Note 12 — Chapter XXIV

"Is mé an barc o thuinn go tuinn, Is mé an long iar ndul d'á stiúr. Is mé an t-ubhall i mbárr an chroinn Is beag do shaoil a thuitim."

See Miss Brooke's "Reliques of Ancient Irish Poetry," 2nd ed. p. 393. See also Kuno Meyer's note at p. xv of his edition of Cath Finntragha, in which he bears further evidence to the antiquity and persistence of this story.