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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown])

poem 74

Loch Con

1. Loch Con, whose name shall never tell of peace —
   who is there that knows not
   the work of the headstrong harmful beast
   that made it a pillage and a prey?
2. 5] From the Isles of the chieftain Mod
   baying with jaws agape
   the hound-packtowards its destruction
   bore its impetuous course.
3. The pack of Mod unfaltering,
   10] which the beast overcame round Tuirbe's tower,
   tracked the mighty swine
   through every impenetrable thicket.
4. It fled before them into this lake,
   it brought distress upon this tower;
   15] the dogs were drowned beneath this homestead
   by the swine, in countless numbers.
5. When it had settled its battles
   it went to an island of the lake,
   and took it as a pleasant domain:
   20] the soil was its perpetual domicile.
6. From the length of that pursuit
   when their doom came upon the hunters
   and they met an untimely fate —
   the lake derives its name.

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