And Heremon, another of the sons of Miled, with his share of the ships,
was driven to the left of the island, and it is hardly he got safe to
land. And the place where he landed was called Inver Colpa, because
Colpa of the Sword, another of the sons of Miled, was drowned there, and
he trying to get to land. Five of the sons of Miled in all were
destroyed by the storm and the winds the Men of Dea had raised by their
enchantments, and there were but three of them left, Heber, and Heremon,
and Amergin.
And one of them, Donn, before he was swept into the sea, called out: "It
is treachery our knowledgeable men are doing on us, not to put down this
wind." "There is no treachery," said Amergin, his brother. And he rose
up then before them, and whatever enchantment he did on the winds and
the sea, he said these words along with it:
"That they that are tossing in the great wide food-giving sea may reach
now to the land.
"That they may find a place upon its plains, its mountains, and its
valleys; in its forests that are full of nuts and of all fruits; on its
rivers and its streams, on its lakes and its great waters.
"That we may have our gatherings and our races in this land; that there
may be a king of our own in Teamhair; that it may be the possession of
our many kings.
"That the sons of Miled may be seen in this land, that their ships and
their boats may find a place there.
"This land that is now under darkness, it is for it we are asking; let
our chief men, let their learned wives, ask that we may come to the
noble woman, great Eriu.
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