not be likely for me that it would ever again be mine." 30. '• That the black hound could never be defeated imtil her name, Cor, were brought against (i.e., mentioned to) her." Dr. Henebry says that co|t was suggested by the undignified English *' cur." It is just possible that the word is used punningly here and further down. Here, the gentence