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Ireland was, "insula dives opum, gemmarum, vestis et auri/'* Saxo 

 Grammaticus mentions, that Dublin in 814 was filled M'ith riches, 

 (" Duflinam barbaris opibus refertissimam ;") the Antiquitates Celt. 

 Scand.,-f* speak of the golden bracelet and embroidered robe of the ' 

 Irish king, (" armillam auream et togam quae erat Regis Hiberno- 

 rum,") and enough has been already said of the golden crown of 

 Boroimhe. 



In the art of painting, an Irish proficient is alluded to in the me- 

 trical letter of Ethelwolf : 

 * 



" Ex quibus est Ultan praeclaro nomine dictus ; 

 Presbyter iste fuit, Scottorum gente beatus, 

 Coraptis qui potuit notis ornare libellos."J 



And Harpsfeld speaks of the elegant execution of the same 

 artist. § 



Relative to statuary and sculpture, the statues of the Redeemer, 

 ("Christi crucifixi effigies,") of the Virgin, and of Saint Illand, have 

 been already alluded to, II as has also the sculpture at Glendaloch, 

 Cormac's chapel, Clonmacnois, Monaincha, &c., while the grotesque 

 carvings and characters on the crosses at old Kilcullen, Monaster-' 

 boice, &;c., furnish proofs of their antiquity, which become convic- 

 tion by a comparison with others, sketched by Mr. Cordiner in his 

 account of the remarkable ruins in Scotland. 



Naval architecture must have fallen back under the paramount 

 maritime power of the Danes; the native annals, however, record 



• Ante, p. 252. f P. 75. 



t Cited O'Conor, Rer. Hib. Script, vol. iv. p. 139. 



§ " Ultanus ille Scotus fuit, qui polite atque concinne Ubros sacros ad csenobii usum 

 exscribere solebat." — Hist. c. 14. p. 177. 

 11 /Inie, p. 273. 



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