Part 17 of The Irish ordeals, Cormac's adventure in the Land of Promise, and the decision as to Cormac's sword

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The Irish ordeals, Cormac's adventure in the Land of Promise, and the decision as to Cormac's sword (Author: Unknown)

section 16

MORANN MAC MAIN'S THIRD COLLAR.

Then there was another Sín Morainn ‘Collar of Morann’. Morann of the Great Judgments went to Paul the Apostle, and brought from him an epistle and wore it round his neck. So when Morann returned from Paul and went to his fortress he chanced to meet one of his bondmaids at the fortress-gate. Then when she saw the epistle round his neck she asked him: ‘What collar (sín) is that, O Morann?’ ‘Truly,’ says Caimmin the Fool, ‘from today till doom it shall be (called) Morann's sín’ (collar).

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Now when Morann used to deliver judgment he would put the epistle round his neck, and then he would never utter falsehood.