"Died the branch, the spreading tree of gold,
Aenghus the laudable."
—Four Masters, p. 153. The branches of this tree have indeed spread far and wide, and the four great families mentioned above have increased and multiplied in all parts of the world.
Year 503.—The Four Masters give the date 498, which O'Donovan corrects both in the text and in a note.
Broccan's Hymn.—This Hymn was written about A.D. 510. See the translation in Mr. Whitley Stokes' Goidilica, Calcutta, 1866. Privately printed.