[118.] Three things that constitute a carpenter: joining together without calculating (?), without warping (?); agility with the compass; a well-measured stroke.
[119.] Three things that constitute a physician: a complete cure, leaving no blemish behind, a painless examination.
[120.] Three things that constitute a blacksmith: Nethin's spit, the cooking-hearth of the Morrigan, the Dagda's anvil.[77]
[77] For a description and pictures of these appliances, see YBL., p. 419a, and Egerton, 1782, fo. 46a.
[121.] Three things that constitute an artificer: weaving chains, a mosaic ball,[78] an edge upon a blade.
[78] O'Curry, Manners and Customs, ii., p. 253, thought that a caer comraic was 'a ball of convergent ribs or lines,' perhaps such a bead or ball of mosaic glass as is depicted in Joyce's Social History of Ancient Ireland, vol. ii., p. 32, fig. 171. A cáer comraic of eight different colours is mentioned in LB. 108b 20.
[122.] Three things that constitute a harper: a tune to make you cry, a tune to make you laugh, a tune to put you to sleep.[79]
[79] Cf. H. 3. 18, p. 87: tréide nemtighther cruit; goltraiges, gentraiges, suantraiges.
123. Three things that constitute a poet: 'knowledge that illumines,' 'teinm laeda,'[80] improvisation.
[80] The names of various kinds of incantations. See Cormac's Glossary and Ancient Laws, s.v.