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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown])

poem 9

Lagin II

1. Labraid the Exile, (full his number)
   by whom Cobthach was slain at Dindrig,
   came with a lance-armed host over the sea-water;
   from them Lagin was named.
2. 5] Tuaim Tenba was the name aforetime
   of the hill where the slaughter was done;
   Dindrig is its name from that time forth,
   since the slaying of the chieftains.
3. Two and twenty hundreds of the Gall
   came oversea having with them broad lances;
   10] from the lances that were carried there–
   thence the men of Lagin get their name.

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