Book of Leinster
1. In principio fecit Deus Caelum et Terram, i.e., God made Heaven and
Earth at the first, [and He Himself hath no beginning nor ending].
 
2. He made first the formless mass, and the light of angels, [on the first
Sunday]. He made firmament [on the Monday]. He made earth and
seas [on the Tuesday]. He made sun and moon and the stars of
Heaven [on the Wednesday]. He made birds [of the air] and reptiles
[of the sea on the Thursday]. He made beasts [of the earth] in
general, and Adam to rule over them, [on the Friday]. Thereafter God
rested [on the Saturday] from the accomplishment of a new Creation,
[but by no means from its governance].
 
3. He gave the bailiffry of Heaven to Lucifer, with the nine
orders of the Angels of Heaven. He gave the bailiffry of Earth to Adam.

Lucifer sinned, so that he was leader of a third of the host of angels. The King confined
him with a third of the host of angels in his company, in Hell. And
God said unto the Foe of Heaven: [Haughty is this Lucifer], unite et
confundamus consilium eius.
 
4. Thereafter Lucifer had envy against Adam, for he was assured that this
would be given him [Adam], the filling of Heaven in his [Lucifer's]
room.  Wherefore he [Iofer Niger] came in the form of the serpent, and
persuaded [Adam and] Eve to sin, in the matter of eating of the apple
from the forbidden tree. Wherefore Adam was expelled from Paradise
into common earth.
 
5. Thereafter the Lord came to them, and He said unto Adam, Terra es et
in terram ibis [i.e., of earth was he made and into earth shall he go].
In sudore uultus fui comedes panem tuum [i.e., he shall not obtain
satisfaction without labor]. He said further unto the woman: Cum
dolore et gemitu paries filios tuos et filias tuas [i.e., it shall be with
... insufferable pain that thou shalt bring forth thy sons].
 
6. The progeny of Adam sinned [thereafter], namely the elder of the sons
of Adam, Cain the accursed, who slew his brother Abel ... [through his
jealousy?] and through his greed, with the bone of a camel, as learned
men say. [In this manner?] began the kin-murders of the world.
 
7. As for Seth, one of the three sons of Adam [who had progeny], of him
are the men of the whole world.
 
Noe son of Lamech s. Mathusalem s. Enoch s. Iared s.
Malalahel s. Cainan s. Enos s. Seth s. Adam
 
For it is Noe who is the second Adam, to whom the men of all the
world are traced. For the Flood drowned the whole seed of Adam,
except Noe with his three sons, Sem, Ham, Iafeth, and their four wives
Coba, Olla, Oliva, Olivana.

Afterwards, when God brought a Flood over the whole world, none of
the people of the world escaped from the Flood except it be the people
of that ark - Noe with his three sons, and the wife of Noe, the wives
of his sons.
 
Ut dixit poeta,
 
A host that a wintry death would not subdue
Noe, there was no hero's weakness,
A story with horror has been made clear with
keenness
Sem, Ham, and Iafeth.
 
Women without evil colour, great excellences,
above the Flood without extinctions,
Coba, vigorous was the white swan,
Olla, Oliva, Olivana.
 
 
8. Now Sem settled in Asia, Ham in Africa, Iafeth in Europe -
 
Sem settled in pleasant Asia;
Ham with his progeny in Africa

noble Iafeth and his
sons, it is they who settled in Europe.
 
 
 
Sem had thirty sons, including Arfaxad, Assur, and Persius. Ham had
thirty sons, including Chus and Chanaan. Iafeth had fifteen including
Dannai, Gregus, Hispanius, Gomer. Or it is twenty-seven sons that Sem
had.
 
 
Thirty sleek sons, a brilliant fact,
they sprang from Ham, son of Noe
twenty-seven who are from Sem,
and fifteen from Iafeth.
 
 
9. [With regard to] Iafeth [son of Noe], of him is the northern side of Asia
- namely Asia Minor, Armenia, Media, the People of Scythia; and of him
are the inhabitants of all Europe.
 
Grecus s. Iafeth, of him is Grecia Magna, Grecia Parva and
Alexandrian Greece. Espanus s. Iafeth from whom are the Hispani.
Gomer son of Iafeth had two sons, Emoth and Ibath. Emoth, of
him is the northern people of the world. Ibath had two sons,
Bodb and Baath. Bodb, who had a son Dohe.
 
Elinus son of Dohe had three sons, Airmen, Negua, Isacon. As for
Airmen, he had five sons, Gutus, Cebidus, Uiligothus, Burgundus,
Longbardus. Negua had three sons, Saxus, Boarus, Uandalus. Isacon,
moreover, one of the three sons of Elenus, he had four sons, Romanus,
Francus, Britus, Albanus.
 
This is that Albanus who first took Albania, with his children, and of
him is Alba named: so he drove his brother across the Sea of Icht,
and from him are the Albanians of Latium of Italy.
 
