[40] Literally "it's badly I'd believe you."
[41] Literally "now itself."
[42] Notice the use of the definite article.
[43] Literally "thickly."
[44] Literally "little bog-berries"
[45] See the story of "The Old Woman of Beare."
[46] See also O'Curry MS. Materials p. 412-418 and 432. Fer-da-lethe, or the "man of two halves," was another name for him, "because he spent half of his life in the world and half on pilgrimage ut ferunt periti." An old rann runs:
i.e., "Four prophets of the clean Gael. The country from which they sprang was the better for them. Columbcille, full Moling, Brendan of Birr and Berchan."