Note 123 — PART II (continued 2)

Another instance of the sacred character with which the Irish code of honour invested a pledge, and which is apparent in the stories, before quoted, of Mider, Conn, Árt, etc. So in the Baile Mongáin, a story printed by Prof. K. Meyer as an appendix to his Voyage of Bran, Mongán is obliged to surrender his wife Dubhlaca to the King of Leinster (apparently an euhemerisation of Manannán, who figures in an earlier version, also given by Prof. Meyer (op. cit.)) in fulfilment of a like promise.