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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown])
- The seven sons of Bregon, a strength unsaddened, Brega, Blad, Cualu great in battle, Cualnge, Fuat, good Murthemne, and noble Ith, high chieftain,
- That active right-goodly band cleared a good plough-land for their children, so by them is it tilled in after times and from them is it named.
- Brega cleareda boast not to be hiddenthis plain our horses drive round, so that his name, as each of the seven's, endures a while for an illustrious title of the land he seized.
- There has come down, with a tale not trivial, along the line of the learned, luckily, the name of Brega, free from repute of crime, the ox of bright-brooched Dil.
- Therefore did Dil lovewas it not natural?the ox that was leader of a great herd, because she was born in the same hour as the ox bright of colour.
- Tulchinde the druid, as poets affirm, bore off the young and modest maiden, along with the renowned excelling steer, to Mag Bolgaide rich in cattle.
- The name of the ox unmanaged clave to Mag Breg, with its many troops; that oxen-home is called without doubt Brega's strip: the appellation of the seven sons departed from it.