171 



PERIOD SECOND. 



FROM THE ARRIVAL OF SAINT PATRICK IN 431, TO THE DANISH 



INVASION A. D. 795. 



SECTION I. 



Social and Political History, and Geographical Notices. 



During this interval also, Ireland is more generally called 

 Hibernia, (by Saint Patrick Hiberia and Hiberio.) In the beginning 

 of the seventh century, however, Isidore of Seville repeats that appel- 

 lation of Scotia, (which, as has been shewn, Egesippus first recog- 

 nised,)* while he adds,-}- that it is inhabited by the Scots, and adopts 

 some of the unfounded assertions of Solinus.J Adamnan and the 

 other writers in the Trias Thaumaturga, as well as Jonas, the author of 

 the Life of Saint Kilian, and Bede, continue the name of Scotia, The 

 author of the Life of Findan§ gives the same appellation to Ireland, 

 while by all of them, as well as by Orosius, Nennius, and others, the 

 inhabitants of the island are exclusively called Scots. Yet, from a 



* Ante, p. 70. 



t " Scotia eadem et Jbernia proxima Britannioe insula, spatio terrarum angustior, sed situ 

 fcecundior. ***** Scotia quod ah Scotorum gentibus colitur appellata. Illic nuUus 

 anguis, avis rara, apis nulla." — Origin, lib. 14, c. 6. 



X See post. Per. 2. sect, 5, 



§ See Spelman, Gloss, tit '< Scotia." 



z 2 



