The blood of vipers and of Osmuinn’s trunks;—
It was of these the tathlum was composed.
“The sand of the swift Armorian sea,
And the sand of the teeming Red Sea;—
All these, being first purified, were used
In the composition of the tathlum.
“Briun, the son of Bethar, no mean warrior,
Who on the ocean’s eastern border reigned;—
It was he that fused, and smoothly formed,
It was he that fashioned the tathlum.