for 32 days, i am showing samples of the problems with the text in e-books from the internet archive... *** today's sample comes from "gods and fighting men". here's the page-scan:
http://www.archive.org/stream/godsfightingmens00greguoft#page/17
and here's the o.c.r. for the entire book:
http://ia341017.us.archive.org/0/items/godsfightingmens00greguoft/godsfighti... and here's the o.c.r.:
'^f// THE COMING OF LUGH 17
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Then Lugh said : " Go and ask the king if he has any one man that can do all these things, and if he has, I will not ask to come into Teamhair." The door-keeper went into the king's house then and told him all that. "There is a young, man at the door," he said, "and his name should ue the Ildanach, the Master of all Arts, for all the things the people of your house can do, he himself is able to do every one of them." " Try him with the chess-boards," said Nuada. So the chess- boards were brought out, and every game that was played, Lugh won it. And when Nuada was told that, he said : " Let him in, for the like of him never came into Teamhair before."
Then the door-keeper let him pass, and he came into the king's house and sat down in the seat of knowledge. And there was a great flag-stone there that could hardly be moved by four times twenty yoke of oxen, and Ogma took it up and hurled it out through the house, so that it lay on the outside of Teamhair, as a challenge to Lugh. But Lugh hurled it back again that it lay in the middle of the king's house. He played the harp for them then, and he had them laughing and crying, till he put them asleep at the end with a sleepy tune. And when Nuada saw all the things Lugh could do, he began to think that by his help the country might get free of the taxes and the tyranny put on it by the Fomor. And it is what he did, he came down from his throne, and he put Lugh on it in his place, for the length of thirteen days, the way they might all listen to the advice he would give.
This now is the story of the birth of Lugh. The time the Fomor used to be coming to Ireland, Balor
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we have several problems in the first few lines, which are bad on the scan as well, so we cannot fault the o.c.r. here, but whatever the cause, the text is botched nonetheless... -bowerbird