“Dead were the men

Of Banba’s host, without happy strength,

Around Tigernmas, the destructive man in the North,

From the worship of Cromm Cruaich—’twas no luck for them.

“For I have learnt,

Except one-fourth of the keen Gaels

Not a man alive—lasting the snare!

Escaped without death in his mouth.”

—Dr. Kuno Meyer’s translation of the Dinnsenchus of Mag Slecht.

[187]. Nutt: Voyage of Bran, p. 164.