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PERIOD FOURTH. 



FROM THE BATTLE OF CLONTARF TO THE ENGLISH INVASION. 



SECTION I. 



Social and Political History, and Geographical Notices. 



Ireland in this interval too continued to be called Scotia and 

 its people Scots, as by Florence of Worcester,* Theodoric of S. Trudo, 

 Jonas, S. Bernard, Marianas Scotus, Giraldus Cambrensis, Henry of 

 Huntingdon, Hermannus Contractus, and Sulgenus junior ; and in 

 the ages succeeding the scope of this Essay, the same denomination is 

 given by Johannes Capgravius, Caesarius, Higden, Ceolfrid, Richard 

 of Cirencester, John Major, John of Tinmouth, Canisius, Gobellinus, 

 Aimoinus, Surius, Vernul^us, Bozius, Gretser, and Wandelbert. 

 Marianus Scotus-f- was the first who also attached the name of Scotia 

 to Scotland.;]: Soon after which we learn that king Edgar by a 

 solemn edict sanctioned the new appellation ; § and it is only subse- 

 quently to this that the learned, as e. g. S. Bernard, Conradus in Vita 

 S. Erchardi, Mercator, Maurice a Portu, Stanihurst, Camden, Salmo- 



.i 



■ f 



* We have inadvertently classed this author as of the fourteenth century, {ante, p. 188.) ' 



t Ad ann. 1034, 1040, and 1050. 



X " Scotiffi nomen Marianus Scotus, et ipse Hibemus, ad Britanniae Scotiam primus 

 transtulit, ita tamen ut Hibernos Scotorum nomine non raro designaverit." — Ogygia Vindi- 

 cated, p. 293. 



% De Burg. Hib. Dominic, p. 6. citing Genebrardus. 



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