‘The road, I said, viz., from the Covering of the Sea, i.e., from the Plain of Murthemne.’27 The sea was on it for thirty years after the deluge, whence is Teme Mara, i.e., the shelter, or covering of the sea. Or again, it is from this that it is called the Plain of Murthemne, viz., a magic sea was on it with [...] in it, so that one could sit on it, so that a man with his armour might sit down on the ground of [...] until the Dagda came with his club of anger, and sang the following words at it, so that it ebbed away at once:
- Silent thy hollow head,
Silent thy dirty body,
Silent thy
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