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Or it may be this from which cometh Imroll Belaig Eoin: The hosts proceed to Belach Eoin ('Bird-pass').

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And 'the Other Misthrow at Bird-pass' is another name for it.

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Hence this is entitled Imroll Belaig Eoin ('the Misthrow at Bird-pass').

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for each of them to kill his friend and nearest relation."

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Thereupon said the men of Erin: "A mishap in throwing," they said, "is what hath happened to the men

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Then Fiacha Fialdana hurled a spear at Dochè macMagach, so that it went through his own friend, through Manè Andoè of Connacht.

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through Dubthach Doel of Ulster.

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When now Dochè macMagach espied Fiacha Fialdana, he straightway hurled a spear at him, but so that it went through his own friend

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It was in this wise that Manè Andoè came, and Dochè son of Maga along with him.

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And thus he came, and Dubthach Doel ('the Black Tongue') of Ulster with him.

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namely with Manè Andoè ('the Unslow') of the Connachtmen.

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Then came to them Fiacha Fialdana ('the Generous and Intrepid') of the Ulstermen to speak with the son of his mother's sister

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HERE NOW IS TOLD THE MISTHROW AT BELACH EOIN.

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till he fell at their hands in unequal fight at Ath da Fert in Sliab Fuait.

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Howbeit it was by no means so that they acted, but they attacked him from ambush on every side

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two-thirds of the host would have fallen before that by him in single battle at Emain Macha.

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What scholars say is: If Oengus son of Oenlam Gabè had fought them in single combat

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And he suffered them not to go by, but he showered them with stones.

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to Ath da Fert ('the Ford of the Two Gravemounds') in Sliab Fuait.

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And he drove the hosts before him from Moda Loga, which at that time was called Lugmud