10. Magog, son of Iafeth, of his progeny are the peoples who came to
Ireland before the Gaedil: to wit Partholan s. Sera s. Sru s. Esru s.
Bimbend (sic) s. Magog s. Iafeth; and Nemed s. Agnomain s. Pamp s. Tat
s. Sera s. Sru; and the progeny of Nemed, the Gaileoin, Fir Domnann,
Fir Bolg and Tuatha De Danann. As the poet said,
 
Magog son of Iafeth there is cerainty of his progeny; of them
was Parthalon of Banba -decorous was his achievement.
 
Of them was noble Nemed son of Agnomain, unique; of them
were Gand and Genand, Sengand, free Slaine.
 
The numerous progeny of Elada, of them was Bres, no untruth:
son of Elada expert in arms, son of Delbaeth son of Net.
 
S. Inda, s. Allda -Allda who was s. Tat, s. Tabarn s. Enda, s.
Baath, [son of] pleasant Ibath.
 
S. Bethach s. Iardan s. Nemed grandson of Paimp: Pamp s. Tat
s. Sera s. Sru s. white Braiment.
 
     Of Braiment s. Aithecht, s. Magog, great in reknown: there
happened in their time a joint appearance against a Plain.
 
11. Baath, [one of the two sons of Ibath] s. Gomer s. Iafeth, of him are the
Gaedil and the people of Scythia. He had a son, the noble
eminent man whose name was Feinus Farsaid. [It is he who was one of
the seventy-two chieftains who went for the building of Nemrod's
Tower, whence the languages were dispersed.]
 
Howbeit, Nemrod himself was son of Cush s. Ham s. Noe. This is
that Feinius aforesaid who brought the People's Speech from the
Tower: and it is he who had the great school, learning the
multiplicity of languages.
 
12. Now Feinius had two sons: Nenual, [one of the two] whom he left in the
princedom of Scythia behind him; Nel, the other son, at the Tower was
he born. Now he was a master of all the languages; wherefore one
came [to summon him] from Pharaoh, in order to learn the multiplicity of
languages from him. But Feinius came out of Asia to Scythia, whence
he had gone for the building of the Tower; so that he died in the
princedom of Scythia, at the end of forty years, and passed on the
chieftainship to his son, Nenual.
 
13, At the end of forty two years after the building of the Tower, Ninus
son of Belus took the kingship of the world. For no other attempted
to exercise authority over the peoples or to bring the multitude of
nations under one had, and under tax and tribute, but he alone.
Aforetime there had been chieftains; he who was noblest and most in
favour in the community, he it was who was chief counsellor for every
man: who should avert all injustice and further all justice. No
attempt was made to invade or to dominate other nations.
 
14. Now that is the time when Gaedel Glas, [from whom are the Gaedil] was
born, of Scota d. Pharaoh. From her are the Scots named, ut dictum est
 
Feni are named from Feinius a meaning without secretiveness:
Gaedil from comely Gaedel Glas, Scots from Scota.
 
15. It is Gaedel Glas who fashioned the Gaelic language out of the seventy-
two languages: there are their names, Bithynian, Scythian, etc. Under
poeta cecinit
 
The languages of the world, see for yourselves Bithynia,
Scythia, Cilicia, Hyreania, Gothia, Graecia, Germania, Gallia with
horror, Pentapolis, Phrygia, Palmatia, Dardania.

Pamphylia, Mauretania, populous Lycaonia, Bacctria, Creta,
Corsica, Cypros Thessalia, Cappadocia, noble Armenia, Raetia,
Sicilia, Saracen-land, Sardinia.
 
Belgia, Boeotia, Brittania, tuneful Rhodos, Hispania, Roma,
Rhegini, Phoenicia, India, golden Arabia, Mygdonia, Mazaca,
Macedonia.
 
Parthia, Caria, Syria, Saxones, Athenae, Achaia, Albania,
Hebraei, Arcadia, clear Galatia, Troas, Thessalia, Cyclades.
 
Moesia, Media, Persida, Franci, Cyrene, Lacedaemonia,
Langobardi, Thracia, Numidia, Hellas (?) - hear it! Lofty Italia,
Ethiopia, Egypt.
 
That is the tally of languages without tarnish out of which
Gaedel cut Gaedelic: known to me is their roll of
understanding, the groups, the manifold languages.
 
 
16. Now Sru s. Esru s. Gaedel, he it is who was chieftain for the Gaedil

who went out of Egypt after Pharaoh was drowned [with his host in the Red Sea of Israel]:

Seven hundred and seventy years from the Flood till then.
 
Four hundred and forty years from that time in which Pharaoh was
drowned, and after Sru s. Esru came out of Egypt, till the time when
the sons of Mil came into Ireland, to wit, Eber and Eremon:
whereanent [one] said -
 
Forty and four hundred of years - it is no falsehood -from
when the people of God came, be ye certain over the surface
of Mare Rubrum, till they landed in Scene from the clear sea,
they, the Sons of Mil, in the land of Ireland..
 
etc etc.

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